Review Good, Bad, Ugly and the Disrgaceful vs Dogs

[footy4ever]

The good:

Thommo - unbelievable that fools think he should be overlooked for younger players.

Jacobs
War horse.

This will be the worst game we will play this season.

We get to redeem ourselves next week against the teal, and it will be fun watching port try to make a case as to why they should be underdogs.


The bad, ugly and disgraceful:
Most other things.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Does anyone know how to reformat a Foxtel IQ.

 

[Scorpus]

Players who played particularly poorly (based on stats):

Walker: 44% DE, 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 0 contested marks
Jenkins: 50% DE, 1 junk time contested mark inside 50, 3 hitouts, 1 junk time goal
Hartigan: 60% DE, 3 clangers, 1 tackle, 1 rebound 50, 6 goals conceded
Mackay: 0 tackles, 57% DE, 1 contested possession, 0 clearances
Laird: 0 tackles, 66% DE, 3 clangers
Van Berlo: 11 disposals, 0 clearances, 1 rebound 50, 2 inside 50s
Smith: 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 65% DE

 

[FR0GGY]

Does anyone know how to reformat a Foxtel IQ.

wow the game was so bad it stuffed up your Fox box?

 

[Rise_up_Stiffy]

Players who played particularly poorly (based on stats):

Walker: 44% DE, 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 0 contested marks
Jenkins: 50% DE, 1 junk time contested mark inside 50, 3 hitouts, 1 junk time goal
Hartigan: 60% DE, 3 clangers, 1 tackle, 1 rebound 50
Mackay: 0 tackles, 57% DE, 1 contested possession, 0 clearances
Laird: 0 tackles, 66% DE, 3 clangers
Van Berlo: 11 disposals, 0 clearances, 1 rebound 50, 2 inside 50s
Smith: 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 65% DE

the stats don't always tell the story, but they sure do here. These players were awful. Do not remember a worse game from Smith

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Players who played particularly poorly (based on stats):

Walker: 44% DE, 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 0 contested marks
Jenkins: 50% DE, 1 junk time contested mark inside 50, 3 hitouts, 1 junk time goal
Hartigan: 60% DE, 3 clangers, 1 tackle, 1 rebound 50
Mackay: 0 tackles, 57% DE, 1 contested possession, 0 clearances
Laird: 0 tackles, 66% DE, 3 clangers
Van Berlo: 11 disposals, 0 clearances, 1 rebound 50, 2 inside 50s
Smith: 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 65% DE

Utterly atrocious across the board.

 

[Lawrst]

the stats don't always tell the story, but they sure do here. These players were awful. Do not remember a worse game from Smith

Only one I'd disagree with is laird. In a defence under the hammer he was hard at it and defended well.

 

[StonesThrow]

I ******* hate Sunday twilight games.

If you win, there's no time left in the weekend to celebrate.

If you lose, it ruins your whole Sunday night.

I was telling my mate earlier. I hate Sunday games because when you lose, the next thing you do is go to work for the next 5 days

 

[Crow-eater]

Players who played particularly poorly (based on stats):

Walker: 44% DE, 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 0 contested marks
Jenkins: 50% DE, 1 junk time contested mark inside 50, 3 hitouts, 1 junk time goal
Hartigan: 60% DE, 3 clangers, 1 tackle, 1 rebound 50, 6 goals conceded
Mackay: 0 tackles, 57% DE, 1 contested possession, 0 clearances
Laird: 0 tackles, 66% DE, 3 clangers
Van Berlo: 11 disposals, 0 clearances, 1 rebound 50, 2 inside 50s
Smith: 4 clangers, 0 tackles, 65% DE

Ouch.

 

[Sanders]

Bad: JJ
Ugly: Dmac reading his own press and getting carried away (again). 0 tackles.

 

[Bosley]

The Good - I only watched 1 quarter .... and we won it!
The Bad - How they could possibly play like that when u compare it to how they played in Round 1 ... way to big a gap between best and worst efforts.
The Ugly - The scoreboard at 3/4 time.
The Disgraceful - Too many shite players today to be held accountable so no doubt two of the young kids who least deserve it will be the only ones dropped.

 

[VSTone]

Ugly: onfield leadership and communcation?
non existent today...

 

[King Elvis]

Bad - experienced players taking us nowhere - VB, Wright, Mackay. It's easy to hammer the new blokes at the ends of the ground but all those guys played in the midfield and provided no pressure whatsoever. Dmac back to his norm, touchless 3rd quarter to finish with 12 uncontested possessions at 57% DE from only 14. He had 10 at half time. FFS give Grigg, M Crouch and Lyons a full game, they won't be worse on average.

The same guys are letting us down.

Wright.
Lynch.
Jenkins.
VB.
McKay.
Hendo.

We need to move on from all of them.

They look a million bucks every now and again and trick people into thinking they're going to take the next step - but they never do, and when the heat comes, they constantly let us down.

We are a mentally weak side, we need to change that, quickly, and, to do so, we have to make some hard calls.

 

[StonesThrow]

Thompson was our best by far. Probably the only player to play a decent game. Kelly showed his signs for a second gamer.

Sauce just didn't do enough around the ground.
Edit: he was actually okay at providing a link option. I mean in the air.

Like I've already said, we were dismantled in every facet.

Pretty much every player had a poor game

 

[Scorpus]

Utterly atrocious across the board.

15 players with DE below 70%
6 players with 0 tackles
Everyone with at least one clanger
1 contested mark by a tall forward
2 marks inside 50 by tall forwards
10 players conceded free kicks
Only 4 with goal assists

 

[King Elvis]

A couple things - Round 1 and 2 - our system looked great, all the players looked flexible.

Round 3 and 4 it hasn't, and in Round 3 and 4 we haven't had Cheney and we have had Thompson.

Cheney has been a key out for us. Completely unbalances our defence. And Thommo I think unbalances our midfield. Yes he gets a stack of the ball - he was probably in our best both last week and this week. And yet the midfield with him in it just feels less flexible. I don't know if there is a solution because you can't drop a guy who is getting 38 touches, and he is not actually playing badly.

The solution I guess is for the other midfielders to pull their fingers out and make use of all of Thommo's touches.

Today had nothing to do with Thommo - most of our players were apathetic; so many long shots on camera, and nobody was running hard, neither defensively or offensively.

That was the problem today, and that's why Walsh couldn't have changed the result - and why Hartigan, as bad as he was, wasn't the problem; the midfield served him up to the slaughter.

 

[Redleg Crow]

Walsh's presser on 5AA now

 

[pjcrows]

Thompson hasn't been poor. He's been his typical self. I just really question how he changes our dynamic though. He isn't versatile and slows us down with over-handball.

This isn't a knock on Thompson as an individual player. I just think our game relies on variety.

 

[VSTone]

Today had nothing to do with Thommo - most of our players were apathetic; so many long shots on camera, and nobody was running hard, neither defensively or offensively.

That was the problem today, and that's why Walsh couldn't have changed the result - and why Hartigan, as bad as he was, wasn't the problem; the midfield served him up to the slaughter.

so all the groundball contested work midweek left them flat?

 

[Redleg Crow]

Oh FFS 5AA cut the press conf.

 

[pjcrows]

Walsh just said we did not pressure and we were uncompetitive.

 

[macca23]

Good

Acceptable performances by Thommo, Jacobs, Bettts and Jaensch. Kelly will be alright too.

Bad/Ugly/Despicable/Disgraceful/Whatever

The rest of the team

The fact that I watched this game

The game is over and the team still hasn't turned up

 

[King Elvis]

so all the groundball contested work midweek left them flat?

I guess the softness and mentally fragility we've developed over the last few years is going to take more than one pre season to rectify.

 

[DD#23]

I'm just glad we won't go into the showdown as favourites

 

[Bailey01]

Disgraceful: Hartigan