Autopsy Gleeson goes the hack

[Finnishpie]

Just a bit of a long piece:

"In the midfield Jack Crisp was a revelation last year but terrible this year, Taylor Adams woefully out of form. Levi Greenwood has kicked balloons up in the air and hit the target by foot just 43 per cent of the time. Even recruit Adam Treloar, a good player in the first two games, is only kicking the ball at 46 percent.

They have too few elite ball users behind the ball. Ben Sinclair has been given ample time but remains a poor kick who would be playing at few other teams. Brayden Maynard is young and a good kick but is lost playing a zone. Ben Reid's return last week has helped restore some class and Scott Pendlebury is still needed there … and everywhere else."


Over at the Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-recovery-session-saints-loss-wounds-buckley-20160411-go3l8v.html

 

[TradeDraft]

Is he Captain Obvious?

 

[PicaBoo]

Just a bit of a long piece:

"In the midfield Jack Crisp was a revelation last year but terrible this year, Taylor Adams woefully out of form. Levi Greenwood has kicked balloons up in the air and hit the target by foot just 43 per cent of the time. Even recruit Adam Treloar, a good player in the first two games, is only kicking the ball at 46 percent.

They have too few elite ball users behind the ball. Ben Sinclair has been given ample time but remains a poor kick who would be playing at few other teams. Brayden Maynard is young and a good kick but is lost playing a zone. Ben Reid's return last week has helped restore some class and Scott Pendlebury is still needed there … and everywhere else."


Over at the Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-recovery-session-saints-loss-wounds-buckley-20160411-go3l8v.html

Perfect. Blowtorch. Nothing wrong with calling players out for the right reasons.

 

[BoxMatrix]

Didn't Crisp take a while to find form last year as well? I thought he's improving each game...

 

[TradeDraft]

Perfect. Blowtorch. Nothing wrong with calling players out for the right reasons.

and Give them a Kick up the Ass they Need. Wish the Coach will/has done it?

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Crisp looked to me to be trying his arse off. Maybe he was one of those who Bucks suggested was running hard but at the wrong time, but I will be holding fire currently.

 

[Kirby]

I take it that Gleeson is a Collingwood supporter?

 

[AmellyPies]

Crisp needs to lift. Bring that run and great field kicking back!

 

[hellfire]

Yeah I thought Crisp worked harder than most on Saturday... And was a level above where he`d been in the first two weeks.

But I love the scrutiny, it's what they need.

 

[Buckley is my hero]

Surprise. Surprise.
We get thrashed by Sydney and StKilda and scrap a one point victory against Richmond and the stats show that some players are out of form. And here I was thinking it was all due to bad umpiring.
Michael Gleeson would be well served by pointing out some things we don't know, rather than pointing out the bleeding obvious.

 

[Royal Flash]

Good article. Names name's and finally puts a bit a bit of heat on the coaching staff.

That loss was embarrassing and the most humiliating part as the article said was that the Saints kept a lid on celebrations because the opposition was so poor. If that doesn't hurt everyone from the President down then we are in more trouble than I thought.

Win or lose a non competitive, rudderless, inept and shameful display like that must never, ever be reproduced again this (or hopefully any other) year or heads should roll. If they don't we are no longer striving for greatness but accepting of mediocrity.

 

[makethat2]

We deserve this media pressure. We used to be a club that thrived on the pressure so hopefully this can begin the attitude of us against them.

 

[ottoman]

If they don't we are no longer striving for greatness but accepting of mediocrity.

The way things are at the moment I would be happy we we could achieve mediocrity. At least that would be an improvement.

 

[Scodog10]

Surprise. Surprise.
We get thrashed by Sydney and StKilda and scrap a one point victory against Richmond and the stats show that some players are out of form. And here I was thinking it was all due to bad umpiring.
Michael Gleeson would be well served by pointing out some things we don't know, rather than pointing out the bleeding obvious.

Seriously? we are bottom 4 in the following categories:

Marks I50
Marks conceded I50
uncontested possessions
disposals
disposal efficiency
clearances
centre clearances
running bounces
quarters won
hitouts
time in front
I50's and
I50's conceded.

That isn't "out of form" that's a complete system breakdown and things need to change quickley.

 

[Jonno94]

Nobody in our side but maybe Varcoe (who has not played) is playing their best footy. Its a coaching issue , thats all there is to it.

 

[bucksisbest]

I take it that Gleeson is a Collingwood supporter?

Yes he is

 

[TradeDraft]

Seriously? we are bottom 4 in the following categories:

Marks I50
Marks conceded I50
uncontested possessions
disposals
disposal efficiency
clearances
centre clearances
running bounces
quarters won
hitouts
time in front
I50's and
I50's conceded.

That isn't "out of form" that's a complete system breakdown and things need to change quickley.

I thought it meant we Sucked Big Time

 

[Kirby]

Yes he is

I thought so. It reads like one of us on BF wrote it.

 

[Scodog10]

Nobody in our side but maybe Varcoe (who has not played) is playing their best footy. Its a coaching issue , thats all there is to it.

In fairness Fasolo deserves some slack. I think given the limited number of one out opportunities he's had in 2016 he's got the best out of himself.

 

[TradeDraft]

In fairness Fasolo deserves some slack. I think given the limited number of one out opportunities he's had in 2016 he's got the best out of himself.

Fasolo was the Main Reason we beat Richmond

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Good article. Names name's and finally puts a bit a bit of heat on the coaching staff.

That loss was embarrassing and the most humiliating part as the article said was that the Saints kept a lid on celebrations because the opposition was so poor. If that doesn't hurt everyone from the President down then we are in more trouble than I thought.

Win or lose a non competitive, rudderless, inept and shameful display like that must never, ever be reproduced again this (or hopefully any other) year or heads should roll. If they don't we are no longer striving for greatness but accepting of mediocrity.

That is damming.

Doesn't matter whether Richo or the players said it. It doesn't matter if Richo used it as a tool to keep his players focused.

Not good.

 

[TradeDraft]

That is damming.

Doesn't matter whether Richo or the players said it. It doesn't matter if Richo used it as a tool to keep his players focused.

Not good.

and I said after the Game. They beat F**k All on Saturday Afternoon

 

[Scodog10]

Fasolo was the Main Reason we beat Richmond

Not for mine. Richmond was the only reason we beat Richmond even if Fasolo did have a career game. There's no club that implodes like the Tigers and their struggles are a double edged sword in this instance...

 

[BEEG]

I hope we get abosutley smashed in the media this week, those weak pricks deserve it.

 

[Axl the great]

Player x is kicking at 40% player y is down on metres gained player z is having an awful start, blah blah blah blah.
Fact is it is all futile rhetoric, when the team is playing well enough and all the mechanics and systems are in place and confidence is high, stats improve across the board.
Individual statistics and performance are a direct reflection of the teams performance,poor Individuals do not make a team look bad, a bad team makes individuals look bad.