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Absolute joke the way some carry on.
What are you actually saying though? You’re always on hand to ridicule the people criticising the team, but this looks extremely silly after performances like last night’s. Do you think the team is above criticism or something? Should we never express displeasure regardless of how badly they play or how mediocre the list might be? Constant positivity no matter the situation? That sounds so boring and would kill the board imo.
 
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2024

Top 6 defence, Top offence

2025 (when we have had our best team available or most part last 6-7 games)

Top 6 defence, 9th best offence


Thanks for proving my point that it is the offence that needs work because we don't have a deadly accurate reliable finisher and not enough goal scoring
Mate, We were not a top 6 defence in 2024 (7th). We've consistently been a top 6 attack, and not consistently been a top 6 defence.

I'm not sure what point you think I proved, if anything you proved your own point wrong with that selective sample size. Essentially you're saying in the last 6-7 games we've been winning because our defence was good regardless of our mediocre scoring. 6-7 games good games does not make that a top 6 defence, when years of data prove from the same defence otherwise.
All the top 7 sides right now have high quality KD's.....only 3 of them have high quality KF's.

Add Jesse Hogan into our side it makes a small splash, in fact probably encourages more useless bombs to an outnumbered player. No doubt we're slightly better but it doesn't fix the biggest issues.
Add Sam Taylor into the side instead and it improves us insanely.

I think you miss my point, fine for us to improve our attack, but IF we are not prioritising fixing our defence first... Next year will be another year where there's these continual collapses keep happening from time to time....and there will be no chance for a flag. Defence wins flags.
Anyway we disagree, that's fine.
 
What are you actually saying though? You’re always on hand to ridicule the people criticising the team, but this looks extremely silly after performances like last night’s. Do you think the team is above criticism or something? Should we never express displeasure regardless of how bad they play or how mediocre the list might be? Constant positivity no matter the situation? That sounds so boring and would kill the board imo.

What difference does it make anyway? Why is there a loyalty test ?

There’s no shame venting on this website - we aren’t posting on their personal Instagram demanding they be sacked.

I don’t think there’s any doubt they’re trying their best and I’m sure they’re as disappointed as we are. I’d be amazed if some of the coaches aren’t more direct than this - I know for example just how harsh sam Mitchell has been to some of his players and the fact that a few are on here expressing frustration is hardly a basis for criticism
 
Mate, We were not a top 6 defence in 2024 (7th). We've consistently been a top 6 attack, and not consistently been a top 6 defence.

I'm not sure what point you think I proved, if anything you proved your own point wrong with that selective sample size. Essentially you're saying in the last 6-7 games we've been winning because our defence was good regardless of our mediocre scoring. 6-7 games good games does not make that a top 6 defence, when years of data prove from the same defence otherwise.
All the top 7 sides right now have high quality KD's.....only 3 of them have high quality KF's.

Add Jesse Hogan into our side it makes a small splash, in fact probably encourages more useless bombs to an outnumbered player. No doubt we're slightly better but it doesn't fix the biggest issues.
Add Sam Taylor into the side instead and it improves us insanely.

I think you miss my point, fine for us to improve our attack, but IF we are not prioritising fixing our defence first... Next year will be another year where there's these continual collapses keep happening from time to time....and there will be no chance for a flag. Defence wins flags.
Anyway we disagree, that's fine.
Statistically we were top 6. Given that all the statistics I used across them both included finals. If I wasn't to include Finals then the statistics would further prove my point that our Offence has turned to crap this year.

My different data has clearly shown over multiple time horizons that the struggle and difference between 2024 and 2025 has been offensively
 

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Was probably a good day to be working late it seems...

Plenty to like in the first half our hunt around the ball and overlapping in numbers was impressive probably a few goals short.

2nd half uhh as you would expect a top 8 opponent they would play better but where was the response from us?? where did the first half go we showed we are capable of fighting back against the Dogs.

But sadly all the good work we did in the first half was again all for nothing
 
Statistically we were top 6. I'd suggest looking at the statistics before commenting on said statistics

My different data has clearly shown over multiple time horizons that the struggle and difference between 2024 and 2025 has been offensively
At the risk of derailing this thread - have a look at our stats from 2024 round 14 onwards
 
This group is displaying all the signs of PTSD and needs to be treated accordingly. When GWS turned on the pressure and spread it hit them like Brisbane and Geelong and their brains and bodies shut down. Not all and not totally but enough to turn it into a rout.
I don't know what the solution is but I'm pretty sure the usual tricks are not going to work.
Ollie is a case in point. Dropping him has achieved nothing. He is still rattled. Lloyd went back to propping, Gulden sprayed them, Warner tried to do too much, Blakey got flakey. Mills and Rampe got overrun. Rowbottom checked out.
What are the "seconds" supposed to do when the leaders are losing it?
Cox is on a hiding to nothing.
It's why Longmire bailed.

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Statistically we were top 6. Given that all the statistics I used across them both included finals. If I wasn't to include Finals then the statistics would further prove my point that our Offence has turned to crap this year.

My different data has clearly shown over multiple time horizons that the struggle and difference between 2024 and 2025 has been offensively

7th for points against in 2024. The other data is kind of irrelevant to me when that is the final result. Either way we were the best defence at 13-1, shows how badly we fell off to fall that far on any metric anyway.

Our offense had been out injured all year, our defence has had issues but been less affected and has still been average. We have more scope to improve our offense with what's already on the list than we do to improve our defence with what's already on our list. That's all our say, both ends need improvement but one is more far urgent and costly to our chances imo. Anyway we can agree to disagree.
 

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At the risk of derailing this thread - have a look at our stats from 2024 round 14 onwards


In the first 13 weeks of the season
We conceded 69.4 points per game
We scored in that time 104 points per game


Since Round 15 2024

Conceded 86 points per game
Scored 87 points per game


2025

This year we have conceded 84 points per game
scored 78.9 points per game


In the last 6 weeks

We have conceded 80.3 pts per game
We have scored 82.5 pts per game


Probably shows a little bit of my confirmation bias this statistic.

However, when paired with the scoring accuracy statistic I presented early that it is slated slightly in favour of a bigger fall off for the forwards and the forward area is imo easier to fix
 
7th for points against in 2024. The other data is kind of irrelevant to me when that is the final result. Either way we were the best defence at 13-1, shows how badly we fell off to fall that far on any metric anyway.

Our offense had been out injured all year, our defence has had issues but been less affected and has still been average. We have more scope to improve our offense with what's already on the list than we do to improve our defence with what's already on our list. That's all our say, both ends need improvement but one is more far urgent and costly to our chances imo. Anyway we can agree to disagree.
Statistically my last post shows that the drop off is rather even however it shows that the offence has fallen off more this year.

I think both areas need improvement but Im just saying that statistically the biggest drop off has occurred in the offence and that is the easier way to improve the side especially with the player out in the market. We have structural issues with the forward line where as the backline it is more improving directly player on player
 
This group is displaying all the signs of PTSD and needs to be treated accordingly. When GWS turned on the pressure and spread it hit them like Brisbane and Geelong and their brains and bodies shut down. Not all and not totally but enough to turn it into a rout.
I don't know what the solution is but I'm pretty sure the usual tricks are not going to work.
Ollie is a case in point. Dropping him has achieved nothing. He is still rattled. Lloyd went back to propping, Gulden sprayed them, Warner tried to do too much, Blakey got flakey. Mills and Rampe got overrun. Rowbottom checked out.
What are the "seconds" supposed to do when the leaders are losing it?
Cox is on a hiding to nothing.
It's why Longmire bailed.

The solution is simple. Comms and talking and positioning is easy when you are winning. Everyone is more vocal

When you sre losing hard like that they need to learn to communicate even better than when we are flying

Thats when the true leaders matter and they have to not be affected by the scoreboard or momentum

In saying that I still think injuries to talls and asking players to play one level of opponent up ie francis on taylor, buckley on buller would have turned the game anyway

Im seeiously surprised at the over reaction like all the supporters also have ptsd but in my eyes yesterday doesnt count. If a run on like that happens to a near full strength side then yea go all out
 
No 7 hour review of this game please. The team is mentally shot.

They may need another 2-3 years to wipe off the demons of 22-24 when we’ve churned more players over.
 
Was probably a good day to be working late it seems...
I was there mate. Nothing mirrors watching it live

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