Autopsy Round 2, 2023: Positives and Negatives vs GWS

[HoneyBadger35]

An honest to god win. I see it but I don’t believe it.

Positives
The gameplan. Runners from behind, eagerness to play on. Contested possessions up, clearances up, inside 50s up. Such a change in intent.

TK started the game like a house on fire and ticked it over after that.

Liam ******* Ryan. Could find a teammate on the moon or underwater.

Waterman. So nice having a ‘ruck’ who can add value. Oscar/JD/Waterman a good trio.

JJ off the half back. Shuey off the half back. Sexy stuff.

Cripps and Hunt gut running all day.

Love Long. Ginbey is a prick, how good. Hewett debut and hope we see more. Hell, even SPS looked reinvigorated.

Negatives
Let the margin slip at the end when the legs completely went. Is what it is.

Gaff’s day was poor but putting him back into the middle was equally poor. I thought we were done with that.

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A well deserved win on the day and well deserved for our patience. Now let’s see this game style carry over. Mistakes brought about by going too quickly and losing your head a little are more than acceptable. Show that fight every week and the results either won’t matter or will take care of itself.

 

[Godfather32]

That song is the perfect way to sum up that second half of football, uninspiring

 

[Flarn Rarn]

Managed to reset the losing streak without breaking the club record - so the good news is we can now safely lose the next 9 games again!

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Clearances: +4
Centre clearances: -4
Stoppage clearances: +8

Contested possessions: +7
Tackles: -5, lost the final term comfortably but ahead at 3QT.

Inside 50s: +6
Tackles inside 50: +2

Gee.

 

[MrKennedy17]

Gaff & Sheed on the chopping block.
Yeo & Culley waiting.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Positives
Hunt
SPS
Witherden
Kelly
Jones
Ryan
Waterman
Ginbey topping the tackles for us again

Negatives
Barrass
McGovern
Gaff
Allen still very rusty
The second half, reverted to type

 

[WestCoast05]

2019 styles - turn it on for a single quarter and win the game.
Mind you - I'm just glad to see us back to being actually able to win a game on the back of one quarter.

+s

• well for starters we won
• fast ball movement
• risks taken
• Ginbey, what a gem
• Liam Ryan AA.form
• Kelly getting back to his best
• Shuey still giving his all
• Jones and SPS best 22, as they should be
• Hunt, what a pickup!
• Duggan and Cole building nicely

EDIT

Some additional +s

• beast mode Duggan
• Long coming along nicely
• Hough, Culley, Yeo, NicNat to still come back in the side
• Bailey Williams best game for us so far

 

[Priddis Is Done]

That was beautiful

Too many postives

I hope this is the standard that SPS,Jones and Williams play at.

 

[Godfather32]

Thought Jones, SPS, Hunt and Waterman were great.
Feel kind of sorry for Gaff, he just doesn't have it anymore.
Gov and Barrass might have been out on the lunchtime beers before the game.

 

[KBLT]

The biggest positive.

We remain the only team in the league without a losing streak of 10 or more.

 

[the harry]

Ginbey gather and bump was good to see

 

[Farang83150]

The biggest positive.

We remain the only team in the league without a losing streak of 10 or more.

Nice trivia, didn't know that

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

JW did pretty well. 4 goals but could've been 6.
Long was very impressive early.
SPS & Jones did very well.
Hunt & Ryan worked hard.
Kelly was great too.

 

[ziad]

Good run for a half - did we fade or did GWS structure better?
Fast movement into the forward line is great - second quarter vey impressive.
We were beaten in the air generally.
Didnt seem able to maintain pressure and spread in the second d half.
Brilliant for team morale and positivity.

 

[BrotherDodge]

Positive- Finally, that new game style where we actually have a crack. Guys like Ryan, Jones and SPS look set to flourish now, and Waterman looks like a gun when there's actually space to lead into.

Negative- Shame we gave up some late ones when it could have been an old-school flat-tracking but who cares, we finally won a game!

 

[amazingjoshy]

+ve Jones and TK, SPS kicking to the fwds

-ve starts with G and ends with aff.

 

[Eagle Wrath]

Positives -
Jones awesome
Williams played quite well
Hunt and SPS probably their best games for us.
Kelly for the first half was very good.
Waterman and Ryan our best forwards
Long with 5 or more assists becoming goals (esp Cripps goals)
Mids and forwards did ok
First half was excellent
Nice to see so much run and handball, thanks mainly to Jones.
Ginbey did a good job for a 2nd gamer

Negatives
Defence was ordinary especially Barrass
2nd half was pretty average
Gaff with 22 possessions was terrible. Only a few of those possessions were any good.
Barrass was terrible after he got frustrated in the 1st quarter.

 

[Coasters7]

Someone’s gotta explain to me why it’s taken 4 f*cking years to play like that. It was nothing groundbreaking in terms of tactics, although a fair few players had great games and our pressure was immense.

But in terms of ball movement.. having multiple runners coming past for the handball, draw the man and pass to the overlapping player, lower the eyes and hit leading targets in the forward 50. It’s pretty basic stuff yet I haven’t seen us do any of that over the last couple of years

 

[Wosh]

+
We won
Waterman

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Letting them whittle away the margin but it’s not so bad. We won.

 

[WCErevival]

+

• Nice to see Waterman get to play predominantly forward and replicate his WAFL form.
• Midfield, particularly Kelly, stepped up and didnt rely on Shuey.

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• Barrass on the beers
• Think Chesser will be dropped. Nothing to worry about but needs to get game time against the reserves for a while
• Gaff has to be on his last legs. He looks like a struggling dementia patient half the time

 

[Godfather32]

Oh shut the * up you sad campaigner

It's just a joke mate, you need to relax a bit, everything doesn't have to be so serious

 

[The wily weagle]

We needed a response from last week, and we got one

It was patchy at times, but they boys did what they needed to do and got the points, and that's good enough for me

And its made all the more sweeter seeing Fremantle without a victory

 

[Shuestar13]

Oh shut the * up you sad campaigner

What more can you say. There will be quite a few unhappy people tonight

 

[Dazzler9]

Above Cockburn on the ladder.

 

[Boohemian]

SPS and JJ had excellent games for the club.

Both very confident on their roles, and chart AFL level.