Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 1 - Cats v Saints Sat March 16th 7:30pm AEDT (GMHBA)

[Zevon]

Credit to the Cats for winning that, but if I was buying shares in one of those sides for 2024 it would be the Saints. Didn’t all click for them tonight and they found it hard to get their game going on the narrow ground but they’ll be better once they have some more room to move - especially on the fast deck at Marvel.

In contrast I can’t really see that strangling gameplan of Geelong working anywhere except at home. Time will tell though I guess.

 

[Deathray]

I do like how St Kilda play boring whatever don’t try and score for 3 quarters and then actually try and play football in the last quarter…

Why not play like that the whole game?

Ross Lyon had Riewoldt a generational great forward and played the same defensive system. Why would now be any different.

 

[Arr0w]

Good win by the Cats

Same old Ross, sucking the life out of a contest, thinking he can still win games by keeping the opposition to 60 points

Bizarre that Wilkie was on Henry

 

[Chuckie357]

39660 or something


The AfL’s love club that never plays finals at home and hosts 2-3 games a year at their opposition’s home ground.
Right.

Here it comes, the old “geelong never get enough from the afl” spin

 

[Gavin Excell]

Credit to the Cats for winning that, but if I was buying shares in one of those sides for 2024 it would be the Saints. Didn’t all click for them tonight and they found it hard to get their game going on the narrow ground but they’ll be better once they have some more room to move - especially on the fast deck at Marvel.

In contrast I can’t really see that strangling gameplan of Geelong working anywhere except at home. Time will tell though I guess.

Understand that commentary however a lot of Geelong fans I'm.sure will be happy with the young flavour of the team

 

[Zevon]

Good win by the Cats

Same old Ross, sucking the life out of a contest, thinking he can still win games by keeping the opposition to 60 points

Bizarre that Wilkie was on Henry

Bizarre take. In the game I watched it wasn’t the Saints that were trying to suck the space out of the game. They were trying to go quickly whenever they could. It was the Cats that were trying to shut that down, and they mostly did that pretty effectively

 

[Back One Out]

He was very, very good tonight. 34 years young.

I hope he keeps playing for another few years. I don't think I could handle watching the footy on 7 with Danger, Selwood and Lingy all providing the special comments at Geelong home games.

 

[Hoops]

Why would you? Sending us down there is a guaranteed win for the afl’s love club to get their season off to the best possible start

Why would an average size club in regional footy heartland be AFLs love club?

 

[Zevon]

Understand that commentary however a lot of Geelong fans I'm.sure will be happy with the young flavour of the team

Yeah that’s fair enough, some of the younger names played really well. My point was more about the contrasting game styles than the personnel.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Ross Lyon had Riewoldt a generational great forward and played the same defensive system. Why would now be any different.

The exact reason why Ross should never be considered a great coach

Squandered a brilliant list

 

[Arr0w]

Bizarre take. It wasn’t the Saints that were trying to suck the space out of the game. They were trying to go quickly whenever they could. It was the Cats that were trying to shut that down, and they mostly did that pretty effectively

Ross floods a defensive half, then tries to slingshot, rinse and repeat

 

[Mr Meow]

Credit to the Cats for winning that, but if I was buying shares in one of those sides for 2024 it would be the Saints. Didn’t all click for them tonight and they found it hard to get their game going on the narrow ground but they’ll be better once they have some more room to move - especially on the fast deck at Marvel.

In contrast I can’t really see that strangling gameplan of Geelong working anywhere except at home. Time will tell though I guess.

Geelong with a strangling game plan? St Kilda were the ones flooding defence and then playing on the counter.

Geelong were in fact leaving loads of space out the back, which is very much not a defensive set up.

63 inside 50s, 26 scoring shots - just very inefficient.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Good win by the Cats

Same old Ross, sucking the life out of a contest, thinking he can still win games by keeping the opposition to 60 points

Bizarre that Wilkie was on Henry

It was better when the best tall defender was responsible for the best tall forward.

 

[gordo2016]

Who was the hack who just blazed away like that?

Rush the ball and give yourself a minute to kick the goal…

He would've had to kick over the line, there were 2 Geelong players behind him in the square. It would have been deliberate, he had no choice but to move it forward.

 

[Zevon]

Geelong with a strangling game plan? St Kilda were the ones flooding defence and then playing on the counter.

Geelong were in fact leaving loads of space out the back, which is very much not a defensive set up.

63 inside 50s, 26 scoring shots - just very inefficient.

Your gameplan at home for years has been to prevent sides from getting any sort of space to open the game up, and you do it very well. Didn’t see any evidence that you were trying to create space but perhaps we were watching two different games.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

To be fair the frees have been there but more talking about the ball movement

Hardly.

Saints first goal also came from a sling shot not paid for an incredibly obvious htb not given to geelong infront of goal.

 

[Hoops]

Anyone who thought Saints played typical Ross Lyon footy want paying attention.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

He would've had to kick over the line, there were 2 Geelong players behind him in the square. It would have been deliberate, he had no choice but to move it forward.

He was the last man but it was very close.

Plenty of pressure and within the 9. AFL defenders need to be more switched on, zero chance deliberate is getting paid there.

 

[PhatBoy]

Here it comes, the old “geelong never get enough from the afl” spin

well it isn’t spin. It’s fact.

What’s your fact?

Where’s the fact about us being the love child? Or is it just you being a sook?

 

[Drummond]

I do like how St Kilda play boring whatever don’t try and score for 3 quarters and then actually try and play football in the last quarter…

Why not play like that the whole game?

Like Medvedev in grand slams lol

 

[Mr Meow]

Your gameplan at home for years has been to prevent sides from getting any sort of space to open the game up, and you do it very well. Didn’t see any evidence that you were trying to create space but perhaps we were watching two different games.

I'm almost wondering if this is a joke. St Kilda found space on transition time and time again tonight when they won the ball. Geelong players had very aggressive positioning and running patterns. They just struggled to break down a brick wall and then missed a lot of easy shots.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Your gameplan at home for years has been to prevent sides from getting any sort of space to open the game up, and you do it very well. Didn’t see any evidence that you were trying to create space but perhaps we were watching two different games.

We prevent them from going down the middle or moving it quick down the corridor and force teams slow and wide. We don’t flood and slingshot.

That was literally all st kilda tried to do tonight. Flood and slingshot

 

[Gavin Excell]

Thought Saints played well

 

[Plugger35]

This game was always scripted for a Geelong win with the Selwood stand opening.

I could blame the umpiring, which was biased towards Geelong at their home ground as per usual, but I won't.

I blame our players for not taking their chances when we had momentum, we need Plugger down there to teach them how to kick straight,

 

[PhatBoy]

Why would you? Sending us down there is a guaranteed win for the afl’s love club to get their season off to the best possible start

Yeah it’s just bizarre that a side opening a brand new redeveloped arena would play their first game at that venue after playing their opening 3 games away last year and not playing round one at Kardinia Park since 2014.

It seems way too frequent hey, to play round one at our home ground once every 11 ****ing seasons