Autopsy AFL 2025 Round 12 - Eagles v Cats - Sun June 1st 7:20pm AEST/5:20pm WST (OS)

[Mr Meow]

My entire post made reference to the fact it wasn’t about the scoring shots. You were very efficient getting scores in that period, despite us having most of the play, whilst we weren’t.

Geelong had 16 more inside 50s, 42 more kicks, double the marks inside 50, 9 less turnovers, 9 more contested possessions, 5 more contested marks and 20 more tackles.

West Coast "had most of the play" if watching after having 3 tabs of LSD, perhaps.

 

[Coasters7]

Geelong had 16 more inside 50s, 42 more kicks, double the marks inside 50, 9 less turnovers, 9 more contested possessions, 5 more contested marks and 20 more tackles.

West Coast "had most of the play" if watching after having 3 tabs of LSD, perhaps.

How many of those stats came in the opening 10 minutes and final 10 minutes though? Fairly confident most of the differentials happened in those two periods

 

[Mr Meow]

How many of those stats came in the opening 10 minutes and final 10 minutes though? Fairly confident most of the differentials happened in those two periods

Let me watch it again and count them.

At this point it's just easier to pretend West Coast dominated the play for most of the match so we can move on.

Sincere face:

"West Coast dominated the play. Cats edged it for the first and last 10 minutes".

 

[PhatBoy]

All I’m saying is that when the game was on the line I thought we played the better footy without reward, then obviously couldn’t run the game out late.

I’m not saying we should have won, moreso that our standard of footy for most of the game was better than a top 4 side (who admittedly weren’t at their best but I think part of that was to do with our pressure on the ball).

Then you’d be wrong.

For the majority of the game you got outplayed. For a still decent patch of it, you were a lot better than your opponent, though.

 

[Grumpyshades]

More accurately, Geelong comprehensively outplayed West Coast in the 1st and 4th quarters (21 to 7 scoring shots), while it was an arm wrestle in between.

ironically the same periods where the vic umps were bending us over ..funny that

 

[Grumpyshades]

Nice 10 day break helped Geelong..The same advantage Essendon, Melb and St kilda got before playing us...and Nth Melb will get next game..Its almost like a VFL pattern
A rare trip across the nullabor playing the bottom side but the VFL still make sure the poor Vic clubs get ' Maximum Advantage'

 

[Munich]

Nice 10 day break helped Geelong..The same advantage Essendon, Melb and St kilda got before playing us...and Nth Melb will get next game..Its almost like a VFL pattern
A rare trip across the nullabor playing the bottom side but the VFL still make sure the poor Vic clubs get ' Maximum Advantage'

The amount of short turnarounds we've had so far suggests we were due for a longer break.

 

[Coasters7]

The amount of short turnarounds we've had so far suggests we were due for a longer break.

I’m not sure short turn arounds matter too much when your schedule is Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide. This is your second trip out of that area all year and you got well compensated for it.

 

[Munich]

I’m not sure short turn arounds matter too much when your schedule is Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide. This is your second trip out of that area all year and you got well compensated for it.

huh?

 

[Coasters7]

huh?

The furthest you’d travelled all year before this game was once to Brisbane.

Every other game has been in Geelong, Melbourne or Adelaide (including gather round when everyone was there anyway).

 

[The Gtrain]

Cats will probably run away with a 6 or 7 goal win now but the Eagles are improving.

Great call

 

[PhatBoy]

The furthest you’d travelled all year before this game was once to Brisbane.

Every other game has been in Geelong, Melbourne or Adelaide (including gather round when everyone was there anyway).

Is there any other straw you would like to clutch at.

At some point this century one of our almost 400 victories will occur legitimately. I’m not holding my breath, though. So far it’s been 395 coincidences and flukes.

 

[Mr Meow]

Is there any other straw you would like to clutch at.

At some point this century one of our almost 400 victories will occur legitimately. I’m not holding my breath, though. So far it’s been 395 coincidences and flukes.

It's hilariously predictable.

Whichever combination fits best: umpiring, salary cap rort, fixturing inequity, injuries, cheat ground, lucky bounce, VicBias, "if only we'd kicked straight" - there's the same woe is me, victim complex routine from opposition supporters (and often neutrals) whenever a football club happens to lose to Geelong.

Then that bitterness festers until the next match up, and so on and so forth. Imagine if we pulled the same shit every time we lost to our yearly overlords - Carlton, St Kilda and GWS. It really isn't that hard to say the other team was a bit better on the day.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Eagles fans should hold their heads up after that, WC held their own for a majority of the game and the effort was there. Geelong ra away with it in the end but most would've thought they were gonna roll over the top of the Eagles early. Eagles were faster but skills won out in the end. Ginbey was good.

Not sure how to really rate ginbey for that sort of role on Cameron.

Sure it looked a million bucks when your entire side is flooding back to clog up the space and intercept, but the real challenge comes when your players fatigue and you have to defend 1 out which is what happened in the last qtr and Cameron destroyed him when given space to work in.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

The furthest you’d travelled all year before this game was once to Brisbane.

Every other game has been in Geelong, Melbourne or Adelaide (including gather round when everyone was there anyway).

Was everyone else playing (and beating) the Crows in front of 50,000 on Thursday night during Gather Round? Or were most of the others playing non-SA opponents at a neutral venue? Because it makes it a little bit different.