Post Match. Pies pipped by Hawks. All comments please.

[Magpietothemax]

Maybe this is the catharsis our boys need. After this loss, a truly devastating one (should never have lost to them, Hawthorn are an inferior team this year..their inferiority was palpable throughout the game, they only won due to our amazing accuracy in shooting ourselves in the foot)...we now have nothing to lose. Nothing to lose means freedom...freedom to move the ball lightning fast like we used to, by hand and foot, through the centre whenever we see fit. Our defence is strong...we have established fantastic defensive structures across the team. that has been the one highlight across the last horrible 3 or 4 weeks. It is the offensive ball movement that has been gutted, but not by injuries (most injuries have occurred in defence). Tay Adams will be a huge inclusion when he returns, Stepho out is big, but does not explain the failure to transition the ball forward with aggression and daring. Our skills have fallen off the cliff, but skills don't just evaporate into thin air. It is the team synergy. We are being suffocated by lack of confidence. Tell the team: take it on. You have nothing to lose. Go for it. It's backs to the wall, like 2018.

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[shawthing]

Last comment from me for the night. If we want a blueprint on how we can jazz up our game plan just take a look at how DeGoey scored the goal of the night. He ran through the centre bounce and caught the tap from Grundy running at full pace (like Swanny used to do all the time). And then didn't try to muck around with the footy, he simply kicked it long through the big sticks. Sadly, we gave up the next goal just as easily because apart from DeGoey all our midfielders stand around flat-footed. Maybe we need to get Swanny down to instruct them, but then Bucks never did like the Rat Pack did he.

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[David]

It was a significant improvement on last week, and that’s something. Some players stood up well (a really encouraging debut from Quaynor, and Aish shpwed us how much we missed him last week), but the side still has major structural problems. Cox needs to go back to the VFL to get his form back; at least Mihocek had a good game, but Reid’s absence hurts all of a sudden. Still not sure about Daicos; looked a bit lost out there at times. Brown did some great things. I have a feeling we’ll respond strongly against West Coast, but will it be enough?

[masoncox]

35 to 57 inside 50's
Another slaughter.
All other stats relatively even.
Our mids are a disaster.

[PyreneesPie]

[slangman]

[RudeBoy]

This is more than a bit of a form slump. Something is wrong within our club. I don't know what it is, but our whole team are not playing with the vim and vigour we have come to expect.

I honestly can't see us getting anywhere near the Eagles next week.

What we lack imo, is genuine on field leadership. Pendles is a great role model, but he aint no leader in the heat of battle. We need a warrior. Adams is probably the only one who could do that. Let's hope his return sparks a much fiercer effort.

After promising so much, its hard to be positive at all about the remainder of the season.

[Jezza]

I've been seething for hours. I was seething from the halfway mark of the second quarter when I came to the realization that we were no better than last weekend. Lost my will to yell or cheer for the boys tonight and just sat in my seat quietly for the rest of the game.

I'm completely lost for words as to what has happened to us since the bye. Contrary to what some have said, I don't think our performances were that bad before the bye. Sure we weren't playing brilliantly, but our best was still being demonstrated when it mattered.

Something has been amiss since the bye, and I don't think it's going to be easy to turn around. Was hoping for a huge response tonight, but we got nothing of the sort. The players looked physically knackered in the final quarter and couldn't keep up with the Hawks. The rest of the season is going to be a tough slog unfortunately.

IQ was the highlight of the night. Nice to see our first debutant of the year, and he put up a good first performance. He deserves to stay in the side for next week.

Dreading next Friday night

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Agree we should never have lost to Hawthorn tonight. They are a shadow of the team they were a couple of years ago, but then we’re a shadow of the team we were last year. Having Howe and Adams not out there is affecting our leadership on the field and losing the spark in our forward line in Stephenson has sapped our ability to score goals. There is no easy fix easy here. We have players who just do enough to win games against mediocre opposition, but then if the opposition puts us under enough pressure, we crack. It doesn’t help having players like Treloar and others who kick soda pops up in the air. We don’t look for targets in our forward line and our forwards don’t present meaning it takes some inspired shots at goals by De Goey to break a goal kicking drought. The greatest worry we have is that our main injuries come from the backline yet the players we have brought in are holding the backline together. Only Stephenson is missing from the forward line so it’s difficult to see where the improvement is coming from. And as others have said we lack physical pressure in the midfield. Sier hasn’t come on this year after his breakout season last year and Wills can’t get his body right. Without Adams we get out bodied at the contests. There is no ready fix until we get our best players back. Until then we have no choice but to keep playing Brown, Daicos and Quaynor.

[eddiesmith]

1 win from 12 attempts...Buckley is Clarkson’s bitch

[Magpietothemax]

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