AFL Autopsy RND 7: Loss Against The Magpies

[naraku]

No surprise at all. We got back into the contest and stayed with a premiership fancy only to get blown away at the end. Disappointing of course.

 

[Blind Turn]

Or you could gloss over the fact we hit the front at all. We could've lost this by 80+

This team has more ticker than many want to admit. But of course, they're carrying the sins of previous Essendon failures, so everything is magnified 10x

They worked really hard to get in front. Then they didn’t. That’s the crux of the issue. We do it in games all the time and I’m over it. If we want to ever be serious team again we need to ride that wave of momentum by working even harder once we’ve hit the front in games. That’s when we’ll be contenders again.

 

[ghostdog]

Fox now saying equal comms access after earlier saying, unequivocally, that we had none while Collingwood did.

 

[MiguelM]

Too many passengers in the end.

Martin, Redman, Perk, Jones, Gresham.

Reid, wow, huge positive.

Time for Hayes for Prior.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

have you seen their injury list too?
young, yes, but we also have a lot of players that wouldnt be best 22 in most other sides

i did say terrible list

 

[Megabattimus]

Another game where our rebuilding side gets shown up by a more experienced and better team. Just gotta keep turning the list over and hope that closes the gap.

Thank god we play North Melbourne next. Hopefully we beat them and keep our streak against them going.

 

[bommer16]

Reid’s game is what we have missed for a while in defence.

 

[theboxmike]

We had the pies on the back foot once we hit the front, then we went into our shells and as usual our sloppy defence showed up as the pies picked there way through.

 

[windyhill]

We play under a roof.A lot.

 

[raskolnikov]

Can we just admit that McGrath was a #1 pick fail and drop him? Not part of our next flag push.

 

[raskolnikov]

Cheering Melbourne's opponents for the rest of the year.

 

[MightyDon]

Did sidearse play drunk or has he smashed half a dozen since getting off the ground?

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

Can we just admit that McGrath was a #1 pick fail and drop him? Not part of our next flag push.

McGrath wasn't what you'd hope for from #1 but no one from the top end of that draft was either. McCluggahe is a good player in a great team but wouldn't be a game changer in our list.

 

[ghostdog]

Did sidearse play drunk or has he smashed half a dozen since getting off the ground?

Peptides wearing off.

 

[Beerfish]

Fox now saying equal comms access after earlier saying, unequivocally, that we had none while Collingwood did.

#commsgate

 

[bomberlegend2007]

We had the pies on the back foot once we hit the front, then we went into our shells and as usual our sloppy defence showed up as the pies picked there way through.

This is just wrong.

We didn’t kick away because we don’t have the bodies, class or experience that Collingwood has. We didn’t go into our shells, we just don’t know how to kick on yet.

They should be beating us now. Just like when their era finishes in a couple of years time and our players are hitting their prime, we should be outclassing them.

 

[Highly Evolved]

Still can’t believe we played an extra tall in the wet. Just dumb coaching

I've heard this before. We just don't learn.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Who was supposed to be on Elliot?

 

[ant555]

Simply better at taking the half chances than us. Their midfield was on top at stoppage and around the ground.

 

[ant555]

Still can’t believe we played an extra tall in the wet. Just dumb coaching

I am not 100% convinced it would have mattered. Couple of our smalls where horrible.

 

[Snake Charmer]

McGrath wasn't what you'd hope for from #1 but no one from the top end of that draft was either. McCluggahe is a good player in a great team but wouldn't be a game changer in our list.

Clug has the ability to play in more than 1 positions and influence a game. McGrath has no spot. Not skilled enough to hurts teams out of the back line and not disciplined enough to play lock down. Today was one of his better lock down efforts and can’t do it for 4 quarters. Blokes half an afl player getting paid bulk coin and the VC.

 

[Shanghaistu]

Shit happens, Collingwood are top of the ladder and just beat Brisbane in Brisbane.

I just want Sidebum and Pendlebury to hurry up and retire.

Could we not offer them both a packet to play out the last 12 months of their careers playing for us? Would give our young players some real success-experienced professionals to play alongside and learn from. No one on our list has any experience of a successful club culture until now

 

[fairbump_playon]

Pendals and sports science helping him play this long, careful old boy

Yep.. Leave the ice baths to Bomber

 

[MiguelM]

We had the pies on the back foot once we hit the front, then we went into our shells and as usual our sloppy defence showed up as the pies picked there way through.

Yep, Pies did the hard yards, 1%ers. We stopped dead and 2 horrendous turnovers killed any spark.

Not tough enough in the end. Might be some truth in Stringers comments.

 

[theboxmike]

This is just wrong.

We didn’t kick away because we don’t have the bodies, class or experience that Collingwood has. We didn’t go into our shells, we just don’t know how to kick on yet.

They should be beating us now. Just like when their era finishes in a couple of years time and our players are hitting their prime, we should be outclassing them.

I agree with your comments about experience and class but we clearly had the momentum during that second period and we started to chip around again, which clearly wasn’t working at any point during the game.

The team needed to know when the time was to seize the moment and they failed it.