Strange, given Kelli Underwood is from Adelaide & has been a Crows fan her whole life.
Review Good, Bad and Ugly vs Lions
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Over compensating like Roo often does?
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Sounds of silence?
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Pivoting a bit, but does anyone feel like boundary umpires are either all of a sudden half blind or there's been a directive to let borderline decisions go?
I didn't watch a ton of footy on the weekend, watched our game, and the last quarters of the Carl/Mel, Coll/WC and Ess/GWS games. Seemed like there were dozens of times across all those games where the ball clearly went out by a few cm (while in a player's possession) but play continued. Surely not all boundary umpires are just suddenly incompetent, as I hadn't noticed it much at all before this week.
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The margin at the end of each quarter: 3, 2, 1, 0.
Goodness, Stan the Statistician from Stradbroke Island is right now fumbling for his record books!!!
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Stan's a bit slow then. SirSwampThing has already confirmed it's the first time its happened.
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True, but Fog should have gone for the intercept (and did). If he was half a metre further forward or back it's either knocked forward and we get a goal, or the brisbane player marks it and play is held up. Not his fault our half forwards let Payne (?) run 30m forward, or that our defenders wouldn't be anywhere near their opponents.
Probably for being one of the best players on the ground. And if you don't think so, you weren't watching
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Technically it's probably there. But if they paid those regularly, Clayton Oliver would give away 10 frees a game and the Bulldogs wouldn't have won the flag in 2016.
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The problem is that the umps have been letting those go for years, especially against us it seems. So they choose that defining moment to actually apply the rules! Astounding.
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Soligo got done for one too.
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I don’t think we were dudded but umpiring was poor.
Holding the ball is farcical at the moment. Players with clear prior opportunity being allowed to drop the ball is a constant theme.
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Good
fighting from 3 goals down in the last quarter to salvage a draw.
Holding on for dear life in the last 50 seconds as Brisbane peppered us inside 50 when any score would have won it for them.
Bad.
The amount of times we over ran the ball and let it out the back of a contest resulting in brissy goals.
Ugly.
Worrel going down injured
fighting from 3 goals down in the last quarter to salvage a draw.
Holding on for dear life in the last 50 seconds as Brisbane peppered us inside 50 when any score would have won it for them.
Bad.
The amount of times we over ran the ball and let it out the back of a contest resulting in brissy goals.
Ugly.
Worrel going down injured
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Good: Dawson, Rank, Fog, Keays, Sholl
Mediocre: Soligo - Defensive Half Pressure was WAY down on last week
Bad: Overuse of handball, particularly out on the wing. Laird and Crouch. Cook, Butts, Keane, Nankervis, McHenry, Jones.
Ugly: Umpiring. The absolute melts on this board about the Curtin sub.
- We're clearly being told to lock the ball down at every opportunity, but the job is being left to half a dozen individuals, instead of us having a consistent spread across the ground. Of the bottom 20 players in the game for Pressure Acts yesterday, Crows had 13. Having players like Cook, Hinge, Jones applying less total pressure acts than Walker & Fogarty is criminal. As soon as the ball left the stoppages our pressure really fell away...
- What hurt us was that, unlike against Port, Brisbane were able to get out of the contest and put in good/decent forward entries (and more entries than us), although some of the umpiring around the contest that allowed Brisbane to get out was deplorable. Their experience and bigger bodies just out-muscled us and we got smashed in the contested marking numbers. Losing Worrell was a massive loss, as he's really the best contested option we have down back.
- We were atrocious going I50. For a team that's struggling with total I50's at the moment, we really need to make them count. So many times we didn't kick it to a F50 advantage, or had an option that was closer. Even Dawson was poor with this a few times. Sometimes we had players 10-15m away running WITH the player holding the ball, but we seem to have tunnel vision to want to kick it to a contest at the moment, just aren't opening up our field of vision or lowering our eyes.
- Curtin needed to be subbed, he was playing as a HB and had 23 metres gained and 5 possessions to half time. Just looked out of his depth, and was targeted several times by Brisbane. And those thinking he'll get some more minutes with Worrell being out are going to be sorely disappointed. Has played as a KPD in the SANFL and is only developing in that position even at SANFL level. Borlase will 100% come in for Worrell. Deal with it.
- Nank as a sub was an odd one. Has looked sublime on the wing this year but looked lost at times trying to work with Sholl off the HB. Too many times they both got confused with their positioning and the ball went out behind them to Brisbane's goal side and they were out.
- Crouch and Laird handballing to opposition players. Happened too many times for it not to have been a Brisbane strategic decision to suffocate the ball getting out, but very poor from those two.
- The ball drop, Brisbane frequently had players both goal side and defensively in better positions/anticipating where the ball drop would be at the marking contest.
- Go have a look over at the Brisbane board, for anyone melting here. There were elements to our game that were poor, but a lot of their supporters think that was probably Brisbanes best game of the season. They have depth, and their age profile means they have a lot of mature experience there to fill the void. We're also not without key players. Last years Grand Finalists are back into form, their run and carry was hard to stop at times.
Mediocre: Soligo - Defensive Half Pressure was WAY down on last week
Bad: Overuse of handball, particularly out on the wing. Laird and Crouch. Cook, Butts, Keane, Nankervis, McHenry, Jones.
Ugly: Umpiring. The absolute melts on this board about the Curtin sub.
- We're clearly being told to lock the ball down at every opportunity, but the job is being left to half a dozen individuals, instead of us having a consistent spread across the ground. Of the bottom 20 players in the game for Pressure Acts yesterday, Crows had 13. Having players like Cook, Hinge, Jones applying less total pressure acts than Walker & Fogarty is criminal. As soon as the ball left the stoppages our pressure really fell away...
- What hurt us was that, unlike against Port, Brisbane were able to get out of the contest and put in good/decent forward entries (and more entries than us), although some of the umpiring around the contest that allowed Brisbane to get out was deplorable. Their experience and bigger bodies just out-muscled us and we got smashed in the contested marking numbers. Losing Worrell was a massive loss, as he's really the best contested option we have down back.
- We were atrocious going I50. For a team that's struggling with total I50's at the moment, we really need to make them count. So many times we didn't kick it to a F50 advantage, or had an option that was closer. Even Dawson was poor with this a few times. Sometimes we had players 10-15m away running WITH the player holding the ball, but we seem to have tunnel vision to want to kick it to a contest at the moment, just aren't opening up our field of vision or lowering our eyes.
- Curtin needed to be subbed, he was playing as a HB and had 23 metres gained and 5 possessions to half time. Just looked out of his depth, and was targeted several times by Brisbane. And those thinking he'll get some more minutes with Worrell being out are going to be sorely disappointed. Has played as a KPD in the SANFL and is only developing in that position even at SANFL level. Borlase will 100% come in for Worrell. Deal with it.
- Nank as a sub was an odd one. Has looked sublime on the wing this year but looked lost at times trying to work with Sholl off the HB. Too many times they both got confused with their positioning and the ball went out behind them to Brisbane's goal side and they were out.
- Crouch and Laird handballing to opposition players. Happened too many times for it not to have been a Brisbane strategic decision to suffocate the ball getting out, but very poor from those two.
- The ball drop, Brisbane frequently had players both goal side and defensively in better positions/anticipating where the ball drop would be at the marking contest.
- Go have a look over at the Brisbane board, for anyone melting here. There were elements to our game that were poor, but a lot of their supporters think that was probably Brisbanes best game of the season. They have depth, and their age profile means they have a lot of mature experience there to fill the void. We're also not without key players. Last years Grand Finalists are back into form, their run and carry was hard to stop at times.
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Playing Curtin deep and accountable was dumb coaching, the sub was the reaction to his poor performance in that role
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Yeah nah. Despite playing HB he's still defensively accountable. I know everyone loves a shiny new thing on these boards, but he was out of his depth out there. Worrell doesn't get injured we maybe go on to win the game with a bit more contested defensive pressure, and the Curtin sub looks fine..
Pugsley
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Good coaches would have chatted to him at the break and tried something different. Our coaches are clueless.
It's pointless playing him as a KPD, he didnt even really stand out at SANFL level in this role.
In his 3rd SANFL game they moved him up to HBF, with a license to run forward and he dominated. Play him in that role and I think we'll see promise.
