My theory is that our game plan is a bit stale, ie it's a rehash of 2012.
The way I see it people like Grigg were quite damaging last year but now that coaches of top 4 teams have studied our gameplan quite well, we get flogged/nullified quite effectively. I will concede that Vs Geelong, we did lose Maric and Vickery so that's when the floodgates opened.
Vs Collingwood, I think from memory Cotchin conceded that Swan and Pendlebury pretty much schooled himself and Deledio on being an elite midfielder?
Vs Essendon, well we just didn't turn up to play.
I do think we just need to mix it up a bit because if we rock up with an inflexible game plan and rely on individual talent like Hawthorn, then our top 18 will get flogged. Obviously this is easier said than done.