Review Rd 1, 2019: Freo destroy the Roos

[Sweetback]

Anyone know who played on Ziebel?

 

[dropbear101]

Anyone know who played on Ziebel?

hamling or ryan I think.

 

[amaz199]

North poster - here..

Your team was sensational today. Credit where credit is due, your side was smarter, harder, and more prepared than we were.

Expect some future positive signs from this game. Your team blitzed through our whole side consistently on the counter. We had no answers. Get excited whilst we scratch our heads.

Good luck with the rest of 2019!

 

[Taylor]

Very interesting watching the game live.

The positioning at the stoppages was a lot smarter, trusting their team mates to win the ball and feed it out to them.

It made us look so much faster.

 

[muzzington]

North poster - here..

Your team was sensational today. Credit where credit is due, your side was smarter, harder, and more prepared than we were.

Expect some future positive signs from this game. Your team blitzed through our whole side consistently on the counter. We had no answers. Get excited whilst we scratch our heads.

Good luck with the rest of 2019!

Hope for the best for Vickers-Willis.

 

[CJL1]

Very happy with the win, the boys played very well.

It's great to have some key forwards to allow MCarthy to be third tall so he can have games like that.

Hamlin and Pearce dominated the North forwards!

I hope Cunnington gets a couple of weeks for all the dirty sniper hits he did today. I thought he was a pretty good player until this afternoon, not anymore!!

 

[amaz199]

Hope for the best for Vickers-Willis.

We hope he is ok as we are short on backmen. Club took no risks, it could be minor. Cheers!

 

[Byrons Firen]

I'm rapt for you guys onto top of the Brisbane game I reckon your w/end was even better for you guys than for us
.......and ours was pretty good. The 6-6-6 has forced our Ken into a more dynamic style maybe the same for Lyon?
Anyway i'm outta here but well done lads. Enjoy your week

 

[ImperialPurple]

There were very few times that guys tried to kick to guys in ‘better’ positions, which was something that used to drive me nuts. Guys running straight at the goals would then screw kick it yo someone 15m closer but on a shit angle. They’ve been given permission to go for it if they think they’re in a good enough position. They’ll miss a few, but look at Tucker’s and Dardy’s long range goals from outside 50 - it’s instinctive and team lifting.
Finally they’ve been let off the leash.

 

[free at last]

6-6-6 rule could be a saviour for RTB? (Can't put numbers behind the ball,to a degree)

Freo,75 points at half time had me so shocked,we'd normally win a game with that kind of total in years gone by!

 

[Mags98]

I'm rapt for you guys onto top of the Brisbane game I reckon your w/end was even better for you guys than for us
.......and ours was pretty good. The 6-6-6 has forced our Ken into a more dynamic style maybe the same for Lyon?
Anyway i'm outta here but well done lads. Enjoy your week

honestly, never been a fan of port but the way you guys played was very very impressive. some of the best ball movement we’ve seen so far and that young quad of yours looks to be ready made to impact


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[Wally Walpamur]

Well whadda know? Instead of bombing into our F50, lowering our eyes and playing smart football got us 140 points today.

 

[fnerd]

There were very few times that guys tried to kick to guys in ‘better’ positions, which was something that used to drive me nuts. Guys running straight at the goals would then screw kick it yo someone 15m closer but on a shit angle. They’ve been given permission to go for it if they think they’re in a good enough position. They’ll miss a few, but look at Tucker’s and Dardy’s long range goals from outside 50 - it’s instinctive and team lifting.
Finally they’ve been let off the leash.

Yeah good spot , likewise use to annoy the feck out of me

 

[FreoMonocle]

Very interesting watching the game live.

The positioning at the stoppages was a lot smarter, trusting their team mates to win the ball and feed it out to them.

It made us look so much faster.

It contrasted to the days of Suban, where we held the ball up waiting for a more certain option. Our movement by hand at the tempo we played today, we would have spudded it up somewhere in the chain back in 2012-2015.

Then as now, I think the intent is to use the tools at hand to their best effect, sure if it's dark and raining you could grab a butter knife out of the kitchen to tighten one screw instead of going to the shed, but as a carpenter doing someones back deck, you'd only whip the butter knife out to make your sandwhich. When you are deficient in skill, throw the lesser skilled playing group hard at the opponents, put them under pressure and make them play below their ability. Well, we've got the skill now it would seem and it merits using the tools at hand differently.

 

[dropbear101]

Loved the fact that despite all preseason north supporters telling us fremantle were gonna get smashed in the midfield,
along arrived tucker, Langdon, mundy, fyfe, darcy, brayshaw, and hill complemented by handy pinch hitters banfield, conca and cerra.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Anyone know who played on Ziebel?

Hamling, AP and Ryan all spent a bit of time on him

 

[Scham]

Anyone know who played on Ziebel?

Pearce and Hamling swapped from him and Brown was what it looked like.

 

[muzzington]

I didn't know we were rolling with a different looking jumper for Round 1 but I really liked it.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Back to Earth a little bit on Tabs and a little bit McCarthy. They wont get too much an easier game given EVW went out early and they were already underdone down there.

Cox will be breathing down Tab's back come round 3/4 so he would want to show today was more than playing on someone 2 foot smaller than him.

With how McCarthy was today, I think there is room for Lobb, Hogan, Cox/Tabs and himself since I see him as a different player to the other 4, especially if he brings the same pressure each week.

 

[Taylor]

Perfect ending to the weekend. The fella is sore, reminding me of flags gone by, whipping out the premiership medal, la de dah, but THIS weekend we are on top

Ahahaha

 

[dropbear101]

Back to Earth a little bit on Tabs and a little bit McCarthy. They wont get too much an easier game given EVW went out early and they were already underdone down there.

Cox will be breathing down Tab's back come round 3/4 so he would want to show today was more than playing on someone 2 foot smaller than him.

With how McCarthy was today, I think there is room for Lobb, Hogan, Cox/Tabs and himself since I see him as a different player to the other 4, especially if he brings the same pressure each week.

I think you nailed it

but im still salivating about our future forward line
lobb cox bennell
walters Hogan mccarthy

all can genuinely kick a bag. imagine if sturt develops into a goal kicking flanker

 

[fnerd]

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

I think you nailed it

but im still salivating about our future forward line
lobb cox bennell
walters Hogan mccarthy

all can genuinely kick a bag. imagine if sturt develops into a goal kicking flanker

I like the optimism on Bennell but you can move Switta there and I'm happy since there is enough goal scoring potential there to add a little bit more defensively anyway

 

[Square Peg]

Brilliant game, best atmosphere at optus I've ever experienced
I love all the 1st-3rd year guys but Mundy is still so good, what a player!

 

[Rob]

I still don't know what to make of that. We looked sensational, but North were utterly abysmal. The way they kept handing us the ball coming out of the backline must have had every North fan tearing their hair out.

I'd like to think it was our elite pressure that caused it, but i'll hold court for now. At worst, I reckon some players will get some confidence out of it.