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I mostly agree with that.

Our midfield were good, our forwards were quite good, but our defenders were poor.  We gave up way more contest victories to Adelaide forwards than we normally do.

To their credit, Adelaide’s marking forwards were very good.  I have been a Fogarty critic but he was way more competitive than I gave him credit for. Having said that, our key defenders were bad.  Uncharacteristically bad.

The game was a real contrast in styles, Adelaide were marking everything up forward, and were veryeffective from structured play.  Our forward line was far more potent when we moved quickly and got our smaller blokes into some space.

I would like to believe that we won’t get burned like that again.  The mistakes we were making in defence should be easily corrected.