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Chapter 1: What does Damian Hardwick say about the team's performance?
The misread is Gold Coast. Here's Damien Hardwick after a bitterly disappointing Q clash.
We looked off at the start. I thought the first quarter we had some unpressured looks. We just made fatal mistakes and they came back the other way. And then quarters two, threes and fours, we just got belted in around the contest. Minus 14, 15 contestable, minus 15 tackles. I think we had eight guys that didn't have a tackle. Like, it's hard to believe, really.
So we just looked off, comprehensively beaten in all facets of the game. And, you know, Brisbane taught us a lesson. You know, the fact of the matter is it doesn't matter who's playing in the jump. You're expected to play to a certain standard. And they lifted, and we just couldn't go with them.
He says the fact of the matter is a lot, by the way.
Chapter 2: How does the Suns' tackling performance compare to other teams?
Keep a watch on that. But does anyone ever get more disappointed in their players publicly than Dimmer? Chris Scott, I can't picture him doing this type of rhetoric, and not that he's needed to, but he openly will tell you how disappointed he is in his players. The relationship with your players is so important. He must have a pretty strong connection with them to be so publicly
With, you know, that wasn't like, oh, that wasn't us today and we're better than that. It was like, I'm really disappointed in my group. And they're 18th in the competition for tackles. They've gone from fourth to 18th from clearances from this year to last year. Third to 16th at centre bounce, centre ball up clearances.
And then gone from first to last at ball up around the ground clearances as well. So there's a, there's a midfield problem. And I wonder if it's Witts. Last year, he was debating with the competition that he should be the best Ruckman in the comp. He's undervalued, should be All-Australian.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Suns' midfield issues?
I think that's the missing piece this year. I don't think they're, they're ruck division. The hit outs might be there, Jerry, but the way that the mids are getting on the move now, I think they're like, okay, we're all four 1v1s. It's going to, ruck's going to hit it to one pair and we'll see how we go. That's not happening anymore. There's guys on the move, there's deals done and.
The Lockie Neal get on the move type of players coming back in the competition, I don't think they've evolved with a couple of rule changes and it's hurting them big time. And then there's the spirit. We're talking about north. What's the sun spirit look like? Can you describe it?
No, no. And they were beaten in 15 minutes of that game. I was watching it. I was quite gobsmacked.
Chapter 4: How does the concept of 'big brother syndrome' apply to the Suns?
Yeah. Like thrilled for Brisbane, but Jane, really? So that's big brother syndrome. As Phil Davis talks about this, it doesn't matter how many years along, there's this dynamic. And it's what the Giants were able to conquer with Sydney right at the start, and they bring it to finals. And it's what Gold Coast have never properly stood up to Brisbane with. They suffer big brother syndrome.
Yeah, I've got, there's that, there's that, but I think that's deeper. There's Brisbane, there's the game on the weekend, but I'm, it's from afar. They're a long way away, aren't they? But I look at the Bulldogs and I see that spirit. I see Hawthorne's, I see Geelong's, I see most teams, what they're trying to do from a connection piece.
And the biggest beacon of them all in the mid 2000s was Richmond and what Dimmer was doing with that group. It was like, what are they doing that's so good there? Like you're envious of how connected they were.
Chapter 5: What factors contribute to the Suns' current team spirit?
I just don't know what it is in Queensland. I'm sure there is something there, but I'm not sure if it's as strong as what it's going to be or what it was at the Tigers.
So they're a watching brief now, aren't they? They're seventh. They're still the right side of the ledger. Yeah. Have you readjusted your- Well, I don't know.
Possibilities for them. Well, round one, they were premiership favorites. And it was like, yeah, they've got Petrarca now, plus the Brownlow medalists and what they did last year. But the one thing I thought they were going to be so good at, they're almost last. So it's okay to be not number one, but don't be 18th. And if they can just improve that, then they'll be competitive.
And then there's the intangible, the 10% difference that you see at every club, because 90% of what we do is the same.
Chapter 6: What does Adam Simpson believe the Suns need to improve?
What's their 10? That's what I'm looking for. They are the misreads.