Awesome analysis thank you
Review Round 4, 2023 vs Sydney
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Yes, that video review was farcical. I think you are referring to a shot by Jed McEntee and the Sydney defender's hand is clearly behind the line so it cannot possibly be a touched call. The off field ump didn't have the balls to call it so it reverted to umpire's call. I have had a look at the replay several times and there is no way the ball is touched while in play. The Goal Ump was that rattled that soon after he called for another review on Sam Powell- Pepper's next shot at goal. That one we won.
As I posted previously the umpiring last night was poor not because it was biased but because it lacked common sense. That criticism extends to the Goal Umpires and the Video Umpire. I am not sure if the clubs lodge reports on match umpiring but both both clubs should lodge complaints about the technical standard in last night's game.
To say I was not impressed by last night's umpiring is an understatement.
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How about when Buddy shoves Bergman in the back then collapses on top of him. No free would have been called I guess.
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Yes, I was that engrossed in Aliir's heroics that I had not noticed Buddy. As Bevo has posted Rule 15.6 about covers it and even if the ball had gone through Bergman should have been awarded a free. I stress 'should have' because with last evening's (ch)umps anything could have happened.
Imagine Florent's reaction if the ball had gone through but the Umps had the balls to call a free against Buddy? A meltdown of Chernobyl proportion, over here in Adelaide we probably would have see a brilliant flash light up the eastern horizon.
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I seem to remember another serial offender, blatent push in the back at half forward, Adelaide Oval southern end, enacted by none other than Buddy Franklin. It was maybe a couple of years ago. Against McKenzie? Scored a goal I think.Yes, I was that engrossed in Aliir's heroics that I had not noticed Buddy. As Bevo has posted Rule 15.6 about covers it and even if the ball had gone through Bergman should have been awarded a free. I stress 'should have' because with last evening's (ch)umps anything could have happened.
Imagine Florent's reaction if the ball had gone through but the Umps had the balls to call a free against Buddy? A meltdown of Chernobyl proportion, over here in Adelaide we probably would have see a brilliant flash light up the eastern horizon.
Protected bird. I bet yesterday's infringement wouldn't have been paid if push came to shove (!!).
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They didnt even have any tall defenders lolThe game was absolute trash and by some miracle Sydney were shitter than Port. The way the club is carrying on you would think it was a heroic victory
Yet our talls did heck all
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Some observations on the game itself, setting aside the circus surrounding the future of the coach:
It was noticeable very early how the mids were flooding back to support the defence and prevent the blowout scores from the previous two weeks.
That was successful in limiting the Swans’ scoring but also made it harder for us to get the ball inside 50. In fact we had fewer I50s than any of the other games this season despite the small dimensions of the SCG.
I agree that our forward structure and strategy is still poor, and accuracy in front of goal a problem, but the ratio of scoring shots to I50s was pretty decent at a bit below 50%. We shouldn’t read too much into that though as the Swans were down two key defenders very early.
While our lack of high quality KPDs is a big deficiency, in some ways I’m more worried about our midfield. Only two mids had more than 20 disposals. And while once again we had more clearances than the opposition, we were again very poor at converting that stoppage dominance into dangerous attacking opportunities.
Perhaps we look back and think of this as a transition year for the midfield. Boak finally looks done. Wines may have peaked in the wake of his injuries and a body type that is probably not well suited to a long career. And then the younger guys are not quite ready to dominate week after week and quarter after quarter.
I haven’t checked the data but that must have been the first time in years we have come back from 20 points down so late in the game. The effort and intensity was obvious and clearly the players are close (too close) to the coach.
However in many ways there was too much emotion. The reaction after the siren was like we had made a grand final. Historically under Hinkley we have been unable to back up that kind of effort so it will be interesting to see how they go against an average Bulldogs team.
For next week I would probably persist with the DBJ experiment up forward. We need clean and composed users of the ball coming out of defence, which he is not. But those same deficiencies are less of a problem across half forward I think and he won’t go missing as often as Rioli.
That said, I do worry about how few players seem settled in a position at the moment, particularly some of our younger, developing guys. Makes it very difficult to establish themselves.
Finally, I actually think we will make finals this year - in 7th or 8th. The Crows are clearly a bit better than we expected. We have played three other teams who will compete for the top 4. I just hope that isn’t used as an excuse to offer Hinkley another contract.
It was noticeable very early how the mids were flooding back to support the defence and prevent the blowout scores from the previous two weeks.
That was successful in limiting the Swans’ scoring but also made it harder for us to get the ball inside 50. In fact we had fewer I50s than any of the other games this season despite the small dimensions of the SCG.
I agree that our forward structure and strategy is still poor, and accuracy in front of goal a problem, but the ratio of scoring shots to I50s was pretty decent at a bit below 50%. We shouldn’t read too much into that though as the Swans were down two key defenders very early.
While our lack of high quality KPDs is a big deficiency, in some ways I’m more worried about our midfield. Only two mids had more than 20 disposals. And while once again we had more clearances than the opposition, we were again very poor at converting that stoppage dominance into dangerous attacking opportunities.
Perhaps we look back and think of this as a transition year for the midfield. Boak finally looks done. Wines may have peaked in the wake of his injuries and a body type that is probably not well suited to a long career. And then the younger guys are not quite ready to dominate week after week and quarter after quarter.
I haven’t checked the data but that must have been the first time in years we have come back from 20 points down so late in the game. The effort and intensity was obvious and clearly the players are close (too close) to the coach.
However in many ways there was too much emotion. The reaction after the siren was like we had made a grand final. Historically under Hinkley we have been unable to back up that kind of effort so it will be interesting to see how they go against an average Bulldogs team.
For next week I would probably persist with the DBJ experiment up forward. We need clean and composed users of the ball coming out of defence, which he is not. But those same deficiencies are less of a problem across half forward I think and he won’t go missing as often as Rioli.
That said, I do worry about how few players seem settled in a position at the moment, particularly some of our younger, developing guys. Makes it very difficult to establish themselves.
Finally, I actually think we will make finals this year - in 7th or 8th. The Crows are clearly a bit better than we expected. We have played three other teams who will compete for the top 4. I just hope that isn’t used as an excuse to offer Hinkley another contract.
Small sample size. But McKenzie hasnt put a foot wrong this year. Best I’ve seen him play
The game was absolute trash and by some miracle Sydney were shitter than Port. The way the club is carrying on you would think it was a heroic victory
It was a good hard-fought win. Not outstanding by any measure, but i'm not going to downplay it. You go into any game at the SCG knowing it's going to be a scrap.
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He is on target to score the same amount or slightly more goals this year than last? He’s also getting more tackles.
Standard Buddy, he's a sniper
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As I said earlier in the thread, it has our 2018 win over Melbourne written all over it. Big win, against the odds, way down in inside 50s, everyone thinking we're back on track, then going from 11-4 to 12-10.The game was absolute trash and by some miracle Sydney were shitter than Port. The way the club is carrying on you would think it was a heroic victory
We could 100% come out and lose to the Dogs, wipe all this win did and it wouldn't surprise for 1 second.
Maybe it's a firestarter and we get on a bit of a roll, but sheesh, our form needs a major reversal to get something like that happening, and whilst this might build confidence, I actually think it's more likely that our boys will take the foot off the throttle a bit, they won't maintain the level of pressure we saw Vs Sydney and will get rolled.
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Those going on about Wines interview post match, context was about gather round, the city will be alive with Adelaide winning also, nothing innit
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That game also featured us AND we only won that game too because Bailey Smith’s shot on goal seconds before the final siren fell short.
How’s that for a coincidence?
How’s that for a coincidence?
