Autopsy AFL 2023 Round 3 - Saints v Bombers Sat April 1st 7:25pm AEDT (MCG)

[Red Bull]

I think that is Stringer's permanent state so you just gotta play him.

 

[g_TRAIN]

I think Saints will drop off at some point will be very hard to keep playing like this all season imo

Freo players were cooked by end of Ross tenure its a taxing game style

I think the game plan is sustainable because the defense is good. It will be able to absorb when our intensity drops off.

Whats not sustainable is all these injuries.

 

[Supercoach Bargain]

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Super fit athlete....

 

[Toump Ass]

I think Saints will drop off at some point will be very hard to keep playing like this all season imo

If it’s the same 22 every week, sure. System is holding up very nicely though, if they can win games without their best players and they get them back in September, who knows.

 

[CaptainHowdy87]

Why didn't North Melbourne want Mason Wood

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Mason Wood

Age

30

Ht

192cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

CL

0.3

2star

D

8.3

2star

K

2.7

1star

HB

5.7

3star

M

1.7

2star

T

1.3

2star

CL

0.0

1star

D

15.8

4star

K

8.6

4star

HB

7.2

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.6

3star

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[Liam Boy]

Why didn't North Melbourne want Mason Wood?

Was an incredibly frustrating player at North. Every 6 months, for 5 minutes or so he looked like the greatest player of all time but went completely missing for all the rest.

Out of everyone we delisted over 2020-2021 he was probably the stiffest, but i think he probably needed the new environment and the near-career-death experience to get his act together. Happy for him, was great to watch tonight

edit: oh, and also probably because Cam Zurhaar pushed him out of the third tall position, and at the time he was behind Larkey and Brown. It was silly to delist him when we were also trading Brown, but we had a lot of confidence in Charlie Comben to come on sooner rather than later. That's turned out to be later.

 

[citizen-erased]

Keeping heppel in the side after being subbed last week sends a bad message

Stringer usuallys take 1-2 games to get going

Im thinking we need him doing that in the vfl.
Voss is banging the door down and we pick stringer on talent.

Hobbs should have been an emergency and hepp named on the bench to come out

Impotent fwd line with an unconditioned stringer, weideman and jones in, plus langford playing back.
We've gotta be the only club that shifts a player back a week after kicking 5.

 

[citizen-erased]

Must be so frustrating for Bombers fans.

If you were just flat out terrible, you could at least accept that and plan accordingly. But there were passages of great footy, and players who show glimpses of talent.....just can't seem to consistently string it together and become a genuinely good team.

Need a chb to get laverde out of the team, and a chf and decent 2nd ruck to get weid and jones out.

We have a mid for heppell....but he's playing vfl this week. You'd love him. Reminds me of a young bartel. Loves pressure and the physical contest
No good for this game

 

[bergholt]

If it’s the same 22 every week, sure. System is holding up very nicely though, if they can win games without their best players and they get them back in September, who knows.

Anyone mentioning September in April is surely taking the piss. We're up at the moment but we'll have bad times as well this year especially if injuries don't start improving. Making finals would be amazing all things considered.

 

[hutchy31]

That's a misetable take.
They'll only get better once they improve system and get players back.

Carlton looked like world beaters this time last year. If saints play finals I’ll be surprised.

 

[Mat Mann]

didnt say i accept it losing.......... but the reality is we are a very inexperienced team

jeez so inexperienced

Party at the Moorabbin disco tonight everyone is invited

as they always have been

they are missing around 5 best 22 players, we are missing 4, plus our number draft pick is injured. Not as depleted as everyone is suggesting

we have 5 players left in the VFL who can play

I'd say 7 for us based on the past, but not sure all 7 would play under Ross
Steele
King
Membrey
Billings
McKenzie
Coffield
Hayes
and maybe even Jones possibly although I don't want him

but still, 2 of our 2 KPF's have 4 games of experience and Cordy has been a backman all of his career and is helping Marshall Ruck and Owens has 10 games exp Higgins and Butler only players with experience

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Need a chb to get laverde out of the team, and a chf and decent 2nd ruck to get weid and jones out.

We have a mid for heppell....but he's playing vfl this week. You'd love him. Reminds me of a young bartel. Loves pressure and the physical contest
No good for this game

What's happened to Laverde he's fallen off a cliff

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

2 more years after this year mate

Nope signed a 1 year deal.

The veteran Bomber had weighed interest from Gold Coast late in the year before being presented with a one-year offer late in Essendon’s season.

Still a Bomber: Top Don rejects Suns interest to sign on

Essendon captain Dyson Heppell has signed on for 2023

www.google.com

 

[Chuckie357]

Would probably be up 5goals if we had a key forward, hopefully we can maintain the frantic turnover football to make up for the fact there's not a lot to kick to forward

We’ve got one, Sharman, would be the best key forward by a mile in terms of kicking and marking but they refuse to play him

 

[hirdylloydy1]

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jeez so inexperienced

as they always have been

we have 5 players left in the VFL who can play

I'd say 7 for us based on the past, but not sure all 7 would play under Ross
Steele
King
Membrey
Billings
McKenzie
Coffield
Hayes
and maybe even Jones possibly although I don't want him

but still, 2 of our 2 KPF's have 4 games of experience and Cordy has been a backman all of his career and is helping Marshall Ruck and Owens has 10 games exp Higgins and Butler only players with experience

On a night that called for small forwards yours had over 200 games experience, ours had 7 games.

Our turnovers were horrendous tonight, 80 percent of your score came from them. That's what cost us, not ages of the teams

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Why didn't North Melbourne want Mason Wood?

Bloke was playing as a meh 3rd tall, a change of clubs and positions changed his career.

Some players just need that change and it appears to be a great one for Wood.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Bloke was playing as a meh 3rd tall, a change of clubs and positions changed his career.

Some players just need that change and it appears to be a great one for Wood.

Yep same thing happened with Peter Wright

 

[projectv]

We’ve got one, Sharman, would be the best key forward by a mile in terms of kicking and marking but they refuse to play him

Sharman must have run over Ross's dog, and then backed over him a few times.

Can't comprehend how he can't get a game.

 

[projectv]

On a night that called for small forwards yours had over 200 games experience, ours had 7 games.

Our turnovers were horrendous tonight, 80 percent of your score came from them. That's what cost us, not ages of the teams

You also let Wilkie rack up 13 intercept marks from just bombing it inside 50 all night. That's what we normally do.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Yep same thing happened with Peter Wright

Agreed, 2MP went from meh to having swagger and confidence in the forward line.

Gotta wonder how many players on a list would be better in a new team.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

You also let Wilkie rack up 13 intercept marks from just bombing it inside 50 all night. That's what we normally do.

Essendon been doing it for years bombing it inside 50 hoping for a mark or crumb goal drives me nuts its not a winning staregty makes it too predictable for the opposition to defend.

 

[GeTrain]

Just got home, some observations from the game:

• I'm going to love/hate watching Davey Jnr play in a few years, he's going to be incredible
• Caminiti's not useless when the ball's on the ground, which is great to see from a young key forward
• First time I think I've seen Owens in person, he's a big boy. Hoping to get some key forwards back soon so he can be unleashed in the midfield

 

[Mat Mann]

On a night that called for small forwards yours had over 200 games experience, ours had 7 games.

Our turnovers were horrendous tonight, 80 percent of your score came from them. That's what cost us, not ages of the teams

so ignore what I was replying to, I wasn't the one blaming it on inexperience.

Butler 108 games
Higgins 83 games doesn't equal over 200..............

just off the teamsheets
redman 83 Owens 10
Ridley 71 Camaniti 3
Kelly 134 Pillapou 3
Laverde 94 Higgins 83
McGrath 114 Butler 108
and I believe Langford was back most of the game 110 games Cordy 121

gee wiz all that experience

 

[Spook]

If Heppell plays next week I'm done!

Why didn’t he play tonight?

edit oh. I watched the whole game and don’t notice home, on,y I read that he played, wonder why I missed him

 

[Spook]

they are missing around 5 best 22 players, we are missing 4, plus our number draft pick is injured. Not as depleted as everyone is suggesting

Saints
King
Steele
Membrey
Billings
Webster
Zac Jones

thats 6

Ess
2 meter Peter
And maybe Weideman who wasnt in Melbourbes best 2
Cox possibly

So who else? Cox, Stewart, Reid we’re not consistent starters in 2022.