AFL Autopsy RND 12: Loss To The Suns

[cobra land]

Maggots

Terry Wallace's son paid those deliberate frees, you think he'd have a feel for the game..MAGGOT

 

[DapperDon]

Where the **** has our midfield and centre bounce work gone?

Parish aint there

Hopefully this wakes up the haters

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Stupid broadcasters...how many times was play happening and we were watching some replay...or the vision of play was like trying to see a game of footy on the moon from my backyard.

 

[gillon]

Kicking for goal should have cost us against Adelaide, it did tonight.

Laverde gives away a dumb 50 once a month, a great VFL player. Scott won’t drop him until it costs us more games

 

[ghostdog]

They're only 9 points better than a bunch of spuds.

 

[eddie_punchclock]

Look forward to flogging these guys in round 22

 

[TheGrizz]

I try not to blame umpires, but they can piss right off.

Our composure going forward was horrendous, and we couldnt win a clearance to save a life. So plenty of blame to go around

 

[bommer16]

Hind was terrific.
McKay too

 

[mike14]

Only watched the start and the end. We looked ok in patches but were let down by some poor disposal. Some of the team really don't look like they have the decision making skills for top-flight football.
Got absolutely smashed in the middle which is concerning and missed some very gettable goals

You can't blame the umpires, they aren't the ones who change the rule interpretations seemingly every week. I'd bet most of them have NFI what they are meant to be paying and what they are meant to be letting go. All so that AFL HQ can pay themselves more bonuses for implementing ideas that make the game 'better'. Very glad I stopped giving them $$

 

[Jobe Watson]

Midfield absolutely smacked yet again. Laverde shit yet again. Horrible forward 50 entries yet again.

Hind brilliant.

A game we should've won.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Due a loss. Had enough opportunity to win it but lacked composure against a decent team (at home). Bryan was good first half but not so much 2nd and still lacks a physical presence.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Proves that all of the people calling for Bryan's selection have NFI.

Accuracy could've been better. At one stage the timekeeper took 2 minutes off the clock in 10 seconds half way through the last quarter, not sure what that was about.

Said before we were due for a loss, especially away. Just happy we made a contest of it.

 

[CBombers17]

Just one of those games really. Looked good early then battles manfully and got pretty close despite ourselves. Patchy performances by most. Stellar by Hind again. Not much to learn from this one though. Move on quickly.

 

[quotemokc]

Stringer, Langford, Gresham, Wright all goalless.

Not good enough from our best forwards

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Fancy letting Ben Long kick 4 goals against you…

To be fair I think he was leading the VFL goal kicking before coming into their 1sts a few weeks ago.

 

[scyth]

I knew this wouldn't be an easy match, but I wasn't expecting us to **** it all up on our own. Just goddamn disgusting.

 

[fishardansin]

Terry Wallace's son paid those deliberate frees, you think he'd have a feel for the game..MAGGOT

I used to work with Brent. Good bloke.

 

[Beerfish]

Didn't see the game but 11.14 and we're blaming umpires?

 

[ghostdog]

Lost in front of the sticks.

Bryan was okay but needed more presence forward and to contest harder.
Missing Parish. Setterfield available.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

No matter what we do the forward line remains a mystery to us.

Every running kick that Rowell or Anderson did from the bounce in that last quarter found it's way onto the chest of one of their players in space. Every kick that we tried in the same circumstance ended up in some rolling maul. Wright looks stationary most of the time and Jones was anonymous. Stringer has had no aerial presence this year. We cannot figure out how to get it to work.

 

[Duckworth]

Lost that with atrocious fwd 50 entries. Poor games from Langers & stringer.

Setterfield straight in against the Blues.

Yup, those F50 entries to the ground in front of the lead were complete Scheissen. ALL of them.

 

[BomberFan355]

Let’s be honest, 2nd on the ladder is taking the piss!

 

[Phone]

- Fourth quarter was very disappointing. We were in a position to kick ahead and to reflect that at that point of the game, our lousy goal kicking was the only reason we hadn't pulled around, but then we were just lousy as a whole, so.

- Why did I see Jade Gresham

11

Jade Gresham

Age

28

Ht

177cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.4

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

7.2

4star

M

3.2

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

1.1

4star

D

17.5

4star

K

10.8

4star

HB

6.8

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

2.0

3star

G

0.5

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

5.8

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

3.4

5star

G

0.4

3star

in at least two CBAs.

- I didn't think we'd see a worse 50M call today than the one Durham got to kick that goal, but that Laverde one managed it. Technically correct, the pair of them, but just terrible calls

- With his one kick of the ball, Tsatas didn't exactly do anything to create future optimism regarding that skill of his.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Stringer, Langford, Gresham, Wright all goalless.

Not good enough from our best forwards

Wright kicked a goal.

 

[JayJ20]

Get to June and collapse. Where have I seen this before?

Nah this is about as inconsequential of a loss as it gets.
We kicked horribly inside 50 and didn't convert when we had the opportunity yet still nearly won away vs a side who hasn't lost at home. Haven't lost since round 4 so it's a meh loss.