Lids is clearly underdone, as much as I love Dusty he can be a bit of a one trick pony in regards to his fend so close attention with the right tag and he is rushed with his disposal. Edwards is like a tap, hot or cold but is generally one or the other. Our forward line with poor quality 50 entries just doesn't have the x-factor to make something out of nothing, even the best forward lines would have issue with the type of ball coming in. Quite frankly the most glaring difference from last nights game is the quality of their experienced core group compared to ours. Ours constantly goes missing when it matters as if things are just too hard to try whereas theirs lifts when required and takes up any slack from the less experienced players.
A lack of main core genuine class experienced players has been a problem for the RFC since the the 80's and until we develop a group of elite leaders who are strong minded and play at the top of their game when it matters then i think these poor performances in the big games will continue to be an Achilles Heel for the club. Hardwick now has to come out and forget this delusional "we can still make finals" crap and openly declare that we are now building for the future and blooding some youth and giving some other more experienced players the chance to return to form in the VFL. If he doesn't then i think he loses any credibility if he hasn't already in the eyes of the majority of supporters.
This summation is just a rehash of a thousand comments spread over threads on this forum over a number of years. We can see it but for some reason the powers that be cant or just don't know how to approach a fix. Some may say as a result of last nights games this is an overreaction but its not just last nights game, its just symbolic of the issues that have plagued the club for the last 30 + years and will continue to plague the club unless something is done to rectify the problem.
