Autopsy 2024 Rd 4 Blues win in miraculous escape

[Arr0w]

Still slightly concerned how far we are stepping away from our contested game, to grow our turnover game

Still believe we are a fair bit off the right balance, but handy banking wins

 

[Lukeblueboy]

Was actually thinking when it was him having that late shot at goal that if there was anyone in the side I’d choose to have it in that situation it’d be him. And he absolutely split the middle. I reckon he’s almost our most reliable set shot.

Absolutely and Kennedy as well

 

[carlton_99]

Still slightly concerned how far we are stepping away from our contested game, to grow our turnover game

Still believe we are a fair bit off the right balance, but handy banking wins

I have been more concerned with our spread from stoppage than the dirty stuff. Walsh is our best at it

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Walsh is coming back next week, but Ejijah is injured so there's the change.

Do we really need another midfielder plugged into the forward line. It’s bad enough playing Elijah there. Kennedy has some big moments but he looks lost over a whole game.

With no VFL this week you’re probably right.

 

[Matty411]

Gabba - W
MCG - W
Marvel - W
Adelaide Oval - W

Anywhere. Anytime. Anyone.

 

[kreuze_missile]

I think we lose Fog for a week or 2 though.

Zero prospect of 2 weeks.

Has to be graded medium impact to get 1 week.

Low impact and it’s a fine.

Or if the neck is considered the body he also gets a fine, even if impact is graded medium.

I think he gets a fine.

 

[ferrisb]

weve beaten freo in a few close ones in recent years....they must be hating us atm

I want to return to the days when every team hated us...

 

[mjtim1]

The umpires went deep on Freo, 6 goals from free kicks out of 9.

Most of them there though... acres was HTB everyday of the week X 2 for a start

 

[kreuze_missile]

Do we really need another midfielder plugged into the forward line. It’s bad enough playing Elijah there. Kennedy has some big moments but he looks lost over a whole game.

With no VFL this week you’re probably right.

TDK can rest there when Pittonet returns.

 

[Arr0w]

I have been more concerned without out spread from stoppage than the dirty stuff. Walsh is our best at it

I guess that's all linked

 

[BrianSetzer]

Thought we were gone but we found a way.
Remember Collingwood doing the same thing time and time again last year. The stars are aligning. Up the baggers.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

TDK can rest there when Pittonet returns.

I don’t want to take TDK away from the centre just as he’s gaining some momentum.

 

[Accidental genius]

I want to return to the days when every team hated us...

I dont think that is all that far away the way we are travelling

 

[BigFrizz36]

Do we really need another midfielder plugged into the forward line. It’s bad enough playing Elijah there. Kennedy has some big moments but he looks lost over a whole game.

With no VFL this week you’re probably right.

Personally I'd bring in Walsh and Marchbank. E.Hollands and Fantasia out. Kemp to 3rd tall forward role. Owies into the team and Carroll sub,. Durdin lucky. Assuming that there are no other injuries and none of our longer term injured are right to come back. Only other concern is possible suspension to Fogarty.

 

[Lukeblueboy]

Bloody gutsy win by the boys! U take that every day of the week and run!

Was just one of those days where we were down on disposal efficiency and all those little tap on’s ect kept going straight to them, or we fumble right at a key moment and they’d get the ball straight back.
Only need to tidy those things up and we would have murdered them.
Midfield is still a bit of a worry for me.

 

[Blue and Blue]

CARNA BLUES!

I have never seen an ugly win in my life to be honest.
Seen us play great and lose a few times. That's ugly.

It's premiership football what we are doing. Not always pretty but results is the aim.

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

nice relaxed easy win

Enjoyed the arvo with Osc1 and yourself mate.

I was so nervous I couldn’t eat! Lucky as you guys gave Pizza Hut all you can eat a massive hiding.

 

[mjtim1]

Won't dare name anyone, but have a look at the 'game day' thread and pick all the naysayers declaring we'd lost, during the third quarter mind you, and then read their comments in this thread!! It's always the same posters, which I won't name, but you know who you are, and so do we......the true (read Blue) believers

Love this !!

 

[KingCharles]

Still slightly concerned how far we are stepping away from our contested game, to grow our turnover game

Still believe we are a fair bit off the right balance, but handy banking wins

I think we are conserving that style of game for later in the year. It’s a long season.

 

[BlueTongue]

The freo mids (Serong, Jackson, Brayshaw, Fyfe and Young) had 29 clearances to our mids (TDK, Cripps, Hewett, Cerra and Carroll) 16.

Cerra and Carroll had 2 between them.

TDK best game this year though.

TDK is fast becoming Top 3 Ruckmen in the league IMHO

 

[Faz 2000]

Personally I'd bring in Walsh and Marchbank. E.Hollands and Fantasia out. Kemp to 3rd tall forward role. Owies into the team and Carroll sub,. Durdin lucky. Assuming that there are no other injuries and none of our longer term injured are right to come back. Only other concern is possible suspension to Fogarty.

On last outing I can’t buy the argument to bring Marchbank (straight back) in. He needs to string games together in the VFL and force someone out. I like Weiters/McGov/Kemp. It’s not perfect, but it’s counter-punchy and proactive.

 

[thegreatbeast]

Zero prospect of 2 weeks.

Has to be graded medium impact to get 1 week.

Low impact and it’s a fine.

Or if the neck is considered the body he also gets a fine, even if impact is graded medium.

I think he gets a fine.

Honestly, I have no idea with what how they view things. It's his "eyes not on the football" part that worries me. I hope he gets off.

 

[Benga]

Personally I'd bring in Walsh and Marchbank. E.Hollands and Fantasia out. Kemp to 3rd tall forward role. Owies into the team and Carroll sub,. Durdin lucky. Assuming that there are no other injuries and none of our longer term injured are right to come back. Only other concern is possible suspension to Fogarty.

ditto

 

[Gethelred]

Okay.

There's a tendancy within AFL circles to have a bit of a giggle in Fremantle's direction. Their trading foibles are fairly well known, as is the strange way they seem to leak their best players. Had they retained Neale, Lobb, Acres, Henry, Cerra, McCarthy, Hogan, Weller, their side'd look very, very different this year. They've not won a flag; they're the little brother over in Perth; they make some silly mistake when trading or drafting.

And yet, the thing that people don't seem to notice under Longmuir is that they also don't seem to be getting worse despite the players they lose. They are easily the best drilled side in the comp, bar none. They have a set gameplan that can flip from total defense to blitzkrig attack, and can put teams away in a single term. They have a thoroughly understated and effective on ball brigade, and their tall defenders are so well organised that with the midfield's support they're almost impenetrable.

They went in today knowing what they had to do to win: beat us around the ball by exploiting our lack of pace; hold Charlie and Harry as best they can; press up and guarantee repeat front fifty pressure efforts to see what turnovers they could create. They did these things, pretty consistently all match, with only a single part of it (Charlie) not working as planned. This was almost the perfect ambush.

But what needs to be understood is that today - even before the shambolic final minute of footy - we had our own plans. The game was ugly because we refused to play into their hands, dominating possession when they tried to flick the switch. See, around halfway through the third term, they suddenly began handball receiving their way through the corridor and they were beating us back to their half; that the best they could do from it was three goals is a testament to how hard we now are to score against.

Deprived of our clearance dominance, our front and midfield pressure, of one of our two pronged talls ahead of the ball, our team defense and back half made one hell of a case for being the best in the comp.

We refused them the ball in back half for the last 10 minutes of the game.

Now, the mark and dissent free. There would be easily 20+ marks a game that go touched and unnoted. That one's a bit hard in the final minutes, but that one you can wear. But the dissent free came a full minute after the mark call had been made; your blood might be up, but if you can't control your mouth after a minute you are not an adult.

Freo are cursed when it comes to us. I'm not relishing when the footy gods choose their favour to flip, but 4-0 is a strong start to the year.

Onto Adelaide at Marvel.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Just looking at all the facebook pages and BigFooty threads, nobody cares if our opposition scored goals from frees, they only care that we won and therefore the game is rigged. It is truly us against the world this season. I hope the boys are galvanised.

I absolutely love the saltiness of almost everyone.

Bring them all on.