Autopsy Analysis vs. Sydney

[PapaJ]

apologies if this has already been posted; but rewatching the fourth quarter at the moment and we could have won it so many times before Mayne's goal. Probably shouldn't have been as close as it was.

Bottom line is we lost the quarter by a goal - but yes, we actually had more control of the game than that and should have put it to bed with 5-10 minutes to spare.

On the other hand, we did pretty well to not ever surrender the lead to Sydney given how much they dominated the 3rd. Despite the 7 goals or whatever it was, they actually could have scored a couple more.

 

[FreoGirl]

now THIS is why this man still gets a game for Freo! certainly a highlight of the match for me

 

[Mezz]

now THIS is why this man still gets a game for Freo! certainly a highlight of the match for me







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OMG yes!

And with a pretty face to go with it Pity he put on the new jumper.

 

[Spoken4]

Pro: We're winning despite not playing our best team. Gu showed that straight away when he came on, even though plenty on here said we shouldn't change a winning team. He's just flat out better than Suban, Pearce, DeBoer.
So this week Ballas comes in for one of those 3, and when Dawson is fit he comes in too.
Sheridan would be very close if he's fit. We should be trying to improve, win or lose.

By the way we had a revealing glimpse of D Pearce in the 4th quarter, when real finals like pressure was on. On his on, straight in front from 50 - out on the full.

Bit hard to judge Pearce on one mistake when all players were tiring and mistakes were a plenty.

His form this year has been the best of his career and he was absolutely critical in our win against Port Adelaide.

 

[FreoGirl]

OMG yes!

And with a pretty face to go with it Pity he put on the new jumper.

I was surprised they had a spare one for him lol

 

[JamFrank]

Sydney went to Adelaide and demolished Port.
Port just beat the reigning premiers in Adelaide without two of their best midfielders.
Sydney beat port by playing the sort of football they played in the 3rd quarter against us; won the contested ball and tackled hard, dominated the clearances.

All credit to the boys for only allowing Sydney to get their game going for one quarter.

 

[FreoGirl]

now THIS is why this man still gets a game for Freo! certainly a highlight of the match for me







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[greatgatsby]

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Fails all of them! But the occasional double standard doesn't do any harm.

 

[Scham]

Bit hard to judge Pearce on one mistake when all players were tiring and mistakes were a plenty.

His form this year has been the best of his career and he was absolutely critical in our win against Port Adelaide.

He does have priors though. Does not handle pressure situations. Should have iced that goal or at the very least got close! Not withstanding his form this year has been good.

 

[kp junior]

Bit hard to judge Pearce on one mistake when all players were tiring and mistakes were a plenty.

His form this year has been the best of his career and he was absolutely critical in our win against Port Adelaide.

I'm also judging him on his history in finals when the pressure goes up

 

[Spoken4]

He does have priors though. Does not handle pressure situations. Should have iced that goal or at the very least got close! Not withstanding his form this year has been good.

Port Adelaide was a pressure situation. So was playing Geelong in Geelong. And playing a derby in front of a WC home crowd is pressure too. Let's wait before casting judgement on whether in 2015, he can handle pressure situation.

 

[WWSD]

Really impressed with Matty Taberner's season so far. He's a great addition to your forward line and provides a good contest and gives Fremantle another key target inside 50. He's going to a be very good player in 2-3 years time.

 

[PapaJ]

Really impressed with Matty Taberner season so far. He's a great addition to your forward line and provides a good contest and gives Fremantle another key target inside 50. He's going to a be very good player in 2-3 years time.

Yeah, he's going OK for a young guy. Like many young talls, he's got to work out how to get himself into a game when the ball isn't coming in regularly or clean which tends to be the case against higher quality teams i.e. bigger games. But for sure he's getting there. Ross really loves him. I think he loves his work rate and willingness to work to team rules and structures.

Having said all that, he's always going to be the sort of player that's going to need a powerful forward as a foil (at the moment that's Pav of course). I'm not sure he'll ever shine as the main man in the fwd half - that's my reading of it anyway, could well be wrong.

 

[chinggis77]

Positives:

• Umps had their yearly eye checkup before our game and got their focals adjusted.
• Fyfe continuing to prove he can do it all by breaking two tags (his own and Hills courtesy of taking the tagger away from Hill).
• Fyfe´s hair flying through the air in the last from that Mundy kick (its mesmerising), oh and that mark he took.
• Only one goal to Sydney in the first half. Nothing worse than opposition goals. I would rather a 100 point to 0 game in our favour than a close game that we win. Ruins my enjoyment (and heart) to have opposition goals.
• Stephen Hill parking himself 45m out from goal when we have the ball about 60 out and making leads to get the 15m pass. Has happened quite a lot this year that it must be a strategy to get him offering an outlet for that mark 50m out where there are few defenders where we know he can roost it (which he has a few times now).
• The second tier: Clancee, Spurr, Suban, Ibbo picking up some of the slack this week.

Negatives

• Deja vu - not the good type either, but one borne of memories of constant comebacks against us in the second half and our failure to put teams away. Heck, second half comebacks like that bring back memories of flaky, soft Freo of yesteryear, I am trying to banish those memories dammit. I didn´t spend thousands of dollars on therapy to repress those memories only to have Freo bring them back like this.
• Second half comeback - see last weeks post. As a footy addict needing his fix, you only gave me half my fix this week Freo. 4 quarters of domination. Nothing less please. See above.
• Matt Deboers ripped shirt - it exposed a rather flat chested man dashing our images of a ripped, gladiator style body to go with De Boer´s brickman image.
• Matt De Boers ripped shirt - seriously, what are these shirts made of? Tissue paper? This seems to happen with alarming regularity. Cale Morton could rip these jumpers off they are that weak.

 

[Admiral Byng]

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[Crippa]

Negatives

• Second half comeback - see last weeks post. As a footy addict needing his fix, you only gave me half my fix this week Freo. 4 quarters of domination. Nothing less please.

The corollary of "4 quarters of domination, nothing less" now is the likelihood of a slump come September.

As Barry Hall wisely said last Thursday, playing perfect football at this time of year is a bad thing.

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

The corollary of "4 quarters of domination, nothing less" now is the likelihood of a slump come September.

As Barry Hall wisely said last Thursday, playing perfect football at this time of year is a bad thing.

Aye. It's a marathon. Not a race. I don't care if we play 4,3,2 or even 1 good quarter of footy each week - as long as we are winning and managing ourselves for September.

 

[Admiral Byng]

I think I could get used to a pattern of:\

good hard early
build up a big lead
coast home
take the 4 points
move on to next week

 

[TheMcManusNose]

I think I could get used to a pattern of:\

good hard early
build up a big lead
coast home
take the 4 points
move on to next week

If it does continue though I will have to talk to my GP about heart medication and upgrade my health insurance.

 

[Freodoc]

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Shame you can't like things of beauty more than once!

 

[theGav56]

I think I could get used to a pattern of:\

take the 4 points
move on to next week

Simplified it.

 

[malpaso]

Port Adelaide was a pressure situation. So was playing Geelong in Geelong. And playing a derby in front of a WC home crowd is pressure too. Let's wait before casting judgement on whether in 2015, he can handle pressure situation.

I disagree. D.Pearce has played 207 games of AFL football. IF the facts are there that he crumbles in pressure situations then he will continue to do it.
Having said that I think his output across 4 quarters far outweighs any 'cracks under pressure' he may have. In the Sydney game we shouldn't have been in that situation to begin with considering the lead we had.

 

[StingBitten]

I wonder if these first-half destruction/second-half fadeouts has anything to do with Crowls missing in the midfield/our new attack the ball strategy.

When we're on top, I've never seen us play more freely and with such purpose in the midfield; in the second halves the opposition's best midfielders work their way back into the game and win the ball at the right time. I doubt Hannebury would have cleared so many stoppages if Crowley was tailgating him. Not saying it's a bad thing, but perhaps something the boys are still adjusting to.

 

[Arcassius]

I wonder if these first-half destruction/second-half fadeouts has anything to do with Crowls missing in the midfield/our new attack the ball strategy.

When we're on top, I've never seen us play more freely and with such purpose in the midfield; in the second halves the opposition's best midfielders work their way back into the game and win the ball at the right time. I doubt Hannebury would have cleared so many stoppages if Crowley was tailgating him. Not saying it's a bad thing, but perhaps something the boys are still adjusting to.

The question also is - what changes for the opposition players to work their way into the game. Obviously they adjust and matchups change, while ours probably stay largely the same. The time it takes for us to respond to that change in the case of a run-on is concerning. You'd think after 3-4 quick goals we'd lock it down, lower the eyes and start picking short targets while RTB up top shuffles the board

 

[Taylor]

If I were an opposition coach breaking down the Fremantle game plan Id be looking at whether the personnel change in the middle during the match and if they do, is it because they have to or because the coaches can?

If we are swapping our mids out to never burn them out and still winning, albeit with a fade out as the B team take over, then that's a very scary proposition.