I'm kind of stunned by I could see it coming at the game, in terms of the way it finished. The bounce for Grimes that went away from him, the bounce when Rioli was streaming towards the 50 (he should have used the players outside of him), the OOTF by Mansell to keep the door ajar, but I do have to say, for probably the smartest footballer I have seen play the game, that kick off the ground by Jack was the dumbest thing I've ever seen him do. Pick it up, get tackled, force the stoppage. Its not rocket science in the last minute of the game, the 1 thing that you cannot do is kick the ball out into wide open spaces. He may not have known Ridley was there, but it was a dumb low percentage play.
Whilst we weren't great, I wasn't impressed with the Bombers and the thing I thought coming away from the game is, regardless of where we are right now, we will win another premiership before they do. Whilst they may have outcoached is tonight, Brad Scott is teaching them a gameplan that will not win finals and certainly not a GF. It was a scared gameplan to try and scrag a close one (it worked) but its hardly coaching for a flag. Play 1 back, have your wingers flood back and then move the ball so slowly forward, that you are only left with bombing the ball long, we intercepted at will from their entries, but the problem was, that they slowed the game down so much, when they turned it over, there was then no speed available to open the game up. We did try, especially players like Rioli, Shai and Bakes but it just wasn't working.
I'll give the Bombers 1 thing, they are fit. Playing players like Durham, Martin etc, it enables them to 2 way run and get back and clog space, but geez its a long way from a premiership winning gameplan.
Boring, dour and a very crap expression of our game.