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Autopsy Round 1 v Richmond - Blues go down by 43

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Tough game but a bit to like moving forward, especially hitting the scoreboard more than expected.
 

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Good hitout first up, would replace a few talls and flankers with some more genuine mids.
Perhaps move on White, Daisy, and maybe even Charlie if he plays as a forward rather than a mid, and bring in some more ball winners and tacklers.
 

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Weitering, SOS, Marchbank, SPS, HMac - kids but jesus some absolute power here.

White, Thomas, Casboult, Armfield and E.Curnow - how does it feel to have literal kids outshine you in both effort and performance? You should be looking up to them, not the other way around. They should protect you from the big badies of the opposition..

We need 2 midfielders to come in (Kerridge and Palmer) and White and Thomas to **** off. There just doesn't seem to be enough midfielders in this team.

Any body still brace enough to kid themselves that Simon White is a footballer??
 
Enough positives to keep me happy.

Marchbank & Weitering were HUUUUGE!!! Very impressive.
With Weitering, SOSOS & Pickett, we have the makings of a very good forward line in the future.

SOSOS, Pickett & SPS all also showed something.

Would have like to have seen C Curnow do a bit more but im confident he'll improve...throws it on the boot a bit too much.

Macreadie did ok, didn't get much of it but didn't have a proper match up since he was on Rioli.
 
Too many mistakes from our 'good' players like simpson/doc and non existent games from white, armfield and curnow brothers.

Amazingly were close enough but ultimately werent good enough. Were never going to overrun them with the number of kids played.

Kids were good as was kruezer and murph from mid 2nd term. Gibbs faded as did thomas. Cripps no impact and reckon no preseason will cost him big time.

Liked seton, mccready, plowman, marchbank, silvagni. Just need 50 more games into them.

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Positives
  • Marchbank was fantastic, although his kicking was costly at times.
  • Weitering was very good as a forward
  • Murphy was ok although defensively he was terrible
  • SOS looks like a gun 3rd forward
Negatives
  • Simpson was strangely off his game
  • Cripps looked underdone and had no impact in the middle
  • Pickett looked completely out of place (harsh I know but my expectations were high after JLT) Charlie also was disappointing
  • Army, White, Daisy and E.Curnow just aren't up to the standard
  • Goals from turnovers, FMD
Overall we were completely dominated in the middle, Martin and to a lesser extent, Prestia were just a level above any of our midfielders. I thought our forward line actually looked decent tonight, although Richmond's backline is quite awful, especially when Rance struggles.

I think we did well to claw back into the contest late in the third, but we never looked like winning.

Trust the process, although it is frustrating
 
Dusty was the difference TBH, he can really play, didn't expect to win, but still so much to like.
SPS, Marchbank, Weitering, Mercreadi, Pickett, Jack all showed some really great sighs
Kruezer Murphy Gibbs and Wright also played well and never stopped trying.
Thomas shouldnt be played for the rest of the year, offers almost nothing to the team and is basically just a massive liability.
 
That young defence of Marchbank, Macreadie, Plowman and Docherty is going to be really good.

Great first hitout from SPS and some nice cameos from Pickett.

Thomas an almost monty to be dropped. An absolute liability and some shocking decision making at times.
Couldn't agree more
 
We should have done the trade AFC offered for Gibbs.

Dumb.

Moving on, id say its a positive first game. Murph looks great so does kreuz, weits will be a great forward for us, and smedts was good too.

Plow, marchbank and Macreadie did well considering.

Both the Curnow brothers were disappointing.
So was Armfield. White had his moments.

All up im pretty pleased.
 
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