Autopsy Sunburnt

[BettercallSaul]

Not particularly convincing from a bloke with 83,000 posts in almost 20 years on forum created to discuss strangers.

It's obviously a lot more than just a game for everyone on this board or we wouldn't be here. If it were that easy to disinvest then i bloody would've a long time ago believe me.

How good how I’m going when Vossy kicked his goal in the last 1/4 I started to well up! I’m 62 and I was fki@ing welling up over a game.
Clearly I need to reflect on my life choices.

 

[Minz]

It was a free kick every day of the week

Tackle - ball spilled cox didn’t need to pile drive him

Just a footy incident

Meh, gunna disagree, if you tackle someone with the ball and they drop it, it’s not standard to have to release them immediately. Happens all the time.

 

[Wilksyy]

People like you are the reason this club isn’t going to win things.

As a fanbase we need to start demanding more, expecting success and not settling for this.

Lmao. I love these posts.

Tell me what to do, melt on 6PR? Write them a letter?

 

[kp junior]

Finals show the worth of a player. Ras was super clean and hard and hard to tackle. JOM was invisible, slow and non agile. The other weak links that showed sadly were Banfield, NOD(but maybe he wasn’t 100% still?), Amiss, and Freddie. Chapman and Worner just ok.
Fyfe was excellent and should have started in hindsight IMO

 

[dominguez]

Have to agree JOM is a great clubmen/person but his lack of pace is a killer , time to make the tough call

JOM will be next years Aish. If we have a bad run with injuries he'll play but will hopefully spend most of 2026 at Peel.

 

[FreoRicci]

For a senior player / leader JOM was a disgrace. Worst on or thereabouts as a midfielder playing the whole game. Disgusting and should be delisted. Shouldn’t have been playing all year really, his one achievement has been to delay Ras getting a game and possibly leading to us losing him.

Will Brodie was at the game, watching.
Would’ve done better easily.

 

[FreoRicci]

Have to agree JOM is a great clubmen/person but his lack of pace is a killer , time to make the tough call

They won’t.
Continues to get games.
Was a massive reason why Erasmus couldn’t get in. Brodie is exiled. How does the club explain this one?
Why do you think Hawthorn were so eager to get rid of him? Look at their midfield now. Yet we’re the dummies that rate him highly

 

[Lach72]

Thought the insufficient intent free paid against , think it was Banfield in the second quarter was identical to one not paid against the GC in the last on th opposite side of the ground
The umpires couldn't even agree with each other other on th first one
jus outlining one of many inconsistencies by the umpires, unfortunately we seem to be the ones who cop it,

Same umpire. Number 9 Matt Stevic. Same as always

 

[Cesoir]

Lmao. I love these posts.

Tell me what to do, melt on 6PR? Write them a letter?

If enough people refuse to accept mediocrity, then the mediocrity will dissipate and be replaced by never ending excellence.

I saw it on Oprah.

 

[Randomizor]

If enough people refuse to accept mediocrity, then the mediocrity will dissipate and be replaced by never ending excellence.

I saw it on Oprah.

Worked for Geelong

 

[Cesoir]

Worked for Geelong

Who, Oprah?

 

[Stinky Lomax]

Same umpire. Number 9 Matt Stevic. Same as always

We can’t put it in the umpires hands.

Our players made more judgement errors than a 50/50 by an umpire in the last 3 minutes. Umpires were ****ing useless, but we made far more errors than them that cost us the game.

 

[Randomizor]

Who, Oprah?

Better motivator than the maritime museum apparently

 

[Cesoir]

Better motivator than the maritime museum apparently

Apparently Geelong supporters spent 44 years from 1963 to 2007 accepting medikcrity then decided they'd had enough of it and turned the club's fortunes around. I'm surprised they didn't cotton on to it earlier!

 

[Randomizor]

Apparently Geelong supporters spent 44 years from 1963 to 2007 accepting medikcrity then decided they'd had enough of it and turned the club's fortunes around. I'm surprised they didn't cotton on to it earlier!

Well we are 30 years in so it does seem to take people a while?

 

[Cesoir]

Well we are 30 years in so it does seem to take people a while?

Could be worse, Bullies had to accept 62 years of it. **** me, another 20 years will see me out. Quick, for all us boomers STOP ACCEPTING MEDIOCRITY.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Same umpire. Number 9 Matt Stevic. Same as always

****ing hate that guy. He screws us every time and has been doing it for years.

 

[Johnny Dalmas]

They won’t.
Continues to get games.
Was a massive reason why Erasmus couldn’t get in. Brodie is exiled. How does the club explain this one?
Why do you think Hawthorn were so eager to get rid of him? Look at their midfield now. Yet we’re the dummies that rate him highly

The double edged sword of continually gifting games to JOM is that by the time we realise the game has gone past him players like Erasmus won't be at the club and he will be back-filled with some 18 year old speculative 4th rounder

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

Collins killed him early both strength wise and beating him to the drop. if he can fix either of those things he will improve.
You play him higher and he gets more ball but can't kick a long ball so he isn't a goal threat.

It's a tuff one. Just have to persist with him.
Voss has gone way past him too.

Needs to get on the move. He's too static.

I remember us all being mouth agape at his magnificent leading when he first came through because outside of Pav, we hadn't seen a player do that in 30 long years. Only took a couple seasons to coach that out of him.

 

[estibador]

For a senior player / leader JOM was a disgrace. Worst on or thereabouts as a midfielder playing the whole game. Disgusting and should be delisted. Shouldn’t have been playing all year really, his one achievement has been to delay Ras getting a game and possibly leading to us losing him.

It was fitting that he celebrated his 200th game by playing exactly like he has for every other game he's ever played for Freo.

 

[2big2strom]

Who, Oprah?

you get a farm! you get a farm! everyone gets a farm!

 

[dexter_]

Apparently Geelong supporters spent 44 years from 1963 to 2007 accepting medikcrity then decided they'd had enough of it and turned the club's fortunes around. I'm surprised they didn't cotton on to it earlier!

 

[Dockeroo]

I don't care about his political beliefs at all. There are some people on this site who I would disagree on a lot of things politically who I talk to and can enjoy being friends with. Your thoughts about politics are what is wrong with the whole ideological divide over the last two decades. One of my business partners would vote differently to me almost every time, yet we are very close friends. He comes to my kids birthday parties and me his etc etc.

Now to the point about Pearce. I notice you haven't engaged with my argument, which I can only assume is because you don't have one. He was very good in the last quarter. He was poor or worse in the first three. This isn't a one off. He has admitted to having therapy for problems with nervous starts. He still has those problems. He comes good in games where the team throws caution to the wind in nothing to lose mode. He goes to water in tough contested games against good teams.

I call him out in some wins and the occasional loss. When asked I have provided video evidence of his kicking and we have him on record admitting his issue with the start of games.

Now we are past your nonsense of presumed knowledge, can you answer these questions:

1. Is it predictable that Pearce struggles early in big games?
2. Has he spoken about getting therapy to help with that very issue?
3. Is he the captain of a club who struggles early in big games?
4. How do you rate his first, second and third quarters?

1. I thought Pearce was fine in the first 3 quarters last night. He’s a very good player. Yeah he wasn’t at his absolute best but he was far from out biggest problem on the night. He can be a slow starter but isn’t on an island there at this club.
- Rowell towelled us up in the middle of the park for the whole first half. That was midfields fault. Nothing to do with Pearce.
2. Yea he has I believe. There could be heaps of our players in a similar boat that we don’t know about though. It’s only because of that Hamish interview that we know this.
3. I agree we are slow to get fully up to speed in a lot of games. That isn’t solely on the captain though. Responsibly for being at the pitch of the game lies mostly with each individual player in my view.
4. I thought the first 3 quarters of AP were ok, by his standards. He was not terrible though and his direct opponent didn’t do great damage in that period. Far from our biggest issue last night in those 3 quarters. You said his 4th quarter was “very good”. Possibly one of the biggest understatements I’ve read on this thread. It was one of the all time great quarters ever played by a key defender in any game. As close to footballing perfection as an individual player can get - when the need was greatest.

I’m not sure what you want exactly from Pearce. Do you want him dropped from the team altogether?
If so that’s lunacy. I’ve seen you pumping up players like chapman in the past on here, who is quite frankly a spud compared to Alex Pearce.
Cox I don’t mind but he had a shocking last few mins yesterday - to me looked like a guy that froze when the pressure was greatest.

For me AP is the first magnet on the board on that defence. Yes he’s flawed (his kicking is shit) but the other parts of his game as a key defender are absolutely elite.
Players like Chapman, Banfield, worner, etc are all average to poor kicks too. The difference is they are not elite at anything. At least Alex is.
We have 4 shit kicks in that back 7. That’s a team problem. Three of them are pretty ordinary at everything else too. One of them (Pearce) is elite in other areas. You don’t get rid of him.
Instead you replace two of worner/chapman/banfield with guys that actually are high quality afl kicks, and then the relative affect of pearces bad kicking is diluted.
Judd mc vee instead of Banfield would be a decent start. Hope that Simpson comes on.
As for AP being captain - I’d be happy to see Serong or AB get it either next year but I think Alex is a good leader too and I’m not convinced at all that our problems would magically disappear if he wasn’t captain.

 

[PrancingPony]

In a sombre sort of way, I can now say I've been the the final game in person of three of our greatest players, I was there for Pavlich, I was there for Mundy's final home game at least, and I was there for Fyfe.

At least with Pavlich and Mundy we won those games, I genuinely felt like someone was repeatedly punching me in the heart as Fyfe got chaired off, you could see how broken he was.

 

[gungho]

Pearce had one of the greatest fourth quarters I can remember last night. Absolutely phenomenal. Should he still be captain though.........who knows?
I'm actually not a fan of his foray into political arguments. Yeah, I know everyone has freedom of speech. But expressing your right to speak freely just because you can, doesn't necessarily help everyone, every time.