Well, that was rough. Really rough. Team looked so lifeless it was bizarre. Time to drop the “Fear the Fortress” BS, I don’t think anyone is fearing playing here anymore after 3 straight losses. What a joke. DCE has played ONE half decent game since his announcement, shocking to absolutely nobody we won that game he was half decent in. Amazing what your halfback putting in effort does.
I’m not even going to get mad at Seibold, he picked the team we all wanted aside from Waddell.
Gonna need some serious discussions with Jurbo about if he should be in this team anymore. I love the guy but he does absolutely nothing in attack and our forwards really struggle in attack to get anything going, we rely on opposition errors and penalties to get up field now. He’s not the only one, but it’s really noticeable when our forwards looked better without him there 2 weeks ago. Speaking of the Trbojevic’s, Tommy was super quiet today, clearly not 100% and was very reluctant to just get involved at times. He only does that if he’s not well.
Koula did his thing, unfortunately we just don’t get him involved enough. Looks good when we do, but for whatever reason that doesn’t seem to be the game plan. Our left edge throws it around but looks so unthreatening it’s wild, meanwhile the right edge throws it around and drops it.
That’s 2 home games straight we go down 14-0, make the big comeback and then throw it away. It’s like we need to go down by a big lead to realise we should start playing, but unfortunately it’s too late by that point. If the team aren’t up for it big time next week, it’ll really show how the attitude of the boys is at the moment.
It’s not even that painful anymore though, like I’m always annoyed at a performance like that but I said after that round 2 loss by 20 to the Wahs when we were being talked about as premiership contenders all week in the lead up that we were zero chance of doing anything big this year. When you know this team well and have watched them in recent years, that is enough to confirm it. Even after our big wins I knew it wouldn’t equate to much in the long run this year. Just how the team is now. Attitude is gone, there’s zero desire to get up for home games anymore.
Dunno where we go from here, maybe scrape into the 8 still? We just look worse than last year, which really sucks. Last year we competed in every loss bar the last 2, this year we are being torn apart frequently and having to try and make a comeback which falls short. Will always look forward to watching us play, but this year has a weird feeling for me, almost like I just know win or loss the end game will always be another year of wasted potential. Team is great, premiership material. Attitude is awful though, has been at times for years but this year recently I’m seeing it more than usual.
Hope they can prove me wrong but we’ve all watched this movie many times before 🤷♂️
