He's the worst. It's beyond me how he is in the position he is. There are many more commentators out there which are far better than he is. He gets names wrong constantly. He calls things late or just says weird things like what you just mentioned. He's just bad.
Review Good/Bad v Essendon, Round 4
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Thats the way Essendon wanted to play always hitting the short kick. Didnt really work for them. A heap of posession going nowhere.
That's what happened last year...
Good:
A 65 point win against opposition that wasnt horrible, just made errors which we pounced on. We are a vicious and deadly side when on the turnover, especially in the centre of the ground. Run and options galore.
Milera and Knight had pretty good games. Not dominant but made meaningful contributions @ 90%DE
Laird had 10 Contested Posessions, not bad for a half back
Essendon providing a contest after half time, a nice little slap in the face for our club. Some of their field kicking was wonderful, credit to them.
Bad
The third quarter. It was a bit frustrating but we just kinda went to sleep for a quarter
The injury to Kelly, he was starting to look good. Fierce competitor and his disposal was getting better.
Charlie Cameron not just continuing into goal!
Some people on here seem to think every single player on our list should have 35 touches at 100% DE with 12 tackles and 3 goals. If not, they should be written off as spuds who should be dropped to the SANFL forever. As long as McKay, Knight, Milera and Hampton have their 15-20 with a few tackles and clearances we will go a long way this year.
A 65 point win against opposition that wasnt horrible, just made errors which we pounced on. We are a vicious and deadly side when on the turnover, especially in the centre of the ground. Run and options galore.
Milera and Knight had pretty good games. Not dominant but made meaningful contributions @ 90%DE
Laird had 10 Contested Posessions, not bad for a half back
Essendon providing a contest after half time, a nice little slap in the face for our club. Some of their field kicking was wonderful, credit to them.
Bad
The third quarter. It was a bit frustrating but we just kinda went to sleep for a quarter
The injury to Kelly, he was starting to look good. Fierce competitor and his disposal was getting better.
Charlie Cameron not just continuing into goal!
Some people on here seem to think every single player on our list should have 35 touches at 100% DE with 12 tackles and 3 goals. If not, they should be written off as spuds who should be dropped to the SANFL forever. As long as McKay, Knight, Milera and Hampton have their 15-20 with a few tackles and clearances we will go a long way this year.
Im not sure what is worse. Basils calling on the replay I watched or Tyson "I hate the Crows" Edwards on MMM giving his special comments. He even mentioned his mate Lleyton Hewitt... ugh.
I think you might be reading a bit too much into what happened in the 3rd quarter.
What happened is that Essendon were able to lock it into their forward half, and we were largely unable to clear it. We weren't getting murdered in the clearances, because there weren't many stoppages - Essendon weren't kicking goals, just lots of behinds. Adelaide's defence stood up magnificently, resulting in Essendon having poor quality F50 entries, which is why they were only scoring behinds.
There is an issue, in that we were unable to clear the ball adequately from our defensive area. Even then, there are mitigating circumstances.
The first of these is that Adelaide was up by 50 points and had suffered an injury to CC. As a result, the players collectively took their foot off the pedal. The game was won and there was no desire to do more than the minimum, in order to avoid injuries. What we saw in this quarter is that Adelaide at 85% is only marginally worse than Essendon at 100%.
The second factor is related. Pyke decided to take the opportunity to experiment with our midfield setup. We saw ruck contests being contested without Sloane & Crouch being anywhere near - instead, Mackay and Hampton were given more midfield minutes. We lost because we had our C-unit in the guts, not the A or B units.
Is the 3rd quarter a cause for concern? Yes... but it's not as bad as you're making it out to be.
FWIW, I agree with you about the April premiership not being worth a pinch of shite. Look at what happened last year. We had a great run against the top teams early in the season, only to collapse against them in September. We've started 2017 in a blaze of glory too - it remains to be seen whether we can sustain it through September this year. We failed to do so in 2016.
We got better last year. Our start to the season wasnt that great and it took time for us to find our form
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If you aren't getting enjoyment out of where we are right now, you should just walk away. Seriously.
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Interesting regarding Hampton, but on crouch I can remember 4-5 occasions where he got the pill after the centre bounce and farmed it wider to our wingman or the player off the back of the square who runs through. May not be credited with a clearance but is just about as effective as one. His hands in tight are A1.
Either you weren't watching last year, or you're just indulging in some fairly major revisionism.
Adelaide lost in R1 to North - who were determined to stage an ambush, having lost in R1 for something like 8 years in a row. After that, Adelaide were red hot until we hit the Dogs & Cats in R7 & R8.
We lost to north.
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10/ Trigg (something or other)
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And is 12.No, he would have had a banner!
Ps. I would be going for a poster who gets so worked up, that their head will nearly explode.
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Yep, trying to emulate Hawthorns kick/catch movement of the last few years. Problem is, Hawks used to use it to move the ball in an attacking effort (end to end), whereas Bombers are doing it from flank to flank. Best in uncontested marks I think the Bombers are, but it's a useless stat really when it doesn't do anything to propel you forward.
Demolished Port, beat Sydney & GWS, led for most of the game against Hawthorn, and beat West Coast on their home deck - that was the high point of our season, coming in R12.
North was an ambush. They hadn't won a R1 game in donkey's years, and were determined to do everything to change that. Even so, we had our chances to beat them - but kicked ourselves out of the game, not helped by playing a horribly underdone Brad Crouch.
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Did you actually watch the game? Talia kept Hooker, pretty handy opposition, to 8 possessions and zero scores. Did what he does and did it brilliantly. Keep up mate.
Talia was awesome once again
Everyone was getting stuck into him for his s**t PS
He's a champion. He knows what he needs to do to prepare himself to smash every forward that crosses his path. He doesn't need to crush PS
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Are not!We're all 12 on here. Sometimes.
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Pretty well deserved I think, not a bad effort in a flogging
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-04-18/dons-first-no1-pick-gets-rising-star-nod
Dons' first No.1 pick gets Rising Star nod
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-04-18/dons-first-no1-pick-gets-rising-star-nod
Dons' first No.1 pick gets Rising Star nod
That's two defenders in 4 weeks who've been nominated for the Rising Star the week that they saw plenty of ball coming into our forward lines.
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Lulz:
Bombers fans will be deeply concerned by this performance. I thought I was watching Crows’ highlights instead of a live game.
Time and again the Adelaide midfield swept forward with little opposition and found either Tex Walker or Eddie Betts in so much space that it would sometimes take several minutes for an Essendon player to appear on camera.
They’re good Adelaide. They’re like Richmond, if Richmond had played good teams
https://www.titusoreily.com/afl/monday-knee-jerk-reaction-afl-round-four-2#sthash.pQ3zVP5c.dpuf
Bombers fans will be deeply concerned by this performance. I thought I was watching Crows’ highlights instead of a live game.
Time and again the Adelaide midfield swept forward with little opposition and found either Tex Walker or Eddie Betts in so much space that it would sometimes take several minutes for an Essendon player to appear on camera.
They’re good Adelaide. They’re like Richmond, if Richmond had played good teams
https://www.titusoreily.com/afl/monday-knee-jerk-reaction-afl-round-four-2#sthash.pQ3zVP5c.dpuf
That makes 3 RS nominations in a row which have come from Adelaide's opponents.
R2 - Burton (Hawthorn)
R3 - SPP (Port)
R4 - McGrath (Essendon)
On the positive side.. all 3 of those nominations have been for players on the losing side!
Agree that Crouch is terrific by hand, but as the person who sat down and went through every stoppage on the replay, he didn't do it that often on Saturday night. That was for three reasons - firstly, Sauce didn't get as many clear tap wins as my memory suggested he had - he was beaten on the night (on that metric) by Leuenberger - so there weren't many real clean extractions by our boys. Secondly, Crouch spent a lot of effort working on his defensive duties at the centre square bounces, rather than ball chasing. Thirdly, Essendon put a lot of defensive work into Crouch at the centre bounce, possibly even more than they did to Sloane, which is a sign of respect.
If he had the handball release to the wing or a half back, I would have credited him with the clearance - as I did for example to Rory Sloane at the second bounce on the night, when it was Sloane's handball to Crouch that was the true clearance.
It was actually a really interesting exercise to break down the tape a little bit. It certainly came up with different results than my memories of the match!
