Review Positives & Negatives vs Melbourne

[footballfreak]

Positives

Solid Win
Gaff BOG
Defence held without glass
Kerr and Cox awesome as usual
Schofield pushing up the ground
Return of Kennedy

Negatives
Shuey hamstring
Could've had more output from Nic Nat, Lynch, Darling.
3rd quarter once again!

 

[WCErevival]

Positives
-Had a comfortable win even though we really only played 1 half. Put the cue in the rack after half time. Guys looked bored in the final quarter especially when Kennedy went for the torp.
-Gaff keeps on playing well
-Nicoski has kept up his form

Negatives
-Talls in the forward line all had little effect. Ruckmen too to a lesser extent
-Marking. We seemed to not contest a lot of marks today. Not sure if it was just me seeing this.

 

[Adam Selwood]

+'s

-Gaff. Exactly the player we needed, so clean with his disposal and so good at finding space
-Adam Selwood played his best game for the year
-Hams looked good as the sub
-Schofield continues his excellent form
-Defensive pressure of the forward line
-McGinnity played his best game ever

-'s

-Shuey *cries*
-Shocking 3rd quarters which need to be remedied very quickly
-Not beating a shocking Melbourne side by more
-Cox and Naita were very quiet
-Too much bombing it in long inside 50. Will not work against the better sides. Really need to stop relying on it so much and find some more precise avenues to goal

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Positives: We won playing shit football

Negative: We played shit football

 

[Coledinho]

I thought Ashley Smith had a shocking game as did Mitch Brown. Priddis, Kerr, Cox, Naita were also well down on production

Gaff was the HUGE positive. Deadset superstar he is

 

[He_Beast]

Positive was that we pretty much laughed off a challenge from them.

 

[Keys]

Positives

we won by eight goals away from home
gaff continues to shine
Nico maintaining his form
now have a guaranteed home final


Negatives

third quarter again
as a group our talls didn't have a great influence
starting to look a little tired across the board and I'm concerned at our ability to match it with the top sides for four quarters

 

[dajesmac]

Kerr I think is a big positive. Was very good today for the most part, remember guys, he's coming off a very, very limited preseason.

Gaff BOG outright this time. Probably didn't have an amazing impact but is playing well above his years. Great kid.

There were a lot of negatives today.

 

[wce4premiership]

Lecras and nicoski are putting it on the scoreboard from very limited opportunities, often outnumbered.


Negatives being the lack of concentration and midfield defensive pressure. Teams always seem to get players in a ton of space through hard running in the third, needs to be addressed.

 

[Evelyn208]

Positives:
Great spread of talent, would be hard to rank them.
Gaff is a great find! Has been having great games.
Defensive work in the forward/mid.
Second quarter blitz again!
Hams. Call me crazy but give him a full game?

Negatives:
Cox/Naita - not doing as well as they should be.
Brown - drop him.
Third quarters - a mini-positive is that we know we're playing bad and seem to be doing okay to limit the scoreboard damage. Someone mentioned Collingwood would rip us a new one by 10 goals but the fact is any team can score 6+ if we drop off. The fact is that we are only outscored by a few (2 goals only today).
Defenders please keep your feet! Too often do they go to ground and their opponent gets the spillage and runs off for an easy shot.

 

[Piss Poor]

Positive: We won by 50 point even though i felt we were down today.

Kerr was again back to his best
Gaff showing his gonna be a star.
Liked Schofields game
Hams still has potential

Negatives
* Nic Nat had a down game
* all our big men had down games.
* wasted a lot of chances for goal.
* 3 quarters again.
* M Brown showing his not to be trusted under pressure and could become a liability come finals when pressure is on.

 

[anti_]

positives: 50 pt win without really playing our best.

we had a lot of down players today, but we saw off their challenge and held firm.

negatives:
we concede many a shit goal without glass down there. ash smith had one of his first games where he was actually pantsed by his opponent.

our composure was lacking at times...we seemed to want to just bang it long instead of holding the ball up and looking for easier targets.

overall, i'm pretty happy considering most of our good players had average games.

 

[Belltower]

NicNat is being carefully managed at the moment due to being sore so don't worry about his lack of impact this week. The biggest issue is when we bombed long we were beaten soundly today and the lack of a true crumber is still biting us (betts or garlett).

Positives
Gaff again
Schofield's run off half back
Return to form of Embley
Another win in Melb
Spread of goal kickers (both selwoods and priddis kicked goals)
Hams making an impact

Negatives
Poor 3rd quarter again (REAL WORRY FOR FINALS)
Ball taken too easily out of F50 in 2nd half
Allowed too many marks on the lead (petterd and howe)
Shuey hamstring (may not be too bad)

 

[Crimson King]

Naita's 50th game next week so hopefully he was saving a big performance for his bitches (i.e - Essendon).

 

[anti_]

the entire competition will soon be NN's bitch.

 

[Mattman93]

Positives:

We clinically gained an eight goal lead despite being well down in intensity.

Gaff super again.

Negatives:

Once again we let the opposition get all the momentum in the second half.

Ash Smith was woeful, in fact the whole backline looked shaky without Glass.

 

[gregboy55]

Pos - Another win in melbourne

Neg - 3rd F*cking quarter we can make the sh*t teams of the afl look like collingwood!
Every week!!!

- Dwayne Russell, has no one at fox sports picked up on this? Unacceptable!!

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Positives
Margin was nice in the end
McGinnity and Schoey really stepped up in the absence of Waters/Butler to help as the smaller backmen
Gaff was phenomenal yet again
Nicoski showed a lot wth limietd chances, actually took his chances this week
Adam Selwood actually contributed in a positive manner this week

Negatives
Third quarter again
JD, JK, Naitanui didn't do too much
Despite being on top early I feel Brown,Smith and Mackenzie got solidly beaten
Shuey's injury

 

[bali-dog]

Positives: We won playing shit football

Negative: We played shit football

pretty much this ^^^

what a pug-ugly game of footy...a day for the Grunts!
what happened to our tall forward line..
the rucking was uninspiring..
were we instructed not to mark the ball this week?
just a strange game-no real highlights-except for melbournes comeback-which says a lot, or not,as the case may be?
all looked tired and bored..mind you dreary amateur commentary can really help flatten a game too..

negative=shuey hammy
browns turnover that looked like resulting in a goal
positives=shueys hammy not really a hammy
brown rebounding and saving his own turnover in the goalsquare!

oh well...got the 4 points.

 

[wcesam]

How bad was the team song?

 

[Dagless]

Honestly think the third quarter COMMENTATING made the third quarter seem twice as bad as it was to viewers. We didn't play as well as we did in the 2nd, but to be fair, everything that could go right for us was for a stretch there. They kicked a few arsey goals from a few dodgy frees, and probably sat with us at 3 goals a piece for the quarter otherwise. About where we were playing in the first.

Anyway, positives - minimal output from the gun crew due to general soreness and still won comfortably.

Negatives - Starting to look like general soreness is getting to our play a bit more often.

 

[eagles rule]

pos+ winning in Melb again
Gaff is unbelievable for a 18 yr
keeping pressure on Carlton
Nicoski ,Lecras and Darling playing well up fwd

Neg- Not being greedy for more percentage
losing Kicks,Handballs and Hitouts totals
hitting 4 posters in 2nd quarter
Shuey injury

 

[MWPP]

+
We won despite playing poorly
GAFF
Nicoski - backed up last week's performance well
LeCras- slowly getting over a mini slump

-
Clearances, contested possies, hitouts
3rd quarter
Shuey's 'injury'

 

[Pea Barrel]

+ves
The first half
Doing enough in the 2nd half to secure the win

-ves
Bombing it long to the tall forwards isn't so effective when it goes over their heads and rebounds quickly.
Not sure how anything I saw today is going to trouble the other top 5 sides come finals time.

 

[richy4]

My big positive was Mcginnity!

Before this season wasn't a fan. But seeing him live, he gives his opposition nothing, provides good run and is deceptively quick. big thing for me though, provides some physicality, willing to get in peoples faces and make them earn everything.

this guy is best 22 right now, but with Butler and Beau to come back will be hard for him.