AFL Autopsy RND 19: Essington Rides Again

[Harlequin]

 

[jmoo wan]

no Weideman. no structure. no bombers

 

[Mootsy]

Play Voss and Tsatas rest of the year.
k thanks bye..

 

[Skipper_]

We are going nowhere with the likes of Heppell, Kelly, Snelling, Guelfi and Laverde in the side.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

abysmal fortnight

need to turn this around pronto.

Hope like hell Ridley is OK

 

[raskolnikov]

I've about lost interest in this side. #eco.

 

[BomberTime]

Least Bevo didn’t have to break his other hand tonight.

Midget.

 

[dank420_]

That’s All Folks!

 

[Howard Moon]

Unicorn is a myth.

 

[VelvetSledge]

I’m finding it hard to care.

 

[frodos gardener]

Disappointed with Perkins, Martin, Parish, Stringer, McGarth, Caldwell and Scott tonight.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Two crap weeks in a row. Not many learnings to take out of that unfortunately. Few players need to be put out to pasture for us to advance.

 

[jdstorm]

Lost this one in the coaches box and umpires mouth

Pretty frustrated right now

 

[andleanback]

Poor selection
Poor effort
Poor coaching

Why the f would you sub on hind then leave him to rot in fwd pocket
When we were crying out for run from behind


Our whole structure is out of whack atm
Too many slow backs
No enough pace in the fwd half
If stringer isn’t fit drop him. He’s a liability y

 

[DERO]

no Weideman. no structure. no bombers

The talisman!

 

[fairbump_playon]

abysmal fortnight

need to turn this around pronto.

Hope like hell Ridley is OK

He’s not

 

[Call Me Cake]

We are going nowhere with the likes of Heppell, Kelly, Snelling, Guelfi and Laverde in the side.

Heppell and Phillips are definite dead weights and can't take our selves seriously if they're getting a spot over others (but there's no one).

We can still beat GWS, Syd, WCE and North to make the finals but I'd rather miss and have the hunger for next year after an off-season of tough but neccesary changes.

 

[Loonerty]

Ignoring the elephant in the room. Yes it was bad, can't do anything about it.

Of what can actually be controlled, well there's plenty.
Stringer should see VFL time. Not fit enough to play on-ball enough, not offering pressure, not kicking goals he should when he does get the chance.
Going inside 50 we are braindead. It's kick to Wright and hope, but teams work it out by double teaming him because we have no other legitimate avenues if that's legit the only tactic we go with.
McGrath and Heppell had shockers, and Redman went completely missing after the first quarter.
The midfield mix just doesn't work, especially if Merrett gets tagged (note on this is that we desperately miss Setterfield).
There's only so much pressure Ridley, BZT and Laverde can manage before it breaks open. The midfield is still complete ass defensively.
And on Cox, if he can't use his height to take a mark then what does he offer? Struggled to see much of it tonight.

Obviously still a very young side but still a lot of simple things going wrong.

 

[fanuch]

The more things change the more they stay the same

 

[sameolds33]

We miss Draper and Setterfield. have been unbalanced since

 

[Happyskeret]

Hind was the only one who could break the lines.

 

[Learntopray]

Our team is so unbalanced it's ridiculous.

0 small forwards. No forward pressure.
3 mid sized forwards, only 1 is in afl form, doesnt help.
A bunch of mids playing out of position so that we can lose the midfield battle anyway. And we can't even really rotate them because our starting mids can't play elsewhere.
No key back and only 2 decent kicks in a back line that wants to slow play possession (inevitable turn overs). Not to mention they struggle defensively in the air and on the ground.
Cox is not a winger, stop trying to force something that has shown no signs of working.

And I don't care how good Parish can be, the mix doesn't work. We aren't necessarily better without him, but if you aren't a generatinal contested bull or an elite ball user, you can't be as limited as he is. Restricts what you can sorround him with, because he can't play anywhere else but on the ball.

 

[fairbump_playon]

We are finding our level

And that level is 12th.

 

[Skipper_]

If Essington really try their best pick 4 is still on!

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Must be nearly a record amount of marks for a back 7...83 of them from the 7 going through there. Amounted to nothing.