ugly loss.first five minutes was terrific with 3 goals.then the ugly east perth rolled up.unaccountable footy,no pressure,.no manning up.too many bad decisions and bad execution with handball and short kicks that did not hit the mark.lack of discipline giving a goal away from the play.nick robertson was horrible today i don’t know if he is fit but he got into a spat with vardy and thought he might get reported again.not sure if he is worth keeping..the last quarter was great and why couldn’t we do it all day.again we missed gettable shots at goal..plusses were scotty jones and nick merritts game today.unfortunately when we play teams with good talls and run we just don’t handle it well..
I share your angst about our very disappointing loss today, chaddy22.
Yes, we came home like a steam train and may well have won had the game gone another 30 seconds.
However, all our stuffing around in the previous three quarters (except the opening 10 minutes) meant that it was “mission impossible” to pull off what could’ve been our greatest-ever comeback from a three-quarter-time deficit.
It didn’t help that we kicked a wasteful 5.6, with a few of the misses being very gettable.
This was the sixth of 13 final quarters in 2021 where we’ve booted five-plus goals, yet we’ve only done so twice in 39 other quarters.
Perhaps West Coast relaxed and let us back into the game, but it’s also frustrating because it showed that the players can - if they’re switched on - produce four quarters of good footy and not have to rely on the last.
Our first and third quarters have killed us this year, being outscored by almost two goals to one in both.
With it being the biennial EPFC Hall of Fame day, I thought that might’ve motivated the boys to be switched on and disciplined throughout but, alas, we seem to lose most of our matches when the “old guard” are watching.