WC's performance against geelong

[kerrazy]

I keep hearing different views on the way we played against the cats. Did we play good and geelong bad? Or did geelong just have an off day, ie not give a sh!t? What do you guys reckon? I'm not trying to sound pessismistic because I know WC played fantastically, I'm just curious because I'm worried that if Geelong just had an off day, that we might come second best next week against the tigers.

 

[Eagle87]

I keep hearing different views on the way we played against the cats. Did we play good and geelong bad? Or did geelong just have an off day, ie not give a sh!t? What do you guys reckon? I'm not trying to sound pessismistic because I know WC played fantastically, I'm just curious because I'm worried that if Geelong just had an off day, that we might come second best next week against the tigers.

We played better than we have and they were somewhat below par and had a number of important players out.

They were workmanlike at best, their work around stoppages was well below their usual level - they missed easy-ish handball targets, they executed quite poorly....

They knew they should win and they kicked 5 in 10 minutes - I think they then mentally shifted into cruise mode and never really pushed the rest of the game although each time we threatened they kicked a couple very quickly to keep us at bay.

I was excited about a few performances but don't take a huge amount from the scores closeness other than our workrate was up and some of our kids were good.

Honourable losses basically suck. They can give you a false sense of where you are at - see the entire history of the Fremantle Football Club.

 

[GO EAGLES]

This is the WAY IT WAS !!.

Geelong played as well as ever !!

Eagles played out of their skins.

Geelong came out to destroy us like last year.
Thompson even said after the game that the Eagles structure was outstanding and GEELONG were also wanting to give Fremantle a hiding next

Geelong rammed on 5 goals in the first 14 minutes.

What happened after that was Swift did a great manouvere.
This seemed to genearate confidence amongst the team as it might have signalled that we have capable players for the future.

Once footballers get a snip of confidence its like a freight train.

Scott Selwood tackled great meaning that we might have tough players for the future. This is all confidence boosting.
Cox was doing great

and the thing that Geelong hate is when they get tackled when setting up just like Hawthorn and Collingwood did to them in 2008.

The question is whether the Eagles can play out of thier skins for the next few weeks. THey could be back in the hunt for top 8.

or settle back and think it is all going to happen for them.

Like Karl Langdon said - its all above the shoulders.

The funny thing is we have done well when not expected to like against

Sydney, Western Bulldogs, Port Adelaide and now Geelong and not to well when expected to win.

The good thing was that at Least Thompson aknowledged that Woosh implemented a good structure.

 

[Eagle87]

This is the WAY IT WAS !!.

Geelong played as well as ever !!

Eagles played out of their skins.

Geelong came out to destroy us like last year.
Thompson even said after the game that the Eagles structure was outstanding and GEELONG were also wanting to give Fremantle a hiding next

Geelong rammed on 5 goals in the first 14 minutes.

What happened after that was Swift did a great manouvere.
This seemed to genearate confidence amongst the team as it might have signalled that we have capable players for the future.

Once footballers get a snip of confidence its like a freight train.

Scott Selwood tackled great meaning that we might have tough players for the future. This is all confidence boosting.
Cox was doing great

and the thing that Geelong hate is when they get tackled when setting up just like Hawthorn and Collingwood did to them in 2008.

The question is whether the Eagles can play out of thier skins for the next few weeks. THey could be back in the hunt for top 8.

or settle back and think it is all going to happen for them.

Like Karl Langdon said - its all above the shoulders.

The funny thing is we have done well when not expected to like against

Sydney, Western Bulldogs, Port Adelaide and now Geelong and not to well when expected to win.

The good thing was that at Least Thompson aknowledged that Woosh implemented a good structure.

Thompson also said that Geelong were well below their best and that you can't expect to be at your best every week.

He said it was mental and that they just werent fully switched on for that game...

It used to happen to us when we were good. Workmanlike away wins, playing at 70% rat power against vastly inferior opponents.

We were encouraging... but you wouldnt want to start making too many assumptions based on honourable losses by 4 goals at home against an underperforming foe...

 

[Naita9]

This is the WAY IT WAS !!.

Geelong played as well as ever !!

Eagles played out of their skins.

Geelong came out to destroy us like last year.
Thompson even said after the game that the Eagles structure was outstanding and GEELONG were also wanting to give Fremantle a hiding next

Geelong rammed on 5 goals in the first 14 minutes.

What happened after that was Swift did a great manouvere.
This seemed to genearate confidence amongst the team as it might have signalled that we have capable players for the future.

Once footballers get a snip of confidence its like a freight train.

Scott Selwood tackled great meaning that we might have tough players for the future. This is all confidence boosting.
Cox was doing great

and the thing that Geelong hate is when they get tackled when setting up just like Hawthorn and Collingwood did to them in 2008.

The question is whether the Eagles can play out of thier skins for the next few weeks. THey could be back in the hunt for top 8.

or settle back and think it is all going to happen for them.

Like Karl Langdon said - its all above the shoulders.

The funny thing is we have done well when not expected to like against

Sydney, Western Bulldogs, Port Adelaide and now Geelong and not to well when expected to win.

The good thing was that at Least Thompson aknowledged that Woosh implemented a good structure.

Nope.

Geelong were well below par. West Coast's structure from opposition kick ins was good though.

As Eagle87 said, Geelong were in cruise mode and only pulled away when they needed too. Good consistent effort from us though.

 

[kerrazy]

We played better than we have and they were somewhat below par and had a number of important players out.

They were workmanlike at best, their work around stoppages was well below their usual level - they missed easy-ish handball targets, they executed quite poorly....

They knew they should win and they kicked 5 in 10 minutes - I think they then mentally shifted into cruise mode and never really pushed the rest of the game although each time we threatened they kicked a couple very quickly to keep us at bay.

I was excited about a few performances but don't take a huge amount from the scores closeness other than our workrate was up and some of our kids were good.

Yeah good points. I don't think they played their best but we did stick it up to them. I really hope we show that in our game against Richmond. Would be nice to see an away win.

Honourable losses basically suck. They can give you a false sense of where you are at - see the entire history of the Fremantle Football Club.

ROFL..

 

[bodazoka]

Geelong kept us at bay and did as much as they needed too but I think if we had of really challenged them and got infront they would of lifted a gear and blew us away.

I dont take much away from that Geelong game other than the performance of a few kids and our intensity. If they had of played like the Geelong that beat us at Subi last year and we kept them to that margin it would be a different story.

 

[faisan]

Geelong rammed on 5 goals in the first 14 minutes.

What happened after that was Swift did a great manouvere.
This seemed to genearate confidence amongst the team as it might have signalled that we have capable players for the future.

yep it was all cause of Swift.

I was actually happy how they fought back after being hit by 5 goals early on. It would be easy to give up and let Geelong smash us again by over 100 but they fought back well.

 

[lewigie]

Seeing as Bomber stole our game-plan, good of him to acknowledge our structure

 

[Emerald]

I think the fact that we kept up with Geelong for most of the game, even though they were half-hearted at times, was very encouraging.

The difference was that after the Collingwood game I was so disheartened because the team was just all over the place, this week I'm pretty sure I saw some awesome signs from our young players.

 

[mehow2g]

Geelong were not at their best but we played great, Thompson praised us and rated our defence "1st Class".

Great to see older players contributing aswell.

 

[drexel]

I would say we played pretty well but i don't rate Geelong that highly. A year before they won the flag, WC and Sydney had their measure but then we both dropped off big time. Geelong went up a little but not as much as you think, that's why Hawthorn got them.

Even their first 5 goals were chancy and everything just went wrong.

Throw Naitanui, Kerr and Wirra in and they would've gone down (except for the fact we're tanking anyway)

 

[Prolix]

Our skills really let us down, we can't reliably hit targets 15m away by foot or closer by hand. We look good when we move the ball quickly but we need good skills to do this, skills we just don't have at the moment. Geelong went into cruise mode after about 5 minutes, but part of the reason we still managed to hang around after halftime when they stepped it back up again was that our pressure was fantastic at times and we forced Geelong to muck around with the ball, particularly in our f50.

So it was a bit of both really. What makes it so impressive a performance for us was that we pretty much had only Priddis and Selwood Snr as experienced midfielders, we'd been crap the last few weeks and still have obvious room for improvement, but still managed to give a team of Geelong's quality a good shake-up. Also we didn't give up, roll over and take it despite conceding the first 5 goals (one of which was an absolute gift from the umpires)

 

[Marlin01]

Yeah, I don't rate a team until they've won 100 consecutive games.

 

[14Sucks]

Well done West Coast.
I thought they played very well indeed.
Pity they didn't win. They deserved the win more than geelong.

 

[lewigie]

Geelong are over-rated, I agree with drexel.

They are good, but our 06 team would beat them any day of the week.

 

[mehow2g]

Geelong arent overrated they played average vs us if they played 100% they would drill us.

 

[Cuzz09]

Geelong are over-rated, I agree with drexel.

They are good, but our 06 team would beat them any day of the week.

tough call.

Id say the cats would win.

All we really had was our gun midfield.

They are a gun midfield + very good defence + decent forward line.

Havent seen them have to come from 56 points down against a struggling team.

 

[lewigie]

I think our midfield was better, and our defence matches theres, and our forwardline was better.

I mean, Lynch vs Mooney?

 

[cap304]

Very promising performance,All the ingredients were there from a young midfield,to players having a red hot go all across the park.

 

[bodazoka]

tough call.

Id say the cats would win.

All we really had was our gun midfield.

They are a gun midfield + very good defence + decent forward line.

Havent seen them have to come from 56 points down against a struggling team.

Id say we are both on par. Our defence was pretty solid, some of those blokes are underperforming now but they were good back then. Forward lines would be the same, unless they put S.Johnstone or Ablett in there forward lines. Which would just make our midfield better. It would of been a much much more entertaining grand final in 07 anyway....

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Geelong where below par. Half was cockie and half was we really hurt thier run out of defense, the first 10 mintues of the game where interupted by the umpires and a few mistakes from the kids.

The difference between 1st and 16th will always be near nothing, they where hardly cruising but we hardly threatened them.

As for our 2006 squad, we did beat essentially the same team. Geelong have stepped up a level, but they never look like being threatened (their major weakness). We on the other hand knew how to win from anywhere, would be closer than most people think.

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

Havent seen them have to come from 56 points down against a struggling team.

Then you didn't watch them play Freo last season.

 

[salo]

geelong were well below their best, although if we played that well against collingwood or carlton i reckon we would've won either of those games.
we did a good job of interrupting their game for long patches although they just had too much class for us to match up on for the whole game. chapman and ablett both blitzed us for periods.

 

[keviewiggle]

geelong were well below their best, although if we played that well against collingwood or carlton i reckon we would've won either of those games.
we did a good job of interrupting their game for long patches although they just had too much class for us to match up on for the whole game. chapman and ablett both blitzed us for periods.

Cut the Crap everyone of you doubters.
All trying to justify your lack of faith in the coaches and squad over the last couple of weeks.
Some of our young guns are finding their feet .They are hitting targets more consistantly and are not overaured by their more experienced opponents.
Very impressed with Mackenzie in the way he always gives the ball off to advantage and Tom Swifts' use of the ball with limited possessions speaks well of the future. This kid has the ability to create space and to achieve this in his second game against a quality team was great to see.
Brown, Masten and Ebert all improving with every game.
Geelong being down on their game doesn't maske the Eagles hit targets any better. We just played well.
Lets admit it we are a much improved team from last season and can only get better,
Expect some hic cups but have some faith in the club and their plans for the future