Review Round 5, 2024 vs Fremantle

[Doctor Feel]

Sam Bowel-Prepper

 

[Sewer de Lance]

Freo looked the better side tonight but you take the wins any way you can.

Tonight’s showing was the perfect example why the Sack Ken Hinkley thread keeps breaking records, he was totally schooled by Longmuir & had no answer to Freo’s defensive game style.

Freo were well organised around the contest, while we looked out numbered & disjointed.

I know Charlie was big towards the end, but I’m convinced we are a better side when he’s not in it. Our forward structure would work so much better with Marshall & Georgie offering leads into open space instead of the Hail Mary BS. The other issue with Charlie is he’s simply to banged up & not mobile enough to play the modern game.

Lastly, what is it going to take for the brains trust to realise McEntee is not AFL standard?

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Marshall is absolutely not doing enough but id sack Dixon first

I mean Marshall is 100x the player without Dixon there

It’s very obvious

Dixon is a rotten apple

 

[JimmyBC]

I think I'm leaving the Jedheads crew.. dear god he sucked lol

 

[Ford Fairlane]

This has aged well.

We won. Never in doubt.

 

[FutureShock]

Another textbook example of Hinkleyball. Jagged the win through a couple of individual efforts. The massive flaws will be papered over by a "gutsy" win. Ken is like a millstone around the team's neck, there'll be no success until he's gone. I wonder how good this side could be with a quality coach.

 

[Doctor Feel]

A very weak aspect of our game is the ability to take releiving marks in packs coming out of defence. We never have appropriate tall representation / enough contested marking ability. Dixon cant do it, Soldo didnt do it tonight and Marshall just tends to cease existing so I dont know where it would come from.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Esava and Aliir need to communicate and stop jumping into each other when trying to spoil

 

[Doctor Feel]

Esava and Aliir need to communicate and stop jumping into each other when trying to spoil

The defence is still gelling. Its almost complely new. If it isnt ironed out by mid season you can assume itll be an issue all year.

 

[Adz2332]

First to the ball

 

[HinkleysHeroes]

I think I'm leaving the Jedheads crew.. dear god he sucked lol

Watch us not drop him though

 

[OneGreatClub]

How did Port win.

One of the great mysteries of the universe

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I have no idea how we won that. Until that final siren went I was expecting a Ken Hinkley special. Play in a hard fought finals type contest and just fall short (the getting blown away option wasn't on the cards).

I don't know who played well, it felt like Miles Bergman made things happen whenever he had the ball, albeit without a heap of touches.

Thought Lachie Jones was good, provided some good cover and his pace forced some hurried kicks. Stopped some of their breakaway plays with powerful tackling.

Georgie was good in patches, Dixon was a statue who came to life twice.

The midfield was all cameos.

This is what happens when I try to be positive about them. I apologise for tempting the footy gods.

 

[davo999]

Terrible game to watch . I think we were definitely off the boil , maybe believing the hype about last weeks performance. Freo play such a dour one on one clog up the corridor game and luckily for them two big key defenders who clogged up the forward line too . Luckily we have the same I guess as BZT, the Rat and Allir were all good , Jones , Burton and Farrell were good as well such was the defensive nature of the game . I thought Powell Pepper was poor and McEntee even worse , every now and then he p,as a goodish game but I don’t see it really myself , surely we have better . Marshall was ordinary , so was Byrne Jones . Wines average Houston was ok . Bergman pretty good Drew solid but not spectacular, Burgoyne , promising, Dixon , struggled but did contribute. Georgiades not bad not bad . Soldo solid though not overly effective bit like Burgoyne . Rioli was ok but fairly quiet really . Butters was my best for us , Rozee was good without being outstanding. JHF a bit down but contributed. Mead was ok when he came on .
Credit to Freo ugly but challenging game style . Jackson’s a beast and Fyfes still good and those key backs made us look like the Crows when they played them , thankfully we kept trying and trying led by Rozee and Butters and just did enough to win .
Take the 4 points and run

 

[Powerade 08]

I don't know who played well, it felt like Miles Bergman made things happen whenever he had the ball, albeit without a heap of touches.

Kicked that goal, almost another from about 60. and took 2-3 contested marks against the odds. All near the end of the game.

I had him 2nd best for us. Very hard to pick a best after the top 3 or 4.

 

[all seeing eye]

Thought defenses for both sides were well on top, forward structure once again was bomb long and hope. Needed the coaches to open up forward space ie let jhf go one on one, but Hinks does what he does, work hardery longery.

 

[Enoch Blaze]

Mead was sub tonight.

SPP off his game a bit. Wines was excellent.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Kicked that goal, almost another from about 60. and took 2-3 contested marks against the odds. All near the end of the game.

I had him 2nd best for us. Very hard to pick a best after the top 3 or 4.

That goal was sensational.

Who did you have best?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

SPP off his game a bit. Wines was excellent.

SPP played like a guy who hasn't played for 2 months. Thanks AFL.

 

[Powerade 08]

That goal was sensational.

Who did you have best?

Butters, Bergman, Houston. Butters just cut through them in the last

 

[Poo Eckert]

Dixon and JHF kicking the clutches after being down. Good job

I’m dirty on Charlie, he Robbed Mitch of two great marks

 

[Enoch Blaze]

Absolutely

Are we? Why?

 

[bringbackbucky]

Dixon is as much a liability as Ken’s game plan. We won’t win anything with either of them involved at our club…

 

[El_Scorcho]

Very frustrating game, we just couldn't take our chances with forward entry again being a huge issue. We do some of the most beautiful clearance work you've ever seen and we have one of our best ball users by himself in 15m of space breaking forward out of the centre square, and we seem to find a contest instead of a target. Why? Why can't we generate a simple mark on a lead in that scenario? Every other team can do it.

The clearance work here needs to be a wakeup call that we're not invincible in the middle, we need to step up against good midfields like Freos. That said, it always felt like we were doing more with our clearances when we got them, Freos were shallower and more contested.

That said, absolutely massive to step up and win in the last 5 minutes. Finally executed when it mattered. JHF enormous. Everyone enormous. We need to find ways to win as the season goes on and hopefully that gives them some belief that they can make something happen if our backs are against the wall.

 

[OneGreatClub]

I come in peace.

Well played - just a bit better in the clinches than we were. Looking forward to the rematch later in the year.

Oh God I was hoping we wouldn’t have to play you again.