Autopsy Roast & Toast for North & Changes for Dreamtime v Essendon

[aislegi]

Teaching our young players the tempo of AFL footy, when to attack, when to defend when the floodgates are about to open from the oppo. It's a work in progress, going to take a few years to get our younger boys into seasoned hard bodies. That's why today I clearly noticed our veterans putting their bodies into and under packs to during key moments in the game to protect the cubs. Loving what Jonty Faull and Tom Sims are showing but to expect 18 year olds to shoulder the load against seasoned oppo defenders is a big ask. That's why we need to keep Tom Lynch on the field at all costs.

I don’t mind it when the young players **** up, and they do, because it might just be that they’re no good; by far, the worst part of today were the pathetic efforts of guys like Vlastuin, Lynch, and Taranto, who pissed away a chance to give their young teammates a win

 

[captain blood 17]

We don’t really have a garden but, since you ask, when the score was 18 to six, I made the prediction that we’d get four or five goals down and struggle to kick consecutive goals and that’s more or less the way it panned out. I don’t claim any unique skill in this department, however, it’s just stuff that should be more or less self-evident for anyone who’s watched these teams play this year.

So you didn't watch the second quarter then. I hope the lawn looks schmick.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Faull might not be getting a lot of touches but he’s helping a lot structurally. I’d keep him in until Lefau is fit to play

Rather dim Sims and lunch combo

Faull has been good…but 3 talls up forward is 1 too many

 

[STRUGGLETOWN EST1885]

Jonty needs a break …replace with small…it’s a special night for MRJ ylid think

Balta will be out bc curfew…Blight or Gray in

I'm tempted to say Gray to replace Balta but I'm with you on Jonty maybe having a rest and Sims / Lynch the key forwards. MRJ to come back in for his special night too. Media will be all over Bombers this week. Yze should be drilling it into the boys to expect a response from them early. If we hold Bombers in first half I can see us running over the top of em !!

 

[captain blood 17]

Completely off topic, but have you seen RoboDoc: The Creation of Robocop? It's great viewing, with plenty of stories that will make you love the film even more.

No, but now I need to hunt this down. Absolute classic. Up there with The Running Man.

 

[juss]

I'm all for rotating the kids, and letting them play AFL then head back to the VFL to build some form and work on a few things before coming back.

I reckon Faull could use that spell at the moment to kick a few goals and take some marks at VFL level for 2-3 weeks then bring him back.

Sims and Lynch is enough, and Lefau could be an option too if desperate.

 

[captain blood 17]

And keep in mind, we lose Balta on Friday night due to the curfew. So I reckon ins will be:
Out - Balta and Trainor (rest)
Ins - Gray and Short.
And I am hoping Lefau has a solid 3 to 4 game block because Faull could use a breather soon.

 

[Truetiger]

Rather dim Sims and lunch combo

Faull has been good…but 3 talls up forward is 1 too many

Nice Goal from Dim Sims.

 

[aislegi]

So you didn't watch the second quarter then. I hope the lawn looks schmick.

Dominated the quarter yet only won it by 19 points and was a key reason why we lost; we don’t make nearly enough of our chances and we **** up in this exact same way week-in, week-out

 

[terrybull]

I will feel a lot less hurt if we can beat Essendon next week.

 

[Bojangles17]

Faull might not be getting a lot of touches but he’s helping a lot structurally. I’d keep him in until Lefau is fit to play

Yea but give another tall a crack at it , he shouldn’t be holding them out on that output

 

[Truetiger]

 

[Sol23]

Was a good effort
Thought we were the better side
I’d love to replace Dow and miller.

 

[aislegi]

Faull might not be getting a lot of touches but he’s helping a lot structurally. I’d keep him in until Lefau is fit to play

Faull has been one of our worst players; he’s miles off this level at the moment

 

[Rubber Hips]

Nice Goal from Dim Sims.

Dimmy is building in confidence …reckon he needs a bit of space in the forward 50 area and work with lunch

The bloke is massive

 

[partycorolla]

I don’t mind it when the young players **** up, and they do, because it might just be that they’re no good; by far, the worst part of today were the pathetic efforts of guys like Vlastuin, Lynch, and Taranto, who pissed away a chance to give their young teammates a win

Tell me you don't understand where we are right now without telling me you don't where we are... If you can't handle the ups and downs of an inexperienced team, then bugger off and jump back on in a couple of years when we are better. Taranto was a star today... yes we had set shots that missed but so did they. Just like last week. Just relax... in the scheme of things, the result meant nothing today (or will mean nothing in 12 months), the effort did and it was there.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

we arent far from a complete belting

giants away in a few weeks

only game I'm attending this year lmao better only loose by 40 odd

 

[copthat]

I see Miller is copping it again after keeping one of the best key forwards in the comp to 2 goals and zero impact otherwise while Balta got touched up by a bloke who needs a walking frame to transport between contests and gets off scot free.

 

[STRUGGLETOWN EST1885]

Essendon coming off a 91 point belting. Betting for Dreamtime. Essendon $1.40, Richmond $2.96. I've seen this story before.

 

[peterand]

blight needs to come in for miller

miller is a massive spud, stevebuscemi.gif

Thought Miller cost us two goals do not see any point playing him in front of Blight and Gray give them some time
Can we finally just play McAulliffe over Dow who once again showed he is a good vfl player he is about our 27-30th best player
Steely Green way too quiet for me don’t know whether he makes it that shot on goal which got smothered shows he is not up to the pace of the game he just hesitated instead of kicking it straight away
Why we played Smith as sub baffled me he was out marked cause he just too small and then has three poor turnover kicks play another sub we may just have won the game

 

[Truetiger]

Essendon coming off a 91 point belting. Betting for Dreamtime. Essendon $1.40, Richmond $2.96. I've seen this story before.

The media will be getting into Essendon all week. We would want to start well.

 

[peterand]

Gees Kano was very good in his 2nd game…6 tackles, 22 disposals….pity he kicked that point instead of a goal


Kane is a very good player…strong, tackles hard….he needs to play every game this season

100%Agree he needs time on the middle he’s way better than Dow and has a huge upside just hope they keep playing him rest of the season

 

[aislegi]

Tell me you don't understand where we are right now without telling me you don't where we are... If you can't handle the ups and downs of an inexperienced team, then bugger off and jump back on in a couple of years when we are better. Taranto was a star today... yes we had set shots that missed but so did they. Just like last week. Just relax... in the scheme of things, the result meant nothing today (or will mean nothing in 12 months), the effort did and it was there.

Unfortunately, you’re like a lot of people on here, who have this exhaustingly simplistic view of things. It’s not an inexperience issue when, time and again, it’s our experienced players letting us down. So many of them just look like they’re collecting pay cheques in the post-Hardwick era.

 

[The_Kraken]

I see Miller is copping it again after keeping one of the best key forwards in the comp to 2 goals and zero impact otherwise while Balta got touched up by a bloke who needs a walking frame to transport between contests and gets off scot free.

Balta copped a few buckets in the game day thread.

 

[TerraTiger]

Tell me you don't understand where we are right now without telling me you don't where we are... If you can't handle the ups and downs of an inexperienced team, then bugger off and jump back on in a couple of years when we are better. Taranto was a star today... yes we had set shots that missed but so did they. Just like last week. Just relax... in the scheme of things, the result meant nothing today (or will mean nothing in 12 months), the effort did and it was there.

100%. Some of the comments seem ridiculous. But I guess each to their own.