Thought Docherty tried hard too

Thomas was much better tonight, yeah?

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Good signs from Charlie. Much improved played with more intent and imposed himself at times. Big positive.

Jack was great again. Old head on very young shoulders.

Plow was great down back that was under immense pressure and will be a great leader down there.

March, like Jack, is a smart player with a bit of shit in him. Love 'em both.

These young blokes are going to have to do this the hard way without a strong senior group to help them much unfortunately.

Harsh. Had no pre-season and couldn't even run due to a foot injury.
Two weeks back in the twos and forced to play due to Kreuzer getting injured.
Having said that, he played like someone with no pre-season.

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Not sure why you are defending Murphy's game tonight.. my read was that he played pretty selfish football.. it really wasn't great leadership by example.....

Positives

Fish
Levi
Charlie
SPS
Ploughman solid
Draft picks

Negatives

Phillips around the ground work
Worst 3rd Q in memory

Rowe was excellent and White was actually pretty good...and yes drop Wright. No point in having a guy that can slot it through the middle when your destined for martyrdom.

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Can you give some examples of why his leadership by example was so poor?

No one puts their head over the footy and gets less support from his teammates than Murphy.

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

This, I couldn't have said it better.
Anyone having a go at Gibbs/Murphy don't understand modern footy.

As much as I'd love to play McKay I'd hate him to have to play in our forward line right now while he's still developing.

Bring Jaksch in and throw Weitering back. If I know our Match Committee though they'll play both Kreuzer and Phillips and leave Levi as our one KPF and destroy his confidence just like last year.

You really need to develop some thicker skin and accept criticism of your poster boy Murph...he had an ordinary game all round

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Ordinary or insipid?

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

Why did we pick so many quick players and then not run the ball at all.
One bounce for the night and Bolts went troppo in the box when it resulted in a free.
One bounce.
No run and carry at all.
The usual suspects waxing the footy and ignoring the kids. If their possession count is down that's one of the reasons. If we aren't going to run the footy, we need players who can play in the contest. Graham would have been better tonight based on the way we played.

Not many positives from the game but Charlie Curnow had a good first half. Tokk some nice grabs and that will be confidence boosting.
Jack will play a lot of footy for us. He is a footballer in his own right. Plays brave footy and is getting better every game.
Pickett is always just a hair's breadth away from doing something special and will be a good player.
Cripps.
Gibbs played well tonight despite his usual quota of panic kicks. Put him in a top side and he would be amazing. Let him go to Adelaide if we can get a decent pick for him. Everybody wins from that.

I was worried at 3/4 time we would lose by 100+. They held on against the odds in the last. Plus Port couldn't miss from anywhere on the ground in the end.

It will be interesting to see who plays next week against Sydney.

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Read my post. There are a couple in there.

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For the record, can you repeat them? (given your post is not in the thread above)

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

Sure he puts his head over the ball, but to what effect? He had plenty of the ball but I cant recall a passage of play which translated into a positive result. When on the ball, quite a few were kick and hope disposals which turned over and went the other way. Even when he was forward, his kick either went to 3 on 1's or to no one.. that grabber in the last quarter was nonsensical.

Don't get me wrong that kick and hope gameplay was viral all night . (Gibbs was worse) but when one of your most experienced, talented players, who is also captain doesn't show some sense of poise, it quickly paints a negative picture for the 10 kids that are out there who haven't seen more than 10 AFL games.

It's like being at GWS all over again for them with a list full of kids getting spanked most weeks.
If Bolts can keep this group together for a few years with an injection of youth and experience via FA, they will go OK.
I used to go ballistic after a loss like this in the old days but now we have a long term plan I can cop it as long as there are signs we are on the right track.
I think we are but I do wish the older players would trust the kids a bit more and give them a chance to show what they can do.

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Senior players really need to carry the youngsters, but I am not seeing it. It will either make the kids stronger going forward or it will destroy them

And the examples were....?

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Yes it is.

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