Dimma should be sacked too because we should have won by more
If you don't think we are a very poorly skilled side that turns over the ball continually with absolutely sloppy disposal by hand and foot, then you are looking at another team. And he is in charge. I don't believe he can teach skills much, he may not even value them enough. Grunt and fierce competitiveness, which is fine, but ignoring skill development and not having an AC teaching them at least, is a recipe for failure. Players must be challenged, demanded efforts to improve their skills and game acumen, not making the same errors forever.
Success in any ball sports comes down to the precision of a team's ball use in the end. I don't rate PA as a good disposal side either but they out-performed us in general DE 74%/65. It was only our better F50 DE 55/48 that made the difference.
The game should have been decided in the 1st half - it's only inept use of the ball and easy goal misses that kept them in the game - and that's a depleted PA side too without Marshall, Georgiadis and others. We should have been 8-10 goals ahead at half-time, and this wasteful football is what keeps opponents in range and able to turn it around with a hard-running Q4.
Always good to get a win, but do you really think that level of performance will get us far in finals this year, if we even make it? We are the team that lost to Norf after all - probably the worst team since old Fitzroy. Other games where we managed to drag defeat from the jaws of victory were also due to ineptitude, especially for such an experienced and successful team - without the quality of former ACs though.
I think your view reeks of complacency. The best sides stand up in the close ones.
