AFL Autopsy 5 goal loss to Swans

[fishardansin]

Much better than expected, but eff me, coaches need to take freeze frames and count jumpers in the shot. We won the clearances easily but were out run consistently

 

[wichidi]

That’s pretty much where we’re at right now. Could’ve been worse

 

[MiguelM]

Really missing Parish & Ridley now.

 

[Learntopray]

Marks inside 50. 19-9

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Expected worse.

Did well with a severely cooked defense

 

[Mootsy]

Swans just played with more edginess.

 

[wichidi]

Really missing Parish & Ridley now.

Yes but our problems run deeper than that

 

[CBombers17]

Pretty good effort and solid start to the season. Sydney are quality and we were outclassed but didn't throw in the towell.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Swans look cleaner, faster and fitter

I'd love to poach someone out of their footy department to find out what they're doing different

 

[MiguelM]

Impressed with Gresham, Menzie not so much.

 

[sameolds33]

Great start!

 

[scyth]

On the one hand, we put in some seriously limpcocked defending. On the other hand, I was expecting we’d get pantsed by halftime. So I dunno, could’ve been worse, could’ve been better.

 

[DapperDon]

Really missing Parish & Ridley now.

And a game plan or two

 

[maskmcgee]

 

[Maxabillions]

#essendonedge

 

[mxett]

only caught the last quarter. Scoring looked way too easy for the swans. We wont make the 8 with that defense

 

[windyhill]

Class outfit syd, good effort boys.

 

[eth-dog]

Felt much closer than the scoreboard said. Thought we were good in patches but they just ran us off our feet. They're one of the fittest side's in it.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Ultimately the outs we have affect our structure/best 22 more than Sydney's outs affect theirs and they're at a different stage than we are. A lot to learn from this match. Good to see effort for majority of it and to stem a blowout earlier.

To score 15 goals/100 points is a decent effort and much better than losing by a 5 goals while only scoring 40. Hope we get more players back from injury soon and we can keep working on the defensive side to the game.

 

[eDPS]

Swans are playing like premiership favourites, not disgraced and the midfield over the first two games has been a massive positive.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Out: Wright, Hobbs, Laverde, Hind
In: Caddy, Parish, Ridley, Redman

 

[brendan84]

We are nowhere near good enough with our fitness and work rate, still a long way to go

 

[sameolds33]

Expected worse.

Did well with a severely cooked defense

none of our back 6 played well

 

[andleanback]

Solid effort against one of the flag favourites. Still some glaring issues, transition defensive, players making critical errors. Backline consisting of players that shouldn’t be down there.

 

[JayJ20]

Probably the worst defensive display in a long time behind the GWS game last year.
We'll never amount to anything if we allow coast-to-coast transitions like that. It's been an issue for two decades and we're no closer to fixing it.

Plenty of positives.