Biggest positive was coming out hard. Hopefully it goes a long way to extinguishing the nightmares of our last two finals which have been hanging over this group for the last 18 months. Great to see Darling impose himself.
Autopsy Positives and Negatives Vs Port Adelaide
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Goosebumps all over!! Congrats and enjoy the win! 
still cannot believe that game....
congrats again, hope you go all the way eagles
youll need more run in the mid vs giants, who do you bring in?
congrats again, hope you go all the way eagles
youll need more run in the mid vs giants, who do you bring in?
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NN. hehe
I mean hypothetically Wellingham or Schofield would provide more run than Lecras.
Plenty of positives, including the heart shown to get back off the canvas after throwing away another lead.
McGovern - we really do have a gem there and he is so crucial to what we do.
Partington / Duggan - will hopefully be better for the experience
MacKenzie - tough night but that effort near the point post was brave and saved us the game
Darling - continued to be back to something like the player we thought he was
Petrie / Vardy - did enough that hopefully risking NN to stay alive for one more week is now off the table and seen as unnecessary
Negatives
Looking further ahead than I should after this game, but thought Petrie, Priddis and Mitchell were three of our best. Yes Priddis has declined and it's time for all three of them, but how does that result go without those three and where does that input get replaced next year.
Yeo - tough call but not one of his better nights at times
Gaff - just for the heart attack he almost gave me towards the end. Pretty disappointing effort that turned out well because of a bit of luck.
Be interesting to see if LeCras and Mackenzie hold their place. Do we get another week of Rioli questions? Does Schofield come in for Eric, who could have had 8 kicked on him if Dixon had kicked decent.
McGovern - we really do have a gem there and he is so crucial to what we do.
Partington / Duggan - will hopefully be better for the experience
MacKenzie - tough night but that effort near the point post was brave and saved us the game
Darling - continued to be back to something like the player we thought he was
Petrie / Vardy - did enough that hopefully risking NN to stay alive for one more week is now off the table and seen as unnecessary
Negatives
Looking further ahead than I should after this game, but thought Petrie, Priddis and Mitchell were three of our best. Yes Priddis has declined and it's time for all three of them, but how does that result go without those three and where does that input get replaced next year.
Yeo - tough call but not one of his better nights at times
Gaff - just for the heart attack he almost gave me towards the end. Pretty disappointing effort that turned out well because of a bit of luck.
Be interesting to see if LeCras and Mackenzie hold their place. Do we get another week of Rioli questions? Does Schofield come in for Eric, who could have had 8 kicked on him if Dixon had kicked decent.
Will watch again but early thoughts (positives having been covered already, need to play devil's advocate but still so damm excited.)
- Ball movement useless. Nobody out of Barrass, Mackenzie, Priddis, Hutchings or Vardy (in general) are really good kickers, the play often stops dead in their hands and they're poor when the switch is on.
- Midfield defence, we won the clearances but they seemed to have so much more spread and their clearances seemed of better quality because of the space allowed them
- Partington and Lecras were s**t, hindsight says Wellingham should have taken Parto's spot in the team. Jetta for a lot of the game was poorly used/not in the right spots, it's hard to tell at times. In all 3 of their favours is the little moments where they were close to the ball they seemed to be trying hard. Lecras' leading late in the game to relieve pressure was huge after Gaff had covered 15km+ and nobody else was moving. He also had an awesome bit of play near Shuey who then stuffed it up. Prtington seemed more willing to tackle, just looks a little slow to make his mind up at times. Jetta of course redeemed himself massively in ET
- Sheed is struggling with Priddis being back in his fulltime mid position. Priddis clearance work was great but his opponent was continually used as the release man through the zone .... and I mean continuously. He also has ZERO ability to have any variety in his kicks despite all the time in the world and is a large reason our forward line struggled.
- Duggan was fairly ordinary, Redden as well had some stupid kicks. These two stood out for me clanger wise but also Barrass and MAckenzie, it was pathetic how often we had "clearing kicks" without pressure being applied that missed a target and went straight into Port's hands. It wasn't AFL standard and GWS would kill us for similar mistakes
- People say Gaff ruined it late but I saw the opposite, the bloke was huge winning that contest on the D50 and keeping his feet, he had a rushed handball out that went to opposition hands but that's more an indictment on those backing him up at the time. His play where he tried to soccer it through was baffling, just pick it up, ride the tackle if you have to
- Umpiring was the worst I have seen this year. Every decision went their way, the rule for prior didn't apply for us, they chopped Partington/Cripps across the shoulder at least 4 times for nothing against. They absolutely gave the ball to Port and I'm so glad we won despite them.
Shuey though .... so dam good.
- Ball movement useless. Nobody out of Barrass, Mackenzie, Priddis, Hutchings or Vardy (in general) are really good kickers, the play often stops dead in their hands and they're poor when the switch is on.
- Midfield defence, we won the clearances but they seemed to have so much more spread and their clearances seemed of better quality because of the space allowed them
- Partington and Lecras were s**t, hindsight says Wellingham should have taken Parto's spot in the team. Jetta for a lot of the game was poorly used/not in the right spots, it's hard to tell at times. In all 3 of their favours is the little moments where they were close to the ball they seemed to be trying hard. Lecras' leading late in the game to relieve pressure was huge after Gaff had covered 15km+ and nobody else was moving. He also had an awesome bit of play near Shuey who then stuffed it up. Prtington seemed more willing to tackle, just looks a little slow to make his mind up at times. Jetta of course redeemed himself massively in ET
- Sheed is struggling with Priddis being back in his fulltime mid position. Priddis clearance work was great but his opponent was continually used as the release man through the zone .... and I mean continuously. He also has ZERO ability to have any variety in his kicks despite all the time in the world and is a large reason our forward line struggled.
- Duggan was fairly ordinary, Redden as well had some stupid kicks. These two stood out for me clanger wise but also Barrass and MAckenzie, it was pathetic how often we had "clearing kicks" without pressure being applied that missed a target and went straight into Port's hands. It wasn't AFL standard and GWS would kill us for similar mistakes
- People say Gaff ruined it late but I saw the opposite, the bloke was huge winning that contest on the D50 and keeping his feet, he had a rushed handball out that went to opposition hands but that's more an indictment on those backing him up at the time. His play where he tried to soccer it through was baffling, just pick it up, ride the tackle if you have to
- Umpiring was the worst I have seen this year. Every decision went their way, the rule for prior didn't apply for us, they chopped Partington/Cripps across the shoulder at least 4 times for nothing against. They absolutely gave the ball to Port and I'm so glad we won despite them.
Shuey though .... so dam good.
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Take a look at the Port board it's in absolute meltdown. I'm surprised BF hasn't crashed
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It was great but it showed we will be lucky to get through next week and will be pantsed the week after unless nn somehow magically has a blinder
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Quick off the blocks, great tackling pressure ans intensity, Darling and Kennedy up and about, Priddis, Gaff and Mitchell through traffic, Petrie providing that tall ruck forward link, Jetta providing some speed into our forward line, Gov a rock up back, McKenzie's composure late, Shuey of course.
LeCras, Sheed, Redden a bit of a liability. We went missing in the 2nd and 3rd quarters and were lucky not to get blown away. Pressure and contested possessions dropped off considerably. Don't wanna be a downer but Port gave us way more chances. We need to play all four quarters to beat GWS next week. I hope we go into it REALLY wanting to win. Win or lose I want to see a monumental effort. Don't want to win simply because the other team gifted us a win.
LeCras, Sheed, Redden a bit of a liability. We went missing in the 2nd and 3rd quarters and were lucky not to get blown away. Pressure and contested possessions dropped off considerably. Don't wanna be a downer but Port gave us way more chances. We need to play all four quarters to beat GWS next week. I hope we go into it REALLY wanting to win. Win or lose I want to see a monumental effort. Don't want to win simply because the other team gifted us a win.
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I just popped across for a look. pissa... we win - on to next week
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Haha i actually thought the Port board was coping with the result better than the Freo board.
Loved the way Shuey had the presence of mind to throw in a dab as he got taken high. Love the melts it's caused too.
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I saw a ******* gutsy win against the odds in front of 41 000 rabid home team supporters, some very dodgy umpiring and a Port team that were desperate in their efforts to beat us. Sure we were out scored in 3 quarters... by 9 points in the 2nd, 8 pts in the 3rd and 3 points in the 4th. Hardly a thrashing and when the game was on the line and everyone expected us to get over run in extra time we out scored them. There's plenty to work on but that was a great win. Don't know what you were watching.
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Petrie and Vardy were enormous. The heart they showed for our club , amazing ! Mitch is a gun , but appears most overlook his s**t disposal at times, If it was Pridda he would be crucified. Pridda was brilliant, but yes, his man can run off him too easily. To say sheed would be better once Priddis goes is just garbage. He will never be half as good as what Priddis has been. I don't think most realise how much we will miss him. Shuey , one of the best mids in the comp, probably the best kick off either foot in the AFL. Duggan, yes he is hard and never ducks the contest. But so slow, never more than an average footballer. How the * did we win that game ? Again our defence was superb .
+ Going to the movies today to see It. After last night's game my heart rate will stay steady throughout.
- I am so bloody tired. Way too much adrenaline was pumping through my body last night.
- I am so bloody tired. Way too much adrenaline was pumping through my body last night.
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Well the biggest positive the way we came back not once but TWICE. Once in the last quarter and then in extra time some big time plays from Jetta, Vardy, Shuey and JK
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In defense of E-Mac - I thought he did a decent job on Dixon tbh. Yes Dixon scored 3.6 but Dixon is always gonna win the contested possession contest, he's simply a monster and can out muscle E-Mac with ease.
Maybe a job for Barrass down the track when he can get the consistency and discipline right.
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