Not using the bye as an excuse, but why can't they just make round 12 or 13 a split round so that teams are all playing teams off a week off etc.
The scary thing was that going into the 4th quarter, the number of freo players who still had touched the ball less than fyfe who was off from early in the 2nd quarter, thats damning.
Ballas kicking 2 late is probably enough to save his spot but it shouldn't be, he seriously did nothing all day. I would rather see crowden in there getting pinged a few times for holding the ball but at least he will be doing something. Matera wasn't much better.. Fingers crossed Grey stays injury free because that is the only thing keeping ballas in the team as a small fwd option.
Apeness was good, Martin is quality and he held his own considering, just not enough ruck support so of course he was going to tire.
It almost felt like it was one of those games where absolutely nothing went right for us. Was it an aberration?
Even iff benell only played half a game next week or played out of Full Forward, he would have 5 times the impact as a few out there today. Depending though if they want peel to try and beat Subi, but I expect to see at least brad hill and hopefully darcy in. Duman seems to have had an outing as well.,