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Autopsy North vs. Sydney - smashed in last quarter

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JGreezy said:
We're lacking in the middle. If you tag LDU then there's nobody who can beat you.

Powell is basic. Parker, Phillips, Simpkin are more of the same. Slow & undersized. Uninspiring.

Put McKercher and FOS in there. Rotate Curtis through. Get Duursma and Goater into defense. Get rid of Daniel. Get rid of Logue.

Having said that, this was a predictable result with Xerri and Larkey out.
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One player will not solve all problems but how ****ing much could we do with a switched on healthy Tarryn Thomas in there! He was never going to make it because of his off field problems but I’d say our midfield would be functioning a lot better as he would be entering his peak now 😡
 
nelroo said:
The reality is that we were/ are coming from so far back when Clarko and Viney have come in. The place was a shambles on nearly every front.

I do however refrain from giving this group an out because reality is where we are now is not good enough. There is still so much dead wood on the list.

Who is doing everything in their power to move the needle ? Who is genuinely sick and tired of losing ? Who genuinely wants to be the best they can be?

How can some of our players still lack basic skills , fitness and decision making across the board in comparison to other teams.

Sure we have made mistakes with some drafting and trading but so does every club.

I hope to god something clicks soon as we turn the corner for good but I dont have a lot of confidence of this happening any time soon.
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Might be coming back from an epic low but thats all the more reason to get things right.

Current practices are still poor keeping us entrenched on the bottom. The daniels trade illustrates our plight in a nutshell.
 
scottywiper said:
Clarko has said we just want to be in games longer. Not great. I think we should prioritise winning
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I'm resigned to being one of most negative nancies around, hand up. But... we've gone from a good quarter to almost 3 good/competitive quarters this year! (At least for a while)? How is that not epic in the scheme of things? We're beyond poo. It's probably gonna take a while. We'll hopefully be a force in 2027.

I just really can't believe you're a bit pissed at being 12 points down at 3/4 time in Sydney, with the youngest list in the AFL without Larkey, Xerri & Wardlaw.

Honestly dude, from where we've been, that's good.
 
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JGreezy said:
I think that FOS shows all of the potential to be that kind of player. He's also good in the air like Heeney.
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Actually great call JGreezy , definitely looks like a player without caveats attached to him for sure. We really need FOS to fulfil his potential.
 
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Was at the game yesterday, here are my observations.

Sydney never got out of second gear. They have no forward line but still managed to beat us by 6 goals. They were infinitely better drilled offensively. They always left the fat side opened and got marks inside 50 because the mids knew the plan.

Sydney flooded back well. We flooded back ok.

We are terrible at hand-off defense. Every hand-over resulted in an uncontested mark to Sydney. We don’t react quickly enough when called into cover. North needs to play some kindergarten “kitty in a corner” type games. As it is the call for cover is coming after players realise they have let their player go.

Our backline killed a lot of Sydney entries. Our mids didn’t defend.

Our forward 50 entries were poor and our forwards refused to lead until the last quarter when we had players lining up for shots at goal.

We did not compete in the air in the forward half. Didn’t even make a contest except Darling. Too many times we stood and let them fly uncontested.

Sheezels handpassing was atrocious.

Daniels kicking was poor but there were little options for him. When Wilphil found space, Daniel hit him.

Comben is a back.

Shotty got better as the game went. Shotty is also a back.

Should have swung Pink forward, at least he has some forward craft.

Teakle battled hard but Grundy won ruck-lotto. Grundy grabbed Teakle -no free. Teaks grabbed Grundy-free. Teaks was looking ok up forward, shame CCJ went down. Teaks was exhausted by the end and Sydney brought another big man in to stretch us.

Paul Curtis couldn’t win a trick, dropped marks and disallowed goals, almost kicked 3.Parker also seemed a little off. Another not-quite game.

CZ unsighted, disco couldn’t get into the game, Simpkin played the wing, he is not a wingman. Simpkin is better hf.

Tough game for Banch and Cooper, little supply and no-one really bringing the ball down.



FOS was good. Went for everything and pulled off most of what he tried.

McKercher made a few errors but was mostly positive.

LDU looked threatening when he got the ball.

Griff’s defensive game was serviceable.
 
Chip Scab1 said:
I'm resigned to being one of most negative nancies around, hand up. But... we've gone from a good quarter to almost 3 this year!? How is that not epic in the scheme of things? We're beyond poo. It's gonna take a while. We'll be force in 2027. I just feel it.

I can't believe you're pissed at being 12 points down at 3/4 time in Sydney, with the youngest list in the AFL without Larkey, Xerri & Wardlaw.

Honestly dude, from we've been, that's good.
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I completely agree with you but people are just beaten down with how shit we are and they can't see any hope because we're still shit. A heap less shit, sure but that doesn't mean anything really.

Scotty is upset that his kids don't have the same deep passion he has about North and they never saw what gave him that passion. Its something he probably wanted to share with them for his whole life that he can't. We disagree about probably everything about the way we are going now but where he's coming from is understandable.
 
It's just so discouraging. The improvement is there but it is so marginal. It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So many mistakes have been made in the last decade and our list still seems unbalanced and lacking in important areas. I feel very despondent. It's hard to fathom ever being a successful side again.
 
Newbie Real Talk said:
It's just so discouraging. The improvement is there but it is so marginal. It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So many mistakes have been made in the last decade and our list still seems unbalanced and lacking in important areas. I feel very despondent. It's hard to fathom ever being a successful side again.
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There is really no point in talking about improvement, because relative to those that occupy places 14 and up, there is none.
 

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10 Isaac Heeney SYD
8 Brodie Grundy SYD
6 Chad Warner SYD
3 Jy Simpkin NMFC
3 Nick Blakey SYD
 

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Chip Scab1 said:
I'm resigned to being one of most negative nancies around, hand up. But... we've gone from a good quarter to almost 3 this year!? How is that not epic in the scheme of things? We're beyond poo. It's gonna take a while. We'll be force in 2027. I just feel it.

I can't believe you're pissed at being 12 points down at 3/4 time in Sydney, with the youngest list in the AFL without Larkey, Xerri & Wardlaw.

Honestly dude, from we've been, that's good.
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The issue is we were not genuinely in the game. Sydney held us at arms reach and as others have said didn’t get out of second until they needed to.

They didn’t have a forward line at all but still demolished us.

We were never threatening in the slightest. That is the frustration. It’s the same old shizen and shortcomings for the last 7 years.
 
Firebat said:
The issue is we were not genuinely in the game. Sydney held us at arms reach and as others have said didn’t get out of second until they needed to.

They didn’t have a forward line at all but still demolished us.

We were never threatening in the slightest. That is the frustration. It’s the same old shizen and shortcomings for the last 7 years.
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Remind me again, and not arguing, but when in the last 7 years have we been 12 points behind at 3/4 time interstate without Larkey, Xerri and later Wardlaw?

I want to stay negative, I do, but **** it we're improving rapidly. That performance was not possible as recently as last year.
 

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Chip Scab1 said:
Remind me again, and not arguing, but when in the last 7 years have we been 12 points behind at 3/4 time interstate without Larkey, Xerri and later Wardlaw?

I want to stay negative, I do, but **** it we're improving rapidly. That performance was not possible as recently as last year.
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I don’t know mate, it’s not a fun exercise checking our recent historical performances.

The being within 12 points means so little to me because we just weren’t in the game. There is no moment in the second or third terms where I thought ‘oh yeah we can do this’.
 
Firebat said:
I don’t know mate, it’s not a fun exercise checking our recent historical performances.

The being within 12 points means so little to me because we just weren’t in the game. There is no moment in the second or third terms where I thought ‘oh yeah we can do this’.
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It’s the old might have

Might have had the 3 missing turned it into a contest?
 

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