A team like us cannot afford to have our best two midfielders out and compete against full strength midfields. To see spuds like Aish and Taberner play well was galling. Frampton is atrocious.
Review GBU Round 5 vs Fremantle
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Sarcasm detector.
Crouch doesn't add anything to our midfield.
He's been a mainstay over years of crapness.
Even then he is still a low value investment at pick 23.
It's the engine. That's where you put the good parts.
Bad: injuries starting to catch up with us
Tex obviously hobbled
McAdam with no real impact on the game
Sloane and Mrouch out, meaning we are forced to play an undermanned midfield
Tough pill to swallow, to say the least
Tex obviously hobbled
McAdam with no real impact on the game
Sloane and Mrouch out, meaning we are forced to play an undermanned midfield
Tough pill to swallow, to say the least
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To be fair, his first quarter was ok, but after that total
.I'm at a loss to say how much I wanna see him dropped.
However, what mysterious element he possesses that has Nicks enamoured of him will no doubt have been shown today (to Nicks --- I can't see it, myself) and he'll be retained, especially if Tex is injured.
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Jake Kelly is a serious enigma
Had a stinker last week, busts his ass to prove his fitness, comes out and plays reasonably well then totally invisible in the last under a siege of entries.
What do you even do with a guy that routinely does that?
Had a stinker last week, busts his ass to prove his fitness, comes out and plays reasonably well then totally invisible in the last under a siege of entries.
What do you even do with a guy that routinely does that?
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Good:
Some players have shown they are going to turn up and "chase arse" (Nicks quote) each week. That's you, Ned. That's you, Ben.
Sholl, Seeds, Berry all reliable. Laird accumulating well.
Tex early was good, though missing early shots cost us a nice early buffer. Can't blame him carrying a calf thereafter.
There is still plenty to like about this side and we got beaten today by a 5 minute purple patch.
Bad:
Fumbly. Oh so fumbly in the way Fyfe and Mundy simply weren't.
Still some low IQ plays out there but that's to be expected.
Forward entries were horrendous
Why did we wait until 0:01 to unlock the finishing power of Fog, marking on a lead?
Ugly:
Frampton can't be seriously selected next week.
This whole win poor = unchanged policy cannot be a feature of the side going forward. Winning ugly versus the wooden spooners is not that inspiring.
Gassed. We were absolutely gassed at the end there. Wouldn't have thought using the squad would be such a bad idea. Should be a wake up call. This is the kind of game where someone out of the side could have staked a claim. Don't wait to face the Bulldogs in Ballarat to throw some kid to the wolves.
Some players have shown they are going to turn up and "chase arse" (Nicks quote) each week. That's you, Ned. That's you, Ben.
Sholl, Seeds, Berry all reliable. Laird accumulating well.
Tex early was good, though missing early shots cost us a nice early buffer. Can't blame him carrying a calf thereafter.
There is still plenty to like about this side and we got beaten today by a 5 minute purple patch.
Bad:
Fumbly. Oh so fumbly in the way Fyfe and Mundy simply weren't.
Still some low IQ plays out there but that's to be expected.
Forward entries were horrendous
Why did we wait until 0:01 to unlock the finishing power of Fog, marking on a lead?
Ugly:
Frampton can't be seriously selected next week.
This whole win poor = unchanged policy cannot be a feature of the side going forward. Winning ugly versus the wooden spooners is not that inspiring.
Gassed. We were absolutely gassed at the end there. Wouldn't have thought using the squad would be such a bad idea. Should be a wake up call. This is the kind of game where someone out of the side could have staked a claim. Don't wait to face the Bulldogs in Ballarat to throw some kid to the wolves.
He was also a key factor to us getting into the GF in 2017.
Good -
Seed
Doedee
Butts
Bad -
Second half fade outs
McPherson
Lynch
Ugly -
McAdam
Frampton
Its time for Berg and Worrell
Seed
Doedee
Butts
Bad -
Second half fade outs
McPherson
Lynch
Ugly -
McAdam
Frampton
Its time for Berg and Worrell
90% of Your’s would be competitive
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Not sure returning to the tactic of bombing it on top of the tallest defender's head has a lot of legs tbh.
Could pretty much see this coming. We were riding a wave which had to come down at some point. Could almost lock it in against Freo or Melbourne. Two teams that, no matter how they're travelling, always manage to suck us into their shitty game style and beat us.
Fyfe got away with everything. Throws, drops, you name it. Mundy on the other hand looked like a star, everything he touched turned to gold.
Could pretty much see this coming. We were riding a wave which had to come down at some point. Could almost lock it in against Freo or Melbourne. Two teams that, no matter how they're travelling, always manage to suck us into their shitty game style and beat us.
Fyfe got away with everything. Throws, drops, you name it. Mundy on the other hand looked like a star, everything he touched turned to gold.
Got sick of watching Freo set up with two or three spares forward of the ball at stoppages. Killed us. Back to bombing it long onto the forward line.
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It's almost ideal. A Geelong win and a competitive match against Sydney to keep morale up. Now some close losses to ensure a decent draft pick.
I want to see Frampton out, and TT in. I don't care that he isn't tearing the SANFL apart. Get him in.
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Drop him and never play him again.
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This, SO this on both counts.
Relevance?
Yeah...running at 55% efficiency prior to this week, then back to 36% today. Similar F50's to Freo who were much cleaner.
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To be honest..
hard to be too dissapointed by that.. the effort was there and we fought it out till the end.. massive improvement on last year and we are chock full of young and inexperienced players.
we simply got monstered in the middle all day and we all knew that was gonna happen when we put our inexperience and youth up against Mundy, fyfe and co.
sloane (“2021 sloane”) in and we probably wouldve won..
So.. lost it in the centre.. and when we actually won the ball in the centre our delivery to our forwards was terrible mainly due to it being rushed and under pressure.
gotta be happy about our defense though.. Butts just gets better and better, Doedee is in AA form and the rest back there stood up well.
if your melting over that loss from our young rebuilding side your a whinger.
hard to be too dissapointed by that.. the effort was there and we fought it out till the end.. massive improvement on last year and we are chock full of young and inexperienced players.
we simply got monstered in the middle all day and we all knew that was gonna happen when we put our inexperience and youth up against Mundy, fyfe and co.
sloane (“2021 sloane”) in and we probably wouldve won..
So.. lost it in the centre.. and when we actually won the ball in the centre our delivery to our forwards was terrible mainly due to it being rushed and under pressure.
gotta be happy about our defense though.. Butts just gets better and better, Doedee is in AA form and the rest back there stood up well.
if your melting over that loss from our young rebuilding side your a whinger.
