Wins BRING the heat. Beat GC.

[The Underdog]

I think the decision making was 100% aligned with how we have been playing. Move the ball from lane to lane, changing angles. Look for the opening....GO. But the problem is you can't do that when the ball isn't behaving as normal - when kicks have to be more 'careful' because your ball drop isn't as secure...and when marks are a bit more of a 50-50. That short target? It isn't a guaranteee. That handball > 5m? Hell, that handball > 3m? No guarantee to hit it's target or be hauled in.

I have no issue with the way we are playing but it isn't the plan for Darwin. Keep it simple. Look longer. Hinge around the contest for support on both sides - at the same time, fight desperately to keep the ball coming FORWARD from a marking contest at all costs (over the back is death) and just be prepared to play an imperfect game.

We just tried to be too clever. Trying to hit up in the corridor when DTL would have done. As it turned out, we still nearly pinched it but really - GC were the better side.

We played footy. They played footy in Darwin.

we nearly pinched it because in the last 10 minutes we decided to get it forward however the hell we could. Long kicks, knock ons, kicks off the ground. We just started moving it and it worked. Too little, too late unfortunately.

[Grantysghost]

I think the decision making was 100% aligned with how we have been playing. Move the ball from lane to lane, changing angles. Look for the opening....GO. But the problem is you can't do that when the ball isn't behaving as normal - when kicks have to be more 'careful' because your ball drop isn't as secure...and when marks are a bit more of a 50-50. That short target? It isn't a guaranteee. That handball > 5m? Hell, that handball > 3m? No guarantee to hit it's target or be hauled in.

I have no issue with the way we are playing but it isn't the plan for Darwin. Keep it simple. Look longer. Hinge around the contest for support on both sides - at the same time, fight desperately to keep the ball coming FORWARD from a marking contest at all costs (over the back is death) and just be prepared to play an imperfect game.

We just tried to be too clever. Trying to hit up in the corridor when DTL would have done. As it turned out, we still nearly pinched it but really - GC were the better side.

We played footy. They played footy in Darwin.

Yes you called it during the game we were being too precise out of the back half, and it shows in the turnover and forward half score sources for the Suns.

Wasn't until we got desperate late we seemed to go more direct. Think we only had 18 percent of our defensive movements end up inside 50 from defensive 50.