Not a bad effort v Eagles

[Teflon]

Reminds me of Einstein’s definition of insanity.

Same old, same old. Delivery into the forward line or transition as it’s now called has been a problem for three consecutive seasons. When we control the game, which we did for long periods last night, we fail to convert our dominance on the scoreboard.

You can be as positive as you want, but it’s not going to change diddly; the message isn’t getting through and or the players can’t execute instructions.

Somethings gotta give because it’s getting very tiring to watch week in, week out and the Pav has much better things to do.

THIS is the problematic recurring problem that just never gets fixed
Be as manic pressured as you like but if you lack composure going forward, can’t hit a target then prepared to be butchered on the rebound as GWS did to us and Crows too.
This is not St Kilda.......change the coach......good political slogan for union lovers that one..

[Teflon]

Phillips...still a baby who's barely played at this level. To write him off is ridiculous. The good thing about him is that he can find the ball and in most of his games for us so far he's had more than 20 possessions. He'll get better. He's tracking as well as his brother at the same stage.

Newnes has been very good for us this year and yesterday he was quiet, so at least respect him for his body of work this year. Remember, prior to last season, he basically hadn't had a pre-season.

Dunstan was good, but he needs to put it together consistently and be better with his disposal. I was pleased to see him get more than 15 touches (which is what he's given us previously)

We have the most inexperienced half back line in the league with Wilkie, Battle, and Paton only having about 25 games between them. They held up really well.

We had 7 very inexperience players out there against last year's premiers and we matched them for most of the game

Battle and Wilikie already play like seasoned veterans

Our game plane is immeasurably better than last season's debacle

Who wrote Phillips off???
Worse than a shorten made up quote that one....
But let’s not take 5 years to work out if he can/can not hit a target under pressure hey?
I don’t care if he gets it 20 times.....Clint Jones used to get it 40 and give it back 30 till he was told handball only please Clint...
We can’t kick under pressure- Newnes is a serial offender with loads of experience who I would argue won’t get better at it
Wilkie handles pressure and delivery better than him, Dunstan and Phillips already....hello recruiters more of this type please???
Anyone thinking the Eagles were in anyway under real pressure from us last night are delusional - every t8me we got near they just used a Dom Sheedy etc and put the foot down.......if they kicked straight in the last qtr the margin would’ve been 10+ goals......
Let’s not do the oh so saints thing and paper over the cracks again??? It’s like getting smacked again in the bad old days but coming h9me happy cause plugger kicked a few.....not gonna get u a flag is it?
Fix the blood delivery into forward line a problem for at 3 years with no improvement and ffs recruit foot skills

[Jacks Back]

We played well but they got away from us in about a 5 minute period. If we park those 5 minutes then we would have won. Did the coach say that in the presser like he used to?

[Scollop]

We will be 6 wins and 12 losses at the end of our 18th match so this thread needs to be a sticky

Just change the title to; "Not a bad effort"

The sycophants will have a huge job convincing us it was 'not a bad effort' if we lose to Carlton

[WellardSaint]

We played well but they got away from us in about a 5 minute period. If we park those 5 minutes then we would have won. Did the coach say that in the presser like he used to?

Not quite...
He said our best passage was the last 7 mins of 3rd qtr, when we had several F50 entries, however failed to capitalize on our chances, and WCE rebounded, that hurt us, he said.

[SaintPav]

We will be 6 wins and 12 losses at the end of our 18th match so this thread needs to be a sticky

Just change the title to; "Not a bad effort"

The sycophants will have a huge job convincing us it was 'not a bad effort' if we lose to Carlton

We’re a chance to lose to Carlton as well, though I hope that doesn’t happen.

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

We will be 6 wins and 12 losses at the end of our 18th match so this thread needs to be a sticky

Just change the title to; "Not a bad effort"

The sycophants will have a huge job convincing us it was 'not a bad effort' if we lose to Carlton

Great post.

You kind of want us to be 6-12, lose to Carlton and sticky this so you can come back at Rd 18 to say to this imaginary group that "I told you so."

Weird. Very weird.

[Jacks Back]

We will be 6 wins and 12 losses at the end of our 18th match so this thread needs to be a sticky

Just change the title to; "Not a bad effort"

The sycophants will have a huge job convincing us it was 'not a bad effort' if we lose to Carlton

Great post.

You kind of want us to be 6-12, lose to Carlton and sticky this so you can come back at Rd 18 to say to this imaginary group that "I told you so."

Weird. Very weird.

Geez I hope we don't lose to Carlton but they have been playing better football than us and just getting pipped (apart from being thrashed last week).

[SaintPav]

Eagles decide not to turn up this week.

Annoying