Game Day Round 24, 2025: West Coast vs Sydney

[HoneyBadger35]

Dermott how can it be fatigue, we’ve run further on the Telstra Tracker?

 

[new breed]

Need to work on skills ...coming out of defence left little confidence.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Holy shit Hewett finally got a clean touch of the footy.

 

[wce4premiership]

Poor choice from Long, just take the ball and try make something happen.

 

[Godfather32]

We all know Hall is just a grunt. Stop crying. We didn't draft him to be a damaging player, just feed it out to Harley, Hewett and whoever else on the outside.

He's basically just a 19yr old version of Jack Graham, what do people expect from him?

Currently leading our team for CP's, 3rd for tackles, 2nd for clearances... He's doing his job as a 2nd year player.

Maybe some vague sort of effort on the defensive side of the game would be a start

 

[Bender_]

Meanwhile Hewett fumbles and gets pushed off the ball yet again...

Let's be honest, you've never forgiven him for being a phonie on draft night.

 

[Balls In]

Just now a shot up in the stands with all the players shown yakking it up all except Yeo who was stone faced in horror looking like Drago from Rocky IV

 

[Goroyals22]

Long has to hold that ball in there

 

[Bender_]

How many shitty late dog acts for Rampe tonight?

 

[bzparkes]

Blakey walked straight where the ball went. That was always missing. How could he not tell?

 

[wce4premiership]

McCarthy has been good defensively but not as useful offensively today.

 

[illegaleagle]

long getting worse as his career goes on

 

[Godfather32]

McCarthy has had a terrible game tonight

 

[frenchconnection]

Finishing 1-22 sucks even more shit.

There's the legs going and there is giving up.

The latter deserves a spray.

A lot of these young lads have not built their tank up yet so don’t know what you expect as a lot of them need a couple of good pre-seasons under their belt.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Maybe some vague sort of effort on the defensive side of the game would be a start

He's had 6 tackles ya silly w***er.

Once pressure acts get updated I'm sure he'll features in those as well.

 

[Bender_]

McCarthy has been good defensively but not as useful offensively today.

Been a bit off with his disposal tonight.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Davis just such a liability kicking the ball. Really not sure how it will work for him if his kicking is this bad.

Which is a shame cause his running is reasonably good and he’s tackled well a few times this year.

 

[illegaleagle]

McCarthy has had a terrible game tonight

I’ll give him a mulligan

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

We are elite at the half arsed jog

 

[sharps24]

The Ryan hate is overblown albeit he’s had a shocking 10 minute patch there, but something very funny about your argument for him being in our top five players is being ever so slightly better than Cripps who you’ve wanted delisted for years.

Cripps has had a good year. I want him delisted because he's 34 next year and we have more half forwards than we know what to do with and unlike Ryan who's heads not really in it this year and has been way off with his goal licking, Cripps is operating at about 100% of his capacity and it ain't all that great. Anyone who thinks Cripps at any stage of his career was a more dangerous player or better player than Liam Ryan needs to just give following footy away.

To put it in real terms, Cripps is currently uncontracted, the idea that there might be clubs out there asking about Cripps or that St Kilda are saying to us "Well who we really want is Cripps, her could really take our forward line to another level next year, but would you let go of Liam Ryan instead?'' They are night and day, Ryan at his best [and he's still been pretty good] is a marquee level player.

To answer other posters who wanted to know who he was better than to be in our top 5. Well to me top 5 this year has been Harley, Rubes, Baker. Not sure anyone else is really in the same category. You can make arguments that Graham and Cripps and Duggan have been reliable and Liam Ryan is in that same conversation but underneath Harley and Baker turning it on here and there I'd struggle to name anyone who's been above Ryan in terms of being able to swing a game or create some momentum for us. Possibly McCarty is next in that conversation. Hewett could be in that conversation but his fitness and finishing has let him down more than Ryans. We are very low on match winners and Ryan can still be one, and in games that were actually live in the 4th quarter or close to half time he has very obviously been a player who consistently lifted his level to try and win us those matches, albeit his radar has been off [he's never been an elite kick at goal though, which people seem to forget]. Overall though he looks to have suffered more than most with the boredom of playing a season worth of games we had no chance of ever winning.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Let me guess errrbody... McCarthy fumbling Halls handball just then was actually Halls fault?

@honeykent

 

[Altum Volantes]

**** me - Sub out Hall.

Go to 3 on the bench i dont care.

 

[bzparkes]

Can Hall only punch handballs as hard as humanly possible, despite his teammate being half a metre away?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

McCarthy pretty bad today going forward, a real shame cause he nearly came in half way and went good games every week.

 

[the harry]

long getting worse as his career goes on

I was trying to think of a player that showed so much early and regressed so much by year 3