Geelong had pretty good motivation courtesy of TW, and the way they played as a team, as against a few individual efforts from our guys, we didn't have a chance.
I know people disagreed with TW’s comments through last week and I didn’t think it was necessary either, but TW’s approach is a bit different to most other coaches. It backfired this time and probably has many times before too and may in the future.
It’s probably not in his nature to be backward in coming forward. Which is probably a good thing for us, because, in the past, we've probably tried to minimise the damage, hide and cover up any deficiencies and not give the opposition any ammunition against us. What good did it ultimately do? Had TW said nothing and we scraped a narrow loss, or even an unlikely win, that would probably have done more harm than good, in the long-term. This way, we all know how big a task this is.
I agree about the competitive efforts. That’s what I was most disappointed about too.
Thanks for bothering to read through all that OM and Moi.