we safely assume the boys understand the plan, or did the pies not let the boys
play to the plan WP?
one quarter was all it took from where I sat.
First quarter in particular roger they followed things to the letter. The reason IMV we weren't further ahead was poor execution of skills at crucial stages.
Unfortunately one thing that we are very good at is defensive turnovers in our fwd 50, that is our Fwds creating turnovers in our FWD50 but yesterday as the game went on we didnt get that as from where I sat only Kingy & jack offered it for the entire game. Edwards tried but he was basically tagged out of contests.
The third was the one, pies got on top in the clearances easily. This wasn't helped by our guys not setting up at centre bounces the way they were instructed.
We wanted stoppages because up until yesterday we were 2nd in the comp in stoppages and the Pies were 9th or something like that. In the third that was the one thing stood out to me like beacon, no mid filed pressure meant no chance of stoppages
On o'Brien - clearly the 2 main people given the task of stopping him showed him no respect, hence he carved us up.
I find the comments about Petterd amusing, he's played spare man in defence the previous 2 weeks and there's been no complaints but we lose and it's suddenly a stupid move
