Review R14: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Hawthorn Hawks

[GreyCrow]

Fog didn't help himself looking like he was trying to thump the shit out of the ball to get it over the line.

Yeah I immediately thought this - then I thought the 50 was for backchat but no it was worse

 

[SugarShane]

Tex is a champion of the club. We owe him so much. But we will not win a final with 2025 Tex in our side. Bookmark it.

 

[BRL121]

Whoever was on Ginnivan did an excellent job.
Whioever was on Newcombe (Berry) did an excellent job.
Whoever was on Impey did a shocking job in the second half.
Whoever was on the Wizard did a good job.
Whoever was on Chol did a good job.

 

[Rodentia]

Has Nicks ever outcoached someone?

Dean Cox. But that's not difficult

 

[GameofSloanes]

And yet he was also the one who was the easiest to push off the ball, and run away from

Yeah fair call

 

[All_In]

Nicks shit, all that needs to be said

Yeh his shots for goal, 50m give aways and dumb frees were atrocious.

 

[StonesThrow]

They were missing two of their best mids, one of their best defenders, and we still couldn't beat them. Says a lot. We're not ready for this shit

 

[Scorpus]

****ing love tuning in to every Hawks and Collingwood game knowing we'll pull our pants down, bend over and spread as wide as we can.

Hawthorn, Collingwood, Geelong, Fremantle, Damien Hardwick

 

[Crow till I die]

Nicks has a 1-5 record against Longmuir.

Longmuir had covid and could barely speak that day nicks got the 1 no doubt

 

[n4sir]

Last week the soccer goalkeeper saved us a few times but we lost that structurally for some reason

The invisible 60 foot high goalkeeper (or hand of God) that I mentioned last week?

 

[VKCrow]

We looked slow and tired.

 

[CrowBloke]

You just knew the club had covered itself in loser stench when they selected Murph.

That "loser stench" comes from our foetid, rotten Coach and his conservative stubbornness.

I'll bet that twerp Nicks is wondering "Gee, how'd we lose that; what went wrong?? We had Murphy back in etc etc".

 

[por_please_ya]

Nothing to say other than ****ing disappointed

 

[Moonwatcher]

Fair to say that miss by TT straight in front in the first quarter was costly.

He always misses his first shot on goal. A bit like Modra.

 

[maxlilly]

Ugly: Murphy spudding it up as expected.

Two sets of rules for the teams. 22-10 frees in the second half.

And half those frees for the Hawks were in front of goals

 

[Multiballz]

Agree tex shouldnt have played, but he was the only forward that even looked like marking it

When was that?

 

[Scorpus]

Yeh his shots for goal, 50m give aways and dumb frees were atrocious.

The players choked and also Nicks did nothing in the second half to set us up to win. His gameplan was comprehensively shut down and Nicks sat in the corner getting... I shouldn't say. Just imagine something. Fill in the blanks

 

[Danger Zone]

nothing more needs to be said on murphy.

pedlar starting to work into the game and they sub him off. probably was nicks plan going into the game.

close games we rely on individual brilliance rather than system.

100% we have a predetermined sub choice and only deviate if there is a clear injury. The Nicks Special.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

ROB and Meek had a pretty good battle

ROB did some good things around the ground and even laid a tackle or two

But can he pleeeeease stay out of the F50? We already have the world's tallest forward line, plus Curtin and Dawson push up there at times.

Then we have a clever crew of smalls who thrive on space.

The last thing we need is slow play entries, giving enough time for the big dinosaur to lumber down there and flap about against our marking targets. There is no player in the league less likely to kick a goal than ROB.

A kick behind play will be fine.

 

[Moonwatcher]

First time I've cared about a match enough to get stressed for a few years now.

 

[maxlilly]

Murphy, Pedlar, ANB not hitting the scoreboard.

ANB seems to go missing regularly

 

[Bay62]

I only got to see the last half of the last quarter. You could just see what was about to happen. They had intensity and some system, as someone else here said we were waiting for some individual brilliance from Dawson Keays or Rankine

 

[Eddie Murphy]

It's the extra man that is created when we don't have the ball that is the biggest issue with Tex. Players just run off him. A finals game will be worse.

Tex won't accept playing SANFL lightly and he wants 300 games so Nicks is going to have to be strong enough to make the call.

Correct. It’s a trade-off: does the aerial support for Thilthorpe and Fogarty outweigh the mobility we lose? It’s been a tough call most recent games, but in these conditions the priority should have clearly gone to ground-ball mobility.

 

[CrowBloke]

But FMD that was another bad loss by less than a kick ...

Edited, for accuracy, which the Crows need.

 

[OldCrowBloke]

He's still learning the game in reality. Has a lot of natural ability, but still makes some absolute head-scratches.

Gunston is a smart footballer, and Mitchell was able to get him 1-on-1 with Keane to exploit this.