Autopsy Roast & toast round 11 vs Port Adelaide & changes round 12 vs GC

[Rubber Hips]

whos tom morris

more importantly did he go to Melb Uni?

 

[Rubber Hips]

Hurt his finger?

lost his finger in a deep crevasse

 

[tora tora tora]

Not stressed, ran out of juice last quarter. 6 of our best out and they couldn't play any better

But thinking about it, maybe should have selected fresher players.

 

[mauricerioli]

Why? They have 8 days off now

The cumulative effect of playing condensed games.

They`ve just played 4 games in 15 days, and between the GWS game and the Essendon game will be 6 games in 30 days.

Some players might need to be managed.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Why SA ?

so he can screw his first cousins...it’s legal...then put his red neck cousin in a barrel of acid

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

more importantly did he go to Melb Uni?

Broadmedows Tafe.

 

[cairo tiger]

smashed in the mid feild and balta and grimes under too much pressure. fix it. graham would be a better choice as ross was ineffective. down the road we need an inside bull who can also roam wide. Balta. Did well considereing our mid was really just bolton a midget. did not plan for this properly. caddy a poor choice as he was underdone and ineffective and is not and never will be a mid. higgins out hurt us. castanga is a naughty word starting with something. we need to trade out rioli, I have never seen a player lose so much like him. he is cooked. egg shites himself.

 

[Madtiger2006]

Ross has been pretty good for a 10 gamer. Only a dumbt khaarnt would complain

 

[partycorolla]

If that was the best Port had, we'll cover them in finals. Their pressure was absolutely extraordinary in the first half and yet we gave them 4 goal starts twice and reeled them in. We were smashed out of the middle, smashed at the contest, undersized down back opposed to Dixon and Ladhams, yet still we held strong for all but the first 3 minutes of the last quarter. Throw a starting premiership midfield in there, take out Egg's 3 goal-costing mistakes and we just win - regardless of venue. The umps weren't great but we were the beneficiaries of that at times. What ultimately cost us was poor discipline and the fact we had 3 up at times defensively when we only needed 2. Left dangerous guys on the ground unattended.

Other notes:
Rioli was much better playing higher and a bit more uncontested. Like Stack his touch isn't quite there at the moment - needs confidence.
Lambert was well-tagged out of it. Need more from a senior player.
Discipline has been an issue all year - Ultimately the worst offenders have been Dusty, JR, Lynch and obviously yesterday it was Caddy. Expect better from senior guys
Centre setup - yesterday was as bad as I've ever seen it.
Getting forward 50 stoppages - poor most of the year. (better last couple of weeks though). The impact of having Rioli, Castagna out of form and Bolton having to be in the mids means that when the ball comes to ground, it seems to be Aartz providing pressure or it just comes out. Will be something to watch when players return.

Outs: Egg (not yet ready for that intensity - hasn't gone hard enough in the air or ground for a couple of weeks), Castagna (love him but just no impact yesterday).

Ins: Cotch and Houli. Hanging out for Astbury to return. Him and Balta as the key posts with Grimes taking the dangerous small or being a 3rd man up... Then Vlastuin/Broad helping out.

 

[Nostradumbass]

my grannys mum gave birth by mistake on a doorstep and these campaigners cant even come up to qld to have a baby in immaculate conditions

WTF

 

[Rubber Hips]

fu** looking at darwin forecasts cos we play there in few weeks

its mid 30s every day there! whats it like at night ?

dark

 

[Lsta062]

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Th maggots had port 8-0 free kicks in the first quarter lol

I’d love it if Richmond has 22-11 free kicks just so I can say “the free kick count doesn’t matter” or “free kicks don’t always have to be equal” too.

I’m saving that line for the next time we have a positive differential of above 10. Well, whenever that is considering that Round 12 of 2015 against West Coast was the last time we had a free kick differential of above +10, with Hawthorn in Round 7 of 2016 being +10 exactly (29-19). The umpiring for us is probably the worst at AO.

 

[shaky]

George was putrid mate

Didn’t say he was great but there were bigger problems than him last night. Our second string midfield wasn’t up to the job last night.
not sure why they didn’t play Graham, would have been more useful at centre bounces.

 

[tigerfan1961]

Throw a starting premiership midfield in there, take out Egg's 3 goal-costing mistakes and we just win - regardless of venue.

You forgot taking out the arsey goals to Ladhams and Dixon Mind you, floggy Gray unlucky not to get one before half time siren

 

[mauricerioli]

I think we've been generally poor in the wet this year, we turned to s**t in the last quarter when the rain came.

 

[partycorolla]

You forgot taking out the arsey goals to Ladhams and Dixon Mind you, floggy Gray unlucky not to get one before half time siren

Yeah and Dixon missed a sitter as well to make up for a his arsey one.

 

[VB_longneck]

I think we've been generally poor in the wet this year, we turned to sh*t in the last quarter when the rain came.

no
midfield

 

[shaky]

the 4th qtr was bizzare, i wonder what caused those brain fades? are we just tired or something, or what, we looked like we could win 3tr , then4th qtr we looked sluggish af

Discipline has been bad pretty much all year I feel. Some really poor free kicks and 50s given away not just last night.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Ran out of puff in the last

the circuit breaker was dumb ass Caddy giving away that 50m making it a certain goal...extending their lead to 11 points...it was like the whole team ...FRO Cads

 

[Maurice Mitchell]

He was slow with the ball too, needed to move it along quicker

Yes for some reason he just stops and doesn’t move it on and let’s the opposition flood back

Those calling for Higgins won’t help this situation either

 

[shaky]

In: Cotchin
Out: Caddy

Only change for me, if they bring Higgo back against Gold Coast they’ll probably drop Rioli or George (I hope they drop George, at least Rioli had a good third quarter which is more than I can say for George), will Houli be ready to play on Monday week?

Really bad night for George, but you generally can’t question his competitiveness, Rioli on the other hand has looked disinterested at times. Remember one point last night he was more interested in making out how badly injured he was then realised he was still in the contest and played on like he was 100%. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Castagna carry on like that.

 

[shaky]

Caddy is not best 22, whoever opted dropped Higgins is a *******

They probably wanted to rest Higgins considering where he’s coming back from.
Caddy is fringe these days, but we don’t really have our wing spots cemented in yet.

 

[joelsyt]

Really bad night for George, but you generally can’t question his competitiveness, Rioli on the other hand has looked disinterested at times. Remember one point last night he was more interested in making out how badly injured he was then realised he was still in the contest and played on like he was 100%. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Castagna carry on like that.

Was that just before half time? The guy got hit in the guts, it generally takes a few minutes for someone to get over that. Seriously people are just looking for excuses now. Move on, there were other players that deserve ire more then Rioli last night.

 

[Rubber Hips]

 

[shaky]

Probably the least annoyed I've been after a loss ever. Condensed schedule, 4 days break, 1/3 of our team out including some very important players.Limited players like Egg who are not up to it will be replaced very shortly when we get healthy. Move on to the next game.

If you read some of the Port posts you think they won a GF lol. We will flog them come finals.

Eggs not up to it at the moment. Has looked ok at times, so not going to say he can’t make it yet.
Great learning night for some of the younger guys, finals like game and a few of them were shown up.
Balta can be great for us but was given a lesson last night and will be educated when they go over his tape on how to play better.