There is one thing that you are all forgetting, and that is MICK MALTHOUSE.
We didn't lose the game and the players didn't win it, well not alone anyway. Mick simply out witted Dimma.
Malthouse is an extremely good coach, been doing it for many many SUCCESSFUL years.
Mick would have done a massive amount of research on how to beat us, how to take out the factors that would give us the win.
Don't think for a moment that Cotchin or Dusty had a bad game, Mick's plan of attack worked and Dimma would not have seen it coming.
A serve at quarter time from Mick to his blues was not what won the match, (Mick always looks as though he's blasting anybody when he talks).
Game plans were not fully implemented in the first stanza from Mick's boys, but the quarter time huddle would have made sure that the orders from the boss were carried out.
Once the second quarter started, there was a difference and it wasn't about getting a win on the board for the blues, it was about meticulously following a plan and sticking to it.
Mick is a master coach and as I said, simply out witted Dimma, who in terms of coaching experience compared to Mick, is young and naive with so much more to learn.
If you want to blast the Tigers and call them crap, chokers or whatever, go ahead, but first understand the game fully before you blast your own club.
I really don't even understand the title to be honest. It Sounds like an excuse.
Facts are facts.
1) are we a better team? Yes.
2) did our heads swell after 1st qtr? Yes.
3) did we work hard enough after qtr time? No
4) did we play like a finals team? No
5) did we play as though we hate Carlscum? No.
6) did we miss the best opportunity presented to thank all our supporters and the footy world to nail a finals berth shut completely out of reach for the most arrogant cheating tanking club in the league? YES!
Mick is a masterful coach that's why he had trouble to get his boys over the line last week against footscray.
I personally am angry because if we were in the same position as them they would've smashed us and given their supporters more to taunt us with.
We had an opportunity to finish them off and we didn't. Worst of all we had them almost beaten by quarter time and still let them win.
It's totally unacceptable!
Last years loss to them as terrible as it was to lose when they had so many players missing this loss was worse. We had 'em right where we wanted them perfectly poised for a super smashing & ending their hope of playing finals footy.
The worst of it is that because of us they'll probably play finals now. And now I've got those arrogant pricks thanking me for letting them play finals.
It was a terrible day all round and has left me very very very disappointed, annoyed and angry.
How sweet the revenge
would've been? How good it
could've been to prove that round 1 was no mistake? How good the feeling
should've been to end their finals hopes?
Why? Why? Why?
