Review Round 1 v Geelong

[s_wd6]

If the cut off for youth is 2020 onwards (which it must be because our 2019 clears) then we have:

2020: Treacy, Chapman, Walker, NOD

2021: Amiss, Johnson

2022: Draper

2023: ???

2024: Reid

All of whom are leagues better than what they showed yesterday (except Johnson who I thought played better than his usual). Geelong’s looked good because of how well the team played in general but overall I’d say we edge them out when we’re on.

 

[Footskill]

Freo only played one genuinely poor quarter yesterday, which was the 2nd quarter.
The first ten minutes of the game, I thought Freo looked the better team. Then came the repeated not 15 and dodgy HTB calls, plus Geelong nailng their limited chances, and Freo were flustered. They spent the second quarter fumbling, completely losing the plot. This is highlighted by how Treacy seemed to rush his goal kicking routine and spray it. I sensed that they lost all composure for that quarter.

Third quarter they played well.

Fourth quarter they gambled on playing all out attack, but the petrol tickets ran out due to having to charge at the cats from 10 goals down.

Forget the last quarter. That's just what happens when you cook yourself trying to chase down a lead. The game was lost in the second quarter.

It all looks so much worse in the moment then it actually was.

It's not an excuse, however, every person on here agrees, there were two sets of rules being played to yesterday. It is disgraceful. But, it got in our guys heads and they lost their composure. They need to be better than that, but we can put it down to a round 1 game being played at 10.30am in summer heat.

That game was a free hit. I'm writing it off and expecting a big response next Sunday.

Yeah that two non 15m kicks off the top of my head resulted in fumbling that definitely flustered the backline who are jittery at the best of times

Fumbling and indecisiveness can be contagious. Saw it in the carlton game where what looked like in a space of 10 minutes players were fumbling and dropping regulation marks

 

[Footskill]

Was there any point in time we had Reidy rucking and Jackson playing inside? Would of taken away from the JJJ up fwd but while getting smashed in clearances least of the worries

 

[s_wd6]

If the cut off for youth is 2020 onwards (which it must be because our 2019 clears) then we have:

2020: Treacy, Chapman, Walker, NOD

2021: Amiss, Johnson

2022: Draper

2023: ???

2024: Reid

All of whom are leagues better than what they showed yesterday (except Johnson who I thought played better than his usual). Geelong’s looked good because of how well the team played in general but overall I’d say we edge them out when we’re on.

On another note though we really don’t have much to show for the past few years.

Davies won’t make it. Emmett and Knobel are both gone. Wagner is old and only has a few years left. Reidy is shit.

Simpson has some time but I don’t expect to see anything from him anytime soon with his ankle now. Murphy I honestly forgot he existed until just now. Delean and Jones both gone by the end of the year.

 

[vidwhal]

All I'll say is that I'm glad premierships are won at the end of the season, not the beginning. Phew!

 

[ilikepotatoes]

Freo only played one genuinely poor quarter yesterday, which was the 2nd quarter.
The first ten minutes of the game, I thought Freo looked the better team. Then came the repeated not 15 and dodgy HTB calls, plus Geelong nailng their limited chances, and Freo were flustered. They spent the second quarter fumbling, completely losing the plot. This is highlighted by how Treacy seemed to rush his goal kicking routine and spray it. I sensed that they lost all composure for that quarter.

Third quarter they played well.

Fourth quarter they gambled on playing all out attack, but the petrol tickets ran out due to having to charge at the cats from 10 goals down.

Forget the last quarter. That's just what happens when you cook yourself trying to chase down a lead. The game was lost in the second quarter.

It all looks so much worse in the moment then it actually was.

It's not an excuse, however, every person on here agrees, there were two sets of rules being played to yesterday. It is disgraceful. But, it got in our guys heads and they lost their composure. They need to be better than that, but we can put it down to a round 1 game being played at 10.30am in summer heat.

That game was a free hit. I'm writing it off and expecting a big response next Sunday.

Now that's a glass half full view of yesterday for sure.

That's legitimately the worst we have ever played under Longmuir.

 

[DocT]

Riley Beveridge is a **** head.

What did he say that was so bad in that piece?

 

[DocT]

A mildly interesting stat is that every team that has lost this week has had more handballs than the team that won.

Nearly always the team that has the most kicks wins (if you exclude the BS chip kick sideways backwards malarkey)

 

[DocT]

The most depressing thing is how much better Geelong’s youth is than ours. Holmes, SDK, Henry, Humphries, Dempsey, Neale, Clark, Knevitt, (Bruhn) s***s all over what we have coming through.

Hard to conclude this - with your team on top it makes everyone look better.

 

[anchor man]

Mattis, sorry I can't agree.We played very poorly in the first quarter, surrendering 5 goals. A flow on from our bad starts which we have had for a long time.
Our shining light was Murphy Reid. The kid has class written all over him.But as he said, he did little before or after his blitz.But that is easy to understand.
A lot was sadi after game at the poor showing of our back line, but we need to look further up field to the forwards.When we kicked a behind, our entire forward line ran away fromthe player with the ball.Every time. This allowed their backs to stroll down the field cheking where they were going to kick to.Then the same applied with the kicker.Stroll the ball into their forward line.
No wonder the back were under siege.
Only in the third quarter did we see any semblance of the Treacy attack on the ball.His physical attacks were the main reason Reid was able to kick his goals.And I am not singling Treacy out, because there were many more up there that did nothing.At least Treacy stood up during theta time and to me was the reason we began to fire.
I thought the third was a sign that the "smashing" that Seron mentioned, at training was showing how fit we were. But sadly not. We faded badly. Players cramping badly.
I am not going to pick on players individually as there would be far too many to ention.
But, hopefully a large crowd next will get he boys up and running and bring home a win.

 

[mattis117]

Now that's a glass half full view of yesterday for sure.

That's legitimately the worst we have ever played under Longmuir.

I don't agree, we played worse then that twice last year alone. At least Geelong are a top side, losing to them is not as big of a deal as losing to a bottom 2 Eagles side.

It's not overly optimistic either, just observation that the game was lost in the second quarter, with reasonable explanation for what happened in the other three.

I'm confident that Freo are better than that and willing to write it off so long as it isn't repeated next week.

 

[mattis117]

Mattis, sorry I can't agree.We played very poorly in the first quarter, surrendering 5 goals. A flow on from our bad starts which we have had for a long time.
Our shining light was Murphy Reid. The kid has class written all over him.But as he said, he did little before or after his blitz.But that is easy to understand.
A lot was sadi after game at the poor showing of our back line, but we need to look further up field to the forwards.When we kicked a behind, our entire forward line ran away fromthe player with the ball.Every time. This allowed their backs to stroll down the field cheking where they were going to kick to.Then the same applied with the kicker.Stroll the ball into their forward line.
No wonder the back were under siege.
Only in the third quarter did we see any semblance of the Treacy attack on the ball.His physical attacks were the main reason Reid was able to kick his goals.And I am not singling Treacy out, because there were many more up there that did nothing.At least Treacy stood up during theta time and to me was the reason we began to fire.
I thought the third was a sign that the "smashing" that Seron mentioned, at training was showing how fit we were. But sadly not. We faded badly. Players cramping badly.
I am not going to pick on players individually as there would be far too many to ention.
But, hopefully a large crowd next will get he boys up and running and bring home a win.

Yes, second half of the first quarter was when the rot started.

Fitness became a non factor because of the scoreboard. Freo spent all their tickets clawing back the 10 goal deficit.

 

[stax on the mull]

Here’s a stat


We took 5 contested marks for the whole game.

5. Amongst 23 players and almost 2 hours of footy. And Sniss was the only forward to kick one

I must have had a day off when nicknames were handed out.

Who is Sniss, and just as mindboggling is, if those sentences are related, how does one kick a contested mark.

 

[Lach72]

I must have had a day off when nicknames were handed out.

Who is Sniss, and just as mindboggling is, if those sentences are related, how does one kick a contested mark.

Amiss. Fat finger syndrome

 

[Daltsy29]

Definitely in the minority here but I don't think this loss is the end of the world. Rather get gut punched/fact checked in round 1.

We had a few similar shockers last year and still nearly made the top 8 (even top 4).

That said, if it happens again at home against Sydney then I'm joining team burn it down.

 

[stax on the mull]

Amiss. Fat finger syndrome

I think Amiss maybe took his contested mark up the ground in the first quarter. Cox's 1v1 mark near the goalsquare in the 4th might be the only contested mark by our forwards.

I did hear Longmuir say he thought Reidy competed quite well in the forward line, and while he did get the ball to ground for one of Reid's goal and provided an assist kick, it seemed to defeat the purpose of having Reidy in the team by playing him so much up forward. We had a look at it against Melbourne in the pre-season and it didn't work and we start Rd 1 with an unproven tactic.

When we went inside 50m a couple of times at the start of the last quarter when the margin was still around 3-4 goals it went to a pack of 6 talls.

 

[mike91]

Freo only played one genuinely poor quarter yesterday, which was the 2nd quarter.
The first ten minutes of the game, I thought Freo looked the better team. Then came the repeated not 15 and dodgy HTB calls, plus Geelong nailng their limited chances, and Freo were flustered. They spent the second quarter fumbling, completely losing the plot. This is highlighted by how Treacy seemed to rush his goal kicking routine and spray it. I sensed that they lost all composure for that quarter.

Third quarter they played well.

Fourth quarter they gambled on playing all out attack, but the petrol tickets ran out due to having to charge at the cats from 10 goals down.

Forget the last quarter. That's just what happens when you cook yourself trying to chase down a lead. The game was lost in the second quarter.

It all looks so much worse in the moment then it actually was.

It's not an excuse, however, every person on here agrees, there were two sets of rules being played to yesterday. It is disgraceful. But, it got in our guys heads and they lost their composure. They need to be better than that, but we can put it down to a round 1 game being played at 10.30am in summer heat.

That game was a free hit. I'm writing it off and expecting a big response next Sunday.

Wtf did I just read? One bad quarter? Don't worry about the last?

Good god that is a very weird take

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[BREATHLESS_987]

No votes/MVP for this game? Or do we just cut out the middle man and go straight to the Murphy Reid thread?

 

[mattis117]

Wtf did I just read? One bad quarter? Don't worry about the last?

Good god that is a very weird take

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Disparaging posts weaken what you have to say.

The only point is it is explainable, in this case, ran out of gas chasing down a big target.

Good for you mike, plenty of contributions the last few days taking your frustrations out on other people.

 

[mike91]

Disparaging posts weaken what you have to say.

The only point is it is explainable, in this case, ran out of gas chasing down a big target.

Good for you mike, plenty of contributions the last few days taking your frustrations out on other people.

Oh God, another one playing the victim again

We lose three quarters by over 100 points.

You - we played one bad quarter

Not worried about the last quarter, which we loss by over 9 goals.

Maybe less victim mindset and understand certain bias posts like this deserve criticism hey?

Maybe commonsense would suggests you're completely wrong.

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[mattis117]

Oh God, another one playing the victim again

We lose three quarters by over 100 points.

You - we played one bad quarter

Not worried about the last quarter, which we loss by over 9 goals.

Maybe less victim mindset and understand certain bias posts like this deserve criticism hey?

Maybe commonsense would suggests you're completely wrong.

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You OK mate? You seem unreasonably angry at everything. Trying to start fights and insinuating people are playing victim.

I'm not complaining mate and you're not going to succeed to pull me into a debate.

You're not discussing anything, you're just angry and shouting. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Lach72]

You OK mate? You seem unreasonably angry at everything. Trying to start fights and insinuating people are playing victim.

I'm not complaining mate and you're not going to succeed to pull me into a debate.

You're not discussing anything, you're just angry and shouting. Hope you feel better soon.

To be fair your take is idiotic. You don’t get a pass for shit footy because you’re tired.

 

[mike91]

You OK mate? You seem unreasonably angry at everything. Trying to start fights and insinuating people are playing victim.

I'm not complaining mate and you're not going to succeed to pull me into a debate.

You're not discussing anything, you're just angry and shouting. Hope you feel better soon.

In other words, you're aware your very odd post of "we played one bad quarter" got questioned and instantly played the victim, then doubled down on it thinking it makes you look right?


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[stax on the mull]

There was a few times yesterday where the ball was loose and there to be won and our players propped and waited to see if it would bounce favourably their way rather than attack it. I know there's probably smarts involved in not over-running the ball, which we also did a few times, but not going in to get it gives off the impression that there's a lack of hardness around the contest.

I thought Johnson and O'Driscoll did OK and Caleb and Andy always have a red hot go. The only one I can remember now was Freddy. He's got such a magnificent physique and he's tough when he's in a marking contest but sometimes he has no method in the ground ball contest, and I guess maybe part of that is that he's ready to use his speed and run away from it to receive more than go in and get it. (Don't want to single him out as there were others, just the only one I can remember distinctly).

 

[s_wd6]

Omg are you guys five? Stop taking everything so personally