East Freo belted us by 50 points in round 6 last year and we came good. Western Bulldogs lost by 40 yesterday and I still think they are in the running.
Next week just has some extra pressure on it now is all.
Jacques may well be out the door due to new work commitments along with his sore knee.
The best part about all this is you nuffies getting angry about a loss to the reigning premiers, who have won 17 in a row. You’re zone is no good- you can bring in all the talent you want, but underneath- it’s not good enough and until it is you’ll go nowhere near winning anything
Meanwhile, we (the Sharks) keep winning! Even when losing our best player and 2 of our best kids (Hagan and Zadow).
Really disappointing yesterday.
We are better than that.
Went away from precise ball movement to our old habit of bombing it long. A lot of that was SF pressure which seemed to catch us in the headlights.
Remember our disappointing day against EF early last season. Beat them in the next 2 outings including a final.
We can bounce back this week at Mandurah.
One game, a season does not make.
Wind up Subi Bud.
They’re the one ones who you put a Spoke in the Wheel of!
I heard that too but he was only just added to the injured list on Friday as knee rnd 6. Why would he have been added to the injured list if he’s flown the coop? For me it’s a massive blow if he’s left because guaranteed the ruckmen will get injuries.i rate him highly.
Exactly, that’s why I’ve been saying while I believe EF won’t play finals they won’t fall away too much because they have good zones and are well coached. You can see our lack of depth of talent on display yesterday in the reserves who got smashed.
What the heck was going on with the umpiring yesterday during the 2nd quarter? 3 times one umpire awards a free kick or mark to us, they have a little conference and it goes the other way. They looked like Cling and Clang out there. Cost us a couple of goals.
East Freo reserves have also been smashed in their first two games!
Claremont also lost both games comfortably
4 umpires in the WAFL is 2 too many, the standard was low beforehand now even worse with the extra added when not needed and is just a further drain on the WA Football finances!
EF have a lot of injuries at the moment and are incredibly young in the 2s- having said that, the Reserves seem to be getting younger and younger. Depth players are fleeing to local footy for easy money and less commitment. Over the past few seasons EF have lost Holmes, Ben McGuire, English, Burton, Featherstone ect to local footy- all mid 20s. I’m sure every club is the same but it’ll see the gap between Reserves and League get even bigger
Oldemon, GM was brought in last because we had a season ending injury to Edwards and Johnston missed the first 16 games. Plus we didn’t have Dean and Harding. He filled a need then, he is surplus to needs now. We couldn’t take a mark in the forward line - Pearson and Strom are quality players and delivery was poor - so all SF had to do was bring the ball to ground, then run it out. They did that time and time again. We had 45 inside 50s - itself a poor number - for 14 shots on goals (there was one out on the full from Luers, from 35 out on a slight angle). SF had 29 shots from 56 entries. We were unable to lock the ball in and get repeat entries. Adding GM wouldn’t help with that. To me, he is there as cover in the event that one or more of our 7 other rucks/KPPs go down.
Next week will be a measure of where we are at. As KCEF said, SF have won 21 of their last 22 games, and with a % of over 170. That is a Subi at their peak level of dominance and clearly no one will challenge them for the flag. We have started the season beating a team that can’t win and losing to a team that can’t lose. Peel should be more on our level, so if we can match it with them, we can still be hopeful of a good season.
Ted, hear what you are saying. But wouldn’t GM be a better option than Luers?
I would have thought Glass-McCasker was brought in as a High Quality Recruit,who Swans unbelievably mucked about and let him slip through their grasp.
Hate for us to repeat Seans’ mistake!
DF, I agree GM is better than Luers. I am questioning the three talls in the forward approach. We can’t have a game plan based on the assumption that we pump it forward and if Clarke doesn’t get it, Johnno will, and if he doesn’t, the third tall will. As I said, that was exposed yesterday because we had no ability to crumb or even lock the ball in once it came to ground. However, until Paton comes back, we will struggle to find small forwards capable of playing that role. So yes, if we persist with three talls, GM is a better option, but I don’t think that set up is going to work against good defences.
The thing is as well, it’s not the best colts getting promoted to cover the reserves…..it’s the depth colts players that are filling the vacant reserves spots……ones who wouldn’t be best 23 in the colts……looks like most clubs focus on colts / league best available…..and the reserves is a filler side for those in-between. A fair few in the EF reserves at present aren’t colts eligible best 23 or weren’t colts eligible best last year….probably the same at a lot of other clubs
3.2 to 0.0 first qtr in the colts. Looking like a right spanking in all 3 grades though I noticed the girls had a draw last night. Wakey wakey Ian. We are waiting….
Our Women’s Teams flew the Flag for the Demons,with a nigh on 9 Goal Win in the Rogers Cup and exciting last kick of the Game Draw with about 15 seconds to go.
Well Done Dees!