Autopsy Roast and Toast v Essendon & Changes For WCE

[Muddiemoose]

How many players pull sickies Monday morning knowing that they would need to watch the review footage from the game

 

[Chomp12]

Guess who the 2nd most successful club is behind Hawthorn premiership wise the last 60 years. Hint - it’s not Essendon. There’s some more perspective around things.

Still doesn’t change the fact that they’ve won more

 

[Chomp12]

And to boot, Brown was freed up and also had 23 possessions probably the most he’s had in a game - He’s usually between 10-15 which is nowhere near enough for someone of his skill. If those 3 can get that amount of ball consistently, we’ll be getting plenty of drive from HB

And that’s what we had last night, a heap of drive and rebound from HB. Just a shame it came straight back again from our clumsy turnovers up the ground

 

[Madtiger2006]

Essendon are terrible lol
Who they missing?
Perkins was dropped
Probably 5 or 6 from their best 22 were missing who would make a slight difference
We were missing similar amount.
We’ll finish above them, Carl and North next year

 

[voorhees]

Woke up feeling pretty good. Been a fun season. Ugly and shithouse but I'm having fun. Kids look good, carlolton and druggos looking shit. Beat dimma. 4 more wins than most people thought we'd have (plus 2 games I'm counting as wins) We will continue to grow, learn and add to the squad. Going to be a good side.

If we beat the filth it'd be the best season ever.

with you..enjoying the win/loss don't matter, it's all about developing our future.
Up's and downs were always coming, just enjoying the ride.
Cash in our Roos pick + ours and hit the draft again,add more talent.
build, build, build.. future looking promising!

 

[tony__montana]

Sonsie was positioned on the defensive side of the members’ wing and had two clear options: either push forward into a contested situation or look inboard, where we had two free players inside the square. He chose the contested option, and at that moment, I knew it wouldn’t work. You simply can’t afford to make such clearly poor decisions and expect to hold your spot, especially when there's so many gifted kids coming through. Unfortunately, the kid’s confidence just isn’t there right now, and it’s starting to impact his overall performance.

I remember that. He looked inboard on his right foot, faked nicely, swing back onto the left and passed it. As it left the boot I was thinking good lad, duel sided and backs himself in to kick in his left, then saw his pass going straight to a bombers player. Disappointed for him, just not happening for him

 

[Rubber Hips]

 

[tony__montana]

Cadman only 21 and kicking bags of 6 against the pussies though… gives a nice reality check about how far our emerging forwards are

Prior to this season Cadman was looking way off the pace. H he had a breakout game against us kicking 4 I think and hasn’t looked back. Just shows how much tall fwds improve from year 1 to year 3 in the system.
Faull looks phenomenal for a 1st year fwd

 

[captain blood 17]

Be honest, how many will actually rewatch that? In full

Until i run out of Diddy baby oil and tissues bro. Gonna watch again shortly. Why? BECAUSE **** EM, THAT’S WHY.

 

[captain blood 17]

Still doesn’t change the fact that they’ve won more

Really? We’re in the AFL era now. Wanna go again?

 

[captain blood 17]

Feeling great this morning lads. Day is off to a great start. Enjoy the Sunday knowing we got the W.

 

[Andyy]

Essendon are terrible lol
Who they missing?
Perkins was dropped
Probably 5 or 6 from their best 22 were missing who would make a slight difference
We were missing similar amount.
We’ll finish above them, Carl and North next year

They're missing at least 6, probably as many as 8 of their best 22.

Similar to us really.

Dreadful injury run as well.

 

[Groupie_]

the rebuilding dons future looks very promising.

 

[Groupie_]

His face is square

the mask

 

[Nostradumbass]

the mask

Rocky Dennis

 

[Groupie_]

Literally have more premierships than you, freo and saints combined. Plus we were never found guilty of drug use. You scraped a win against a full vfl side, with your best team, in what’s now considered one of the worst games ever played. I wouldn’t be too optimistic for your “future”.

have you won a final in the last 50
years

 

[THE THIN MAN]

Negatives (phew here we go)
Hotton only 56% game time

Hotton was on managed time as stated by Yze in the presser, which I have no problem with as he is coming back from a long-term injury

 

[Groupie_]

Rocky Dennis

no not mask

he looks like jim carrey the mask

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Not the best comparison. Cadman is in his 3rd year and was a number #1 pick. Has already notched up 50+ games too. Playing in a good side, he kicked 6 goals in his debut season. Jonty has also kicked 6 in a shit side.

Also helps to have the reigning Coleman medallist and an in form stringer nearby to ensure you only get one on one looks at it.

 

[Groupie_]

balme on 3aw talking about his life in football

 

[Keilor Tiger]

Yeah it was an awful game of footy, but take the win, experience for the kids, validation to keep fighting to the end even when things not going well - and hopefully avoids the wooden spoon.

I hate finishing last even with the incentive of the No 1 draft pick.

 

[Michaels]

Stop focusing on game plan. Yze games tally does not matter. It's not like he's come in with a a team and tried to implement a game plan with them from day 1. Last year was a year to take stock in what we have and plan what we're going to do going forward.

How can we create a game plan if we don't know what players we have? Last year of we looked forward we would be looking at a completely different game plan than we would looking forward last year. For example we had no key forward talent, so our game plan would've had to account for that but after the draft we know have plenty so that completely changes the entire team and how we can play.

We won 2 games last year and then lost 3 of our top 6 in our B&F, Graham, Dusty and Grimes + Balta has essentially been missing too. Then the massive draft haul we got of all those guys leaving has essentially barely played so we haven't even seen the benefit of that yet. We've just lost a chunk of our best players. And yet we've doubled our win tally from last year already, so improvement has come from within our existing list AND then we have a haul of top talent AND another couple top top picks coming this year.

Forget about last year. This is year 1. We are 17 games into a a rebuild starting from scratch. We are purely in player development phase. Focus on that instead of a game plan. Stop focusing on points scored.

This x 1,000

It’s a long long journey.

 

[Morro]

Tyler Young superb in his comeback from an ACL
18D (8IP) @95%, killed Caddy

Thought he looked really slimmed down and agile. His kicking a real feature.

**** he was so good.

If he and Miller can play KPD’s to that level or close to it, our list profile suddenly looks amazing down back

 

[Groupie_]

shouldve never let balme go

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Be honest, how many will actually rewatch that? In full

I’d sooner watch MAFS