AFL Autopsy RND 22: Loss

[Kong]

I’m comforted by the fact I’m not this knob

Yeah there's nothing funny about that, even if it's a joke tweet.

 

[Dan26]

If Martin was moved to the forward line in the last (or for the whole game) we win.

He played well, but is wasted across half back. He always kicks goals when moved forward. Always. He’s just one of those players that knows how to find the goals.

 

[Kong]

i didnt sign up this year.

i am vindicated.

Haven't been a member since 2015, I win.

 

[nipst@r]

Sometimes mindset is self fulfilling.

Seems if leading and close we still have mindset of don't be the one to stuff it it up as opposed to be a reason for winning.

 

[Foxx]

Rubbish an a grade midfielder kicks Merrett goal.
Draper is playing as a forward and has missed shots previously.
Be honest mate.
They were all kickable it is not fair to single anyone out.

So they all folded against the pressure to win?
Losing culture?

 

[Phone]

Haven't been a member since 2015, I win.

i've never been a member so I win even more

I mean it'd be deeply stupid for me to be a member since I'm interstate, but still

 

[Seb78]

Good result. A win would've wall papered over some serious cracks. This Essendon team is nowhere near it.

Cox
Menzie
Laverde
Kelly
Heppell
Goldstein
Shiel
Hind
Wanganeen

Move these players on. Either not up to it, or not going to be part of any future success. Ok to keep Hind as depth, don't mind him too much, but the rest can gtfo. Stringer 1 year only to play as sub. He'll only ever be a 1qtr impact player from here on in.

Persist with Caddy and Roberts, see what Tsatas actually has at AFL level (not as sub) play Hayes & El-Hawli as well. Time to fix this sh!t once and for all, sick of it..

 

[Groundhog Day]

What you need to do is get your head around the fact we are average and stop getting sucked in .
Every year you go flying off the ledge like Wyllie Coyote.
Hope is a bad thing.

Andy Dufresne doesn’t like this post.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Tippa at his peak..or an equivalent small forward in our team and we shit that game in.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Please get Lloyd back as a goal kicking coach. Pay him whatever he wants, and he gets to tell the fitness team to f off if they say players shouldn't have that many kicks in their training

Ahh no. Mathew Lloyd is a major reason why the tail still wags the dog at this club.

Culture is not in his vocabulary.

 

[Chief Hopper]

Even with this loss, I thought we played alright. The season felt over already a few matches ago.
Gold Coast are just one of those teams that match up pretty well to us.
Draper to me plays fwd. 2mp just can't take a mark or kick goals enough.
The team kicking into 50 is so awful. Mckay and Laverde must have competitions on worst disposal howlers.
Still another year, more games time, I think we will get better.

 

[Zach Package]

To what crumber?

Wright has been off all year, very plainly.

Wright is where you get your structure, he simply must play, he’s everything that Draper isn’t, he’s a dead eye, he’s predictable with his patterns and he gets to a boatload more contests.

Langford is now the structural lynchpin of the forward line, which is hurting his output as well.

Good on Draper for pulling his finger out but he shouldn’t be there as the second ruckman.

Wright plays, Perkins plays instead of Menzie for some connection going forward and Setterfield sits on Rowell in the middle to let Caldwell go hunting and the game isn’t even almost close.

 

[fairbump_playon]

There was nothing surer after we wasted a few chances

Even into the last minute I just knew it was going to happen, was just waiting to find out how

It really is for the best. No point scraping into the 8 with this team.

We were actually ok tonight, particularly last quarter. We lack class but the effort and intensity was there. It’s hard to ask players to be more talented or mature than they are. I’m satisfied if they work hard.

 

[yodellinhank]

Yes. Bring in Beatson. F*** off Dodoro altogether.

Has Beatson ever mentored anyone? Dodo could mentor him how to mentor someone

 

[bombreys]

Wright is where you get your structure, he simply must play, he’s everything that Draper isn’t, he’s a dead eye, he’s predictable with his patterns and he gets to a boatload more contests.

Langford is now the structural lynchpin of the forward line, which is hurting his output as well.

Good on Draper for pulling his finger out but he shouldn’t be there as the second ruckman.

Wright plays, Perkins plays instead of Menzie for some connection going forward and Setterfield sits on Rowell in the middle to let Caldwell go hunting and the game isn’t even almost close.

Oh dear

 

[ant555]

Wright is where you get your structure, he simply must play, he’s everything that Draper isn’t, he’s a dead eye, he’s predictable with his patterns and he gets to a boatload more contests.

Langford is now the structural lynchpin of the forward line, which is hurting his output as well.

Good on Draper for pulling his finger out but he shouldn’t be there as the second ruckman.

Wright plays, Perkins plays instead of Menzie for some connection going forward and Setterfield sits on Rowell in the middle to let Caldwell go hunting and the game isn’t even almost close.

Because dropping easy marks and not having a presence really works. Have a look at the VFL today .

 

[Bombermania]

That last quarter said everything about this club, and I'm not even upset about it.

 

[BuffDog]

I’d say Scott would have built our defensive set up this year around McKay, Ridley and Reid and unfortunately it hasn’t panned out that way. We played most of the game with only McKay and Laverde as key defenders so our vulnerability got us in the end.

 

[Darealrath]

There was nothing surer after we wasted a few chances

Even into the last minute I just knew it was going to happen, was just waiting to find out how

It really is for the best. No point scraping into the 8 with this team.

We were actually ok tonight, particularly last quarter. We lack class but the effort and intensity was there. It’s hard to ask players to be more talented or mature than they are. I’m satisfied if they work hard.

Agree on effort and intensity. Just not enough skilful or smart players.

The lack of footy IQ shows up as the team often plays its best when desperate or the underdog but when in a strong position it overthinks it and comes unstuck - I think this is one of the reasons we don't put away teams.

 

[hirdylloydy1]

mac andrew had kicked 4 goals in his entire career prior to tonight, yet kicks 4 against us, is there anything more essendon than letting a spud have his best game?

 

[fairbump_playon]

Because dropping easy marks and not having a presence really works. Have a look at the VFL today .

Yep being pushed out of the way like you’re a beaded curtain is so helpful for structure.

 

[fairbump_playon]

mac andrew had kicked 4 goals in his entire career prior to tonight, yet kicks 4 against us, is there anything more essendon than letting a spud have his best game?

Don’t reckon Mac Andrew is going to prove to be a spud

But yep we can play teams and players into form.

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

Just a mentally weak, culturally bereft outfit. It's not the coach or list management or anything simple like that. It's in the bones of the place. A rot that set in sometime in the mid-2000s, metastasized during the Saga, and hasn't been cured since.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

mac andrew had kicked 4 goals in his entire career prior to tonight, yet kicks 4 against us, is there anything more essendon than letting a spud have his best game?

Hes far from a spud. He's actually a gun.

 

[div12ressie]

what did that ******* brad scott say in the presser? aint watching it