Autopsy Round 8, 2026: Positives and Negatives vs Richmond

[Eastern Rangers]

Positive.
People tried to sell me the preseason hope and I ignored them.

Negatives.
None - we're better than last year.

 

[Goroyals22]

Our two Captains are complete frauds.

How many times does baker get caught because he refuses to dispose of the ball with the first option??? Every bloody game it happens multiple times…

 

[Bacchus]

Lowest point in the club’s history. For the 18th time in the last 5 years.

What did Simpson do?

Did anyone ever @#$& a club up as badly as he has?

 

[Matele]

Keep:
Duursma
Ginbey
Reid
CDT
Shanahan
Lindsay
Murdock
McCarthy

Delist:
The rest

I wish I could hit square on AFL LIVE 2005 and let the game fill the list for me. A bunch of AI unknowns would be better than the spuds on our list.

 

[mitchzz]

Looking forward to watching Mini's presser

"Well, if you look at the numbers, we largely had the game on our terms"
"We know what we need to do"
"We've got some plans in place"
"We won the inside 50s"

Yada yada yada

 

[unty11]

Also I rated Hewett thought he had a high ceiling but he keeps putting in insipid performances. Despite a couple of good games last year maybe this is as good as it gets from him.

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Go the WAFL eagles. they might win

take him to the beagles

Yeah nah not flying him across the country to see a WAFL game.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Any anyone accused anyone else of wetting the bed yet?

 

[Spod]

Totally insipid attacking and hopeless defending. Can excuse defence to some extent considering the personnel issues but the endless bombing up field is just absolutely unacceptable.

 

[secondrate]

I've previously had a lot of faith in Mini, Richmond did to us what other teams have done just less efficiently. It's pretty clear after this game that his plan does not work.

We are setup too aggressively to pressure when we look like we might win the ball or at least halve the contest. When we don't win the 50/50 teams just walk it into an uncontested inside 50 mark. We always seem to be outnumbered in that position, so we are likely sending an extra up to help keep it in our 50.

When we do win the 50/50 we aren't actually setup to score, everyone seems to be running on top of each other looking to be the next one in the handball chain.

We also never end up having someone free inside 50 overlap, despite the fact we are always down one in the counterattack. Not sure if this is a setup or work rate thing, but it seems to be how we setup.

 

[Smotie2]

What did Simpson do?

Did anyone ever @#$& a club up as badly as he has?

The vics were so happy with what he did they've given him multiple jobs in the media as reward.

 

[DirtySandman]

I grew up in Darwin, and always thought I’d like to see a Darwin/nt side come in. I’ll be that bloke in the meme, looking over his shoulder at the girl passing by .

We are losing so many kids as fans, I can’t believe how long it’s gone on for, let alone seeing no light at the end.

 

[lauriecooper77]

Negative: Every time we hit the front Tigers kicked the next 2 or 3 goals. So many non AFL standard players. We have other options in the WAFL, use them!

 

[WCErevival]

There’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing.

I feel like we are in Nutty Putty cave.

 

[HellsBells88]

5 years and we can’t even beat a winless team at home. There’s really been minimal progress. We might be slightly better at clearances or contested ball but now our once solid defence has completely fallen apart. The thing that really annoys me is the team selection is just weird every week. This may have been the one and only game to play an extra tall forward. We drop a tall defender and don’t bring one in and they took so many contested marks in their forward line, does Mcqualter (not calling him by his stupid nickname) even know what position Cole plays? Why does every team manage to rebound against us for an easy shot on goal, no matter where they are on the ladder. Taking that advantage when we were in front when owies had a shot was a real killer. Tough shot but soak up 30 seconds and can set up the defence.
Honestly even if we scraped over the line who cares, that game was win by a comfortable margin or nothing. The 06 team looked incredibly disinterested

 

[Priddis Is Done]

A toxic shit stain of a shit hole club, many many rungs below Fitzroy, when the door was slammed shut on them.

Baker for pick 3 hey. Setting standards and raising the bar hey. Useless hack.

 

[domad33]

Welp I said it pre-game I'd be watching how we defend off rebound and how we enter our forward 50, and suffice to say it went exactly it's been all year, putrid.

That loss is unforgivable, of all the dogshot 100 point losses we've amassed over the years this one sits in its own special category of low.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Positive - AFLW Pre-season draft on Monday

Negative - The AFL season is still going for another 18 weeks

 

[Big_Tony]

Positive:
-Consistently generating enough supply and field position. This is a big change to recent years.

Negative:
-Zero forward connection, so can't take advantage of our supply.
-Back line very thin, being further exposed by a lack of team defence.

We're not a team at the moment. We're a collection of individuals, some much better than others... but the whole is much less than the sum of the parts.

 

[isthiswhereitype]

Positives:
Ginbey
Duursma
Harley
Lindsay
CDT

Negatives:
The heat death of the universe

 

[Mighty Eagles]

What did Simpson do?

Did anyone ever @#$& a club up as badly as he has?

These comments are ignorant and downplay the decision making of the likes of Nisbett & Gavin Bell.

Nisbett & Bell allowed us to go through periods without a List Manager. They also promoted O’Brien before he inevitably left. The list management in their past three years was disgraceful and we’re still paying the price today.

 

[Scotland]

Looking forward to watching Mini's presser

"Well, if you look at the numbers, we largely had the game on our terms"
"We know what we need to do"
"We've got some plans in place"
"We won the inside 50s"

Yada yada yada

We've been working really hard in that space.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Can we stop this nonsense that Ginbey is a KPD. He's a medium sized defender.

He's literally the best option that we have ATM lmao.

 

[UseR2006]

deep breath

When CDT, a ****ing ruckman, has more tackles than 99% of the squad, nearly double 95% of the squad. It shows how pathetic the defensive intent is from this group of players. Disgusting.

No positives today, **** that.

Negatives:
Mini and the defensive coaching line have no ****ing clue what they are doing. Oppo players 10m off the ball everywhere on transition (when we lose the ball).
Young is not a defender, the guy sits off the contest and just wants to intercept and if it comes to a 1v1 will only take the rear position. Is next to useless.
Duggan 72 meters gained as a Half-Back. Putrid. Goes slow when he has the ball and always backwards or sideways. Otherwise it's dump kicks for days.

Waterman - If he's ****ing injured get him off the ground he clearly is carrying something otherwise he should be dropped to the WAFL until he learns where the ball needs to go when kicking at goal.

Lindsay - What the **** was that kick where he kicked it directly to a Tiger forward out of our d50, wasn't even a west coast jumper within 40m of the guy.

Champion - Kicked a goal but otherwise was a complete liability, can't tackle at AFL level right now and doesn't even tackle in the fwd 50 when ball hits the deck.

Hewett - **** right off, completely useless, go to the WAFL and don't come back till you can play some level of football.

Shoenberg - Useless as well, **** off.

Milans worst game for the club so far.

Umpires can **** right off too.

This club has zero ****ing mongrel and heart to it. At least Harley looks like he gives a shit when he loses a contest, the rest of these ****s couldn't give two shits.

I don't want any excuses from this club today or tomorrow. That was the most disgusting performance of the year, including the 100pt beltings. Perhaps even worse than the Sydney annihilation from a few years ago.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Im checking out of footy tomorrow for the remainder of the year.

Well, I found another positive.