Game Day Round 2, 2022: Fremantle v St.Kilda

[stfan]

There is just no self belief in our players today. They second guess themselves and find new ways to fumble.

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Is King off injured? Seemed to disappear that quarter.

If he was Sharman would be kicking goals

 

[MrFoster]

Why can't we work it out when we have clear pathways to goal? We seem to panic every time.

We are on top in so many aspects of the game but our finishing is atrocious.

Because we don’t value good skills. you guessed, we value tackles/pressure points. When we do get the ball, Everything is a rushed/under hit handball or kick, plus bad decision making is found out when play is always so congested, but opposition always seem to have more space and time. Yeah, nah.. nothing to do with coaching/game plan, just 18 crap players.

 

[Curunir]

At least we have a young list and we aren't playing recycled players like Lienert and Wood

 

[Balmira]

I've lost complete faith in Ratten now. I'm ready for the Clarkson era.

 

[jwikked]

Steven Milne would have found 10 goals from those forward 50 entries.

Its almost comical watching King bat the ball down , ( bringing it to ground Kosi style ) only to have purple's at his feet.

Milney would be in the 50 waiting for them. How are we meant to kick goals when the whole team is playing on the other side of the centre circle? Our structures are no good so the only time we get a chance at kicking a goal is when we intercept the ball and get away quick but then there's no one to kick to.

How am I seeing this but the coaches box aren't?

 

[Plugger35]

I'm f***ing fuming, we should be at least 2 goals up and not 2 goals down, our forward line is a dog's breakfast again no system, just relying on luck.

King nowhere to be seen, Membrey getting chances and butchering every one of them, our small forwards are dogshit again, FFS sub on Sharman.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Battle clunking them down back.

8 intercepts and 2 contested marks for the half.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

this is where you need to show heart.

It’s all about effort from here.

A saints coach, 1974. Still waiting

 

[MickG88]

The umpiring wasn't bad until about half way into that 2nd quarter, what happened?

 

[gringo2011]

No free and no issue of course

I liked when King apparently got Pierce high but didn't then Seb Ross gets decapitated 2 second later and nothing.

 

[True Blue Saint]

Don’t think Ratts will be extended. Looks a dead man walking.

Good.
Let's get Clarko

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Watched the Hawks last night.

Saw a young team of no names play away from home with a solid structure, making great decisions with the ball and executing.

No panicking, no headless chicken tackling pressure KPIs. Just good decisions and composure time and again all over the ground with a bunch of kids.

That’s the way Sam Mitchell played and why we need coaching like his instead of this that we’ve had for the good part of a decade that is obsessed with pressure over decision-making and composure.

We are an absolute mess because of what we place value in with our footballers and will continue to be until we leave behind “pressure” being our game plan instead of simply being a given.

“We don’t have the cattle” is a cop out for “our coaches don’t know how to get the best out of our current lot”

 

[jwikked]

Even if King could play out the rest of the game, he's been ineffective so far. Bring Sharman on instead and see what happens.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Crouch been sh*te. 1 clearance, zero tackles

We trade in good players past their prime
Or draft kids and cant develop them

 

[True Blue Saint]

I liked when King apparently got Pierce high but didn't then Seb Ross gets decapitated 2 second later and nothing.

I don't think the umps have been as noticeably bad as they were last week.

We just have no idea what to do going inside 50

When we do have an idea the execution lets us down.

#SaintsFooty

 

[Ducky Tie]

Unbelievably poor at working through situations when we have an easy goal to raffle between a few. They overthink it way too easily and are way too quick to give it to the other guy rather than drawing the opponent and then giving it off.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Don’t think Ratts will be extended. Looks a dead man walking.

In more than way than one. Looks like an animated tomato, needs to look after himself

 

[gringo2011]

He goes over/passed the ball, turns his body into it over a guy reaching for the ball, similar to Long on Darcy.

He's not back on so perhaps he is.

I reckon he’ll get off purely because King didn’t get knocked out.

 

[Confuscius]

We must have the combined lowest footy IQ in the AFL......its beyond embarrassing how dumb we are....

There's individual players in the league who would have a higher IQ than our combined 22

 

[LuckyBounce!]

Same s**t, different year…rinse and repeat!

 

[gringo2011]

Milney would be in the 50 waiting for them. How are we meant to kick goals when the whole team is playing on the other side of the centre circle? Our structures are no good so the only time we get a chance at kicking a goal is when we intercept the ball and get away quick but then there's no one to kick to.

How am I seeing this but the coaches box aren't?

It was doing my head in last week. King is chasing marks up the ground only for the ball to go forward to no-one.

 

[jwikked]

“We don’t have the cattle” is a cop out for “our coaches don’t know how to get the best out of our current lot”

Between Steele, Crouch, Gresham, Hill and I guess Seb Ross - I don't want to hear the excuse that injuries are killing us in the middle. These guys should be more than capable of matching it with any other team in the middle.

 

[Browny2Carlisle]

The Eagles team would beat us

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Why? Our captain should be able to rally the troops

Yes he should.