It is so sad that our skill level is still below the rest of the opposition. Hamling , Pearce , conca , Toby all kick the ball at below AFL standard. I saw a passage of play where we kept kicking it to each other and each kick just missed the target and a simple Mark was instead a pick up fumble which resulted in less time to dispose of the ball and eventually a kick to a contest.
It is incredulous that we are still picking too many players on effort. Also our footy smarts dexterity when the ball is on the ground is not even at wafl standard. Too many times our small forwards were not able to half a contest or the ball slips out , comes of our knee etc and falls to the opposition. There was one passage where conca just ran the ball out , no thought to getting it and handballing onto the oppositions foot to go out on the full.. Our footy smarts are just not their.
I really thought we were making progress but we have gone backwards at the basics. Liam Henry pick I thought was going to cost us with the points we gave up, but thankfully Chapman will be great and if he is not already in front of Toby Watson I will go heave ho.
This is not about putting the boots in, but seriously we did not pick the best side yesterday. Even a 3/4 fit Taylor duman is better than some of our defenders with ball in hand. Alex Pearce as a forward was simply dumb, truely dumb, the guy can’t kick straight and I ove him as a mobile , dexterity elite as a backman who can half a contest. He is a backman more than cox. The press around cox is amazing I am watching the wrong player obviously. Yeah has played some good games on below par opposition forwards but anyone of note he gets pantsed.
