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George Washington

George Washington

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Jul 29, 2008
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Woeful Goalkicking. Once the seed of doubt was planted in the first quarter it spread and spread. This game is one of momentum and confidence, and our poor kicking resulted in at least 3 12 point turnarounds in the first half alone. Combine that with the umpire shepherding Winderlich, and Hooker giving away a free for being sat on you have the difference between the two teams in the first half. As soon as we lose the momentum our heads go down and we lose the plot.

What makes Geelong so great is their unwavering belief in the plan and their confidence in their own abilities. In the last quarter nobody wanted to kick it, we were flicking handpasses around endlessly as nobody wanted the responsibility.

We kick straight in the first half, apply scoreboard pressure and we would have won that.

Changes for next week:

Out: Davey
In: Jetta

We have to persist with these young guys, it is the same team that beat St Kilda only 7 days ago.
 
It was lost further up the ground for mine. They set up to corral rather than tackle, and we lost our heads. We didn't have the skills or the belief to work our way out of it.

A better team would have put us to the sword to the point where the goal kicking would have been completely irrelevant.
 
Our forward kicking did hurt, but the midfield wasn't great. Warnock made the fat lady sing at the start of the forth, 3 quick goals in some crazy succession.

some dumb moves like when Stanton was awarded the shot at goal, and then costing us the goal by bumping into the man on the mark. A lot of tension surrounded the match.
 
Ben the Gooner said:
It was lost further up the ground for mine. They set up to corral rather than tackle, and we lost our heads. We didn't have the skills or the belief to work our way out of it.

A better team would have put us to the sword to the point where the goal kicking would have been completely irrelevant.
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Spot on BtG Teams have figured us out and played the way that made us lose matches in succesion over the past few years..
 

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We can beat the Dogs, Saints, Hawks. Yet we get thrashed by Carlton, and lose to West Coast at home. Really frustrates and confuses me!
 
Ben the Gooner said:
It was lost further up the ground for mine. They set up to corral rather than tackle, and we lost our heads. We didn't have the skills or the belief to work our way out of it.

A better team would have put us to the sword to the point where the goal kicking would have been completely irrelevant.
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One of the few times I concede the floor to you BTG. Couldn't have summed it up better...

But back to the old chesnut... gameplan/execution or selection? ie any time a team basically nullifies our speed then we look really unsure of what to do with the sherrin..
 
rines said:
One of the few times I concede the floor to you BTG. Couldn't have summed it up better...

But back to the old chesnut... gameplan/execution or selection? ie any time a team basically nullifies our speed then we look really unsure of what to do with the sherrin..
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Composure will come with experience, regardless of who is in the box, so I'm looking forward to how we go against the benchmark next Friday. ATM, if any team us going to punish you on the turnover, it's Collingwood.
 
TRhe number of brain fades and skill errors was nothing short of attrocious. We have by far rthe weakest minded playing list in hte AFL. They simply cannot turn things around mid game, drop their heads way too easily and cannot kick goals or spot up team mates under pressure. Knights doesn't help by never actually trying anything different mid game. Very disappointing game.
 
very frustrating to watch tonight. I think essendon has the lowest confidence in its teammates and there own skill. On several occasions and we do it each week when in trouble we handball to a stationary player as if to say heres the footy its ur problem now. We refuse to go long and back our teammates to win the footy in the air and on the ground. It does work guys! we have glimpses of it eg. long and high to hardingham on a couple of occasions and the guy ripped them down. Back yourself bombers and dont leave it to Watson and Fletcher every week to be the only ones who back their own ability.
 

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hayesy_27 said:
very frustrating to watch tonight. I think essendon has the lowest confidence in its teammates and there own skill. On several occasions and we do it each week when in trouble we handball to a stationary player as if to say heres the footy its ur problem now. We refuse to go long and back our teammates to win the footy in the air and on the ground. It does work guys! we have glimpses of it eg. long and high to hardingham on a couple of occasions and the guy ripped them down. Back yourself bombers and dont leave it to Watson and Fletcher every week to be the only ones who back their own ability.
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Ryder the number 1 culprit tonight of the quick dish off handball to stationary or under pressure teammate; "Here its your problem now!"
 
People can say poor execution in front of goal and a couple of decisions went their way cost us the game. But the pure facts are that our pressure was down, they goat alot of very easy goals on the turnover and that's what killed us. Can't blame selection, game plans or anything else. We we're our worst enemy.

Carlton weren't that great with the ball by the way IMO, but they were more desperate and much more effecient, and when they got a sniff, they buried us.
 
All about the gameplan. Unsustainable.

We were all over them in the first quarter yet we continued to try and handball out of situations and got caught on the counter.

Add to Prismals woeful display and it sums up our season.

Bye bye Knights. we can't sustain this shit,
 
Turnovers especially early.

Missed shots at goal thus not exerting any scoreboard pressure.

Not stopping Carltons run on equated to running out of legs simple as that probably due to a shortened bench and trying to play catch up all night.
 

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Working to get the shot on goal and then stuffing it up is not good for our confidence at all. We kicked ourselves out of the game early.

Of course, it doesn't help when Carlton just waltz into goal uncontested at the other end. Teams know that we're most vulnerable on the turnover with their forwards doubling back into space with our defenders caught in front. We were never really allowed the luxury of Fletcher playing deep to help us out here.
 
Carlton turned up to play and for once actually played physical footy against essendon, you are unlucky you had us this week, we would have come out and beaten any one after we picked a physical side and the baking the team copped. Both sides young, both sides inconsistant and mentally immature. You hard the toughness last week, will be interesting to see if we have it next week...
 
kelvin_sheedy said:
All about the gameplan. Unsustainable.

We were all over them in the first quarter yet we continued to try and handball out of situations and got caught on the counter.

Add to Prismals woeful display and it sums up our season.

Bye bye Knights. we can't sustain this shit,
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Really have to wonder if the style suits our list. I'd like to see one of these (Graph on areas of ball use) done on Essendon.
 
gbatman said:
Carlton turned up to play and for once actually played physical footy against essendon, you are unlucky you had us this week, we would have come out and beaten any one after we picked a physical side and the baking the team copped. Both sides young, both sides inconsistant and mentally immature. You hard the toughness last week, will be interesting to see if we have it next week...
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Knowing these two teams, you will lose to Richmond and we will beat Collingwood* :cool:

*and then lose to Brisbane the following week.
 
Lots of pre-season has to be spent on goalkicking. The reality is that we have lost 3 or 4 games through this deficiency in our play. The players definitely lose confidence when goals become points. And this seems to affect the other parts of our game.

We are also a young team that is frightfully inconsistent from week to week and quarter to quarter.

As mentioned in an earlier thread - 'How to cure a leaky defence' - time needs to spent in the pre-season working on defensive strategies.
 
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Really have to wonder if the style suits our list. I'd like to see one of these (Graph on areas of ball use) done on Essendon.
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It's rooted.

I don't know how many times people have to see the obvious but it's absolutely stuffed.

Add to that the nonsensical coaching moves and it is actually quite funny. Ryder did sweet fa in the ruck and Hill was giving us something yet Ryder starts the last quarter and Hille is forward. 5 mins later game is dusted.
 

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