Why we lost today vs North Melbourne

[TigerLand]

Key points

1- North won nearly all match ups in midfield. Jacobs over Cotch, Gibson over Ellis. Swallow smashed Lids. No1 bothered to match it with Harvey.

2- No1 made North spare man accountable. Whether it was Hansen, Wright or Tarrant.

3- 6 marks in forward 50. By product of point 2. When you pick 3 tall forwards. Hugely below standard.

4- Poor team selections. Is it first qtr of the season again? Playing Petterd? Thomas? Morris etc. Again we pick the wrong team. Lloyd and Lennon kick goals. We threw that away.

All of them on Hardwick. Not good enough again.

[TigerLand]

Add shocking decisions as well but that can't be helped so no point complaining about it. We could have effected the game by Manning up Hansen. We could have tagged Harvey. We could have picked a side that is more balanced.

So pathetic, coaching staff. Didn't effect the game at all

[froars]

Turning the ball over with ease, the ruck contest nearly always went to their players, the AFL treating North like they were a top four side, giving them a break as good as winning a first final and going straight to the preliminary.  We're mentally soft and even if we did make the top 4, we'd go out in two finals, so what's the point. Not unhappy, just very very angry!!  North deserved the win.

[No More]

Turning the ball over with ease, the ruck contest nearly always went to their players, the AFL treating North like they were a top four side, giving them a break as good as winning a first final and going straight to the preliminary.  We're mentally soft and even if we did make the top 4, we'd go out in two finals, so what's the point. Not unhappy, just very very angry!!  North deserved the win.

Sadly Froarline you are correct. Our people don't want to acknowledge it and want to blame the umpires or the coach for everything but our players today did some diabolical things for AFL professional footballers. Just shocking decisions that cost us goals.

[froars]

Add in that wonderful decision to drop Lennon.  He would have done more with the red vest on than Griffiths

[pmac21]

Pure and simple Lennon and Lloyd should have played

[Yeahright]

  wasn't Lloyd a whipping boy for a while? No one rated him until he was dropped this week.

[tony_montana]

Selection table

Allowing them to play a loose man

Contested possessions

And 4 or 5 of the worst turnovers you would ever want to see from a finals team. Chaplin, grigg, conca are 3 massive turnovers off the top of my head.

[julzqld]

Pure and simple Lennon and Lloyd should have played

yep

[dwaino]

Selection table

Allowing them to play a loose man

Contested possessions

And 4 or 5 of the worst turnovers you would ever want to see from a finals team. Chaplin, grigg, conca are 3 massive turnovers off the top of my head.

The loose man. I thought Griff came in to try and make Hansen accountable. Instead Griff goes into the ruck and Maric rests on the bench. Wtf. Defeats the purpose.

[MintOnLamb]

We lost because we had a lower score, go figure

[Hellenic Tiger]

The Skata Cycle. 33 years and counting. Plop Plop Plop.©

[The Machine]

The big reason we lost today is this........GOLDSTEIN!

[WilliamPowell]

We lost because our best players collectively (outside Riewoldt & Rance) had their worst games of the year.

Throw in the back 6 who outside of Houli and Rance where diabolical then you have no chance, zippo, nada, zilch

And don't get me started on our so called leaders.... We had none

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Looking back I'm surprised we were in front for so long with all our leaders (bar Jack) so poor. Thought McIntosh was also very good today. He's had a great first year in the side. Well done son.