Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Here we are again.
How many chances did we need in the last few minutes, but again we are also talking about easy misses. Jack missed another snap from 30 out, he used to put these through in his sleep. Balta missed from what 25 out dead in front, Soldo similar. Just too many easily missed shots. I won't hang Cumbo for the end one, it happens but doesn't mean I wasn't frustrated at the ground.
If Dimma ever thinks he's a genius again and wants to play Nank in the forward line he needs to give himself a swift uppercut. Nank was a complete liability, not only that he couldn't mark, but his positioning was poor. there was a chance in the 2nd, we kicked the ball high into our forward line, we had a 3 on 2 Nank was behind and we had 2 smalls (might have been Cumbo and Bolton), the smalls stayed down as they should, but Nank didn't even go, giving I think Pearce the easiest of marks, all he had to do was make a contest, get the ball out the back and we would have run in for an easy goal.
In the last we saw the impact of playing too tall in our forward line and 2 short with Nank and Edwards playing, as we had no semblence of a forward structure forward of the ball, hence why we would kick it forward and it just kept coming back.
BTW I watched Edwards a lot in the 2nd half, his speed is all but gone, meaning his positioning is now super important but its actually poor. He positions himself too far forward to impact the midfield, the amount of time the midfielder he is chasing disposes of the ball as he gets there, and plays too deep to impact in the forward line, he's just watching the ball sail over his head both ways and is a liability. Its actually very sad watching such a fallen gun, finishing his career this way.
Tarrant was again superb, not sure how he came across on the screen but the ground he covered was immense, there were a number of times where we had to close 15-20m of space of the lead that Taberner had and pretty much every time closed and spoiled the ball. For me, he was our BOG tonight.
How many chances did we need in the last few minutes, but again we are also talking about easy misses. Jack missed another snap from 30 out, he used to put these through in his sleep. Balta missed from what 25 out dead in front, Soldo similar. Just too many easily missed shots. I won't hang Cumbo for the end one, it happens but doesn't mean I wasn't frustrated at the ground.
If Dimma ever thinks he's a genius again and wants to play Nank in the forward line he needs to give himself a swift uppercut. Nank was a complete liability, not only that he couldn't mark, but his positioning was poor. there was a chance in the 2nd, we kicked the ball high into our forward line, we had a 3 on 2 Nank was behind and we had 2 smalls (might have been Cumbo and Bolton), the smalls stayed down as they should, but Nank didn't even go, giving I think Pearce the easiest of marks, all he had to do was make a contest, get the ball out the back and we would have run in for an easy goal.
In the last we saw the impact of playing too tall in our forward line and 2 short with Nank and Edwards playing, as we had no semblence of a forward structure forward of the ball, hence why we would kick it forward and it just kept coming back.
BTW I watched Edwards a lot in the 2nd half, his speed is all but gone, meaning his positioning is now super important but its actually poor. He positions himself too far forward to impact the midfield, the amount of time the midfielder he is chasing disposes of the ball as he gets there, and plays too deep to impact in the forward line, he's just watching the ball sail over his head both ways and is a liability. Its actually very sad watching such a fallen gun, finishing his career this way.
Tarrant was again superb, not sure how he came across on the screen but the ground he covered was immense, there were a number of times where we had to close 15-20m of space of the lead that Taberner had and pretty much every time closed and spoiled the ball. For me, he was our BOG tonight.
