Review QF: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Collingwood

[GameofSloanes]

They also didn't play Collingwood.

Yeah look, they came out and played the right way and won
We came out and played like squibs, and lost. If we had played like them and still lost it would be a lot easier to take. That was the disappointing thing for me, we just looked like we were miles off it regardless of the result.

 

[Mattrox]

Yeah look, they came out and played the right way and won
We came out and played like squibs, and lost. If we had played like them and still lost it would be a lot easier to take. That was the disappointing thing for me, we just looked like we were miles off it regardless of the result.

If we played anyone else, I doubt we completely shit the bed.

It was a death by a thousand cuts.

Not saying our game style would have changed or we would have won. But we could actually make some reliable assessments other than we were poo all-round.

 

[32year crow]

My disappointment is we didn’t attempt to change what wasn’t working. I remember playing Geelong in the first home game of the season a few years ago. We knew that Tom Stewart (or equivalent) and their then tall backline would be intercept marking. So we constantly kicked the ball along the ground.

Did we man up DM - nope.
Did we try and even up the forward numbers - nope
Did we empty out our forward line to create pressure up the ground and leave Filthy in the goal square - nope.

Our coaching team was coaching for percentage not to win at all costs.(yes sarcasm) Their answer was to throw Laird in the middle and add to the panic. That’s it.

We played a one dimensional game (down the line) in a three dimensional ground and just coughed up possession. Only Filthy took on a 45 degree kick and that was low percentage resulting in a goal.

 

[BunjiMC]

It's quite obvious that McRae was going to say 'he must have had a lot of the ball because there was lots of booing'

He had 16 bloody touches! There was lots of booing because we booed pretty much everyone. Including their fans. Infact there were fans around me asking 'are we just going to boo everyone!'

 

[jenny61_99]

Bit too much black pilling here.

Should beat Hawthorn. If you can’t beat Hawthorn at home you don’t deserve to be contending anyway.

A prelim final at the MCG is the best possible preparation you can have for a premiership. I honestly believe that.

You don’t want the GF to be your first game at the G in three months.

For once in our lives I 100% agree with everything you wrote.

 

[Cromulant]

Yeah look, they came out and played the right way and won
We came out and played like squibs, and lost. If we had played like them and still lost it would be a lot easier to take. That was the disappointing thing for me, we just looked like we were miles off it regardless of the result.

They also played against a flakey, not very finals hardened side with a rubbish coach thats worse than ours.

 

[relapse]

Gold coast didnt have finals experience and won, its a mindset thing I agree

What Gold Coast did have was a 3 time premiership coach that had the side prepared for finals football.

They also played a side that is historically prone to shitting the bed under pressure.

 

[rocket18]

Bit too much black pilling here.

Should beat Hawthorn. If you can’t beat Hawthorn at home you don’t deserve to be contending anyway.

A prelim final at the MCG is the best possible preparation you can have for a premiership. I honestly believe that.

You don’t want the GF to be your first game at the G in three months.

IF we get past the Hawks we will enjoy being the underdog against the Cats - we don't handle expectation/favouritism at all well.

Going in with everyone expecting an easy Geelong win will help our fragile mindset - but we certainly aren't montys this week.

 

[MrBarry]

IF we get past the Hawks we will enjoy being the underdog against the Cats - we don't handle expectation/favouritism at all well.

Going in with everyone expecting an easy Geelong win will help our fragile mindset - but we certainly aren't montys this week.

If we get past Hawthorn this week, I expect that prelim to be much closer than what people anticipate.

 

[1990crow]

If we get past Hawthorn this week, I expect that prelim to be much closer than what people anticipate.

I'll contemplate that if we do win this week. If we play well this week who knows.

 

[Cromulant]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

 

[GreyCrow]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Sounds like excuse making

 

[Cromulant]

Sounds like excuse making

I mean if they had the flu I had a few weeks ago, id not be surprised that they didnt feel great

 

[MrBarry]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Based on?

 

[The Karma Bus]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Tex and Nicks both sounded sick last week. Others mentioned it too.
The problem is with so many people in a playing group, it would still be travelling around through them and take a while to clear out.

 

[FR0GGY]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Coaches too?

 

[The Off Season]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Ive heard the same.

 

[FR0GGY]

Sounds like half the squad was crook with the flu

Better hope it’s not the other half this week.

 

[CrowBloke]

Out of all the teams this weekend Adelaide played the worst compared to its normal level.
If that's not choking i don't know what is.

"choking" from the Flu, possibly.

Ch7 reported that several Crows players were crook. TT was touch'n'go, nearly didn't play (apologies if this point has been made).
That'd explain some of it, but jeez Collingwood applied massive pressure.

 

[GreyCrow]

"choking" from the Flu, possibly.

Ch7 reported that several Crows players were crook. TT was touch'n'go, nearly didn't play (apologies if this point has been made).
That'd explain some of it, but jeez Collingwood applied massive pressure.

Im starting to smell a touch of '' oh well if we go out in straight sets at least theres a reason '' bullshit starting to fester

 

[MRB37]

"choking" from the Flu, possibly.

Ch7 reported that several Crows players were crook. TT was touch'n'go, nearly didn't play (apologies if this point has been made).
That'd explain some of it, but jeez Collingwood applied massive pressure.

I said at the game that Thilthorpe looked exactly the same as he did in the Gold Coast game where he played crook. He just doesn't have the same exuberance when he plays sick.

 

[BRL121]

I said at the game that Thilthorpe looked exactly the same as he did in the Gold Coast game where he played crook. He just doesn't have the same exuberance when he plays sick.

I always put stock in how the boys look when they run out and in their huddle. I detected a lot of zoned-out faces. I noticed in the huddle that it was only Laird who looked in the right mindset and was very keen to rev them up and get into it. Even Dawson looked comatose. In a lot of other matches, they have looked relaxed and happy and the results have come.
I think TT is a prime indicator for this.

 

[sr36]

Worrell was our spare and our BOG.

Kicking it to Moore isnt coaching, its player composure. Compare Collingwood spotting up players inside 45m at will.

Nicks ballsed things a bit, but the players have to take a fair portion of the blame for shitting the bed by hand and foot repeatedly.

It was your mids. They got it enough but they didn't handle the pressure with ball in hand. Not sure if it was the occasion or the Pies turning up the volume but your mids were too worried about getting tackled, they didn't take on the tacklers at all and were just dumping it forward. The intercepts were a product of that. Meanwhile the Pies mids took on the tackler every time they got it - whether it was Degoey and Long charging forward at grass or Daicos and Pendles using their tricks. They drew an extra tackler and were able to release each other for much better forward entries.

 

[CrowBloke]

Im starting to smell a touch of '' oh well if we go out in straight sets at least theres a reason '' bullshit starting to fester

Not from me mate. I thought Collingwood jumped us hard and out-pressured us back into 2024 Crows.
I was just reporting what Ch7 said.

Tirez pas le messager, merci.

 

[CrowBloke]

I said at the game that Thilthorpe looked exactly the same as he did in the Gold Coast game where he played crook. He just doesn't have the same exuberance when he plays sick.

Have the Club docs not heard of Flu shots?