I didn't post when I got home. Too peeed off.
Morton was our only effective forward and the only one who could kick straight apart from his first up miss. Great mark too.
Agree with TM about Blingers. He played well. It was laughable seeing him busting his guts out chasing one Blue after another while his teammates stood and watched and refused to put in any second efforts and in many cases first efforts
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Whitey did okay for the time on the ground he had.
Moore maybe was okay.
We had plenty of prima donnas who obviously were believing their own publicity and resting on last year's 2nd half of the year efforts.
Two of our 3 key defenders Thursty and McGuane had absolute shockers.
Lids - where were you? I knew the white flag had been put up when he was moved to across HB.
Jack - has the yips big time. Not the only one mind you and our set shots have been an issue all preseason as well.
Foley - he played like he had a numb foot from a jab. He couldn't kick properly to save himself. 9 clangers wasn't it
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Our older senior players did sweet all while our leadership group had a forgetable night. No one stood up.
Terry had his match-ups wrong and players out of position. Edwards is not a small defender/HBFer even though he has been trialed down there over the preseason. Shane has no idea what he is doing down there. At least when he went forward in the second half while still ordinary he at least had some instinct for where he needed to be. After having a fairly stable backline in last year why alter it by adding both Edwards and Raines. It was the Benny Hill show down there.
Momentum is everything in this game these days and we just screwed ourselves over time and time again. The first 15 minutes we dominated the centre clearances but kicked 1.4
while gifting the Blues 4 goals from our own stupidity when the ball should never have been down in our backline in the first place if we had kicked straight
. We should've been 4 goals up at the start but nup we gift them soft goals which boosts their confidence while draining ours as the mistakes compound and next you know the momentum swings in the middle and we're 5 goals down at 1/4 time. Then next up after conceding the first two goals we kick the next 3 and regain the momentum of the game at least in general play. 28 points down but ahead for the quarter going into time-on and we're at least back in the game. But nup we cough up another two late soft goals when the ball should have again been in our forward line and the game's over. 16 goals directly from our turnovers they said on SEN last night.
Soft, insipid, weak, pathetic .... yep you name it
