Post match. Pies down to Cats - All comments please.

[Duff Soviet Union]

I won't read anything more into this than we just had a bad game.

Geelong smashed us in the contested ball, which was a huge shock considering how the two teams had done in all their previous games. Also, tackling was shocking. I know we had a decent number, but how many broken tackles were there?

A lot of guys just had bad games. It will get better.

[thompsoc]

Please recruit players who have elite kicking skills.
I have banged on about this for a while but after watching the
Hawks last week and us last night it just makes a depressing sight
to see kicking lotto!

[Kwah-LeBaire]

[jackcass]

That was ordinary.... next!

[Culprit]

Last night was the reverse of last week. It wasn't looking good as soon as Armstrong was named and it was predictable. My wallet is fatter and I have to thank Armstrong for that he is a spud that should not even be on our list. The Cats were primed to win and were on their game from the bounce and we were off and we simply haven't beaten anyone yet. We will see where we are at if we bounce back next week.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

No sugar coating this one, it was a shocker. Players reading their own press? We knew the dark days would come but they're still hard to take. Not going to bother analysing what went wrong, we simply went in with the wrong mindset. Good fight back but that's almost always too late. Lessons learnt, we now dust ourselves off and move on to the next challenge!

[melliot]

I'll be watching vfl tonight and see who puts their hand up.

While we are critical of Clokes misses and Whites highly hormonal moody form, they have done that while we have been winning.

In reality (and as Buckley explained in the presser) with our lack of contested ball winning, general intennsity, poor forward structure, and losing our defensive structure, that is what cost us.

I'd blame the mids more than anyone. But the whole team was off.

Dwyer & Armstrong will be likely to lose their positions for Ramsay and Seeds. And it would be better that we play the youth with upside. Not players who are not going to grow our side.

I thought Witts did as much as Gault has when we dominated general play. I think he has to be given a couple of weeks to get up to speed. Witts was excellent in the later parts of last year.

Assuming DeGoey goes well again tonight at VFL would like him to come in. Suggest for PK??

[matrix10]

[kickit2me]

Broken tackles, how many broken tackles? I can't remember seeing a poorer tackling performance. Caddy alone must've slipped 10.

It was very hard to watch that first half and I was amazed that we got to within 23 points early in the last.....and with momentum our way Cloke misses a sitter, an absolute sitter. I dislike your footballing ways Travis, I really do.

[doriswilgus]

At one stage the score was 43 to 2 their way.That suggests that the players went into the game with the wrong mindset,and thought they just had to turn up to win.Hopefully they will learn from this experience,and realize that they actually have to work hard to win games.

[roar]

The ineffective tackling was really annoying.

It was one of those games that will happen from time to time. We just need to make sure we rectify things next week.

No injuries and our willingness to keep battling were the main positives.

[Boot]

Disastrous night of football but there were some positives;
1. Jack Crisp - Big, Strong at the ball, can break away from the pack and his kicking seems to be OK.
2. Nathan Brown is our best Full Back. Frost can be useful as a stopper on mobile talls but lacks the brute strength to take on the likes of Hawkins.
Leave the gorilla work to Brown!!
3. Tom Langdon - Clean and strong. Could he move into the cente for us to assist with clearance work or is he too valuable as a consistent defender?
4. Travis Cloke - Yes I know his miss from 20 meters stopped the teams momentum but I thought his CHF game was great. He was able to run and contest and he seems to be back to his running best. Leave him at CHF changing with White until Darcy Moore can take over from White.

Plenty of bad things to come out of the game but lets not focus on those today. Richmond to beat next week to re-establish the season.

[jackcass]

[jackcass]