AFL Autopsy RND 14: Chewed Up and Spat Out By the Cats

[Harlequin]

 

[HirdyLannister]

 

[boncer34]

Yikes

 

[Phone]

obviously geelong has spent most of the last 20 years smashing us, but smashing us with 2020 draftees Max Holmes and Shannon Neale being key players is certainly a new, annoying, way to smash us

 

[Beerfish]

Well that went about how i expected

 

[BratPack]

 

[HirdsTheWord]

nah **** it

give McGrath another 6 years

 

[brutus76]

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

 

[yehhhhbra]

obviously geelong has spent most of the last 20 years smashing us, but smashing us with 2020 draftees Max Holmes and Shannon Neale being key players is certainly a new, annoying, way to smash us

My thoughts exactly when Perkins came on and massacred 3 kicks in a row

 

[windyhill]

Showed up expecting 50ish, not 100ish.

 

[mike14]

didn't expect much, but the way we ran that out really leaves a sour taste. Obviously the Cats are a vastly superior team but our skills are so below the standard required that it's alarming

 

[FootyGuru]

Was good to see glimpses of the attacking game plan people want to see. How many goals from direct turn over?

 

[Shanghaistu]

That last quarter was, well, disappointing

 

[andleanback]

Last qtr was bad but what do you expect when you have leaders on the ground like McGrath giving up easy goals. Some of the turnovers coming out of the back half from senior players was a disgrace. X worst game he’s played for the club.

Though Johnson was nearly our best, and Kako was really good. Not much else

 

[Call Me Cake]

Scoreline went as expected. 7 players with 5 or under games, unprecedented these days. Injuries and suspensions finally got to us. No selection pressure too.

Blakiston is a bust. Surely Perkins finally gets dropped.

 

[naraku]

Unfortunately, this went about as expected. I had hoped that we would finish decently after the third quarter showing but no.


Again, a lot of senior players have been awfully exposed as frauds.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

didn't expect much, but the way we ran that out really leaves a sour taste. Obviously the Cats are a vastly superior team but our skills are so below the standard required that it's alarming

yep

Dodoro and our player development team did a proper number on us

 

[BomberTime]

Perkins… lol.

 

[MiguelM]

Was good to see glimpses of the attacking game plan people want to see. How many goals from direct turn over?

We turn it over no matter what style of play.

Who the hell is our skills coach?

 

[thepokey]

Cats too old, too slow. Couldn't even beat us by 100

 

[FootyGuru]

Goldy solid

 

[Blind Turn]

Footy is a strange addiction. The pain we put ourselves through is pure masochism. There was nothing enjoyable in watching that last qtr and yet I saw it through. The young blokes were spent. The senior blokes were clueless, and the Cats did as they pleased. It’s like Dodoro was planning this all along - a slow, painful eviscerating, torture to Essendon fans. What did we do to deserve this Dodo?

Perkins and McGrath have had enough chances. If we can get picks for them they are gone, surely.

 

[faible]

About the result we’ve been expecting after our first quarters the last few weeks.

The kids kept plugging away, thought May did some nice things, Blakiston playing out of position did some good things on a shocking day to be a defender for us, on a hiding to nothing.

Credit to Laverde and Goldstein too, I thought they did alright given the circumstances.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

We turn it over no matter what style of play.

Who the hell is our skills coach?

there are no coaches for this rofl

they probably expect a basic level of ability to even enter the draft!

We need the guy who taught Carmichael Hunt to kick an AFL ball. its that bad