Game Day R16 - Dogs @ Marvel

[Achin joints]

Games like today's remind me how much we miss Mundy

 

[Footskill]

Agreed but, well, that's kind of not the point though. Aish did a decent (some would say they were "whelmed") job but we wouldn't have been too far worse off with Erasmus and would've given him valuable experience. Subbing Fyfe off for him because Fyfe is a candidate for a rest and Aish was...ok, was a forced error on our part.

Nah..that's partly why we lost today, when the game was on the line and we still playing to make finals

 

[Kapow!!!]

Nah..that's partly why we lost today, when the game was on the line and we still playing to make finals

Happily agree to disagree

 

[WilloTree]

This really is where selection of Banfields and Aish's in todays experience genuinely knocks on in to causing a truly damaging miscalculation due to a conservative approach to bigger bodies. It's a subtle and hidden mistake that can usually be argued one way or the other as not being of any great consequence until a game like today where it has an undeniable powerful negative impact.

Banfield didn't play.

Not his fault.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Banfield didn't play.

Not his fault.

Banfield was more used as an example of the style of selection. Aish is the query. Had a decent game but not really the selection you'd make if you're trying to give Erasmus minutes. Either crap (put Erasmus in for Aish/Banfield/Danyle Pearce) or get off the pot (play him at Peel and give the spot to a runner who can make a difference with fresh legs in the last)

 

[King Huskii]

Soccer sux

 

[WilloTree]

Fyfe is half the player he used to be but still easily best 22, that kick into the forward line that resulted in a 12 point turn around was brik through the tv stuff though.

Our forwards were garbage in the 2nd half.

In the 3rd quarter they managed a single goal from 14 entries.

fmd

 

[Retzlaff]

Our forwards were garbage in the 2nd half.

In the 3rd quarter they managed a single goal from 14 entries.

fmd

Yeah but the entries

 

[WilloTree]

Yeah but the entries

I suppose if every kick doesn't come in with Mundy's silver platter on it we just throw our hands up as usual.

sigh

I wonder what other teams blame for forwards who can't compete for 4 quarters?

 

[WhoneedsMcLeod]

Subbing Fyfe out was the turning point in this match.
Having Fyfe on the bench and Johnson and Erasmus in the centre at that stage of the game was a bad call.
People still don't respect the influence of Fyfe's presence in such situations, even when he is down on form.

That's gotta be tongue in cheek.

 

[Footskill]

I suppose if every kick doesn't come in with Mundy's silver platter on it we just throw our hands up as usual.

sigh

I wonder what other teams blame for forwards who can't compete for 4 quarters?

Although, overall our mids are below par with kicking into fwd 50 even under minimal pressure. O'Meara be best but he shanks it's sometimes too

 

[FreoRicci]

Although, overall our mids are below par with kicking into fwd 50 even under minimal pressure. O'Meara be best but he shanks it's sometimes too

Actually agree. Serong and JOM particularly. Johnson in time will be an elite distributor, just needs match fitness.

 

[FreoGirl]

Normally the Banfields and Aish selections can be argued as "who cares, didn't really impact anything". Today is the day when they did actually hurt us trying to get Erasmus into the game (for Fyfe) because we weren't brave enough to leave Aish out for him.

ahhh ok - I thought you were being nice to Banfield lol

 

[Deleted member 219144]

the way we took about six hours to take a kick and allowed them to reset, the way we play weird man-on-man footy but only when we're in possession and attacking...