Review R11: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Waalitj Marawar (West Coast Eagles)

[Interloperer]

I'm guessing 2 tall forwards isn't a feasible set up for the rest of the year now.

Worst 11 goal win in history

I remember Adelaide beat Brisbane by 100+ points in 2015 or 2016. That was a significantly worse performance IMO.

 

[spenze]

I had an Uncle named Coral

Was an Auntie but then we found out they had balls.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Jesus pessimistic much?

We’re fourth half way through the year after a 10 goal win, after not playing finals for the last ten years. Just take a moment to enjoy it.

We aren't contenders.

 

[WeeBlake]

There was some good:
Peatling continues to improve, our best pure mid at the moment
Berry - got a fair bit of it, has a knack of finding space out the back of a stoppage
Laird - went hard, some great marks and defending
Rachele’s class
Curtin continuing to build, he’s a great mark
%

Bad
Soligo well down again
Fog well down
Taylor did very little
West coast big forwards had too much space too often
Our ball movement from kick ins and slow play

Ugly
Our kicking. Comically bad, including from many of our better kicks
Decision making - too many too short wrong options taken, and taken badly.
Waterman’s shoulder

 

[Minor Threat]

Good: into the top 4

 

[crows dude]

Campos votes
3 Dawson
2 O’Brien
1 Rachele

Apologies to Berry and Thilthorpe

 

[Redline]

Did Peds do enough to stay in?

I think he did but his first goal was a result of some terrible defensive decisions by the Eagles.

 

[Redline]

Happy to win but we played as bad as we have all season. West Coast are just that bad that they couldn't punish our turnovers and defensively couldn't hold up.

 

[ABAB]

We aren't contenders.

You had us contenders this year??? Final contenders yes but not premiership contenders. The core group is there but they will need a few more years of Finals experience and a few gap in the list to address before we become premiership contenders. I can't see Nicks, Laird, Walker, Milera (will be interesting watch given his 3 years contract extension) and RoB as part of a premiership team.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

You had us contenders this year??? Final contenders yes but not premiership contenders. The core group is there but they will need a few more years of Finals experience and a few gap in the list to address before we become premiership contenders. I can't see Nicks, Laird, Walker, Milera (will be interesting watch given his 3 years contract extension) and RoB as part of a premiership team.

Contending means possible premiers. There is no such thing as "finals contenders".

 

[jirkago1975]

Not much to learn against a poor team.

Questions are can Berry be a starter for us? Has talent and I bit of speed but disposal let him down on occasions.
Likes Curtins game and thought his marking was great and skills are very good even though he stuffed one up today.
Really didn’t like Draper being sub as I thought it was a game we could have put him in the middle to let him get experience and game time.

The next 3 weeks will tell us if we are a chance to win a final or are making up numbers

 

[Mutineer]

Did Peds do enough to stay in?

No

 

[CrowBloke]

GOOD: Berry, 9 tackles and got a lot of the ball.
His best game for us?

 

[Mutineer]

Worst 10 goal win ever.
No energy or enthusiasm.

Skills horrendous for a not that windy day.

Move on to next week

Strange comment, the commentators said it was very swirly and Keays backed that up.

 

[jo172]

Liked seeing Eddie come out of the players race.

Enjoyed saxophone man with the didgeridoo

Thought Pedo was good

 

[WeeBlake]

Strange comment, the commentators said it was very swirly and Keays backed that up.

The wind was a little challenging, lots of players misjudging the flight of long kicks.

But the wind was not a factor in most of the terrible short to medium kicks we stuffed up.

 

[Geoffa32]

Strange comment, the commentators said it was very swirly and Keays backed that up.

In the middle maybe a bit of breeze. Not too bad standing on Western side terrace Albeit protected.

But hardly blowing a gale. Plus we train in the open.

 

[Geoffa32]

No

Agree , but should be given a couple more games.
He is a pick 10 with limited chances since being drafted due to injury.

Needs a block of games to see where he is at.

 

[Soggy2112]

Good (VERY good ): Looks like someone has given RoB some kicking lessons.

He laced out 3 or 4 low bullet passes --- Teammate Seeking Missiles!!

I've wanted RoB to be dropped several times this Season, but he was top shelf today.
I hope he can replicate that the next 3 weeks!

He’s actually in a bit of a purple patch of form after being very ordinary early.

 

[Geoffa32]

You had us contenders this year??? Final contenders yes but not premiership contenders. The core group is there but they will need a few more years of Finals experience and a few gap in the list to address before we become premiership contenders. I can't see Nicks, Laird, Walker, Milera (will be interesting watch given his 3 years contract extension) and RoB as part of a premiership team.

For me this is like 2015.

Get some Finals experience into the guys, and coach.

Two/three more years till we contend.



With no Camp funking up momentum when we hit that point....

 

[NSolis]

That wasn't too bad. First quarter and a half WC played reasonably well and we were scrappy and turned the ball over a lot. Good third term which ended the game and ensured a percentage boost. No injuries, in the top 4, sets things up for a big game next week. Beat Sydney and we are playing finals.

Curtin continues to build, have really liked his last two weeks.
ROB in good form, three good performances in a row.
Defence stood up well.
Dawson and Rachele were great. Berry, Peatling also good.

Not a memorable performance but did what was needed.

 

[Geoffa32]

He’s actually in a bit of a purple patch of form after being very ordinary early.

Yep since Carlton game has been very good.

 

[Crow_68]

Great: mute button

 

[clinto69]

Good: we got the 11 goal win
Bad: first half
Ugly: Commentary team

 

[ABAB]

Contending means possible premiers. There is no such thing as "finals contenders".

Very uncommon for the premiership team not to come from the top 4 which we aren't yet. We are Finals contenders but not premiership contenders.