Due to errors on the match schedule, I ended up going from SHC to Burringbar and back again and arrived with the balls 10 minutes before the game, my aplogies.This meant the warm up was non existant.
Again we had players turn up late or not at all. We went from bad to worse and concede 5 of the easiest golas I have seen a team score all year. Luke was left flat with our defense allowing QUT to shoot again and again and when Luke stopped them he wasn’t clearing the ball. Our Halfbacks and Insides were not forcing penalties and as such the strikers hardly touched the ball and when they did, turned it over. What a shitty day.
Standouts No One
Second Half
I must work on my half time speech as they slotted another within 5 minutes. Whilst we started to improve, a few basics were missing and the old ball hogging reared its ugly face. Shitty umpiring decisions, turnovers and lack of marking killed us.
When you hear an opposition say to his teammate that he is enjoying not having to run it means we are not marking. What we did to Saints, they did to us. We had a few opportunities but were never in the game against a team I thought had nothing on the day. We weren’t beaten , we won the game……………………… for them.
Standouts Lee Oliver, Isaac Campbell, Bevan Coman
Overall If we cant mark properly, we will never win a game. To those guys who did not turn up and who have not turned up in the past or are consistently late, I hope you shoulder some responsibility for results like these.
That said,
Lets try to find the positive; we are now unlikely to make the semis so lets try to have fun, play as a team and play for one another and shake up a few of the teams above us on the way.