Review The good, the bad, the shat - vs Fremantle R3 2024

[Milo Cyrus]

They were terrible. Which says everything we need to know.

They won ugly and that's the key to it.

 

[FR0GGY]

I put $300 on us for the flag.

Should've put it on Port.

What on earth were you thinking KE?

 

[moogerfooger]

If someone had said we'd have the same number of wins as Brisbane after three rounds, you'd take that every day of the week

 

[FR0GGY]

I cant believe we have posters potting our forwards over this..

Have they not been watching the crows ball movement in the past three weeks?..

You could have dunstall, modra, franklin and Ablett snr up there and they’d still struggle to score.

Chip, chip, chip sideways and backwards before panicking and bombing it long into a forward line that has given the opponents defense an eternity to get back and set up for the long bomb is just the most fxxkn stupid game plan you could ever implement.

just what the fxxk are forwards meant to do with that..

As well as consistently having to contend with a loose man back, god knows why we insist on having someone come up to the stoppage.
If we can’t trust our mids to get it done, change it you muppets.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

worst skills display I’ve ever seen. How can we make so many skill errors in a game? But also kick to players where there are two defenders on them ffs

 

[Crow_68]

I don't buy Nicks excuse that we have a ton of players out of form

Maybe if there were 3 or 4 guys, sure. We have 20 players supposedly out of form

The real reason IMO is our trash game plan that our players are so confused about they aren't able to execute

Bang on. Clear the players are not enjoying the changes to the game plan either.

 

[FR0GGY]

If someone had said we'd have the same number of wins as Brisbane after three rounds, you'd take that every day of the week

At least we sort of know what they did in the offseason, what on earth did we do?

 

[King Elvis]

GOOD:

Murphy was sub which is one step closer to him being out of the side. Had zero impact so fingers crossed Nicksy keeps him as sub and then he becomes our SANFL leader the rest of the year.

The external noise is going to get loud. Over the past 2 weeks - King, Cornes, Hodge, et al have gotten stuck into Nicks. There can be no excuses - our top 10 players from our B&F last year have all played all 3 games.

BAD & THE SHAT

The sad reality is there is no real help on the horizon. The 4 players we need to bring in have a combined 4 games experience (Nank, Dowling, Curtin, Edwards). Time to give Murphy/McHenry/Jones a spell to bring in 3 of em next week.

What was going to be our Achilles heal (KPD) we are actually managing through as Borlase and Keane have done a decent job in covering Murray and Butts.

We are a side completely devoid of confidence and it screams of us being figured out.

The fact we kicked 18 goals in round 3 of 2023 and in the first 3 rounds of 2024 have kicked a combined 23 goals is nothing short of astounding. If West Coast kick 53 points against the Doggies - we go from the highest scoring team in 2023 to the lowest scoring team through 3 weeks in 2024.

What is most astounding to me is the lack of use of Rachele in the midfield.

In 2023 in the first 3 rounds he attended 37 CBA's. In the first 3 rounds of 2024 he has attended 2.

Damning.

 

[Billy_01]

They won ugly and that's the key to it.

They made as many turnovers as us in the first 3 quarters. They would’ve been 4 goals down against any half decent side

 

[FullyBigKPro]

 

[maxlilly]

Give it time, we can coach the good out of anyone!!

It appears that way.
The only players that look any good are those 1-2 year players.
But after a couple of years of Nicks, they all just turn to poo

 

[Milo Cyrus]

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We'd be the empty bottles?

 

[George CantStandYa]

I don't buy Nicks excuse that we have a ton of players out of form

Maybe if there were 3 or 4 guys, sure. We have 20 players supposedly out of form

The real reason IMO is our trash game plan that our players are so confused about they aren't able to execute

And they’ve lost faith in it, hard to buy into a gameplan you know is shit and doesn’t make sense

 

[King Elvis]

I'm just angry now...

The absolute sheer level of incompetence in the AFC is truly staggering.

What the actual **** was that sh*t last night.

4 ******** goals for the game.

Nicks, Burns, Kelly, Silvers.... Can all go and GTFO.

Embarrassingly pathetic.

Sad reality is we don't appear to be as far down the path as we expected.

A premature push discarding that would be an absolute disaster.

We need another couple of years of serious drafting/trading - then we'd be ready for a legitimate push.

But they don't have the balls for it.

 

[King Elvis]

What on earth were you thinking KE?

I have a habit of getting carried away

Same bet in Aussies to win the T20 WC, so all hope is not lost !

 

[Redleg Crow]

Bad drafting, worse player development, and the worst coaching

 

[maxlilly]

People giving Nicks and co a massive OUT by focusing on recruitment.

Stop kidding yourselves.
What we are seeing is a result of Coaching,player development and mismanagment.

Nicks the "culture" builder seems to have a toxicity issue amongst his playing group.

Being a good bloke will only get you so far.
At some stage you need to be able to football

 

[moses]

Nicks was a scrappy tryer. He values players like himself. Fmd he's an idiot.

That's a good way to put it.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Our vanilla midfield didn't exactly stick it up the critics

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Nick's says we have lost cohesion and making dumb decisions. It's because you told them off-season stop doing what worked now let's control possession and slow it down so the opposition can push everyone back.

Idiot

Totally. Our F50 was stacked with their defenders and our small forwards where no where to be seen once it came to ground because they we’re playing further up the ground.

 

[El Doederino]

Totally. Our F50 was stacked with their defenders and our small forwards where no where to be seen once it came to ground because they we’re playing further up the ground.

And then once they spoiled they had free men everywhere to slingshot it back uncontested

 

[maxlilly]

I don't buy Nicks excuse that we have a ton of players out of form

Maybe if there were 3 or 4 guys, sure. We have 20 players supposedly out of form

The real reason IMO is our trash game plan that our players are so confused about they aren't able to execute

I think when you have 20 players out of form, the coach has lost the players

 

[El Doederino]

People giving Nicks and co a massive OUT by focusing on recruitment.

Stop kidding yourselves.
What we are seeing is a result of Coaching,player development and mismanagment.

Nicks the "culture" builder seems to have a toxicity issue amongst his playing group.

Exactly. Even if we recruited by rolling a dice, by now through dumb luck we would have rolled ourselves a decent player.

We don’t recruit well but the even bigger issue is we don’t develop them. We haven’t since Gallucci and Poholke.

 

[El Doederino]

I think when you have 20 players out of form, the coach has lost the players

How can you be so bad out of form after 3 games.

 

[maxlilly]

At least we sort of know what they did in the offseason, what on earth did we do?

Camp ?