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Who said we had a team of champions????we finished 9th last year.

Leedy wrote:

royallucky wrote: One of the most pathetic spineless performances i've witnessed by players representing the black and blue jumper and what was more galling for me was seeing them getting out muscled by a hungrier derby rival in such an important match,and not taking anything from our opponents who were too good,they can't play a WAFL grand final at that ground where theres always a flukey swirling breeze which causes alot of balls to go out bounds and you generally see a scrappy unattractive brand of football.

I have never heard of a ground with one of the best facilities not being considered because it has a swirly breeze !!! It was certainly an entertaining game to watch for me. On a more serious note, you blokes are too top heavy and your defensive efforts in attack is almost non existent, Dobson needs to do more when he hasn't got the footy, whinging to his team mates will wear thin. Your big blokes are almost rendered useless if the ball hits the ground.

Thanks for your analysis Leedy but i think we're quite aware of that,Jones was actually quite dangerous in the first 2 games where he took marks and was kicking goals when drifting forward but was very butter fingered today and Dobbo who took you apart 1 game last year is plain lazy.

The highlight of the day for me was when Conner Lynch pinched the ball off Aiden Lynch in the centre and kicked the ball forward. Mike Lourey took a pack mark and kicked a goal.

Winger wrote: The highlight of the day for me was when Conner Lynch pinched the ball off Aiden Lynch in the centre and kicked the ball forward. Mike Lourey took a pack mark and kicked a goal.

Well that would've made Barney puke,a falcon out muscling a Royal which wouldn't've happened in his playing days,so Aiden needs to weed that out of his game as that softness may have been acceptable where he came from but not with us.

Maybe, just maybe, big brother gave little brother a helping hand.

In Dobbo’s defence what I could hear from the bench they wanted him deep forward and stay in the 50. A number of times the disposals were pretty ordinary to the forwards, landing in front or kicked overs there heads, how many of the forwards were hit up on leads today, none.
WP came to play, won the midfield battle all day, and won probably every position on the day.
I thought Msando showed a lot of promise, one of the best today

SD351 wrote: In Dobbo’s defence what I could hear from the bench they wanted him deep forward and stay in the 50. A number of times the disposals were pretty ordinary to the forwards, landing in front or kicked overs there heads, how many of the forwards were hit up on leads today, none.
WP came to play, won the midfield battle all day, and won probably every position on the day.
I thought Msando showed a lot of promise, one of the best today

SD351 the delivery was poor but when he was anywhere near the pill his attack on the ball,like the other 2 games this year,has been nothing short of pathetic and he was the only player on the ground not to register a single tackle,but as i previously said the whole side put the most insipid Derby effort i have ever seen.

I went to Joondalup wanting and expecting to see three games that I could walk away from being satisfied that all three grades had done their best, represented the jumper, supporters and themselves to the standard expected.

Sadly only one group did and they did it very well.

The colts gave away a 6 goal start and whilst they broke nearly even for the rest of the game they encountered and opposition that were just better.

The reserves played really well and held WP goalless after half time. It great to see Tom Gorter go back into defence and play really well, Taylor North showed that he is a quality player and Jed Edwards and Tom Amos controlled the ruck. Christian Ameduri should be be playing in the ones next week after that performance. Jack Cooly shpwed he could be a good pick up with his kicking, attack on the ball and general play.

The league were frankly outclassed, out thought (on the field and off it) and WP were deserved winners (no matter what the name is or where they are). They were prepared to run harder, use the ball better and finish their work more efficiently. Ihave to ask the question as to why we did not have our so called best players in and around the centre all day, why is Robertson being left to disappear in the forward line so often why when we have a ruckman of quality do we not have players who will win the ball apart of Jackson Ramsay. There are a couple of players who were not just upto the level, Sebit tried hard and has deserved the time in the ones, Turner is just not at the level and 26 possessions with one effective is just wearing thin!

Not good enough part from the reserves, well done to WP!

Winger wrote: The highlight of the day for me was when Conner Lynch pinched the ball off Aiden Lynch in the centre and kicked the ball forward. Mike Lourey took a pack mark and kicked a goal.

Conal actually went back and had a set shot and slotted it Winger, just to add insult to injury

Magro (18 I think) he can play, he had a dip all day, he repelled many forward moves and then went forward for 10 minutes and kicked a couple.