Autopsy Round 2 vs Melbourne Demons, Metricon Stadium, Saturday March 26, 7:00pm AEST

[Southern Sun]

Rat has been ok.
Graham, Flanders and sexton have been horid. Surely burgess is a better option down back than Graham. A spot at half fwd is opening up for a hollands debut. I think the extra 4 days break for the dees is going to kill us in the end here.

 

[sunsofanarchy]

Midfield is doing incredibly well carrying Ballard, Flanders, Graham, Lukosius and Sexton

 

[TheSunGod]

Too many unforced errors. Melbourne too good and will punish us on the turnover. Don’t like that female umpire. Just don’t think she’s up to the required standard. Can’t fault the effort though. Miss Rankine and Weller’s polish / skills.

 

[Sunny_]

We're trying. There's just a sizeable gap in experience and confidence. So many 'nearly' moments where missed handballs or fumbles break our forward chain.

Atkins been good.

Ainsworth is just so nearly a great player for us, but his inability to finish is constantly holding him back.

Melbourne are just insanely good. Incredibly drilled with extreme talent on nearly every line. Some of the stuff I've seen Oliver tonight is stuff I've never seen from any other player. How he fires out handballs when his body is on some of those angles is wild.

 

[Sunny_]

Can't fault Sexton. He's played a half of pre-season footy and that was weeks ago. Never any doubt he was going to come in rusty.

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Not a bad half if you remember it’s premiers v 16th

If we can let Rowell loose instead of manning up we are a sniff. Midfield domination atm

 

[Supersuns]

Not a bad half if you remember it’s premiers v 16th

If we can let Rowell loose instead of manning up we are a sniff. Midfield domination atm

Rowell copping a hard tag. Viney or Harmes with him at every stoppage.

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Overall happy with how we are going in the midfield.
Outside a few passages of excellence from their big names, I think we've definitely held our own in the contest.

Polish going forward of 50 as usual is lacking which is the big killer at present.
Our talls are doing ok again this week. Not getting out marked too often and have kicked a goal each.

Small forwards been non-existent in attack and letting their half back opponents really have influence.
Bowey and Rivers have had 33 touches compared with Sexon and Flanders 3 touches.

 

[sunsofanarchy]

Can't fault Sexton. He's played a half of pre-season footy and that was weeks ago. Never any doubt he was going to come in rusty.

Posters have been going on like Sexton as if he is some gun, robbed of his spot. He is a fringe player who is opportunistic and doesn't work hard enough. He knows where the goals are, no doubt, but he leaves me wanting far too often

 

[Supersuns]

Rankine is a big loss

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Not sure I think Atkins has really been that good.
Has done 1 or two nice things. That pick up, spin and handball in the back 50 was clean. one or two little dink kicks to a team mate in the middle gives potential to open things up going into attack

BUT

He has made a few bad mistakes as well.
Disposal efficiency 58%, 5 turnovers in a half.

 

[sunsofanarchy]

Not sure I think Atkins has really been that good.
Has done 1 or two nice things. That pick up, spin and handball in the back 50 was clean. one or two little dink kicks to a team mate in the middle gives potential to open things up going into attack

BUT

He has made a few bad mistakes as well.
Disposal efficiency 58%, 5 turnovers in a half.

Keeping his spot in front of Sharp at this stage

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Posters have been going on like Sexton as if he is some gun, robbed of his spot. He is a fringe player who is opportunistic and doesn't work hard enough. He knows where the goals are, no doubt, but he leaves me wanting far too often

I think everyone is aware of his limitations.
A legitimate concern going into this year was kicking goals when our forward line consisted of the below

Rankine
Chol
Casboult
Lukosius
Ainsworth
Holman

Sexton has kicked 150 career goals and has 3 seasons with >20 goals.
Casboult the only other guy to ever kick more than 20 in a season - has done it twice.

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Rowell copping a hard tag. Viney or Harmes with him at every stoppage.

That’s fair enough

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Levi looking very good wish he was maybe 2-3 years younger.

Moneyball selection looks good

Just flip a coin when he has a shot on goal

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Sexton flanders invisible

Fighting rankine and Dmac for a spot and both have had more impact when they haven’t played

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Luko frustrated that Davies didn't hit him there.
Easy chip
We need to lower the eyes!

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Powell knee to the head

Hope his concussion history isn't relevant

 

[CanYouFeelTheSunburn]

Umps are s**t

 

[robo_1]

Luko frustrated that Davies didn't hit him there.
Easy chip
We need to lower the eyes!

Lukosius doesn’t work hard enough to be a forward.. always walking

 

[Supersuns]

Just getting destroyed in the midfield

 

[Emerald Sun]

We're losing the hit outs and they're running rampant. Lots of luck going their way

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[RowellAnderson12]

If we can keep it to 4 goals I’ll be happy. We’ve had our chances to put the game away but Melbourne are clearly superior

 

[Billy ray]

Our only hope is fitness. Maybe they fall off intensity in final qtr, spent by the conditions and we somehow stay on our feet

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Too many players with little to noinfluence on the match.