First and foremost gutted and shattered.
Played poorly how we were 12 down at the half is beyond me but how they were 12 up beggars belief also. No wait two dubious 50's.
McBurney is a dog. How can Jack get scragged like that and then the ump from 100 metres away make the call. McBurney is a piece of dog poo that has turned white on the nature strip. Old crusty and no longer stinky. Should be retired.
Yes we miss another tall defender. Only consolation if I can call it that was McGuane isn't that and he MUST be moved on. Brain fade galore. No one to guard Petrie. Gee we miss Grimes.
To add insult to injury from my last point why can't that last snap fall to Lids Cotch or Dusty. Nope McGuane who also missed from 10 in the third.
Post was okay. Took some nice marks.
Cotch was inspirational in the 2nd and kept us in the game.
Lids worked his way into the third and got us in front.
Nought's two goals in the third Moore having lost touch being out of the game for so long getting tackled and J Mac kicking a fluke goal that if it needed another two hundred metres to bounce we all know where it would have still ended up.
Last quarter was just a shootout between Petrie and us. Tuck first then Nahas then they hung on for dear life and we just couldn't get a clear chance other than the one that if you asked the opposition who you want to get it or us who you didn't want to get it that's who ended up with it.
Just as a side note was Leigh Adams carrying a dislocated shoulder or was it by play by Nought to make the Judd incident seem more worse than reality only for them to cry fowl on Ziebell.
The way Nought made out you'd think Adams shoulder needed a reco and his arm needed to be amputated from the elbow doen because of gangrine.
All in all it adds up to the perfect weekend for them which they will patent with loads of Skataboner Spirit with all the guts and nerve of a quality side that never says die as they like to parade themselves to be only for us to be the "unlucky, undeserving and yet silly" loser that all the footy public seem to think we are. Galling isn't it. That's why I'm guttted.
Time to rest the boys who need opps and get them right in time for pre season and use the trade draft period to delist a few and bolster our stocks with replacements that will add to our quality and depth and make us more competitive that will give us the class and composure to win these close games rather than lose these close ones after getting to the well getting the water and not having the drink that our performance have shown we have deserved this year.
