Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has instructed his gamers to not wallow in self pity after their embarrassing 53-point loss to Carlton in Perth.
The Dockers’ finals hopes are on skinny ice after they crashed to 14th with their fourth loss in 5 video games.
The lack of battle displayed towards Carlton was a significant speaking level after Sunday’s match, with the Blues profitable the clearance battle 42-35 regardless of dropping the hit-outs 70-18.
The Blues kicked eight consecutive targets both facet of halftime to open a 64-point lead by the ultimate change.
Such was the discontent within the 49,469-strong crowd, some Dockers followers booed their very own gamers at three-quarter time.
Fremantle’s process turns into nonetheless more durable this week, with the Dockers going through ladder leaders Collingwood on the MCG on Saturday in a repeat of final 12 months’s semi-final.
Longmuir is urging his gamers to maneuver on rapidly from the disappointing loss to Carlton.
“Don’t wallow in your own self pity,” Longmuir mentioned.
“We’re all disappointed. But we’ve got six days’ lead-up to a great challenge.
“So we have to get round one another. We want to assist one another get higher and we have to bounce again.”
The third quarter against Carlton was particularly brutal as the Blues slammed through six goals to nil to ice the game.
“Definitely in that third quarter we internalised, received caught in our personal heads,” Longmuir mentioned.
“The scoreboard received uncontrolled, gamers would have been fearful about their very own kind, and we simply went away from any resemblance of a linked model.
“We spoke about that at three-quarter time and it was better in the last quarter.
“You’ve received to battle by means of momentum as a staff, you possibly can’t battle by means of it individually. We tried to battle particular person battles reasonably than connecting as a staff.”
Longmuir doesn’t think his players gave up.
“No one offers up. It’s simply you internalise in these moments and it appears such as you simply develop into disconnected and that is what occurs,” he mentioned.
“We went about it the mistaken manner and we would have liked gamers to be the glue in these moments and we simply did not have sufficient.
“We will keep educating our players and talking through those situations during the week.”
Fremantle (7-9) will in all probability must win six of their final seven video games to sneak into the finals.
But with a run residence together with video games towards Collingwood (away), Geelong (away), Brisbane (residence) and Port Adelaide (residence), Fremantle face an uphill battle.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
