Review Cats thump Power to the tune of 88 points

[#6 Thorp #7 Selwood LOL]

If I was the port coach I would be filthy with lachie jones and co for such a poor defensive collaborative effort that was not team focused but individual focused

Who do you think told them to do it?

 

[BotsMaster]

 

[Vdubs]

Why aren't Brisbane pretenders?

They got smashed by GC just a week ago - they didn't look like premiership favorites during that effort

Big picture- they are at another level when they play big games. Watched them close-up last night, and it's easy to see why they made us look a bit second rate at Geelong.
Definitely contenders imho, but most teams in the top 9 can be.
Hoping Hawks are out of the 8 soon, but they might turn around and beat the flat Pies.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

If he's not getting tagged. He gets tagged and he has no idea what to do. Just gets angry.

His fellow port players didn't seem to be helping him with it much

 

[cats_09]

For those who didn't see this before the game

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Loved Mullin and he is so important going forward given we probably play Collingwood at some stage and we see what happens to them when Daicos is shutdown

I hope his first goal comes soon. I'm backing him to get a big one in a final.

If SDK has a good September it will be such a bonus.

I know Port weren't great but if the likes of Stewart Bowes and Close are building we are in with a shot.

A part of me really wanted to see Mullin have a ping rather than send it to Stengle in the square.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Thanks! I always like writing them, I'm glad other people like reading them.

They are great

 

[cats_09]

His fellow port players didn't seem to be helping him with it much

Having JHF or Rozee out there would have been a big help for Butters tonight - JHF in particular would have got in Mullin's face at some stage just to disrupt things

 

[MisterMarcus]

Just a note for next week - have you ever seen odds like this?

 

[Mattlock]

We are doing everything right!

Get a run on into finals! Meow!

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Just a note for next week - have you ever seen odds like this?

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Strange things happen when the Don's soft tissue has gone around the twist

 

[Vdubs]

Don't want him. Spending big dollars on players like that, who can't do anything when given attention, is how you become a mediocre side.

When our guys, like Holmes and Smith, get attention, it does affect their games but they aren't rendered completely worthless like what happens to Butters. Hawthorn won the game by tagging him a few weeks ago because it reduced him from having a lot, to effectively no, influence. With tagging, you have to juggle the negative of dedicating one of your players to a player defensive role with the positive of quelling the influence of another. You have to question how much of an impact to an opposition player's game is needed to make that a viable play. With butters, there's no discussion needed. You tag every time because he has no means to break it. He's not intelligent enough to adapt to it like better players can.

Serong from Freo is the same. You tag him every time because he's immense without a tag and an ant with one.

Our bigger concern is that Mullin is good at tagging a player like Butters, so he's useful for this match up. But is he necessary every single game, given he seems to have few other tricks up his sleeve? If the opposition player breaks the tag, what then for Mullin? Last week, North didn't have anyone worth tagging. We steamrolled them and Mullin was a spectator.

Merrett
Warner
Taranto

then finals

 

[MisterMarcus]

Some real "Supercoach Stats Analysis" here to exclude Mullin from Geelong's best

 

[Vdubs]

Some real "Supercoach Stats Analysis" here to exclude Mullin from Geelong's best

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Coaches' votes will be more insightful

 

[Kobe Gryant]

Neale is up to 34 goals for the year which is looking like a very good return since he had a mere 8 goals in the first 10 games and has now kicked 26 in the next 10.

He is now looking likely to get to 40+ which would have him finish around the top 15 for the year.

It clicked for him in the Bulldogs game, and he hasn't looked back since. I suspect we'll look back on that game as his version of the 2011 GF for Tomahawk.

That doesn't mean he's incapable of a quiet game now. He's had them, and will continue to have them in the future.

But from that day onwards, he's gone from a young, developing tall in our bottom 6 (understandably) who is there to provide a contest, to a genuine asset, and one of the better key forwards in the league. His numbers say the same.

Next year will be the year he cracks 50 IMO and truly cements himself as one of the best, a la Tomahawk 2012.

 

[Generalissimo]

A part of me really wanted to see Mullin have a ping rather than send it to Stengle in the square.

I want to see Mullin finally get that first goal by getting his opponent HTB and then just calmly slotting it.

 

[BotsMaster]

 

[year of the cat]

Just a note for next week - have you ever seen odds like this?

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Black Caviar

 

[Generalissimo]

Just a note for next week - have you ever seen odds like this?

Not in the AFL, but you get it occasionally in the soccer FA cup in the early rounds when you've got a team like Liverpool up against a 13th division semiprofessional side full of chubby local farmers and washed-up journeymen.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Who do you think told them to do it?

He kicked six anyway and as a collective unit it absolutely destroyed their defensive structures.

 

[iameviljez]

It clicked for him in the Bulldogs game, and he hasn't looked back since. I suspect we'll look back on that game as his version of the 2011 GF for Tomahawk.

Honestly, it just looks like he believes he is good enough now - and he knows that if he throws himself at the footy, very few people can go with him.

I think he was also fighting an ankle injury in the first half of the year.

 

[iameviljez]

If he's not getting tagged. He gets tagged and he has no idea what to do. Just gets angry.

Butters cops a tag more often than not. This week, it got the better of him - but that's not normal.

 

[iameviljez]

Sure, but Born to Run (for Max Holmes), the World Cup Song (for "Messi" Miers) and... there was another really good pun - was it for Close?

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Butters cops a tag more often than not. This week, it got the better of him - but that's not normal.

It got to him from the opening bounce too, spent half his time thumping Oisin in the chest during dead balls than actively trying to find space or looking for options to help.

 

[frggr]

Speaking of butters he looked extremely frustrated with the Mulin tag in that last qtr

Was getting zero support from his Port colleagues too.

Maybe they know he's leaving and aren't prepared to put themselves at risk for him