mike91's Weekly Review: Suns v Dockers

[Outshined]

Don't agree with it being a "disgraceful and undeserving win". An argument can be made that the Suns were the better team for a larger part of the match (in terms of disposal, ball movement, stoppage work etc) but we found a way to score, stay in the match and ultimately win while playing below our best.

4-2 is the only thing that counts.

 

[tacopavlich]

Agreed.

We won against a good team. Face it, on the day, they played their best game yet. They kept the pressure on for 4 quarters, never wavered and their accuracy - OMG! 14 goals 3 behinds. They can take away a lot of pride about their game yesterday, they would have given most teams a run for their money (particularly if they didn't get cursed by injury on the day). Give them some experience and in 2 years they might have the best midfield in the competition.


As for us. We struggled on a soggy ground, they are a bit more used to it.

Really, what hit us hard was 1. Fyfe out. 2. Hill corked in q1. Then our other senior midfielders in Mundy and Barlow are still underdone. People look at the symptoms on the ends of the ground and whinge about our forwards and Dawson up the other end, but it's our midfield that is the cause - and has been for all the games so far this year.

Until Mundy and Barlow are firing and Morabito is up and running in the midfield, all our games are going to be scrappy. Expect a long scrappy year people. We need Goddard or any other elite midfielder more than we need a forward.

Not that I'm agreeing with those claiming we didn't deserve to win, but listing our outs and injury concerns is a bit moot when compared to theirs.

 

[Boppo]

Duffield's worst game for the season. Concedes in the marking contest way to easily.

I thought de boer was good for the most part. Still makes some shocking mistakes. The dropped mark that lead to hunts goal should have cost us 4 pts. Mistakes like this need to be eliminated to take his game us a level.

Maynes constant effort running at the ball carrier was amazing tonight. Ross would love that.

Neill looks the goods. Backs himself. Will be a gun.

Griffin not much chop. Definatly a reserve ruckman.

Griff has been great, wins plenty of taps to the feet of our own mids. Takes markes around the ground and if he doesn't win a marking comp, neither do his opponents.

 

[mike91]

Agreed.

We won against a good team. Face it, on the day, they played their best game yet. They kept the pressure on for 4 quarters, never wavered and their accuracy - OMG! 14 goals 3 behinds. They can take away a lot of pride about their game yesterday, they would have given most teams a run for their money (particularly if they didn't get cursed by injury on the day). Give them some experience and in 2 years they might have the best midfield in the competition.


As for us. We struggled on a soggy ground, they are a bit more used to it.

Really, what hit us hard was 1. Fyfe out. 2. Hill corked in q1. Then our other senior midfielders in Mundy and Barlow are still underdone. People look at the symptoms on the ends of the ground and whinge about our forwards and Dawson up the other end, but it's our midfield that is the cause - and has been for all the games so far this year.

Until Mundy and Barlow are firing and Morabito is up and running in the midfield, all our games are going to be scrappy. Expect a long scrappy year people. We need Goddard or any other elite midfielder more than we need a forward.

I agree with the bolded writing, but using the ground and injury as an excuse is beyond unacceptable. No one can seriously use injuries as an excuse.

 

[Sman-21]

We made them look good.

Noone in the team cared until game was there to be won in the final quarter and the idiots realised they needed to put in an effort.

We were soft, lazy, unaccountable and crap.

At stoppages the number of times i saw our players half heartedly go for ball and stop instead of going in hard and possibly taking a knock was discgraceful.
Suns players were goin in harder most the game and winning the ball.
They were also working harder to get more numbers at the contests then spread better.

Wasnt until the 4th qtr we finally started going in harder.

We were pathetic sure the suns played well, only because our piss poor effort from players allowed them to play well.

They are a young side, you beat them by going in hard and applying pressure to them.
There bodies and minds struggle with the hardness and also cant cope with pressure properly yet.
We didnt do that and thats why they were able to nearly win and show off their skills.

We were pathetic
Piss poor attitude thinking they could show up, and win without much effort.

Midfield was the cause this game because they were soft, lazy and showed no respect.

 

[estibador]

Piss poor attitude thinking they could show up, and win without much effort.

Well they were right

 

[Sman-21]

From interviews i think Lyon wasnt happy with attitude/effort.
I expect plenty of lectures during game review for players.

Also think they will come out fired up against Port.
If its fine Freo to be up by 20+ at qtr time, go put money on it.

 

[Wharf]

Mundy was in 2009 form yesterday which was worrying, Barlow didn't perform well either.
4-2 sets us up nicely and heres hoping for a 4 quarter effort next week

 

[go_the_dockers]

No one has mentioned at 6+ hrs of travel time. Can we just put the effort down to some of our players being a bit flat after the trip and we did well to get the win.

It is a disgrace that the afl can not Organise a direct flight to the Gold Coast!!!!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sp...emium-duff-who-shone-who-bombed-in-round-six/

Fremantle v Gold Coast: Don’t know if this game was a labour of love for the Dockers but it was certainly hard labour. Flown for five hours to Brisbane then bussed for 80 minutes down to the Gold Coast – a point Ross Lyon made after the game – the Dockers managed to creep away with four premiership points in a game Karmichael Hunt and Harley Bennell threatened to take away from them. Grunt forwards Matt de Boer and Chris Mayne emerged as Fremantle’s heroes with three goals each, while skipper Matthew Pavlich lifted after a poor first half to blunt the stoppage influence of Hunt. The Dockers lost Stephen Hill to a cork but the Suns can count themselves unlucky, losing Nathan Bock for the season to a broken leg and having David Swallow (ankle) and Jared Brennan (knee) affected by injury. The Dockers were badly beaten by a young team at stoppages and they have work to do.

 

[masai]

Pav was pretty solid on Saturday.

Still think Lyon needs to attach a 60 metre chain to Pav and the centre of the goal posts, that is Pav's territory.

 

[strobe00]

Until Mundy and Barlow are firing and Morabito is up and running in the midfield, all our games are going to be scrappy. Expect a long scrappy year people. We need Goddard or any other elite midfielder more than we need a forward.

Completely and utterly disagree with the bolded.

Agreed with pretty much the rest of the post though.