Autopsy Opening Round = GWS 104-52 Collingwood

[Pistol Night]

Been off grid for 3 days and didn’t see or hear anything until this morning. Might turn around and go back. Holy ****.

 

[Tadpole]

While I would prefer we don’t become Melbourne supporters, pretty sure we lost even on “expected score”

Again, inaccuracy isn’t why we lost this game

It is however, why we lost by so much

Completely agree. Even if we had kicked straight, we likely would have still lost. I don't know which is more frustrating.

a) Kick 6.16 as we did and know we weren't ever really a realistic chance of winning the game, or
b) Bring our kicking boots with us for accuracy and kick 16.6 instead and lose by just 2 points.

 

[Tadpole]

Maybe it was a vanilla game plan against an expected finals team?

Maybe. We don't want to show all our cards in a nothingburger round. One or two would have been nice though.

 

[stormskye]

Been off grid for 3 days and didn’t see or hear anything until this morning. Might turn around and go back. Holy ****.

 

[Tadpole]

Still 21 games to play, you say..
Which game are we forfeiting and not playing?

As long as it's not one of the ones against Carlol, I'll be happy. Need to ensure our yearly dose of spanking them twice.

 

[No SPIN]

No you’re right. My math was off

If we kicked 5 straight we actually would have been a point down

lol

As others have also pointed out momentum would have become a factor.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

This can't be right.

Cousin of Daicos was quite certain that DC wasn't his usual self yesterday.

Was waiting for this

I never said he played poorly

I just said I was disappointed.

Max Gawn even with an opponent will basically single handedly drag Melbourne through games.

Darcy had no opponent for three quarters. I was just disappointed he didn’t take the opportunity to have more of an impact on the game.

In my opinion.

 

[BillyElliott]

Top 4. What's the fuss?

 

[localfootylegend23]

Im not even mad at the players. Angry at the club. After last years opening round fiasco, Pies said no not again unless everyone had to come up and play games north. No doubt the afl has funnelled some brown paper bags our way, because that narrative disappeared very quickly, up we go into terrible conditions that GWS have trained in all pre season, shock our fittest player is cramping by the 3rd quarter. Complete and utter shitshow. Shame on the club for having no spine.

 

[Tadpole]

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[Knoxy]

Way too early to call out Pendles as too slow for the midfield. People made similar comments two or three years ago. We had a very poor game. Shit happens. If it becomes a pattern we can talk. I think Pendles will be fine.

In fairness to Pendles the whole team looked slow yesterday.

 

[JB1975]

Was waiting for this

I never said he played poorly

I just said I was disappointed.

Max Gawn even with an opponent will basically single handedly drag Melbourne through games.

Darcy had no opponent for three quarters. I was just disappointed he didn’t take the opportunity to have more of an impact on the game.

In my opinion.

I'm aware that it's your opinion, and it's breathtakingly wrong.

The suggestion that he 'had no opponent' is ridiculous, but he capitalised on a secondary ruckman with 37 hitouts.

DC's relieving ruckman didn't provide much in the way of relief.

He was our best clearance player and equal highest tackler. Third-highest disposals.

He had a very good marking game and made a contest in plenty of other situations.

But yes, he failed to pick up his teammates and carry them across the line against a team which ran us into the ground.

 

[manicpie]

Now don't take this the wrong way, but I'd love to see Nick daicos nuts today. I reckon they'd be black after Bedford was pinching them all game. IDK, maybe deep down I just want to see his nuts, who really knows

 

[Apex36]

I thought it was a really competitive game until half way through the third with them holding sway on the scoreboard due to us fluffing opportunities. But physically we were cooked, and we wouldn't have held on even if we had a big lead.

Quite possibly, but that had a lot to do with us having to do a lot of defensive chasing which was a byproduct of missing goals which handed the ball back to GWS.

It’s honestly impossible to quantify, and there’s every chance we could have run out of gas anyway, particularly given Nick was cooked after half time. Any team that for all intents and purposes loses their best on baller for a half is going to be up against it.

 

[jmac70]

Any word on the health of Maynard and Howe?

 

[BillyElliott]

Any word on the health of Maynard and Howe?

What was wrong with Bruz?

 

[jmac70]

What was wrong with Bruz?

He got a pretty decent knock to his face. Looked like it could have resulted in an injury, maybe to his eye socket.

 

[sr36]

This can't be right.

Cousin of Daicos was quite certain that DC wasn't his usual self yesterday.

It must be a mistake. I'm reliably informed that Cameron was "obliterated and really poor."

 

[Peters_Nuts]

Been off grid for 3 days and didn’t see or hear anything until this morning. Might turn around and go back. Holy ****.

Season over mate. We need to start thinking about how we’re going to contend in 2030

 

[Pie eyed]

Round Zero is a farce.
The whole concept of playing in March is ******ed but playing an afternoon in
27 degree heat with 70% humidity is actually assault on the players.
Whoever scheduled the match should be hung.
Fuktards.

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[sr36]

This can't be right.

Cousin of Daicos was quite certain that DC wasn't his usual self yesterday.

Another complete stuff up. Check out page 2. Champion data have him as having had a career high player rating in a game he was miles below his usual standard:

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Round Zero is a farce.
The whole concept of playing in March is ******ed but playing an afternoon in
27 degree heat with 70% humidity is actually assault on the players.
Whoever scheduled the match should be hung.
Fuktards.

On SM-G975F using BigFooty.com mobile app

Round 1 against Port is also likely to be 32 with a chance of showers, which means it could also be humid

Surely we're not also going to complain about Round 1?

Given we just had one of our hottest summers in years, there's every chance that warm weather will carry through March and much of April. We've had some pretty decently hot ANZAC Days in the past.

We won a flag on a 29 degree day

I really feel like we might be clutching at straws a little but with the heat

Having said that, my mate who is from Sydney and goes for the Pies (I converted him at the encd of 2024 from Geelong) went to the game and said he was quite astonished at how hot it felt at the ground

His theory was that that kind of heat probably affected older players more than younger players (particularly ones who are more acclimatised to it). But even if I choose to accept the heat as an excuse for some parts of our game, it doesn't account for all of it

 

[stormskye]

Round 1 against Port is also likely to be 32 with a chance of showers, which means it could also be humid

Surely we're not also going to complain about Round 1?

Given we just had one of our hottest summers in years, there's every chance that warm weather will carry through March and much of April. We've had some pretty decently hot ANZAC Days in the past.

We won a flag on a 29 degree day

I really feel like we might be clutching at straws a little but with the heat

Having said that, my mate who is from Sydney and goes for the Pies (I converted him at the encd of 2024 from Geelong) went to the game and said he was quite astonished at how hot it felt at the ground

His theory was that that kind of heat probably affected older players more than younger players (particularly ones who are more acclimatised to it). But even if I choose to accept the heat as an excuse for some parts of our game, it doesn't account for all of it

We were beaten by a better team on their home deck. Lucky for us there’s 23 rounds to go, most of them at the MCG. It’s time to move on and win next week

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Another complete stuff up. Check out page 2. Champion data have him as having had a career high player rating in a game he was miles below his usual standard:

Yet there's also Lipinski

One of the Pies who almost this entire board has been shitcanning for his performance yesterday aye?

Go figure...there's a bit of an irony in the fact that I was one of the few who thought Lipinski wasn't too bad. Again, relative to his normal standard.

 

[BillyElliott]

We were beaten by a better team on their home deck. Lucky for us there’s 23 rounds to go, most of them at the MCG. It’s time to move on and win next week

And not sure why people are referring to 32 degrees next Saturday. That would be during the day. Our game is at night where it's more likely to be around 18-22 degrees.