Game Day Around The Grounds Rnds 6 - 10

[Stamos]

So who else is sitting on 0/6 tips?

 

[Thrawn]

Oh when the Dockers
Go anchoring innnnn
Oh when the Dockers go anchoring innnn
Oh how I want to be with Fremantle
When the Dockers go anchoring innn

 

[RedFury]

West Coast have definitely clicked a bit since the Sydney swans game.

Any team that plays them in Perth and shows up with a similar attitude to Freo tonight will get similar treatment I expect.

 

[katmanblue]

He’s very special.


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How do we get him?

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[TENACIOUS]

So who else is sitting on 0/6 tips?

1/5 picked Carlton…

 

[Mondyboy]

How do we get him?

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Brown paper bags. Lots and lots of them. (But don’t tell the AFL).


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[tarczonandjane]

Call me old fashioned. But if Freo had got back down to work instead of soiling it up for a week after we beat them, I reckon they might have gone a bit better than 0-2 in the past fortnight

 

[Coona Blues]

So who else is sitting on 0/6 tips?

3/6

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

Nice to see Freo get it up them.
Some of their muppet posters needed the humbling.

 

[katmanblue]

Brown paper bags. Lots and lots of them. (But don’t tell the AFL).


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Let's start a go fund me.

If every member put in $1000. And Matheson put in some pokies and maybe a Visy recycling plant, we might go close.

I reckon WC will give him his own mine or something.

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[Gethelred]

Freo looking like they would lose to the Bye this week.

EFA

 

[Just Kreuzing]

So zero goals between the supposed 5 best forwards on the ground….. was that right ?

T.Hawkins- zip
J.Cameron- zilch
J.Daniher- nada
C.Cameron- SFA
E.Hipwood-

 

[RPCB]

The hype is more real for Reid than it is Naicos. Loves getting in the herd stuff too. Got as much guts as he does class.

Let’s all laugh at Norf for deciding the best thing for their long-term outlook is to beat GC in Round 24.

 

[T2B_]

Nice to see Freo get it up them.
Some of their muppet posters needed the humbling.

Some amazingly arrogant supporters considering they've literally never won a thing.

 

[Revenant1995]

At start of year I would have had Simpson as coach most under pressure, with a dash of Bevo. Now it would be Longmuir, with a dash of Mitchell, Fagan and Nicks.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

At start of year I would have had Simpson as coach most under pressure, with a dash of Bevo. Now it would be Longmuir, with a dash of Mitchell, Fagan and Nicks.

Don’t forget Ross the toss…..

 

[Gethelred]

At start of year I would have had Simpson as coach most under pressure, with a dash of Bevo. Now it would be Longmuir, with a dash of Mitchell, Fagan and Nicks.

He's like Nathan Lyon. Second someone starts thinking his job might be on the line, he takes a 5 for or wins a game by 10 goals.

 

[Revenant1995]

Don’t forget Ross the toss…..

I think RTB is a bit like that creature that's supposed to be able to survive a nuclear blast...

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

That constricting game Freo play is hard to maintain, and stifles all creativity within the team. They deliberately play a game that means their opposition is within range even if they are leading. It's not a game for success and they have been their under Ross. I just don't get it.

Then when the effort drops off, they get blown away.

They are blaming the schedule. I guess we will see.

 

[Blue_Fusion]

Have a look at this goal umpire!






And good on her, she got the call right too...

BTW she got knocked over, didn't do that intentionally.

 

[Bostonian]

That Swans passage of play is what we need to get more into our game.

 

[RPCB]

I am waiting for GC to look like that Top 4 side we are told they will become.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Very ordinary game at the SCG.

 

[The Defender]

Why does the 15m kick length get adjudged differently in defence compared to forward?

 

[Gethelred]

That constricting game Freo play is hard to maintain, and stifles all creativity within the team. They deliberately play a game that means their opposition is within range even if they are leading. It's not a game for success and they have been their under Ross. I just don't get it.

Then when the effort drops off, they get blown away.

They are blaming the schedule. I guess we will see.

I don't agree.

Any plan is better than no plan, and what sets a good or workable plan apart from others is implementation and flexibility. Now, you might say that Freo are completely inflexible, but that's not looking at the layers involved; when they're playing badly and have lost players they cannot cover to injury, of course they look inflexible.

When they're playing well, they can change tack on a dime. You want contested ball? They can outperform us - ****ing US - for 3 and a half terms. You want to blitz opposition? Have a look at Freo vs Melbourne at the G early last year; blew them off the park in the third term to the tune of 8 goals in a term without compromising structure. You want dour defense? There isn't a dourer setup in the AFL.

The key there is that Longmuir doesn't give his players as much licence as other coaches. He makes his plan A for opposition X, and it either works or it doesn't. I'd argue that his plans work more often than not, and he's hampered by available cattle in a different way to most sides; where most are hampered by injuries, he's hampered by a talent drain, in which he loses annually 1-2 best 22 footballers to other clubs.

He has to create and cultivate a method that works under those conditions. Dunno if there's a coach in the comp that could do that sustainably.