They managed just 25 inside 50s,the lowest total of any team this season.
Noble understands this and isn’t try to sugarcoat the results when reporting via the media the emotions the club carries during such encounters.
“Nights like tonight are not very pleasant at all...we have to remain really calm and really clear on what we’ve got to go to work on,” Noble said.
That’s not easy when veteran football administrator and club diehard Geoff Walsh has been called upon to report on the performance of the football department as loss after loss mounts in an ugly bundle like rubbish during a garbage strike.
It’s also not easy when few outside the club believe in their heart the coach can turn it around. And the degree of difficulty increases when the club’s top two picks in the past two seasons,Jason Horne-Francis and Will Phillips are sidelined and the skipper and the club’s spiritual leader Jack Ziebell and Ben Cunnington are out too.
Noble said Walsh’s presence was not affecting his capacity to perform his role as the two experienced operators had discussed how he would observe what was occurring within the club and in the coach’s box on match day.