Review Fremantle Shoot Down the Bombers by 41 Points

[anchor man]

In among all the doom and gloom , I will throw up a good news story.
How good a patch of form has Chappy found in the last few weeks.
Now showing what we have expected of him since his debut.
And for those complaing about Bolten, remember him when he was in the Yellow and black of Richmond!!! He was caught blind and cold as many times than as he is now.
It is the way he plays. It is exciting and unpredictable.

 

[Andy Brennan]

Struggled to put away the worst side we've played all year. Will need a massive improvement to win the next few. Our big names were the difference but boy are we carrying some ordinary players.

We won by 41 points?!?

 

[Andy Brennan]

Said it before and I’ll say it again. Dogga…

Watch serong's interview after the game

 

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Don't you just love the Victorians.

 

[Purple Suit]

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Don't you just love the Victorians.

How does a few whingers online get an article written about them. Like 30 minutes is going to make a huge difference for watching it on TV when it makes a massive difference trying to get to the game during rush hour on a work day with no event buses.

If they look around here, their next article can be "Fans still want Jlo sacked besides winning 5 in a row".

 

[PowerToThePurpl]

Anyone know if there’s anywhere to watch the roaming Brian segment? Not often we get a prime time win at home.

 

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I am with them. **** Thursday night football in Perth.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Is JOM as bad as Fyfe and Erasmus. I don't remember him being as bad.

Fyfe could not get out of 2nd gear, and Erasmus jogs going back.

I feel Erasmus and JOM would be ok, and I would prefer that over Erasmus and Banfield.

Possibly not, probably the least of them I have concerns on but the lack of speed is hard

 

[go_the_dockers]

Possibly not, probably the least of them I have concerns on but the lack of speed is hard

With out Darcy you probably get away with it, with Darcy you can definitely only play one.

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

Ill rewatch but im not sure i have the same concerns on the kick / mark from yesterday either. We moved the ball pretty quickly whenever the option was there but Essendon were very scared of another drubbing and had 1 or 2 behind the ball for a long part of the night. That makes it hard to quickly move the ball as your inherently outnumbered and kick / mark movement is required.

JL gave an answer that was basically along those lines. They conceded the chip-mark game (which they seem to do a lot of - comfortably the highest this season in marks against per game at 106.2). So we took what they gave us.

Hoyne did a segment on chaos vs control (defined as ground balls vs marks in a game), which basically boils down to "teams are playing more chaos this year, but the teams that do force a control game tend to win more". I don't think any team has shifted away from the "control" towards the "chaos" as much as we have when comparing last season to this season.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

JL gave an answer that was basically along those lines. They conceded the chip-mark game (which they seem to do a lot of - comfortably the highest this season in marks against per game at 106.2). So we took what they gave us.

Hoyne did a segment on chaos vs control (defined as ground balls vs marks in a game), which basically boils down to "teams are playing more chaos this year, but the teams that do force a control game tend to win more". I don't think any team has shifted away from the "control" towards the "chaos" as much as we have when comparing last season to this season.

Love the Hoyne segment, so so interesting, regardless of what you think of Champion data stats

 

[FreoDocker]

Anyone know if there’s anywhere to watch the roaming Brian segment? Not often we get a prime time win at home.

https://7plus.com.au/roaming-brian

 

[Nothing]

I thought Fyfe improved as the game went on. It appeared to me that in the 4th he went much harder until he was subbed.

 

[Righteo]

We won by 41 points?!?

Yeah I read the thread title too. Did you watch the game? Or am I meant to be wowed by a 41pt margin like it's still 2005?

We won against a younger, injury ravaged team because our midfield stars smoked a plodder midfield led by a debutant ruckman and our fwdline were matched up on a WAFL-tier backline. Our ball use was dreadful, especially into the fwd 50, and we allowed easy mark after easy mark in our D50. it was an agricultural performance that will be found wanting against better teams. It was an opportunity to add much needed % and we didn't take it.

 

[Paracleet]

Second week in a row we have been surprised by a team taking the totally unsurprising coach protecting tactic of parking the bus and trying to score on the break down the fatside.

The Dons had 22 inside 50s after 1/4 time and kicked 7.7! This suggests team cohesion is not there yet.

On the plus side we responded in a highly effective fashion to their centre bounce tactics. I think we were down 1-5 at one point and finished 18-8.

 

[E Shed]

The only really disappointing thing about this game is that after only kicking 3 points to 3QT we went on to miss 4 easy goals in a row in the last and allowed them some junk time goals.

We kick the ones at our end that would have broken their backs and we win by 10 goals plus.
We created the opportunity to bury it but wayward kicking let us down.

One the plus side the set shot kicking was exemplary till then. Treacy got the radar back. Jackson was incredible.
Jackson was actually reminding me a bit of Lobb in a good way at times. There were times when Lobb would take towering marks and then kick huge set shot bombs in a way that very few can. Dogga was absolutely burying his set shots from the arc.

Interestingly when I was watching the warm up Fyfe was taking regulation set shots from around 40m on various angles and just with a simple action easily putting them through. Poor guy is just broken in the head when the lights are on him.

The other notable thing I saw in the warmup was Sharp's last kick before they ran back to the change rooms. He let go a barrel from 60M and it went 10 rows back. I would love to see him pull that shiz off in a match.

 

[PowerToThePurpl]

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Legend

 

[kp junior]

Re Erasmus. Thought his disposal / decision making was not up to the standard he’s set this year. But in ball magnet terms, 21 and 7 clearances in 60% game time is elite. If we can get that and the cleaner disposals on a consistent basis we have quite the player.

 

[yakamoto]

Unfortunately I think it’s a forlorn hope that Fyfe could one day come back to being a best 23 player.
Easter has long since gone.

 

[CapitalA]

41 points of meh

57,278 posts of meh

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

JL is never dropping Fyfe so unless he steps down and retires or gets injured he will be in

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Last night there was a passage of play where someone was taking a shot from about 55m out on about a 45 degree angle. Amiss was on the fat side of the play about 25m out, and just bulldozed his opponent 20m backwards towards the point poist before shoving him into it.
Is this common? I don't go to many games and you don't see that stuff on TV.

I think it was third quarter, kicking to right of screen on TV.

 

[Lach72]

57,278 posts of meh

Gfy

 

[Freo Big Fella]

I see we've reached the point of the season where even six goal wins aren't enough for the permanent critics.

 

[Pusswah]

I tell you what the commentators on fox can go get ****ed.
They were shit all night and absolutely cucked themselves when Vossy kicked his beastmode goal.





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