Jack Riewoldt too slow doesn't get to enough contests poor disposal. First tound pick.
McMahon. Supposed to have silky skills? Yeah right garbage.
Pettifer as soft as butter.
Johnson no leadership too introverted no prescence on the ground.
Tuck too many turnovers that cost in goals and covers the ground with the pace of a tortoise.
Meyer gawn plain and simple.
Jarrod Oakleigh Nicholls. Yes he is only 19 yeas he had an interrupted pre season 06-07. Yes he can't play yes he is no good. Yes he was a waste of a first round pick. Would be lucky to play Division 2 in the suburban leagues.
Tambling. Flashy spurts here and there but the 5 to 10 flashy things he may do don't amount to much. We have waited and waited and waited. At least Marty McGrath kicked 5 goals on debut what has Tambo done? Send him back to the Mellville Island Sea Snakes. Waste of a 1st round draft pick. The fact we hate Franklin and look at issues he may have off the field and laugh and are critical of any on field weaknesses is because we know we got the wrong bloke and it kills us to admit it. Franklin wins games off his own boot. Anyone see the Hawks Adel final last year? Tambling is like dancing. You move your arms you girate you wink you shimmy you step you eye out the gorgeous girl on the other end of the floor and you end up in the same spot you started because you are all flashy and no substance and the girl knows this you in your heart of hearts know this to but you just don't want to admit it. To me Tambling is a Nowhere Man.
Hyde will be handy for Coburg this years VFL competition.
Tiva has no prescence but for me it aint his fault now after all if Terry drafted me and offered me 200K a year to play I'd do it as well, despite all my physical inferiorities and shortcomings in skill and on field decision making. So you can't blame Tiva on the retention of his spot on the list after years of mediocrity.
Silvester was a waste of a rookie pick. Slow cumbersome and will not make it. The step up from VFL to AFL is too great for him. His error that resulted in the Dal Santo goal in the 3rd quarter at a time when we reduced the margin to 15 was criminal and it should not be sugar coated and go down to inexperience. Way way way out of his depth.
What have we got to come back.
Cogs? He's had 2 knee recos. We are expecting the miracles and all we might get is a trip to the confessional booth and a slap of rosary beads.
Schulz? Could be anything (but an AFL footballer) at this point in time.
Cleve surprised he didn't play is a long kick and could have kicked a few super goals.
Polo why was he not playing?
We are up the creek without a paddle. Our skills were deplorable tonight. Nice for Player A and Player B to hit a target in a intra club game on Gosch's Paddock but it actually counts to do that on the MCG and at the Telstra Dome. Our finish to last season is a distant memory, we actually had something to look forward to then. Now the looking forward to has come and we are no better off in fact worse and it is mid range teams like the Saints who we need to start beating to gain confidence to climb the ladder and move into finals contention.
It will be a long fruitless frustrating awful insipid infuriating year ahead of us. Who will replace Richo Bowden Browny in the years to come? No one has stepped up and no one looks likely. Lids can't be an elite midfielder nor an elite forward at the same time. He can't be expected to fill gaps in a list and be brilliant when that list has more holes in it that a fishing net on a trawler.
All in all a frustrating night and if you are not thinking of 2009 after tonights effort and finishing bottom 2 then you seriously do not know football you are ignorant despite the signs you have in front of you or your level of optimism is humungous.
Moses spent 40 years wandering through the desert. We have spent 26. We still have a long way to go fellow frustrated Tigers. Enough is enough if pride can't kick in after 26 years of embarrasing results on the field then what can?
No skills
No improvement
No passion
No leadership
No desire
Our depth is poor. We have a sprinkling of good players and after that our second and third tier players are of a level of either substandardness ineptness or suburban like. We deserve to be where we are at. Its as simple as that. It hurts it really really hurts but that is the gravity of where we are and where we will go on field in 2008.
