Review Round 3, 2022 vs Adelaide

[GremioPower]

After a nights sleep

Lucky!

endless texts from crows mates

Unlucky!

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Here's the thing. When watching the game I was wanting us to get over the line. Its always good to get a win and smash the clowns.

But in the cold hard light of day, the loss is a better result for this club. No wallpapering over the cracks, no "honourable" season where aw gee we were right about the mark if we just weren't "unlucky" with a few injuries.

We're shit, and we're going nowhere under Hinkley and Bassett. That's the reality, and we now see if Richo etc actually believe in chasing success and enacting change, or not. No more excuses.

 

[pastmyprimus]

 

[davesnothere]

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9 inch nails Kens only up to 3 this season.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Not at all. Let it be an awful draft, with a handful of great players.

Oh yes that’s a good point

 

[Magpiespowaz]

tfw ur team blows a four goal lead to ur fiercest rivals who are completely ratshit and now the season is over after only three games

 

[GremioPower]

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[Interstater]

Not at all. Let it be an awful draft, with a handful of great players.

This is very true since we traded out pick 19 to go up 2 spots in last years draft.

Don't worry guys, in two weeks time all we are going to hear about from then on is our first AFLW squad.

I don't think its a coincidence that everybody rushed their contracts through very early this year.
They knew what was coming and that their value wasn't going to increase this year.

Edit:
On the game itself I think we showed good intensity last night.
I also think it was the best our forwards have looked for a while.
A 2/4 (talls/smalls) structure suits Hinkleyball.

There seemed to be a lot more clarity when kicking to leads up forward.
Marshall was leading well and MG was playing his role deeper.
But then again, Adelaide are not a great side.

Unfortunately I don't think we will see the same intensity or improvement up forward against Melbourne.

 

[Stryke]

I remember going outside and kicking a chair so hard that my foot hurt for months after the Jenkins goal showdown loss.

Last night I just flipped over to Netflix and continued my 9/11 documentary. It was actually quite uplifting compared to the current state of the club.

 

[Del165198]

This is very true since we traded out pick 19 to go up 2 spots in last years draft.

What a barnstorming move that was. Sinn looks like an absolute superstar!

 

[raptalia]

Scott Lycett

29

Scott Lycett

Age

32

Ht

203cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.6

3star

K

6.3

2star

HB

6.3

4star

CL

2.6

4star

HO

19.0

5star

D

11.3

3star

K

5.7

2star

HB

5.7

3star

CL

4.2

5star

HO

24.7

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

3.6

2star

HB

4.6

4star

CL

0.4

3star

HO

5.0

5star

is cooked as no1 ruckman. The taps read 29-45 last night in O'Brien's favour. The frustrating thing is Lycett is getting enough of the footy around the ground but he his not able to dominate the ruck contests. At this stage of his career Scott is probably better suited to playing the No2 Ruck role he had at West Coast. The problem is of course we apparently do not have a player who could take on the no1 ruck spot or at least be prepared for the role.

Tom Jonas has reached his 'use by' date as he does not have the pace to keep up. As Captain, Jonas should be leading the defence but he is not. With Aliir and Clurey missing and McKenzie playing with an injury we need Tom to step up and lead by example but unfortunately that appears past him. In his prime Tom Jonas made a physical contest with his opponent these days his opponent is metres away. Hinkley and the Football Department should have shown some nous at the end of last season and appointed Ollie Wines as Captain and prepared Lachie Jones to fill Tom Jonas' spot. Big words I know but it will probably come to that at the end of this season anyway.

For the second week in a row the opposition kicked straight and as usual we did not. Last week Hawthorn kicked 19.6 while this week the Cows kicked 15.6. I am not sure if it is all down to straight kicking or conceding gimme kicks on goal to the opposition. Maybe a bit of both. At least Todd Marshall

4

Todd Marshall

Age

26

Ht

198cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.0

2star

K

6.4

3star

HB

2.5

2star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

4star

G

1.1

4star

D

8.9

2star

K

7.1

3star

HB

1.8

1star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.0

4star

G

1.1

5star

D

9.6

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.6

5star

lived up to his potential last night. If Marshall had not kicked straight the score line might have been remarkably similar to last week.

Despite the closeness in the score I cannot say that was an improved effort on last week and Hinkley is kidding himself if he says it was. This week the opposition was weaker and we had a lot of the same glaring shortcomings. We had the same loose defence, the same wasteful forward line the same ruck deficiency etc. We are suffering from a Football Department who, at the end of last season, thought we were better than we really are. How else can one explain our bizarre trading?

Ah well that is 2022 well and truly cooked. We play Melbourne next week and the following week we have Carlton at the MCG so it could be 0-5 here we come. If we do get to 0-5 we will have lost 6 straight AFL games if we count last year's Prelim. I don't think that has happened since 2011.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

Its going to have to get worse before it gets better. We need to lose the next two at least - the media can not ignore that

 

[raptalia]

What a barnstorming move that was. Sinn looks like an absolute superstar!

and we also traded in a guy who is now playing in the SANFL. I am not sure if Jeremy Finlayson has any future with us and I do not know why we traded for him. I can only assume Finlayson was on the table and cost nothing. As I posted previously last year's so called list building was bizarre.

 

[ROBBBO]

We got nobody to blame but ourselves. Shit kicking again costs us. Why this has not been addressed is bewildering. We had plenty of chances to run away with it and blew it.
Crows are some crap team. Embarrassing

 

[drcollossimo]

This isn't what the free was for. Mayes dragged him to the ground and rolled over the top of him with the ball a few metres away. I can't believe there is so much discussion about a blatantly obvious what the umpire signalled and why Murphy didn’t take his kick

Watch what the umpire signalled

Umpire indicated high contact
He was reported for high contact
Murphy doesn’t take his kick because he’s pretending it was high contact

There’s a theme here Schorcho

 

[Portmagpies36]

Scott Lycett is cooked as no1 ruckman. The taps read 29-45 last night in O'Brien's favour. The frustrating thing is Lycett is getting enough of the footy around the ground but he his not able to dominate the ruck contests. At this stage of his career Scott is probably better suited to playing the No2 Ruck role he had at West Coast. The problem is of course we apparently do not have a player who could take on the no1 ruck spot or at least be prepared for the role.

Tom Jonas has reached his 'use by' date as he does not have the pace to keep up. As Captain, Jonas should be leading the defence but he is not. With Aliir and Clurey missing and McKenzie playing with an injury we need Tom to step up and lead by example but unfortunately that appears past him. In his prime Tom Jonas made a physical contest with his opponent these days his opponent is metres away. Hinkley and the Football Department should have shown some nous at the end of last season and appointed Ollie Wines as Captain and prepared Lachie Jones to fill Tom Jonas' spot. Big words I know but it will probably come to that at the end of this season anyway.

For the second week in a row the opposition kicked straight and as usual we did not. Last week Hawthorn kicked 19.6 while this week the Cows kicked 15.6. I am not sure if it is all down to straight kicking or conceding gimme kicks on goal to the opposition. Maybe a bit of both. At least Todd Marshall lived up to his potential last night. If Marshall had not kicked straight the score line might have been remarkably similar to last week.

Despite the closeness in the score I cannot say that was an improved effort on last week and Hinkley is kidding himself if he says it was. This week the opposition was weaker and we had a lot of the same glaring shortcomings. We had the same loose defence, the same wasteful forward line the same ruck deficiency etc. We are suffering from a Football Department who, at the end of last season, thought we were better than we really are. How else can one explain our bizarre trading?

Ah well that is 2022 well and truly cooked. We play Melbourne next week and the following week we have Carlton at the MCG so it could be 0-5 here we come. If we do get to 0-5 we will have lost 6 straight AFL games if we count last year's Prelim. I don't think that has happened since 2011.

Trouble with keeping Hinkley is he will just stick with Jonas as captain and nothing changes, clearly the on field leadership is crap. BTW how the hell is DBJ in the leadership group?
He was dreadful last year

 

[PowerLil]

Honestly I don't care at all about free kicks or costly misses. If we are serious and think we are a top 4 side we should be winning by 60+ against that rabble. If we had won by a point or a couple of goals it would still have been a massive failure.

Exactly this. How far have we fallen! I thought we would struggle this year because losses like the prelim can be destabilising but geez, at the moment we don't look like we can beat a single team.

We got nobody to blame but ourselves. Shit kicking again costs us. Why this has not been addressed is bewildering. We had plenty of chances to run away with it and blew it.
Crows are some crap team. Embarrassing

That's it. The Crows ARE crap and we got beaten. No more needs to be said.

 

[AdamMarrett]

Losses like last night & the week before plus the final quarter against Brisbane are what happens you don't show any accountability for the catastrophic loss in the preliminary final last year. Only Chris Davies had the balls to call it what it was, a disgrace. Since that moment you can see the moments on field where the players don't know what to do, when the wounds from that loss (and 9 plus years of similar) show themselves and they panic or crumble. The same deer in the headlights look they had in that opening quarter of the preliminary final. It will always be there until they confront their demons from it and attempt to move on properly, which won't happen when the biggest demon of that night stays on as coach.

Instead as a club we actively hid Ken Hinkley bar one interview on 5aa post that loss. Hinkley then got angry at Kane Cornes

Kane Cornes

Age

41

Ht

183cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.5

5star

K

12.5

5star

HB

11.0

5star

M

5.2

5star

T

3.3

5star

CL

2.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.2

3star

and Tredders for telling the truth, that says everything about the man, and his stink has now infected the players. Hinkley's messaging when he did emerge from his pre season hiding avoided any semblance of taking responsibility for what occured that night. To go from the week before that disaster of being a home preliminary final win away from a Grand Final to now losing a game by going defensive in the last quarter against Brisbane, to not showing up at all against Hawthorn in Russell's tribute game, to again going defensive instead of aiming to kick a few more goals to put the Crows away is a almighty fall, one that shouldn't escape any scrutiny from the football media.

I don't care how good a bloke Hinkley is, he's paid to win games of footy and ultimately a Premiership. He won't ever win a flag as a coach, his mast in that regard is set and flown. It won't change, it may flicker in the opposite direction for a fleeting moment like the past two seasons, but at the moment of truth it will always revert back to type.

If the board don't act now like they should the plummeting crowd numbers, the discontent and disconnect from us the supporters will continue to grow. Koch and Richardson surely aren't that naive as to not see the issue, the bald headed, Coke Zero sipping one that needs to be removed now. If they are that naive as to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the Hinkley issue then when our crowds plummet below 15,000 will be solely on them and their saviour. They'll get a taste of it this Thursday night, hopefully the crowd is that low it utterly embarrasses them both. Because the on field performance is a embarrassment to us the fans & to our clubs traditions so maybe if less then 15,000 show up Thursday they'll finally see the discontent they've bred since last year's preliminary final with their own eyes, where they can't turn away and write a ridiculous email to placate the very stupid.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Exactly this. How far have we fallen! I thought we would struggle this year because losses like the prelim can be destabilising but geez

That's it. The Crows ARE crap and we got beaten. No more needs to be said.

I don't reckon its anything to do with the prelim.

No Schofield, no Port. It's that simple.

 

[Nelso]

It is pretty obvious that we have taken the cheap option to save money in regards to appointing from within our fitness department. There would have been better candidates on the outside.

Same can be said for appointing Cornes as defensive coach.

The whole structure of the coaches box is inept.

You get what you deserve.

 

[raptalia]

Its going to have to get worse before it gets better. We need to lose the next two at least - the media can not ignore that

Neither can I, I wish I could. Geez season 2022, it could be the season from hell.

 

[PAFC66]

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“High contact” if there’s a footy god I hope they remember this fraud

Irrelevant as it was off the ball.

 

[PowerLil]

I don't reckon its anything to do with the prelim.

No Schofield, no Port. It's that simple.

Am shattered that Schofield left. Been following his coaching career for many years. Many teams that suffer heavy defeats in finals fall away the following year. Recent examples Melbourne, Adelaide , GWS.

 

[PowerLil]

It is pretty obvious that we have taken the cheap option to save money in regards to appointing from within our fitness department. There would have been better candidates on the outside.

Same can be said for appointing Cornes as defensive coach.

The whole structure of the coaches box is inept.

You get what you deserve.

Hinkley.
Bassett.
Cornes.

 

[Harlott]

I always want us to win but there’s an inevitability about where this is all going. There’s no way we look a premiership side or heading that way. Be it the game style, players who can’t kick, players who can’t take the game by the scruff, undersized backline, players who panic kick at crucial moments handing back the ball to the opposition, unable to cover players with injuries. You look at who we’ve got to come back in and how the players currently out there are performing and it’s not going to build towards a premiership.