Same here. If Dusty goes to Sydney and we wind up paying him to play for them that’d about do me.
On the coaches this one. Surely they have drilled players what the go is in a close finish protecting a lead. Or maybe not. Standards have slipped from the top down!
Yep I hear you; The Geelong game was like being in a horrible car accident, and then the Gold Coast game was like the ambulance that was rushing you to hospital skidding off the road and hitting a tree.
We certainly lose our structure big time when the heat comes back on us this year. Oppo sides swarm like a plague of locusts n we merely end up with half a dozen or so blokes just shuffling through the corridor hoping the oppo stuff up a possession rather than ever being in one on one position all over the ground n working hard to contest every disposal.
Yep, this lack of structure, arrogance, highest free kick count against, highest 50m penalties against in the AFL and most 50m penalties resulting in goals (which follows of course) can be summarised in just 3 words...Lack of Discipline. And who should take the blame? Dimma. Signs of it last year as well.
When George missed the open goal, then some Suns fans got up to leave in front of me, I thought, 'we're gone'. But the last 2 minutes were a horrorshow, the short 50, what was he thinking?, the grimes dropped mark, but this was just shocking, I was at the game in the perfect vantage point to survey this as it panned out, time stood still, protecting a 4 point lead, seconds to go, and there are loose men everywhere.
We won flags with these free kick counts I don't care about that but 50s from the stand rule and dissent are costing goals and games. The only player dropped for a 50 was Caddy I think.
Firstly I would also ask if JR8 should have been penalised for 'unrealistic' in a marking attempt where he got hands to the ball? What did Miller actually do for the free past the centre? Ump called hold when it appeared it was a perfectly legit side-shove? But, of course, you could absolutely bet that the umps would jump onboard any sniff of a GC comeback. Our fault from allowing it from 40 pts up.
Yep. Too many questions and if you look at most moves in that last quarter, it's like it was scripted in some way. Very strange.
Have the football gods aligned against now ... as a reversal for all our amazing achievements in recent years? Even the injury occurrences seem ordained to destroy our chances - Lynch in Q1 after 10m (after missing a gettable goal, of course, that would have won the game), then not one but both rucks getting damage that hurt us in the CBs and clearances. Plus Ross going out late. Dusty a hammy just when hitting form. Balta not recovering fast.
For a 2nd time in a row. Also happened when Shaw took over from Scott and at the Dump in 2019 and we lost. Maybe that "Richmondy" term is really a virus that's returned onto us.
i was listening to the radio call ,so really couldn't tell a lot
Yep. Very strange snake. I wonder if Castagna's cardinal sin really drained the guys and built up anxiety into them.
