As biased as the umps were in the second half, we only have ourselves to blame for tonight's loss. Our first half was pitiful. Summed up by the last 45 seconds of stupidity in the first quarter that gifted Adelaide two soft goals. That was what cost us the game. Margin was 19 points at half-time and that's what we lost the game by.
If you ...
1. Can't hit open teammates 25m away by foot and hand under no physical pressure
2. Can't nail tackles because you're careless or you don't watch the hips or you don't pin the arm of the opposition
3. Don't have someone as sweeper on the defensive side at stoppages
4. Don't have forwards playing in front
5. Don't have small forwards front and square to crumb at the fall of the ball
Then you deserve to lose.
We lost because we failed at doing the fundamentals. Too many Hollywood chasers tonight and not enough doing the bread and butter stuff right.
I haven't seen the stats but I would reckon at least 80% if not more of Adelaide's goal tonight directly came from our fumbles and U10s skill errors. It felt like 10 years ago when we use to play Norf and despite winning us getting first possession and winning the clearances they would win the game via sucker punch goals off flooding back and rebounding from our butchered F50 entries.
In the Carlton and St Kilda losses we were beaten up in the midfield. Tonight, we won enough of the ball but just softly handed it back to the Crows on a platter. We didn't respect the opposition tonight and they gave us what we deserved.
Signed one still peeved Tiger supporter
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