Post Match. Pies lose thriller - all comments please
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Piesnchess
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Crows win over saints takes heat off us a fair bit now, only five goals by aints for the entire game must be a concern for Lyon, looked a bad loss actually, whereas ours was bad kicking from many scoring shots. I feel better now saints got done, hope Finey is spewing on SEN. suck.
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Deja Vu
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AN_Inkling
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What funk is this?jack_spain wrote:Why do you think this funk will magically disappear in September? As the ABC's Antony Green would say, "Going on our past record we are in trouble."Podpicken wrote:
Keep the faith, we'll be ok. Most teams have a lull throughout the year, so hopefully we've just experienced ours.
Well done boys!
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Doc63
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Yep, looks like a bad loss & apparently Fisher did a hammy.Piesnchess wrote:Crows win over saints takes heat off us a fair bit now, only five goals by aints for the entire game must be a concern for Lyon, looked a bad loss actually, whereas ours was bad kicking from many scoring shots. I feel better now saints got done, hope Finey is spewing on SEN. suck.
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5 changes feels too many to me for a final but i would gamble on it anyway
in;
didak, presti, leroy, bj, medhurst
out;
mccarthy, fraser, leon (just not doing enough for me)...then a tough call. think both goldsack and nathan brown are in trouble.
dogs usually only play one other tall forward alongside bazza and at the minute, roughead looks more likely than minson. hahn and grant are their next biggest. think we can make do with harry, maxy, presti, reid, toovey and shaw as our back 6.
prefer runners vs dogs so could leave both goldy and nathan out. a lot depends on whether didak is ok to return.
in;
didak, presti, leroy, bj, medhurst
out;
mccarthy, fraser, leon (just not doing enough for me)...then a tough call. think both goldsack and nathan brown are in trouble.
dogs usually only play one other tall forward alongside bazza and at the minute, roughead looks more likely than minson. hahn and grant are their next biggest. think we can make do with harry, maxy, presti, reid, toovey and shaw as our back 6.
prefer runners vs dogs so could leave both goldy and nathan out. a lot depends on whether didak is ok to return.
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jack_spain
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Magpie Mustafa
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+1Deja Vu wrote:Dogs will smack Bombres by 100 points tonight and will go into next week with confidence.
We will go in with 2 shaky performances.
Whoever came up with the idea for the Sorrento trip should get sacked. We have been nothing but listless since then.
Ever since we 'chilled out' and gave the team a couple of days off, we have looked poor. Very.
We needed to go into the finals with some confidence, and I am becoming quite concerned, even if the Dogs are under-strength at the moment.
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Yeah fancy all those idiots' actions causing us to finish on top of the ladder having defeated every team in the top 8 this year, to the point where we finished with a dead rubber untouchable on top.jack_spain wrote:No doubt the same idiot who dreamed up Arizona!Deja Vu wrote:
Whoever came up with the idea for the Sorrento trip should get sacked. We have been nothing but listless since then.
Idiots! Sack MM!
Buon Giorno
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AN_Inkling
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Cats were awful early against the Eagles. Would probably have lost playing anyone else. Saints were belted by the Crows. Teams without incentive to win are never going to play their best. Even given that, we lost by 3 points to a pretty good team and played some good footy doing so.
This was an excellent hit out coming into the finals, and has left me supremely confident that we have the Hawks' measure should we meet them in the finals.
Home and away is over, time to move forward to the finals. No point dwelling on a meaningless game against the Hawks.
Donny: close the post match thread, open the finals thread, do it now!
This was an excellent hit out coming into the finals, and has left me supremely confident that we have the Hawks' measure should we meet them in the finals.
Home and away is over, time to move forward to the finals. No point dwelling on a meaningless game against the Hawks.
Donny: close the post match thread, open the finals thread, do it now!
Well done boys!
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Joel
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Just want to add one more thing. We had Fraser in the ruck most of the time. Clearly if we were taking this dead rubber seriously thatveoild have happened.
Poor finish, that cannot happen again. I'm not going to bother reading this site for a couple of days, I can't be stuffed reading all the stuff from whingers.
Poor finish, that cannot happen again. I'm not going to bother reading this site for a couple of days, I can't be stuffed reading all the stuff from whingers.
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Brown26
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Chillax people
I reckon our second half was very promising in terms of intensity, and take nothing away from the Hawks, they were good from an intensity point as well.
We stuggled in front of goal, but in my opinion I reckon we needed to get a couple of good quarters under out belts after the Adelaide game and the first half today.
Change the bounce of one ball, had Cloke run into the open goal rather than try to bannana it, take away one of Franklins free kicks that weren't there, give Beamsy or Daisy Didaks left boot and we would've won by three points and perhaps not got as much out of the game and probably not be having this discussion.
The other thing I reckon we can take out of this game is stoppages - I'm not sure what the stats were but I reckon the Hawks did us at the clearances and some of our set up work at stoppages was terrible. No doubt that'll be analysed before the Doggies game and Didak will help with that as well.
Tonights game will be interesting but I reckon we'll be alright against the Dogs, especially with Dids and Presti back
- Ben
I reckon our second half was very promising in terms of intensity, and take nothing away from the Hawks, they were good from an intensity point as well.
We stuggled in front of goal, but in my opinion I reckon we needed to get a couple of good quarters under out belts after the Adelaide game and the first half today.
Change the bounce of one ball, had Cloke run into the open goal rather than try to bannana it, take away one of Franklins free kicks that weren't there, give Beamsy or Daisy Didaks left boot and we would've won by three points and perhaps not got as much out of the game and probably not be having this discussion.
The other thing I reckon we can take out of this game is stoppages - I'm not sure what the stats were but I reckon the Hawks did us at the clearances and some of our set up work at stoppages was terrible. No doubt that'll be analysed before the Doggies game and Didak will help with that as well.
Tonights game will be interesting but I reckon we'll be alright against the Dogs, especially with Dids and Presti back
- Ben
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What's with all the wrist slashing? Glad to have a loss before the finals to be honest.
The (premiership) cup is still half full folks!
That was a much better performance than last week against the Crows. I thought we did pretty well in most areas today except the accuracy of course. We were flat against the Crows, but today the spark was back and some important pieces fell into place:
1. Reid showed he is the real deal against two KPP
2. Leon showed some long overdue spark
3. Maxy is back
4. Reid showed he is the real deal
5. Wellers & Sidey did some nice slick stuff.
6. Blair has guts aplenty and doesn't panic. He stays.
7. Reid is the real deal.
The concerns are with injury to key players so let's hope we get Dids back.
Presti can be given another week if necessary and Goldy stays. Goldy was quiet today but his pace will be needed next week I reckon.
The (premiership) cup is still half full folks!
That was a much better performance than last week against the Crows. I thought we did pretty well in most areas today except the accuracy of course. We were flat against the Crows, but today the spark was back and some important pieces fell into place:
1. Reid showed he is the real deal against two KPP
2. Leon showed some long overdue spark
3. Maxy is back
4. Reid showed he is the real deal
5. Wellers & Sidey did some nice slick stuff.
6. Blair has guts aplenty and doesn't panic. He stays.
7. Reid is the real deal.
The concerns are with injury to key players so let's hope we get Dids back.
Presti can be given another week if necessary and Goldy stays. Goldy was quiet today but his pace will be needed next week I reckon.
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jack_spain
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Okay.AN_Inkling wrote:What funk is this?jack_spain wrote:Why do you think this funk will magically disappear in September? As the ABC's Antony Green would say, "Going on our past record we are in trouble."Podpicken wrote:
Keep the faith, we'll be ok. Most teams have a lull throughout the year, so hopefully we've just experienced ours.
- Second to the ball most of the day - smashed in clearances.
- Disposal efficiency well down (actually for the first half totally pathetic and worthy of a bottom side).
- Accuracy the worst in the comp (but that's been a problem all year).
- Much vaunted tackling pressure non-existent (Dawes and Blair honourable exceptions). Just how many tackles did the Hawks shrug off?
- Return of the slow chip-chip stop-start around the boundary line crap. Hawthorn - like Adelaide last week - played on at every opportunity. We stalled.
- Backline hopeless and leaking goals. Only Maxwell (along with Pendlebury our best player today) saved the day. Reid is rusty and can be forgiven. Goldsack and N. Brown you're the weakest links. Harry and Heater - get back to basics.
- Forwards, stop panicking every time you get the ball and have the confidence to kick the goal yourself. The number of times I saw poor efforts at passing the ball off when a shot was in order made my blood boil (Dawes had the most embarassing example of this when he kicked into Pendles).
Look, for those of you saying there was nothing in this game, a loss is a loss is a loss. Winning form is good form and contagious. Sadly losing form is even more contagious.
I am worried about next week. Very worried. The thought of us losing to the Dogs is too awful to contemplate (that's why so many of us are SO nervous). Even Federer has gone out in straight sets.
We flirted with form at the wrong end of the season and the footy gods never need much encouragement to punish us. You can be certain they are not Pie supporters given our finals records over the years.
But as I said earlier, there is one man who is standing up under these adverse conditions, our leader Nick Maxwell. He's been great in these last two dark weeks. Perhaps he will inspire his more talented teammates to have a decent crack.