Autopsy Freo overrun Essendon

[Righteo]

3 tall forwards who can kick multiple goals

I must be dreaming

 

[Sully90]

Same for me. Was solid with flashes of good at the Hawks, but he has been really impressive with us. Close to our best today...

Has definitely relished being the go-to outside player for us.

 

[Outshined]

I miss Brad Hill.

37 disposals (career high)
16 marks (career high)
6 inside 50s
1 goal

Has had to take more responsibility in a poorer side...very happy he's rising to the challenge.

 

[Taylor]

It worked really well forcing the tall match ups to mix around for Essendon defense, so many times one of our talls was matched up on the shorter Dea and dacked him.

 

[electricfeel]

Started off really flat and not enough intensity.

Thankfully the whole team lifted in the second half and the Bombers well and truly ran out of steam.

Neale, Hill, Walters, Blakely and Fyfe all massive

We actually had a forward line!!!!
Tabs!!!!!!!
Kersten!!!!
Cam!!

 

[silverscope]

Can you believe that Brad Hill only cost us Chris Mayne.... Let that sink in.



Great games all round by a lot of our younger players and look normally I'm one to bash umpires when it goes against us but tonight again they were ****ing woeful and it went out way. That advantage call ?? like wtf I'd be throwing shit at the TV if it happened to us

 

[Schauermann]

I refuse to believe that was Matt bloody Taberner out there clunking 7 contested marks. Huge game.

I think he was among the top in the comp at some stage last season.

 

[freo84]

All bow down to my buddy the man of the moment "OOHHH AHHH TABERNER". Fremantle's most bestest dangerous weapon.

Tremble mortals.

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[Taylor]

Thankfully we spanked the Dons because we really did get a massive leg up with some of those momentum goals, a close match would be way too contentious

 

[theGav56]

Balic is on the verge of a massive break out of leather it's only a matter of time before he regularly finds the ball and cements his spot for the season. tucker was quiet today to waft or another go at it?

Tucker 17 disposals and 6 marks to Balic 10 and 2.

 

[imperial_oz]

I think he was among the top in the comp at some stage last season.

He was Freo's leading contested mark last season. Beat Pav by a fair few.

The stories about him being a bad mark have never been correct

 

[Schauermann]

Btw Taberner looked good as back up ruck as well. And we won't have to change our backline setup when Sandi has well spell either...

 

[meima]

Btw Taberner looked good as back up ruck as well. And we won't have to change our backline setup when Sandi has well spell either...

I think playing him in wafl really improve his overall game this season.

 

[ydraw]

He was Freo's leading contested mark last season. Beat Pav by a fair few.

The stories about him being a bad mark have never been correct

People tend to remember the sitters he's dropped rather than all the good ones he's taken. Took 6 marks inside 50 today. That's huge.

 

[theGav56]

Btw Taberner looked good as back up ruck as well. And we won't have to change our backline setup when Sandi has well spell either...

Don't really agree. When the second rucks go head to head it is a bit like when the clowns come on at the circus. But he did contribute and I am sure he will improve.

 

[Arcassius]

Something I noticed at the game - for the first 3 quarters or so, heppell was starting often at the back of the square then running hard into the centre to give them a +1 and they more often than not beat us at the clearance. Our guys off the opposing side of the square stayed defensive and got stuck in no man's land a lot. In the 4th essendon stopped this, and blakely was floating between merrett and heppell for bits of the game (walters was on heppell off their HB). Definitely think the heat took essendon out late, but some of the tactical shifts came our way too. Our tackles were static on 39 or so for the whole of the 4th. It was free flowing and low pressure. For the first half we were second to the ball and not tackling - holding off the player to claim space instead of shutting them down. A few times with their fumbled marks we could have cleaned them up if we had people closer to the contest rather than hanging off. Not enough intent to hunt the ball for mine. The win masks how poor we actually were in that game

 

[Danny82]

I think playing him in wafl really improve his overall game this season.

Has definitely helped his ruck work.

 

[armpit]

Listening to malthouse squirm. Lols.

 

[Taylor]

The win masks how poor we actually were in that game

That can be said of all our wins so far this season, we have switched on for less than a half and piled on the scoring.

It would be nice to slowly turn that up into a full four quarter performance at the end of the season.

I don't know if we have the legs for it yet, so we arm wrestle for a half and then burst and try and hold out.

 

[Okinakashi]

Matty Tabs - We applaud what you have overcome!

 

[Freo Quokkas]

Who kicked the last two goals of the match for Fremantle?

 

[ydraw]

Something I noticed at the game - for the first 3 quarters or so, heppell was starting often at the back of the square then running hard into the centre to give them a +1 and they more often than not beat us at the clearance. Our guys off the opposing side of the square stayed defensive and got stuck in no man's land a lot. In the 4th essendon stopped this, and blakely was floating between merrett and heppell for bits of the game (walters was on heppell off their HB). Definitely think the heat took essendon out late, but some of the tactical shifts came our way too. Our tackles were static on 39 or so for the whole of the 4th. It was free flowing and low pressure. For the first half we were second to the ball and not tackling - holding off the player to claim space instead of shutting them down. A few times with their fumbled marks we could have cleaned them up if we had people closer to the contest rather than hanging off. Not enough intent to hunt the ball for mine. The win masks how poor we actually were in that game

 

[Taylor]

Who kicked the last two goals of the match for Fremantle?

Was it Balic and Fyfe?

 

[electricfeel]

Was it Balic and Fyfe?

Balic and Gray

 

[Sweetback]

FYI I have no idea who took seven contested marks in 1999.