Review Freo Drowned in GC by Suns - Rd 9 Review

[jerms]

Did anyone on our board have the poor fortune of having to watch that complete and utter shitshow live at Metricon?

Feel like I need to buy anyone who did (and stayed until the end) a beer or three...

 

[Dirty_banchez]

I would argue our two losses are due to poor efficiency inside 50. JL needs to start improving the method here.

 

[Belnakor]

Horseshit. 19yr old crash and bash 3rd tall (will be CHF later) who come deep and links play. Usually has pretty sticky hands, but seems to firm up i50.

Was s**t today, for sure. But still pressured and fought hard in shocking conditions. Different player to Amiss, actually complements him massively.


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it doesn't matter the conditions, he consistently plays that.

he doesn't have sticky hands, i can't remember the last time he took a mark above his head.

 

[Lach72]

Cox was just about our best player on ground in the first half and he gets pushed fwd after half time to try and offer a contest bc lobb and treacy offer nothing and all that ends up doing is taking away any impact he had on the game at all. Lovely coaching move.

if he’d done nothing you’d be critical…and we weren’t scoring

 

[Wray27]

Did anyone on our board have the poor fortune of having to watch that complete and utter shitshow live at Metricon?

My brother in law did. Poor beggar. He was at the Geelong game though.

 

[Wilksyy]

So the next time some of us say its a danger game (when it’s actually a danger game) can we not be labeled as Freo trauma sufferers? And pay a bit of respect to our opponents and the conditions.

Anyways, we got smashed in the contest and felt like we played too tall for wet weather footy. Missed Switta, Walters and Walker. But not much we can do with some of those outs.

 

[WaywardSonSon]

Further recruiting of players for that monstrosity we label a forward-line is required. Jye Amiss looks to be an exceptional prospect, but if Rory Lobb

7

Rory Lobb

Age

31

Ht

207cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.0

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.4

4star

G

0.9

4star

D

11.3

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

3.3

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

1.4

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

7.0

2star

K

4.0

2star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.6

3star

was to depart, we'd be left with Joshua Treacy and Matthew Taberner

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Matthew Taberner

Age

30

Ht

198cm

Wt

97kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

5.8

5star

T

1.8

4star

G

1.3

5star

D

9.9

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

2.3

2star

M

6.1

5star

T

0.4

1star

G

1.5

5star

D

13.0

4star

K

6.2

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

0.8

4star

as our "experienced" Key Forwards. Tabs is of the level, but Josh is not yet proficient. Food for thought.

 

[largebus]

The forward I50 entries have been a concern for a while now. Even last week against North too often there was too much kick and hope, but they didn't the cattle to combat it. Needs fixing if we're to be serious contenders.

 

[FreoRicci]

That was one of the worst performances from a Freo team ever.

In fact, the whole team were so inexplicably bad that I'm willing to write it off as an aberration.

Burn the tape and let us never speak of this game again.

Wasn’t the worst. Just the entries inside 50s were so poor backed by the opportunistic Gold Coast who were so clean in their 50. Dirty game the whole 4 quarters

 

[Mr Cheese]

it doesn't matter the conditions, he consistently plays that.

he doesn't have sticky hands, i can't remember the last time he took a mark above his head.

Check out first quarter last week. Agree i50 he's not been great, but kid can clunk a mark.

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[Cobbler]

Smidge off in my predictions.

Will be a good one for the team to review. We need to and should respond against a fairly poor Pies.

Stay positive people. We’re a good side that clearly had a bad day.

 

[s_wd6]

if he’d done nothing you’d be critical…and we weren’t scoring

Yes but I had cox in my draft league and he could've gotten me an extra 60 or so points if he stayed back and I think that's what really matters

 

[Wilksyy]

Said it plenty of times already but Josh Treacy offers nothing

He’s gotta at least half the contest in the air. Don’t expect him to mark it but he’s gotta get up there.

 

[Belnakor]

Our midfield was embarrassing, Brayshaw and Serong were panted in every single way

jLO should put that contest against Rowell on repeat. Serong pulled the handbrake and not for the first time this year.

 

[jerms]

My brother in law did. Poor beggar. He was at the Geelong game though.

Do you mean the 2018 game? I was there and it still gives me nightmares.

 

[Freomaniac]

Well I didn't watch it either. Maybe a good thing I missed it. Makes it worse I didn't put money on the sun's to win LoL

 

[FreoRicci]

Gold Coast were very good.

We don't have much quality up forward and the depth is shallow. We dominated early but we couldn't put scoreboard pressure on, then as they got on top our opportunities dried up. Credit to their backline too.

I think that was the difference, our offence was extremely poor.

Gold Coast should make finals, severely underrated. Their midfield are a contested rolling side. Just tackle and create. The last two weeks they’ve showed that.
Whilst our midfield is still so young and inexperienced. Been losing clearances most weeks but the defence held. Time to change it up. Tucker should never be in there, ever again this season. 11 disposals v Erasmus who had 12 off half forward. That’s pathetic. Time to bring in Fyfe to toughen up the clearances.

 

[Wray27]

Do you mean the 2018 game? I was there and it still gives me nightmares.

No 2 weeks ago for the win.

 

[hoss]

64-36 inside 50's our way and we got smashed.

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[TheMcManusNose]

It's actually an offence to the noble ammos art of bombing it long to say we bombed it long.

We bombed it aimlessly, without thought, and without even looking.

 

[s_wd6]

25 more inside 50s and a 36 point loss. Seems like we rely way too much on fwd pressure for scoring and when switta and sonny are out we've got nothing.

 

[WilloTree]

our gameplan didn't work in the wet and our WAFL quality forward line was putrid.

damn - you could have saved me hours

 

[Bastyy]

Horseshit. 19yr old crash and bash 3rd tall (will be CHF later) who comes deep and links play. Usually has pretty sticky hands, but seems to firm up i50.

Was s**t today, for sure. But still pressured and fought hard in shocking conditions. Different player to Amiss, actually complements him massively.


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I don't think his hands have been sticky at all this year, and today he wasn't even halving the contest when given the opportunity, at half time it's a benefit of the doubt thing but surely someone in the coaching staff told him that during the break?

 

[tonygeeks]

As someone who didn't watch the game, can someone summarize what happened? I want the deets.

Went there with our head stuck up our own ass and GC proceeded to root us and cop a gobby simultaneously


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[E Shed]

Outworked, outcoached, outplayed.

Last time we played like that Walker was out. JL had to pick Logue in a way and Logue was ok (although Chol was the best forward in the game) but Walker seems to complete the back 6. Could be coincidence but I think he has to play.

Banfield beats up on poor team with no pressure but offers nothing when the tempo goes up.

Lobb was useless in the wet. Darcy had little influence. Beaten by Witts.

We sorely missed Switta and Walters.

Its time for Sturt and at this stage I'm playing Amiss in front of Treacy as he has footy smarts. Treacy is a blunt instrument with good hands but doesn't seem to have much game sense.

Aish isn't suited to pure wing role. His inside 50 entries were poor, as were Acres'. Notice what happened when Walker came on and started kicking the ball at leading targets. Admittedly the heat had gone out but we suddenly looked to have purpose.

Hopefully we learn from it as we did with the Saints game.