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

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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.
 
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
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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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.
 
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
 

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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.
 
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.
 

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

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