Autopsy Autopsy vs Port Adelaide

[TruRoo]

This tweet made me laugh.

What in the living hell was he doing all game?

 

[Gasometer]

Can’t wait till the day that hillbilly JHF plays us in Melbourne…..we finally showed some proper aggro towards that campaigner. Deep deep down I knew we wouldn’t win it. Every game we basically start 4-5 goals down because of our horrendous screw ups resulting in goals. It ****ing shits me.

AFL won’t do it

Hell will over

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

Xerri was much better.
Curtis is our best forward. Much improved defensive game.
Watching George should be making black boots popular again.
Harry looked better as the game went on.
The youth are our future. Hardeman was pretty decent, hope he gets a run of games. Duursma showed a bit when he got on. Archer showed that a defender can actually defend.

Of the whipping boys I thought that Stephens was decent. He wasn’t contact averse as he was last year.

Caleb Daniel

5

Caleb Daniel

Age

29

Ht

171cm

Wt

72kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.4

4star

D

19.5

4star

K

11.1

4star

HB

8.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

CL

1.0

3star

D

16.4

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

9.2

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.2

2star

has to be close to being dropped. Poor defensively, and for a short bloke he’s not great at ground balls and his kicking is not a positive.

McKercher is an interesting one. Out of form but offers a skill set that we desperately need. Needs to work on his defensive game. Also needs to work out what that thing that’s connected to his right ankle can be used for. Opponents are regularly closing down his left side this year and if he doesn’t have a clear handball option then he’s easily in trouble.

 

[DuckYeah]

What in the living hell was he doing all game?

No idea, I think his job was rozee

 

[Roosurgence]

Can’t wait till the day that hillbilly JHF plays us in Melbourne…..we finally showed some proper aggro towards that campaigner. Deep deep down I knew we wouldn’t win it. Every game we basically start 4-5 goals down because of our horrendous screw ups resulting in goals. It ****ing shits me.

Another week where we lead all stats as far as contested possession in the first quarter and go into the break with a big deficit.

It’s unbelievable how you can turn that advantage into a negative 4-5 goal quarter.

 

[DuckYeah]

I thought Dylan Stephens

15

Dylan Stephens

Age

24

Ht

184cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.3

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.3

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.7

4star

CL

0.0

1star

D

10.3

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.3

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.7

3star

CL

0.0

1star

D

10.3

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.3

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.7

4star

CL

0.0

1star

was a role player today. Did alright.

 

[Caracas]

Skill errors and decision making

****ing hell

I don’t mind skill errors too much as long as the effort is maintained. The skill will come as players get more composure. Archer and Dawson both gave us something. Dawson has that bit of speed that slips under the radar. I’m surprised Nostradamus is not a fan. Pity Larkey has suddenly got the yips after his GF miss.

 

[Roosurgence]

Xerri was much better.
Curtis is our best forward. Much improved defensive game.
Watching George should be making black boots popular again.
Harry looked better as the game went on.
The youth are our future. Hardeman was pretty decent, hope he gets a run of games. Duursma showed a bit when he got on. Archer showed that a defender can actually defend.

Of the whipping boys I thought that Stephens was decent. He wasn’t contact averse as he was last year.

Caleb Daniel has to be close to being dropped. Poor defensively, and for a short bloke he’s not great at ground balls and his kicking is not a positive.

McKercher is an interesting one. Out of form but offers a skill set that we desperately need. Needs to work on his defensive game. Also needs to work out what that thing that’s connected to his right ankle can be used for. Opponents are regularly closing down his left side this year and if he doesn’t have a clear handball option then he’s easily in trouble.

Stephen’s is a mega cat and I hate the way the guy plays footy. But today earned his pay packet.

 

[Twangler]

Can I have some of what you are on?

McKercher was pitiful and when his moment came shit his pants and could t even score on his dominant foot under no pressure.

Kid’s a ****ing potato.

It was an improved performance. He at least did some good things this game so it was easily his best game for the year. Needs to sort out those panic possessions and withstand tackles still.

 

[spicerFanClub]

goodbye kal dawson

Was fun at least watching the sook cry

Did you watch the game? George would have kicked 5 on Logue or Corr. Dawson only gave away low percentage boundary marks. He was good.

Drop McDonald for Pink.

 

[Roosurgence]

What in the living hell was he doing all game?

Working on his turnovers.

He just found a new way not to turn the ball over, don’t ****ing touch it LOL

 

[franjon]

and LDU.

Not exactly a revelation.

 

[Roosurgence]

It was an improved performance. He at least did some good things this game so it was easily his best game for the year. Needs to sort out those panic possessions and withstand tackles still.

Wow!

You are easily pleased.

He was shithouse.

We are so used to being shit that people think a player spudding it up is an improvement.

 

[Caracas]

Can I have some of what you are on?

McKercher was pitiful and when his moment came shit his pants and could t even score on his dominant foot under no pressure.

Kid’s a ****ing potato.

Fair enough. Be angry. It’s your right. I’m not on anything. Lots of kids make mistakes early in their careers. What I like is that he’s prepared to dust himself off and back himself again. I guarantee you here and now that we’ll be begging to hold onto him when Tassie come knocking.

 

[Roosurgence]

It was an improved performance. He at least did some good things this game so it was easily his best game for the year. Needs to sort out those panic possessions and withstand tackles still.

He’s a softer, shitter version of Dylan Stephen’s

 

[Roosurgence]

Fair enough. Be angry. It’s your right. I’m not on anything. Lots of kids make mistakes early in their careers. What I like is that he’s prepared to dust himself off and back himself again. I guarantee you here and now that we’ll be begging to hold onto him when Tassie come knocking.

LOL

Tassie would be mad to give us anything inside Pick 50.

He’s a ****ing huge bust!

 

[Twangler]

Wow!

You are easily pleased.

He was shithouse.

We are so used to being shit that people think a player spudding it up is an improvement.

I’m not pleased. He was poor as opposed to being terrible so it’s still an improvement. Could be dropped for Scott but he’s not much chop either.

 

[Roosurgence]

I’m not pleased. He was poor as opposed to being terrible so it’s still an improvement. Could be dropped for Scott but he’s not much chop either.

So people are happy that he has progressed from a mega turd to garden variety turd LOL

 

[Passmore]

Someone must have played ok....

 

[Karanicolas]

Love David King … taking no prisoners and keeping the pressure on.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Love David King … taking no prisoners and keeping the pressure on.

Where is he talking?

 

[hcd199]

Hard to know what to make of such a bewildering match. Recovering after the usual bad start is a plus, as is staying competitive on the scoreboard right until the end, but I'm not convinced all that much actually improved here - or at least, most of the usual problems were still painfully present, from some moments totally lacking in situational awareness (LDU and Simpkin, both players 'in their prime' age-wise, both caught in the kind of HTB situation you expect only rookies to struggle with; multiple times in the game where we handballed directly to a one-on-one in the corridor) to some dreadful skill errors (Daniel's multiple on-the-full kicks in a short window were particularly glaring).

I think the improvement, such as it was, largely came down to forcing a lot more repeat stoppages, allowing the game to become a neutral ugly scrap for periods rather than the transition free-for-all we tend to give to our opponents. Parker was particularly instrumental in the first half, even if a few of his early clearances were low-value shallow entries, and Wardlaw's presence anywhere near the ball immediately makes it much less likely we'll actively lose the contest without a whimper. Felt like Xerri was a lot better today too. Curtis damaging as ever up forward (shouldn't be suspended for the tackle, but who would know anymore...), and got a fair bit of it around the ground. I was skeptical of the backline as selected, and I'm still unconvinced by Comben/K.Dawson as our only notional talls, but I thought the younger types did well - FOS good, wonderful to have Archer back in the team, and Hardeman has absolutely earned a block of games in his role too. Stephens is a hard one to evaluate, still some shocking disposals at key moments but played a more 'willing' kind of game and definitely looked better for it. McKercher still some poor moments, more than I'd like, but also lifted compared to his last couple of eminently-droppable games.

Plenty of here have been critical of the senior leaders in the team, and today is maybe the clearest example of the things that justify that criticism. Simpkin is far too unsteady and unreliable at the moment in the captaincy, I like what he can bring when he's on but his form has been dreadful. LDU continues to be possibly the most frustrating footballer I've ever watched, so many irritating moments (even when he put on a decent run-down tackle effort against JHF in the last, he seemed slow to react to start with). Larkey - bound to have an off day in front of goal sometime, I guess, but today?! Zurhaar another whose application is far too inconsistent, had a good second half but why was he so absent in the first? These are the players who should be taking charge when the game is in the balance and dragging us over the line, and I just don't see the lift coming from any of them to make that happen - which is a worry when this is the kind of situation we should expect to find ourselves in more often if we actually are seeing improvement.

If it's not a blip - big 'if' given our recent history of brief mirages of competence - then there's value to be taken from tying Port up for significant portions of this game, keeping them below 100 points (if only just), forcing the repeat stoppages if we can't clear cleanly, and not losing heart at the slightest hint of adversity. No reason we can't bring the same features to our next, absolutely-winnable game - but it won't count for anything if we're happy with that hypothetical rather than doing the hard work every week. Five days until we find out, I guess...

 

[Harvey Manfrenjensenden]

That might be the worst game of football I've ever seen.

 

[Caracas]

LOL

Tassie would be mad to give us anything inside Pick 50.

He’s a ****ing huge bust!

We’ll put a pin in it, then, R. We can revisit down the road.

 

[Roosurgence]

We’ll put a pin in it, then, R. We can revisit down the road.

****ing put it up in Neon Lights.

Scared shitless soft ***** don’t become great AFL footballers.