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Game Day RD 17 - Tigers V Suns

craig said:
George has become a genuine liability.

Time for him to be left behind.

Its not funny anymore.
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He's been sheltered too long in a good team. As much as I like the guy and the enthusiasm he brings, today was unforgivable in terms of elite sport and it's glossed over when we win. He should hold some currency and a trade might be good for him personally. He knows how to place himself to get the ball but afterwards... I've not seen a player in my 40 years spend it before he gets it so much.
 
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zgod said:
I get that but every game bar one we have been in winning positions.
Our last quarter's have been diabolical.
We could quite easily be entrenched in the top 4.
We have lost our mental edge.
Sides know it and smell blood.
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We are 14-2 at three-quarter time this year.
 
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mrposhman said:
The reality is, we aren't a bad team. There has been a lot of hyperbole posted on here tonight. I might log off, its prime time for some people on here to spit what they want.

We are still a good team, we got up to 40 points up and GC were always going to get a run on, I'm not sure why people didn't expect that but we should have been good enough to protect that lead, and thats where scoring our chances comes into it. We weren't kicking shots from the pocket, we kicked almost all of them from within the corridor, we butchered them and those goals to hit back when GC were on top were super important, shame those chances fell to George and Aarts in the main. The game wasn't in being able to preserve a 40 point lead, GC were never going to play as bad in the 2nd half as they did the 3rd, but it was about maintaining them at arms length.

Of the 6 behinds were scored in the 2nd half, I'd hazard a guess that we should have kicked at least 4 of them. Thats the game right there, regardless of whether or not we let the lead slip. If people thought that the lead wouldn't be reduced with the team we had out, then you guys are not being realistic. It was our inability to hit back when GC were on top that killed us tonight.
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So you agree with everyone else that we were useless. Just with more evidence.
 
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23.21.159 said:
We are 14-2 at three-quarter time this year.
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Good stuff Numbers!

Why aren't we running out games?

Late game discipline? Coaching?

Mid-game injuries are part of it, perhaps. Conditioning?

Unnecessary suspensions, also?

Heart?

4 points matter if you want to take part in September.

Otherwise - Just play the kids! Welcome to 2012!
 
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mrposhman said:
What about the swings that we have had? Or have we been thrashed in every game???

666 has been brought in to create these sort of swings, and it is working.

You could pull one of these together for almost every team in the comp this year.
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Sort of thinking that will keep us delivering the same rubbish. Footy is a lot more than swings and roundabouts.
 
M. Rioli
Miller
Dow
Cumberland
Ralphsmith

We had 5 players with ~10 games experience or less

tigersnake said:
Yeah good point re Prestia. It was a wierd game. I feel conflicted. I didn't expect to win due to too many fringe players, thought we might jag a narrow win, but if you'd told me Lynch would go down in the first and Nank and Soldo cop it, on top of that, I'd have thought we would get beaten easy. But we won most of the game. Was that us playing out of our skin or Suns being off? And having got into that posi we should have hung on and the last 3 minutes were a disgrace, an abomination. Anyway, always next week.
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I've unofficially been keeping tabs of the performance of our concussed players since Ben Griffiths went to the Melbourne Brain Centre for scans back in 2016 or so.

In my opinion as an observer, 100% of our players have underperformed for about 4-6 weeks since being concussed, with some such as Kamdyn taking up to 10-12 weeks.

We should therefore expect Prestia to be serviceable for the next few weeks, but it's safe to say he'll be firing again come September.
 
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Grimes hasn't been as polished and reliable this year.
I'm not sure we needed a captain change especially with Cotchin still playing
 
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Other games matter.
Bulldogs play Saints next week.
If Bulldogs win it maintains our buffer in the eight.
We could go a game ahead in fact.
Similarly, Essendon is in good form and could knock off GC at Marvel.
Lions should defeat GC in the following week.
 
jb03 said:
Couldn't get a free kick at the end. Jack just kept giving them away
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The umps absolutely hate Jack and pay a free against him at the slightest opportunity every time. But that one at end where he flew for a mark and got hands to the ball was a total disgrace.
Not sure why the hate; maybe because he mouths off too much or tries to tell them what a decision should have been. But they pay out on him so much that the team really suffers.
 
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