Review Comeback Kings Do It Again - Freo by 27 Points Over Carlton

[purplearmy]

To the Carlton board! If I don't return, remember that I lived.

Enjoy. My main target is the Eagles. I’ve been banned from the Eagles board though. I can only taunt them on the main AFL threads.

 

[freo84]

To the Carlton board! If I don't return, remember that I lived.

 

[Taylor]

When people now ask me if I like football I say I do like football. But not Carlton. Carlton can fkkk off.

 

[Feathercap]

Funniest thing about Schoey is that he acts like he wants Freo to do well. But when the whips are cracking and Freo are making a comeback, you can hear it in his voice. He hates us

100% agree with this. His ‘support’ of Freo is performative and done only because it’s a two team town. He’s also thick and repetitive. How many times do we have to hear the golden fist / defender vs forward garbage

 

[Dirty_banchez]

Carlton fans are putrid.

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

I swear that on the TV you could hear the ump say no mark

Nah watch again - at least on the Fox mic feed he said mark mark mark 3 times - was the off balll ump though hence the delay. Not sure why on ball ump didn't call it if the call came through that clearly on the umps mic interfaces.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

While the first half wasn't necessarily the worst footy we've played this year, I thought it was certainly the stupidest - they came out and treated it like wet weather footy (which it pretty much was) while we decided to have our own "who can over-possess the ball the most" contest. Losing Young certainly didn't help that.

But - to Justin and the boys credit - they adjusted; something we all routinely accuse them of never doing and fought our way back into it. Compare to the Saints game (where we rolled over and died) or the Melbourne/Sydney losses (where we left our run too late) at the growth is there.

Treacy's interview on the ABC was interesting - sounded like they had some specific plans to get Voss to Weitering (similar to the Moore matchup) but it was screwing up the structure so they dropped it at half time - probably reflected across the board to a certain degree.

Part of the eternal issue we have with Carlton is that we don't really have a natural match-up for Cripps - thought we missed Wagner as an option to put a bit of accountability on him and/or Hewitt.

 

[purplearmy]

Honestly, the weather played a big part. I went outside at three quarter time and was nearly frozen on the spot, like Mini during a post game press conference.

 

[chaosball32]

Good 3rd quarter, excellent 4th quarter but I would love to know what it is about our game that makes us susceptible to shit teams jumping us, why can we match it with the best teams in the league but struggle against teams we should we pumping? What doesn’t translate? Is it mentality? I’m more confident about the Brisbane game than I am against Port next week.

 

[Joose]

Kinda sick of these lower table sides picking our bloody games as the one to get up for, their token win against a finals contender to mask their own terrible seasons. It's terrible culture building, pick every game to fight it out, not ones that will look good in your end of season exit interviews to the board you pricks.

I have a theory that the reason so many teams seem to bring their A Game against Freo is that Longmuir's defensive mindset allows them to.

They are allowed to play the game on their terms as Freo seem to have the mindset that they will tackle whatever the opposition throw at them.

 

[The Feeder Club]

I'm getting old or that was the coldest it has ever been at an Optus Game. It felt like being back at Subi.
My hypothermia may be clouding my judgement but did we just get out of jail or what? So good to beat those bluebaggers though. Jackson was amazing again and when Dudley steadied the nerves with that goal I wanted to leap onto the field and kiss him
I didn't see exacyly what happened to Young, did it look bad?

 

[LongSerong]

Just watched the last quarter again, Vossy was huge

 

[mayne iac]

Funniest thing about Schoey is that he acts like he wants Freo to do well. But when the whips are cracking and Freo are making a comeback, you can hear it in his voice. He hates us

7 is way better, shaun mac and lecras are really good and genuine to listen to.
Pav , nup

 

[2big2strom]

Just watched the last quarter again, Vossy was huge

of course he was! have you seen how large his chest is?

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

7 is way better, shaun mac and lecras are really good and genuine to listen to.
Pav , nup

It hurts to say but Pav is legitimately bad. Terrified of being bias, lacks emotion, doesnt communicate his point. I actually think he's in the Derm and Underwood pantheon of bad commentators.

 

[purplerunsdeep2]

How many teams in the top 8 have taggers?

 

[Dayts]

Jacko was so elite in the middle!
Whole preseason in there trailing it up and he’s going to be insane.

The lighting quick mid hair flick he did and super quick releases are so nice to watch. Has a little shimmy in his step to which helps him.

Also unfortunately highlighted to me anyway how slow Ras is with it

But yeh Jacko Epic!

 

[Taylor]

Noticed Serong got on the move after half time and we tore them up on clearance, blew them away from there. All we needed was to even up the bounce clearance and Carlton wilted.

Frederick had strapping on his thigh before the game, changed his boots, dropped the strapping.

Cripps loves to bully the smaller players, I enjoyed our bigger guys getting him a few times.

 

[DMan 11]

What I wouldn’t give for a decent wing or two …

 

[Taylor]

Playing Jackson as the ruck for nearly the whole first quarter wasn't a good coaching plan. We needed to level that contest and he wasn't competing as the ruckman.

 

[largebus]

Pos:
Encouraging to win like that with Serong being kept quiet. O'Meara really helped with his blocking and going after the tagger in the second. Forwards all did their job.
Cox, McDonald and Clark were enormous in keeping us in the game in the first half, although Clark was bombing his kicks high a lot.

Neg:
Carlton brought the pressure and we went back to over-handballing a lot.
TDK owned Jackson/Darcy early. Cripps was able to burst out of the stoppage when he got it - we simply have no one like that if Young is out.
Weather was shocking, I was on the protected side of the ground and still got rain coming through the gaps on me.

Did notice Reid attending a few stoppages, it might be worth throwing him a few CBAs and use his kicking because even when we won a centre clearance we were turning it straight over.

 

[malpaso]

Nah watch again - at least on the Fox mic feed he said mark mark mark 3 times - was the off balll ump though hence the delay. Not sure why on ball ump didn't call it if the call came through that clearly on the umps mic interfaces.

Ump closest said play on..

 

[Bigger]

Patrick Cripps

9

Patrick Cripps

Age

30

Ht

195cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

16.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

5.8

5star

CL

7.4

5star

D

21.0

5star

K

10.1

4star

HB

10.9

5star

M

2.5

3star

T

3.8

4star

CL

6.3

5star

D

12.6

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.4

4star

does love to try bully us. He sees a smaller bloke in the midfield and his gigantic babyhead almost glows with glee. As soon as Young came off, Paddy the Genuine Baddy saw Switowski and almost got a chubby.

I liked seeing O’Meara give him some back.

I would really like to see Vossy physically correct him. He shits me.

 

[CapitalA]

9 goals between our 3 KPF's. boy it's been a long time since we had this kind of KPF luxury

 

[Freofalcon]

Enjoy. My main target is the Eagles. I’ve been banned from the Eagles board though. I can only taunt them on the main AFL threads.

**** em

Who gives a shit what those Eagle nuffies think about us.

They have fallen into a big bowl of irrelevancy