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Autopsy Roast and Toast v Essendon & Changes For WCE

Top 5 v Essendon


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My Richmond ratings from last night, enjoy

Mansall - 10/10
Did nothing but hurt all their players and may be responsible for essendon not being able to field a team next week

Ben miller - 9/10
Not only was he a defensive blanket, he was really good with his disposal. Doing some grest things with his kicks. Surprised me.

Tylar Young - 9/10
Gave Caddy a bath, really impressed, I think we either play balta forward or ice him, because the defence looks better without him

Taranto - 8/10
Fought all day. ****ing gave it his everything and slotted that much needed goal after a 60 minute drought.

Hopper - 8/10
Similar to taranto and he kicked the banana which was super impressive, stepped up

Short - 7/10
Pretty good first game back, kicked a huge goal

Banks - 7/10
Outside 50 goal and so good with the pill. Dude is a lock now next 10 years

Prestia - 7/10
Clean with the ball. He might need to play on next year.

Ross - 6.5/10
He tagged merrett and made him useless. Maybe needs to play a tagging role

Kamdyn McIntosh- 6/10
Stopped a lot of scores on the goal line a lot. He also was composed and made minimal mistakes.

Jonty - 6/10
Went up the ground and actually held onto good contested marks. He reminds me of Jeremy Cameron, really glad he got reward with that goal

Taj - 6/10
Silky. Won every contest he was in, jumped at the ball to bring the mark down in the first. Rather than wait for the spoil, the kid is clean.

Brown - 5.5/10
Lots of the ball. Half good half bad, wasnt his best game.

Vlastuin - 5.5/10
Did some dumb shit with Broad in the defensive 50 that really cost us. Dunno why he overpossessed it. Still did many good things though.

Broad - 4.5/10
Average game from him. Overpossessrd the ball. Wasn't creative and turned it over too much.

Nank - 4/10
Must be injured, didnt dominate enough against Goldstein who is essendon a 50 year old senior citizen. We need to start thinking about life after Nank, hes getting older and worse.

Trainor - 3/10
Missed set shots. Ducked so much, will build himself a poor rep if he milks for frees, must run in the blood as his grandfather kicked 1000 goals for the filthy cats. Nice 1 handed mark going back with the flight.

Seth Campbell - 2.5/10
This guys had a really quiet month.

Tresize- 2/10
Wasnt on long enough as he was sub but didn't do anything good. Had one shot at goal and sprayed it

Sonsie - 1/10
So much of the ball, every time he just takes TOO LONG TO DECIDE WHAT TO ****ING DO AND ESSENDON JUST ALL FLOOD DOWN. Hes ****ing shit.

Maurice Rioli - 1/10
Back to being ****ing shit, gets in good positions and just ****S EVERYTHING UP. He was essendons best defender

Sims - 0/10
Got spanked by goldy, called for the ball on the goalline and missed the sealer. Took one great mark and kicked it on the full. Can't kick for shit this dumb campaigner

Kozi - 💀🐒
Was his NDIS worker with him? This guy has the football IQ of a Dodo Bird. His career will be extinct soon
season 1 friends GIF
 
I watched the first half live and the second on replay this morning. Abysmal game and I already knew the result but I wanted to see Vlas get the win in his 250th. I think both teams had the right idea trying to play a quicker transition-style game but there was a terrible lack of skill and composure. Good goals from Hopper, Taranto, and Short the difference along with Miller and Young in defence.

I'm thinking we could have a win or two left in us before the season is out.
We were not trying to play a quicker transition game in any way shape or form. It was clear at the ground that we had been coached not to rush it in to our forward line if we thought we were out-numbered. The Bombers played 1 and often 2 spare defenders back and just waited for us to go out wide/switch and then roll over. We would kick it to guys in space and they had were clear that they weren't to play on unless they knew they had another player to kick it to. Then our footskills let us down when we did eventually try to bite something off (Sonsie's eventual left foot pass to Hotton which was cut off a great example of this). So many times though, we'd exit the ball and get it to half back or just defensive side of wing and look up to see 2 spare defenders. It was deliberate, ugly and painful, but deliberate.

Not the footy I'd like to think we'll try to play with a healthier lists and another pre-season but it is allowing young guys to understand a system, it's just an ugly one currently. We will look better when we can move it quickly, have forwards knowing where the mids are likely to kick it and have forwards who actually present at the ball carrier - will come with experience and more pre-seasons.
 

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It’s not really relevant
What matters is who he played in the best 22 and how much experience they have

Lack of experience causes holes in structure

As I mentioned our forward line has next to no experience so it opens it up as the main fail point to be exploited and that is exactly what is happening

We can’t just pretend that it isn’t a major factor and every single opposition coach knows this and plan to exploit it
And who were our experienced forwards in 2010 ?


 
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Funny thing is that I wouldn’t trade Tom Brown for Jacob van Rooyen now even if I was given the chance 😂

He’s just so poised with the ball, can rely on him making good use of the ball
And Faull and Armstrong will be far better players up forward.
 
32 disposals, 16 marks & 650m gained from our 2 x KPD's.

Miller, Young, Balta, Gibcus, Gray & Blight is some group. Would be nice to have a 21/22 year old version of the first 2 to come through with Gibbo & Gray. Should probably give Blight a crack up forward as the KPF/2nd ruck (assuming he's not bailing and we do wish to keep him) as Sims is a fair way from ready and not sure its helping him.
 
Get ya hand off it Ancient Tiger ya cuck.

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Imagine saying this crap to Bombers posters on the Bombers board 🙄

It was a fair bump, inside the boundary line, with the ballin play. Mansell did nothing wrong. In fact, he did great. Unfortunately Martin was unlucky.
My other post said he never could imagine that was going to be the outcome. Reverse the situation and have one of our best players do an ACL because of an unnecessary action by a bomber. We'd be baying for their blood. Look at the angst we have had against Hawkin's small push onto Soldo. It's still being mentioned.
I stand by my comments. It was an unnecessary action that resulted in a terrible injury to a footy player. I wish Mansell showed as much aggression in getting the actual ball and he'd be a far better player. As it is, he has been pretty average for most games this year. How many possessions did he get on Saturday for instance?
 
My other post said he never could imagine that was going to be the outcome. Reverse the situation and have one of our best players do an ACL because of an unnecessary action by a bomber. We'd be baying for their blood. Look at the angst we have had against Hawkin's small push onto Soldo. It's still being mentioned.
I stand by my comments. It was an unnecessary action that resulted in a terrible injury to a footy player. I wish Mansell showed as much aggression in getting the actual ball and he'd be a far better player. As it is, he has been pretty average for most games this year. How many possessions did he get on Saturday for instance?
What do you think was unnecessary about it? If he hadn't have bumped Martin out of bounds, he would have got a handball off and form then who knows, could have led to a crucial goal.

If you watch it again you'll see Martin pauses and waits for contact. He wants to get pushed out of bounds to create another stoppage. Mansell did what he should have.
 

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What do you think was unnecessary about it? If he hadn't have bumped Martin out of bounds, he would have got a handball off and form then who knows, could have led to a crucial goal.

If you watch it again you'll see Martin pauses and waits for contact. He wants to get pushed out of bounds to create another stoppage. Mansell did what he should have.
When I watched it it seemed like he could have easily just tackled Martin stopping the handball. At that point they both would have beed over the line. Instead, he went for an aggressive tackle-bump. As I said the injury was a completely unforeseen result.
 
U make more sense these days RJK , bang on with alot of that and I too haven’t forgotten how bakes disgraced himself , made me think not even close to captain material that bf speech night

Give it a rest. He's a great young fella.
On B&F night he was terrified, embarrassed and exceedingly nervous...and yes, made the mistake of having a few too many under those circumstances.
Was a super little warrior for us.
 
When I watched it it seemed like he could have easily just tackled Martin stopping the handball. At that point they both would have beed over the line. Instead, he went for an aggressive tackle-bump. As I said the injury was a completely unforeseen result.
So he should tackle him softly over the line and place a pillow under his head just to be sure? If Martin is within the boundary, with the ball, then an aggressive bump is fine as is any other physical contact within the rules. The umpire got it wrong.
 
32 disposals, 16 marks & 650m gained from our 2 x KPD's.

Miller, Young, Balta, Gibcus, Gray & Blight is some group. Would be nice to have a 21/22 year old version of the first 2 to come through with Gibbo & Gray. Should probably give Blight a crack up forward as the KPF/2nd ruck (assuming he's not bailing and we do wish to keep him) as Sims is a fair way from ready and not sure its helping him.
We’re bloody blessed to have our defensive group while conducting this rebuild. Only have to look at Norf who are 5 years deep into their rebuild and still have a far worse defensive group than us. It’s kept us competitive in more games than it should have.
 

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