That game was lost because we lacked leadship from Newman and Mcguane.
The younger players stood up today but what the hell were they thinking handing Hawks 2 goals like that. Pathetic!!!
White needs to play out the season and ill say it again. Jack R will be a gun. Groom another forward to stand next to him and watch him shine.
Agree with you Daniel
it was a few dull decision made by those players.
Rewoldt shined because he had some big players in Graham & Polak to block for him so to make the contest, funny l been saying to put the ruckmen resting in the forwardline for years. Graham really surprised me yesterday
Agree with everything you said here Monky. While players such as Astbury and Griffiths are developing we should utilize our ruckmen more and Gus has proved he is a good contested mark. Bring in Browne and rotate the ruck and forwardline duties between the 3 young rucks on our list.
It annoys me how some people pile into individual players even after they have had a good game. Their bias blinds them it appears. Newman bleed yellow and black on the weekend and played like an inspirational captain. After Peterson kissed his jumper once he kicked a goal to stick it up us and was rapted when Newman did likewise after his great goal. He has gone up in my estimations.
Similarly McGuane wiped the floor with Franklin and was tremendous in defense. When you make an error in the backline it become more noticable because the impact is more heavily felt. This is what I believe people are pointing too at present. Both Newman and McGuane were instrumental in getting us to the point of defeating the Hawks on the weekend. Highlighting the small parts of the game where they could have done better is counter productive given the sheer amount of positive aspects they had. The balance is significantly tilted towards the positives than negatives so give them a break is all I'm asking.
I for one was very pleased with how we preformed now I just want the team to build from this!
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