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Game Day - Tiges V Freo

Rioli jnr came on and it shows how much we need speed in the team.
 
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Fremantle took advantage of Hardwick's stupid idea of playing a ruck as a key forward. Both teams were playing +1 behind the ball anyway & having a ruck as a key forward just made it worse. Ball just lived between the arcs all night as a result.

However as brave as Prestia & Cotchin were (and they both tried their guts out), we so lack quality midfielders that can win & use the ball to break the game open. And obviously we clearly lack a key forward. Balta has no instinct for it.
 
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For fu*ks sake you think it’s Dimma’s fault they’re missing simple set shots, or don’t have the brain cells to take the set shot deep in the final Qtr instead of playing on like a headless chook?

The talent isn’t there.
Its Dimmas fault for gifting Sheds games. Its Dimmas fault for playing an injured slow ruckman in the fwd line. Its Dimmas fault for persisting with Balta as a fwd when he clearly doesnt have the mental smarts for it. Should i continue?
 
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We tackled superbly but they hate giving us holding the ball. Cotch, Dion and Shai held at stoppage constantly, Darcy almost always holding Nank or Soldo, not one holdinmg the man free all night. Dived on it free against Jack was fair enough, but Young did the same five metres from our goal with 30 seconds left, all good.

He's a gun, that Young, though. Third-year player with the poise of a veteran.
 
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This page of comments fellows is a load of crap - with respect.

Freo played an amazing 4th qtr - we did well to hold them out. They threw everything at us in that qtr and we held up. Yes Balta and Cumberland perhaps but give us a break.

I have changed my tune - I thought the season was over but that last qtr I reckon we can sneak into the 8 and give it a shake.

I am as disappointed as everyone we didn’t win, but both clubs were up to the fight tonight.
Agree…great post…we did do so well in that last quarter because at the game I felt they looked way more dangerous in Q4…Lynch is crucial and we need to sneak into the 8 to give the Tiger King a chance to play again this year
 
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Leave the kid Cumbo alone.....imo, Balta has no excuse.

The RFC needs to send em all to do a skit at the Melb Comedy Festival. You could'nt script this sh!t. Its not the fact that its happened, TWICE in the same game, but the fact that its the same multiple weeks in a row. Just can't believe it.

Only we can invent new and impressive ways to screw ourselves...and do it better every week.
 
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This club has become a *smile* embarrassment again.

In his press conf 2 days ago, Dimma said, "how can he ask the players to get better and learn if I dont keep trying to get better".

This MC has become a joke. i wrote it in the pre-season that Balta is not a forward. He does not have the smarts.
We seriously have not learnt a *smile* thing.
July isnt big boy month for us, it's been idiot month across the whole club - coaches and players.
 
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This year will be a missed opportunity.
Only Geelong and ourselves standing in our way.
Bizzare is an understatement.
 
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I’m sure they were the instructions MB, that’s what Balta was doing.
Rush of blood from a young player, something he unfortunately won’t forget in a hurry.
It’s hard to accept when it happens 2 weeks in a row with Aarts and now Cumberland.
 
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Since when do see the umps ever call play on in that situation anyway?

Im still speechless
Was clearly play on. I have no idea what Balta was doing. Was he counting kangaroo-koala rather then cat-dog?
 
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There is no team that comes near us in the total *smile* up stakes. No one. You could tell someone who didn't see the games the totally moronic idiotic stupidity that we have displayed the last 3 games and there is not a hope in hell they would believe you. No way; it's not possible.

But alas, if you are Richmond, it is.

We have gone from the best team in the league to a cluster *smile* basket case inside 40 games.
 
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