3 Things learned R24, 2025 vs Fremantle

[Rusty12]

One more thing.
Tim English, smashing it out vs Darcy and Jackson, doing his job, in a finals-like game, and we were still horrible.
Well done Tim, your off the hook.

[macca]

1. When Tim English tires because he gets bashed up in the rock contests, drops marks we lose those centre bounces. We need to find another way to provide him coverage. Even Voss was punching him
2. We lack speed, a solid wingman and a big strong hard runnig half back (Fraser Gehrig type). Garcia's kicking is ordinary
3. Old habits come back when under pressure. Our forward structure feel to old habits of long bombing and forgetting patterns. Can't kick accurately for goals. I don't know what the answer is but these need to be seriously looked out. We just stopped running and presenting out of defence in that second quarter.

[FrediKanoute]

1. Losing in the last round and missing finals hurts BUT losing finals hurts 1000 times more (and the deeper you get the worse it hurts).
2. Arty was an inspired choice as sub - turned the game when the excitement machine came on.
3. We need to throw the kitchen sink at Zac Butters and an elite key defender too.

I agree with this, especially point 3. We can't just wait for guys to develop. We need to be aggressive at the trade table this year. We may need to give up some talent.

[merantau]

JOD needs to spend the summer getting FASTER and STRONGER.

Baker and Williams to play as wingers who can really give us a chop out when defence is needed.

We simply have to find ways of keeping an open forward line so Naughton, Darcy, Croft, West and Weightman can go to work.