Autopsy Round 8, 2025: Positives and Negatives vs Melbourne

[Westend]

Can we get a ruck in the mid season draft ?

 

[THE A5]

Looks like it’s flynns turn in the wafl

 

[DanWCE]

Huge negative was pre injuries I had the fire pit going, TV on, wrapped up a roast beef dinner and THE KIDS WOULD NOT STOP ****ING AROUND OUTSIDE AND ASKING FOR MARSHMALLOWS and I ended up only catching bits and pieces of it

 

[GrumpyGoron]

Positives

• Brockman and Ryan in the midfield
• Ginbey continues to show he's capable
• Baker and Graham may have gnarly kicks but they actually have a crack
• Hewett with the triple
• Hutchinson shows a bit

Negatives

• TK - what a fall from grace
• Harley...
• Owies is worse than Langdon
• I've never seen a ruck get rolled as badly as Flynn just did
• We may never win again

 

[lmach]

Ginbey is an absolute beast. He deserves better.

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

Owies Cole and Hunt are average
Put Kelly to half forward let him play there
Malakai or Petch to come in
Think i would prefer Petch has he has a senior body and if you have too many young guys you hit a tipping point
Brock to replace Maric and Bazzo for Gov

 

[Wight Wolf]

Oscar, Hewett, Baker, Ginbey and Graham can hold their head high.

Flynn got ****en WRECKED. Completely annihilated.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Looking at it calmly, soberly and in the cold light of day, Matt Flynn might be the worst player to get repeated games at an AFL club ever.

Got annihilated by Witt in round 1. Barely matched in 4 quarters what Draper did in 3, got annihilated by Meek, got, I dont even know what you'd call it by Gawn.

I'm not mad at him. I'm sort of in awe of the fact he's somehow convinced a professional sports team to give him a contract and select him.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Gawn is a gun and murders many good rucks. Just because Flynn got destroyed in his match up doesn't make Billiams better. Flynn will do well next week again

 

[lmach]

 

[ukurrie]

Can’t say enough about Reuben Ginbey.

Top ten draft pick as a mid and is slogging his guts out in the backline, where the ball comes down at least 50 times a game.

He’s not perfect but he seeks out every contest and has no regard for his wellbeing.

 

[BG__]

Need to try and get Cameron for 'cheap' in the offseason.

I wonder what Marshall would cost if the Saints get TDK

 

[DanWCE]

Owies Cole and Hunt are average

Hunt sucks but still kicked the hottest boo-nana I've seen since ordering pancakes road side in Kuta.

Owies giving us **** all offensively but rolling up hard into the guts as an extra, just stinking up possies and finish.

TC yeeeesh. I could easily juggle the team sheet and find his magnet in the bin. Need him to regain the early season form very quickly.

 

[Altum Volantes]

• Ginbey worked his butt off all night
• Hewitt popped up with some nice work
• Maric got a glut of it in the first half, some good, some bad.
• Baker I thought did some nice stuff.

• Gawn just absolutely creamed Flynn - worse than Witts did in R1 and that is saying something.
• Losing Gov killed us.
• Oscar completely ineffectual.
• Harley, Owies, Kelly, Graham, Cole, Hunt (a half only admittedly) were all poor.
• Bo Allan had a night to forget, which is a real shame.

- A big one for me - incessant chopping and changing at the centre bounce attendances with no consistency of who is in there. This is on the coach and concerns me. I don’t mind trying different things but this has been excessive and is not working.

 

[Wight Wolf]

Gawn is a gun and murders many good rucks. Just because Flynn got destroyed in his match up doesn't make Billiams better. Flynn will do well next week again

How dare you. Flynns best game is getting smacked by Draper.

 

[stallon]

Need to try and get Cameron for 'cheap' in the offseason.

I wonder what Marshall would cost if the Saints get TDK

A lot

 

[rebel23]

What in the world was that??

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Im coming to the conclusion we are a good chance of going 0-23 this year

That dawned on me after the Carlton game. I legitimately cannot see us winning two quarters in a game let alone actually winning a game.

And Tim Kelly..oh boy..wowee...talk about getting a free ride of an absolute lifetime at this hellscape of a club. And Harley desperately needs to get fitter to smash the tag, you'da thunk he would've come to that realisation at the previous offseason but...you know..

 

[DorothyG]

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Everybody (apart from Ryan) who went through the middle.

 

[Altum Volantes]

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[Aperture]

I'm positive Simmo has found a new word, Synergy is out and Density is in. He must have said it at least ten times.

 

[DanWCE]

Ahhh **** it, let the Barley Wine sing..

+ More than doubled Freos score

 

[Matele]

 

[Cainozz]

Was feeling a little optimistic heading into tonight but what do we expect when we are just non-competitive in the midfield. Teams go into every game knowing our glaring weakness.

 

[neng]

What a poor take. He was amongst our best last week.

He absolutely was. But this year so far that’s the outlier to the pattern, aside from a game at half back where it lived there.

My point remains. He gets tagged each week and goes missing. It’s not his fault that there’s no help for him.