Autopsy Roast & Toast v Hawks & Changes for Eagles

[Nerflardio2424]

Alger needs to come in, Mcaulliffe too, drop Ross or macca.

Trainor, Brown and Hopper all very solid.

Lynch was getting double teamed a lot all day.

I’d drop Rioli and Macca, they’re done.

 

[Rubber Hips]

3 games in 15-17 days followed by 10 day break …..then add diabolical umpiring

No. Excuses for today but,,,,

 

[bryan wood]

Sounds optimistic

lol … thanks for confirming my thoughts

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

In: Smillie McAuliffe Alger

Out: Ross Dow Green

 

[Chunky09]

we also need to sit down with the AFL and ask some questions..
the umps vs us every week...WHY?

So many ridiculous calls but my personal favourite is start of 3rd quarter when there is a tackle on a hawks player, immediately it’s a ball up.
The literal next play is the exact same scenario except teams are switched.

Free kick hawthorn


It’s ****en laughable

 

[copthat]

Lynch across the season is going to be a net positive no doubt but I do wonder if having him there is sometimes to our detriment when we look to kick to him 95% of the time. If he wasn't there we'd be forced to be a bit more creative.

 

[Baltastan]

In: Alger Mcaullife Smith
Out: Rioli Tresize Green
Don't think the 4 smalls have worked well at all

 

[Chunky09]

Short's turnovers are killing us and he is still horrible in 1 on 1 contests.

Yep I’ve held fire on short for a fair while as he has some runs on the board, but time has come for the minimum to be get him out of the backline.

He is non-competitive in marking contests, rarely wins a 1v1 contest and his kicking is just bombs away 50m to the opposition.

I can’t see him getting dropped as we have too much inexperience in the team, to me the only answer is to play him at half forward or wing, if not he needs to be dropped

 

[tropicaltiger]

Some of the melts in here are glorious. Rolled gold.

65 points is a fair old flogging but lets not forget a few of the jokers on here predicted multiple 100p + floggings. fess up please ?!?
we are in ok shape... port, blues and freo are the pathetic ones..... they were/are expected to make finals.

 

[fightingfury]

This hawks team an example of what we can be in 3 years time.

HRS works his ass off all day long. A few senior players could take note.

More like 5 mate

 

[archer the tiger]

if im still alive in 20 years theyll ask me if I follow the footy

ill say I used to but not anymore

the umpiring was too corrupt against my club during the stand rule era so I gave it away

I don’t work in year increments, I’m just happy to be alive in the next 20 minutes! Better off watching local footy the umpires are doing a better job than these ****wits’
Hymi out of Get Smart would do a better job

 

[Cdog71]

Ralph-Smith got 339 mtr and got absolutely torched today by Dambrosia.
We’re just too loose close to the ball, Smillie isn’t a def mid, I get it why he’s playing outside at VFL but we can’t leave it all to Hopper and Taranto to bang and tackle.
Get Mcauliff in.

Ross had score involvements but I’d rather see him in between the arcs.
Brown is a smart footballer if he could get some fwd craft, to block for lynch and get dangerous that plus his passing could be really bloody good.

Clark in for MRJ and send Brown fwd, give Dow a spell for Mcauliff.

We aren’t going to need Brown in the back 6 when Gibcus is good to go

 

[peternorth]

Very disappointed by periods of non-effort. So many fumbles and going to ground. I feel like the midfield is not in sync, going for the same balls and crashing into each other.
Granted, the hawthorn midfield is well structured.

yes! whatever they do, its always the wrong option. Go for the ball? Yes lets all go for it. Seems no chemistry.

 

[Bojangles17]

Trainor and Brown were positives. As were a few of Lalors passes. Not much else sadly. Banks is an OK average player but nothing to get excited about. Campbell has faded lately. Our small forwards are the laughing stock of the comp. Most of our U25's (excluding 2024 batch) haven't really stepped up with all their opportunities. Dow had 1 OK game and people were exaggerating his entire output. Ralphsmith is back to his old self. Man we need Gibcus and Clarke back bad.

Outs: MRJ, McIntosh, Short, Faull
In: Alger, Mcauliffe, Smith, Simms.

Faull can't justify holding his spot, might as well give Simms a crack. MRJ isn't VFL standard, McIntosh is taking opportunities and Shorts kicking and defensive efforts are putrid.

We need Raso desperately and might as well delist all of Colina, OHB and Samson and get Soldo back for cents on the Dollar. Take Cooper Duffman, Kellaway and a fast skilful mid and pump games into kids next year.

Trainor 21p at 90% should get a rising star nomination, brown was good too with 9 marks . I agree our small forwards are rubbish and we need to be introducing replacements, kmac for sure , is it too early for juddy , I liked his game

 

[peternorth]

Thought Nank had his worst game in awhile today. Some really awful efforts.

its so difficult with nank bceause he isnt a tap to advantage ruckman. Best is when the ball up/throw in is nullified and ball hits the deck.....somehow we might get it out.

hes the captain too. He isnt going to be dropped

 

[Bird Man]

time to tank we need more high end picks and WCE will have back to back picks to take the best available. This draft is not deep at all. If we have picks outside of the top 5 then we trade for HR as the drop of is big

 

[peternorth]

3rd quarter was the worst IMO. We gave up.

Felt this was our worst game for the year even worse than the Port loss. Our leaders let us down massively today.

theyve done it a few times this year yes? saints and port and now hawks?

 

[Sir_Loin]

worst oppo fans I’ve ever experienced at a game , they were horrid . I would have never thought there could be worse fans than scum fans , drugs , Geesook and umpirewood

Mate I remember an away game at the g against them they were absolutely ****ing atrocious in the grog squad area. A bunch of self entitled fat slobs

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

worst oppo fans I’ve ever experienced at a game , they were horrid . I would have never thought there could be worse fans than scum fans , drugs , Geesook and umpirewood

all the lippy ones near me didn’t even bother to stay until the end, disappointing really

 

[Ralll]

Went to script unfortunately.
Play such a slow midfield and neither have the pace to pressure in defense, or get separation to move the ball effectively in attack.
To make it worse we can't break even in clearance with a reasonable experienced contested focused setup.
The I50's were mostly just rushed kicking to Hawks setup, save for Lalor in the the last.

 

[Bojangles17]

Sadly, the bigger picture is probably that, as bad as we were last year, we’re even worse now

No we’re not , you only have to look at our performance to date to rebutt that bs . Check how we went v melb lions and GC last year compared to this year
120p losss v lions ly 4G loss this year and so on ,,,with a much younger side in

 

[Bojangles17]

Went to script unfortunately.
Play such a slow midfield and neither have the pace to pressure in defense, or get separation to move the ball effectively in attack.
To make it worse we can't break even in clearance with a reasonable experienced contested focused setup.
The I50's were mostly just rushed kicking to Hawks setup, save for Lalor in the the last.

They were t rushed but they were deep and lynch and Faull gave us very little

 

[damnedn1ghtmare]

"Results like this will be expected at this stage in their rebuild." Blah, blah, blah. They didn't then up today and if YZE is happy to accept the fact they were expected to loose, he can **** right off. That was completely unacceptable.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Don’t worry about it guys we’re getting two picks in the top 5 and will dominate the comp for 10 years

Patience grasshopper

 

[lizard man]

Some might say that nank put in a meek performance today