Autopsy AFL 2017 - Rnd 7 - Liked, learnt & hated

[_Mike_]

Liked - A 10 goal to zip first quarter by a bottom four contender vs flag contender

Leant - just when you think a particular team appears unbeatable, something completely unscripted happens

Hated - Our poor setup and starts playing catchup footy. It won't be long before a team punishes the Bulldogs for their slow starts.

 

[Rotayjay]

Learnt:

No Gawn, no Dees.

My footy tips were already dead. They have now been cremated.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Liked: Hawthorn winning, helping to put a gap between us and Melbourne on the ladder.

Hated: Hawthorn winning and making it less likely that we'll get a top 2 pick in the draft.

PS: Quite liked our win over GWS as well.

 

[Bazza97]

Liked: The unpredictability this round.
Learnt: Melbourne won't be playing finals.
Hated: Another loss for us when a win was right up for grabs. Simply unacceptable.

 

[vide0n]

Liked/Learned/Hated: The Roller Coast Suns are still a thing

Don't know what to think about where we're at. Two weeks ago it looked like a couple of years before we're worth taking seriously, now it feels like finals could be possible this year after all.

 

[Bazza97]

Liked: Hawthorn winning, helping to put a gap between us and Melbourne on the ladder.

Hated: Hawthorn winning and making it less likely that we'll get a top 2 pick in the draft.

PS: Quite liked our win over GWS as well.

Today's game was a win/win situation for you guys. We clearly aren't good enough to play finals atm and St Kilda absolutely deserves to be in the top 8, they are playing really good footy. Think Adelaide will give us a hiding next week and pretty much destroy our finals hopes. I am glad to see St Kilda doing well though, even though you could say they are our direct rivals. Good luck with the next 4 weeks, I think you will come out in a pretty good position by halfway through the season.

 

[dean33]

Liked: 10 players under 35 games experience and nearly took the pts against the reigning premiers.

Learnt: well already knew but confirmed dogs have taken over from Hawks as afl protected species.

Hated: the new interpretation of deliberate is putrid.

 

[Capt_Blackadder]

Yeah. OK.

Where would you say that North is finishing this year?

 

[Bokonon_]

Liked: Norths win. I actually like the Crows and they really are an awesome side. Just good to see a club defy all the predictions of doom and win two in a row. Taking the scalp of the best team in the comp no less.I'm not sure if they play finals, up to them now I think.

Learnt: Suns are impossible to predict. My pre season prediction is they are a smoky for finals and I'll stick with that.

Hated. Saints.
Just kidding we were outplayed on the night and their mids were outstanding.
Well played.

 

[B4Bear]

Where would you say that North is finishing this year?

10-12

 

[GreyCrow]

Liked: Knowing my team wasn't the only top 5 team to lose
Learnt: When players get ahead of themselves bathwater will drag them down
Hated: Tipping

 

[demondavey]

Today's game was a win/win situation for you guys. We clearly aren't good enough to play finals atm and St Kilda absolutely deserves to be in the top 8, they are playing really good footy. Think Adelaide will give us a hiding next week and pretty much destroy our finals hopes. I am glad to see St Kilda doing well though, even though you could say they are our direct rivals. Good luck with the next 4 weeks, I think you will come out in a pretty good position by halfway through the season.

Agreed. In fact I think today buried our finals hopes.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Liked : Tim O'Brien, Blake Hardwick, Ryan Burton continue to develop nicely.
Learnt : Hawthorn don't do third quarters.

Hated: The re-emergence of the shoulder shrug as a means to earn a free kick.

 

[demondavey]

Liked - I tipped all the upsets. Saints, Blues, Eagles, GC, Hawks. Didn't pick North unfortunately.

Learnt - Melbourne are so so overrated it's not even funny. Our best footy is on par with Carlton. I'll go as far as saying we are close to bottom 4 with Collingwood, Brisbane, and Essendon.

Hated - Not much. I am pretty much used to Melbourne disappointing the way they do so nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[Randomizor]

10-12

No chance

 

[demondavey]

10-12

Slow start has masked their true ability I think.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Like: Other teams below us lost
Hated: Our first quarter
Learnt:
Without Gawn, Dees are screwed.
North have decent youth coming; Dumont, Wood,Garner, Turner and McDonald.

 

[thetradesman]

Liked - The tigers effort for the contest again, think we are going places if we keep this type of mentality going

Learnt: I was right about Melbourne, there still a couple of years away.

Hated: Umpiring, Brisbane Bachar Houli always being a big reason we lose close ones.

 

[Cool Kangas]

Loved our first quarter. Was just awesome to see the effort & intensity. Don't think I've ever seen the kangas hold a team scoreless in an opening quarter.
Learnt - I'm not such a great tipster!
Hated - North boys making stupid decisions at times yesterday that cost us unnecessary goals.

 

[Gibbke]

This would surely have to be the first round ever since the comp went national (and there wouldn't be many other examples since 1897) where every winner this week beat a team above them on the ladder...

 

[Ishmael_]

Learnt that Hawthorn fans are a fair weathered bunch (feathered?).

38000 at the G, Against two Melbourne teams.

Perhaps that merger should have gone through.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Loved - Koby Stvens, Jack Sinclair, Acres winning us a game, Norths first quarter
Learnt - Suns could be anything
Hated - Dogs goal kicking

 

[Ishmael_]

Also.... Is there anything more predictable than Collingwood getting up with their back to the wall and then losing the next round to a supposedly inferior team.

Our MCG record is annoying, but that would do my head in as a fan.

 

[pazza]

Liked: North and their love affair with Bellerive Oval. Seem to gain a leg or 2 down there.
Learned: Every team must have a tagger in their 22 each week..or you will get carved up.
Hated: Tipping.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Where would you say that North is finishing this year?

Not in the bottom 4.