Review Starlight, Star Bright, We Beat The Saints

[Minz]

Great bit of insight here and answers the question as to why we were getting bossed at the clearances for most of the game.

To simplify, Saints were setting up defensively for Darcy anticipating him to tap forward to Serong where Saints would often have the outnumber and their fleet of smalls (Hall, Macrae, Garcia and Henry) would piece through us with the short sharp handballs.

Conversely they were doing the opposite for Jackson, setting up very aggressively forward of the ball, having Marshall block Jackson’s leap and tap into the space behind him for Steele.

The last quarter Darcy (Jackson has shifted forward at this point) starts exclusively tapping behind to our outnumber and from there work around the back - it’s here you can see why Clark got the maximum coaches votes, he was directly involved in at least 3 clearances in that final term on top of the rebounding he was doing earlier in the game.

We were down 39-16 in the clearances going into 3QT (similar to the 50-22 differential last time we played them), we win the clearances 15-7 in the 4th and it flips the game.

Great analysis. Someone at the Dockers should give that person a job!!

 

[Alfonz]

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He got the free for this one, but there were several like this one. Unsurprisingly the commentators didn't think this should be a free, and it actually should have been a free to Marshall.

The Marshall freak goal was like this, holding Darcy's right arm in. To be fair, Darcy usually had his left arm wrapped around the back and holding Marshall's left arm. They were both holding each other for most of the match.

 

[malpaso]

Great analysis. Someone at the Dockers should give that person a job!!

Well I'm pretty sure they made those tactical changes in the 4th to win the game or at least get the game on our terms.

 

[FreoMonocle]

It wasnt just his behaviour in his incident which is not what you want from a senior leader of the club but also his
record in the last 3 years was pretty putrid.

The youth and inexperience of this young club is still a relevant discussion point years later. Was an even younger playing group at the time.

He gave the club an outline of developing players in a rebuild which the club agreed to. Of course we were going to be flogged by the competition.

The list has his legacy stamped on it still, of work ethic, selflessness and discipline.

 

[s_wd6]

The youth and inexperience of this young club is still a relevant discussion point years later. Was an even younger playing group at the time.

He gave the club an outline of developing players in a rebuild which the club agreed to. Of course we were going to be flogged by the competition.

The list has his legacy stamped on it still, of work ethic, selflessness and discipline.

Why are people so desperate to make excuses for him? He refused to commit to a full rebuild, and his poor development and just in general poor drafting during the years we were actually good are a big reason why we’re still young now. Most (80+%) of our list now have never played under Ross. The culture there in his last few years was ****ed.

Cool he had like 4 good years here but he stayed well past his use by, had sexual harassment allegations and is really just a smug dickhead and a pain in the ass

 

[pK75]

The youth and inexperience of this young club is still a relevant discussion point years later. Was an even younger playing group at the time.

He gave the club an outline of developing players in a rebuild which the club agreed to. Of course we were going to be flogged by the competition.

The list has his legacy stamped on it still, of work ethic, selflessness and discipline.

Been avoiding all the Ross discussions, but this takes the absolute cake, he did the exact opposite of everything you’ve just described. Bringing in mature aged players at every opportunity who for the most part were just stop gap players, Kersten, Conca, Wilson, Matera, Hamling, McCathy, Hogan and Lobb were all traded into the club in that 2016-19 period, that’s hardly “an outline of developing players in a rebuild” its a restump to try and stay competitive with an outdated game plan that didn’t stand up with the reduced number of interchange’s allowed the AFL introduced specifically to stop Rollyball.

 

[Taylor]

Looking back there was more than just the coach trying to lift performance through bringing in structural players. We've seen how long it takes for rucks, key forwards and key backs to be useful at AFL level.

 

[Pusswah]

They were doing it all night and got away with most of it.

Saints fans complaining on social media about Free kick Freo....If anything it should've been more in our favour. The amount of holding, blocking and tackling before our guys had the ball was a joke.

100%

Same thing as last game, especially on Serong.

 

[Perfect Purple]

They were doing it all night and got away with most of it.

Saints fans complaining on social media about Free kick Freo....If anything it should've been more in our favour. The amount of holding, blocking and tackling before our guys had the ball was a joke.

Very obvious with Jye who struggled to break free and is continually ignored by the umpires.

If umpires treated him with half the respect they give to Cameron or Curnow it would be a totally different story.

 

[Dirty_banchez]

It still makes me laugh that Ross Lyon still causes so much consternation on here. This sub was in a constant state of meltdown from mid 2015 to 2019. We lost a lot of outstanding trolls through those hard years.

Still, the club was a mess while Ross was at the club. I was told Hale absolutely hated Ross, and the coaching department was pretty dysfunctional - this was especially the case at the end of his tenure.