Review R22: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. West Coast Eagles

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

That felt like the first Showdown this year

Limped over the line after a listless display against poor opposition

 

[rocket18]

Good:
Taylor and Pedlar took their chance.
4 points

Bad:
Teams attitude and application.

Ugly:
Nicks, how can you select Jones and Burgess in front of Draper/ Nank or Dowling? How can a moron have his side on top of the ladder - it is a question for the ages.
Probably our worst game in 3 seasons.

 

[Bovo]

Probably the loss we needed to have.

 

[Johnnyklug]

Jones - 2 possessions/0 tackles. wtf is he still on an AFL list. Horrendous player. Liability.

Burgess - Nowhere near this standard.

Berry - we desperately need quality midfielders. Our best midfielder will be 29 next year.

Let's hope we at least win a final.

Good: Dawson, Rankine, Thillthorpe and especially Taylor and Pedlar.
Bad: Was a big fan of Jones but sadly not there.
Ugly: Attitude

 

[pjcrows]

A wake-up call when you still get 4 points is better than a loss. The Demons game was one as well.

Those drinking the bathwater last week will now likely wet the bed again. Today was purely mental, not structural or talent, and the match winners won the match in the end.

On to Collingwood.

 

[MrBarry]

Riley Thilthorpe. Zac Taylor. Rankines 2nd half.

There is nothing else worth mentioning.

That was embarrassing. Can't recall us playing that bad in years.

Possible straight sets unfortunately

Absolutely nothing in that performance to indicate that will happen.

 

[Houston]

Good: Pedlar, endeavour has been there but he started to turn that into outcomes tonight. Need to persist as he’s up to finals like intensity, unlike 3/4s of the team this evening.

 

[TBM]

Props to Zac Taylor who was one of the few blokes that put in for 4 quarters.

Played like a bloke who knew his spot was on the line.

Cant say the same about Chayce Jones.

 

[Barneythecrab]

Zac Taylor best on

 

[thebirdman 24]

Winning when playing badly. The hallmark of a good side.

Lots of bad not much good.

Good
Taylor - clean and composed. Best game for the club.
Thilthorpe - hungry to win and lifted for the win
Rankine - unbelievable second half. His goal from 50 was exceptional. Our forwards weren’t getting it done so he bypassed them

Bad
Rob, Worrell, Laird, Keays, Anb

Ugly
Burgess - bloody useless
Jones - no football brain. Can’t find the ball. Time for a new sub. For a quarter he is fine but not a half.

 

[daniel_4tw]

We’ve had a few up weeks we were due to have a down game. Credit to the boys finding a way to win when things weren’t going their way.

Huge wake up call. Think the boys could have been getting ahead of themselves after the Hawks game and top the ladder (I know most on here were). Hopefully makes the boys realize there’s a lot of work still to be done.

 

[Pilchard_Adams]

The Good

Usually we lose that kind of game. Still felt like a loss but we won. Winning when we don't show up isnt a bad thing.

 

[spenze]

O'Brien, that is why we aare getting another ruck man

 

[FR0GGY]

Thilthorpe is better than his stats, which are impressive enough. He's become a guy that turns games.

Yep, for a moment it looks like our season went up in smoke.
Bossed when he came back on after I thought he was cooked.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Take the win, say goodbye to Burgess and Chayce

Jones is a dead set plodder now. He's always been mediocre but he's regressed even further. Why does he look kind of slow now too? I swear he used to have some pace at least.

 

[FR0GGY]

O'Brien, that is why we aare getting another ruck man

Your boy

 

[pjcrows]

Draper is running out full SANFL games with no issues. I'd be making him sub, now. Jones will offer no point of difference in a final. He just doesn't have it.

 

[Scorpus]

Dawson, Taylor and Pedlar can hold their head up high after that. Rankine and Thilthorpe can as well, for lifting in the second half, but they both deserve an uppercut for the first half. Soligo was okay.

Burgess was horrendous and should be delisted. Jones was diabolical and can't play again. Berry was destroyed in the midfield and had no impact. Keays put in his season worst performance. Curtin was invisible. Fogarty was pretty terrible except for that goal. Bond showed that he is only a stopgap for Michalanney and not a first 22 player. Neal-Bullen offered nothing

 

[Slim258]

Hopefully that’s the hiccup out of the way.

 

[ABAB]

Played shit and 2 men down in Burgess and Jones and still won away from home.

 

[MrBarry]

Tbh that performance and the fact we didn't lose, was probably the best result for the next game. Collingwood will be up for it and we will get a rocket.

 

[Vladdy Daddy]

Great outcome, got 4pts a wake up call from a team playing their GF and no injuries. for JP

 

[Southerntakeover]

That felt like the first Showdown this year

Limped over the line after a listless display against poor opposition

Without the potential humiliation of losing a top vs bottom game.

 

[Harris Pilton]

Well that wasn’t much fun. I settled back with a glass of wine in gloat-mode,
expecting a relaxing afternoon and a cruisey win. It was anything but. Glad we pulled it out of the coals in the end but, bloody hell, the Eagles played good footy and probably deserved the win. We played our normal game only for the last 10 minutes. Anyway, settle for the 4 points, and maybe a wake-up isn’t a bad thing.
Pity about Burgess. This was his big chance and he blew it massively, though he was unfortunate to debut in a dysfunctional Crows side.

 

[Geoffa32]

Happy we worked out a way to win.

Should we be worried about defensive pressure for long periods scuttling our game.


Burgess was poor. Did his job though. Won't play for us in the AFL team again. Highlights the gap in SANFL and AFL for big guys. Another reason we should play in the VFL where our depth Keys play against AFL listed players.