Adelaide young gun Josh Rachele has been reliving two crucial moments since the narrow loss to Essendon on Thursday night.
Rachele - known for his flair and goal-kicking nous - was seen on multiple occasions misjudging a marking contest in the final quarter of the close encounter.
Owning and taking accountability for his mistakes, the 21-year-old opened up toย Channel 9 on the 'average efforts' he produced, whilst receiving criticism from former players.
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"It's a tough one," Rachele said.
"They've definitely repeated in my head over and over again this whole weekend.
"A couple of marking errors... the first one, I thought someone was coming right over the top of me and completely, honestly, wasn't brave enough in that situation.
"And I'm going to have to take that, move on and learn from it.
"The other one was a complete misjudge... the ball just sailed over and I thought it was coming a bit closer.
Fair play to Crows young star Josh Rachele - didn't shy away from owning those marking errors against the Bombers.
Admits he wasn't "brave enough" going back with the flight and vows to learn and improve.
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The Crows rue a chance gone begging, suffering their fifth loss of 2024.
Teammate Mitch Hinge spoke to the media on Monday, expressing how frustrated both the players and club were with their output so far this season but needed to continue supporting one another.
โWhat's really important is that we stick to it as a group and we want to improve,โ Hinge said.
โAt the end of the day, we didn't get the job done ourselves and we've got to wear that.
โIt's disappointing and we've got to live with that but at the end of the day, we've come in today knowing what we have to work on.
โWe've got to take accountability as players and just get back on the track and keep working and things will turn.โ