Autopsy v the rubber head bands

[Ball Dont Lie]

We had 50 more disposals . Won the clearances, won contested and uncontested possession. We won the tackle count. We had more one percenters. We had a higher disposal efficiency. This isn’t on the players. This is the coaches who have absolutely no game plan and no structure.

 

[koshari]

Dempsey a genuine talent. Should win RS.

 

[kool kangas]

l hope Clarko saw enough of the players who are not going to help us play and win finals because l sure have...

 

[the big lebowski]

Some speed up forward would be good

Larkey
Zuhaar
Curtis
Durs
Teakle
Comben

None are quick

Obviously Hansen jnr isn’t the answer

Desperately need some speed and class

 

[BigRedRoo]

Maybe just beating west coast and gold coast and nearly beating collingwood and melbourne wasn't the makings of a super team after all

Be a little realistic, turning a burning oil tanker around takes time.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

First and foremost. We were shit.
Umpiring continues to be awful.
Our forward is probably the most dysfunctional in the league, noone knows what to do with the ball coming in.
LDUs first 3 1/4s looked great on paper, but his kicking i50 makes me throw up in my mouth.
Somethings up with Wardlaw. He's either out of gas, or carrying something - end of the game he had 3 easily reachable contests and couldn't make any of them.
I don't normally buy into the whipping boy bashing, but Stephenson has completely lost me.
We're incredibly lucky to have Sheez. Need 10 of him.
Probably handed Dempsey the R/S with unaccountable play.
Talls need to learn when to go up and when to put on a block. Can't have Teakle, Xerri and Comben go up for the same ball.

LMac laughing with oppo players after the game again.

Legitimate question, who do we email at the club to ask them when the club is going to grow some balls and send the AFL a please explain re: differential umpiring?

 

[JGreezy]

We're witnessing one of the all time greats in Sheezel. We're lucky to be able to watch him for the next decade+.

 

[Luke72]

Geelong has recruited a bunch of girls. I accept that they have beaten us today but I laugh knowing that they wil have to defend the game of someone wearing an Alice band I. The near future

 

[Roos92]

-That scoreline was not an accurate reflection of the game.
We were comfortably in that game and had a costly final 3 mins of the 3rd quarter which took the wind out of our sails.

-Our 3 outs today cost us dearly because it exposed some real Potatoes who should not be playing AFL footy. Our depth is diabolical and hopefully improves with some good recruiting.

-Geelong are a nothing more than decent football team with a very mediocre midfield. In a year or two we should fly past them.

 

[Only Forwards]

Dempsey a genuine talent. Should win RS.

He will.

Zero doubt in my mind.

 

[NarniMagic]

If you compare our performance today compared to earlier this year I think we’re improving.
We make dumb decisions too often conceding easy goals but in larger patches now we’re competitive.
We were within 10 points late in the third, and stopped the margin blowing out further in the last quarter.
Stephenson made dumb mistakes but overall showed something I thought he dug in. Mckercher/fisher will dislodge him from there though he was just a fill in.
Duursma has so much potential and Sheezel, LDU & Powell killed it for four quarters.
Need to execute better going forward cos their intercept marks won them the game.

 

[koshari]

Well whole weekend hoping schrodenfeude coming through for * now.

 

[grimface_87]

Me still waiting for our 4 guaranteed wins per season in Hobart

 

[Caracas]

Delist in no particular order,

Brainfades,
Sleevo

I avoided as much of the game as possible because it was just so annoying. The bits that I did watch, Sleevo seemed to be one of our bests.

 

[BigRedRoo]

We had 50 more disposals . Won the clearances, won contested and uncontested possession. We won the tackle count. We had more one percenters. We had a higher disposal efficiency. This isn’t on the players. This on the coaches who have absolutely no game plan and no structure.

We had 10 less scoring shots which shows the problem is connecting into 50.
We also need to stop the stupidly easy goals we give away.
Corr handing the ball to the Geelong forward on the goal line springs to mind.

 

[Paddy_Mac]

We had 50 more disposals . Won the clearances, won contested and uncontested possession. We won the tackle count. We had more one percenters. We had a higher disposal efficiency. This isn’t on the players. This on the coaches who have absolutely no game plan and no structure.

Wrong, our polish (or lack of) cost us going forward and ultimately the game.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

So next week we have Richmond and i'm tipping we'll be without both LDU and Wardlaw courtesy of tribunal.

Awesome!

Pick 1 coming right up!

 

[Paddy_Mac]

We need more sheezels and less sleevos.

End of story.

 

[nelroo]

Terrible loss, worse than any of the last 6 weeks.

We'll be lucky to finish the year on 3 wins again, not even confident about Richmond and West Coast down there.

This. Wish this was the last round. No enthusiasm for the remaining games after today. Pack it in and gift some games to Hardeman, Harvey, Maley, Hansen.

Thank **** Colby should be back in.

 

[Masked Avenger]

It's comical really.

The young players are getting us into games with their class and the experience players are torching it.

The lack of composure from some of them is a joke.

I'd rather keep throwing the kids in.

 

[BigRedRoo]

If I see another North player fly one handed for the ball I will scream.

 

[Moti]

Clangers, turnovers, and skills cost us this game. Plain and simple.

At our best, we looked sensational. But it was few and far between with way too many passages of play undone by turnovers, horrible decisions, and poor options up forward.

Sheezel good today but he's probably the only one I'd say with any confidence had a game they can be proud of. LDU tried hard but butchered the footy a bit. Same for Powell. Xerri worked hard but his tap-work really poor today.

Comben only touched the footy 5 times in the entire game. He crashes packs beautifully up forward but he's not impacting the game and that's not acceptable for where we're at. I'd move him back to defense.

Wardlaw isn't 100% and hasn't been since his concussion. 22 touches today but for a woeful 50% disposal efficiency.

Jaidyn got a lot of flak in the game-day thread and he definitely had a few massive howlers today. But 26 touches, 88.5% disposal efficiency, and more meters-gained than LDU. Fewer turnovers and more contested possessions than Powell. Was he 'better' than Powell today? No. But just pointing out the different standards we hold players to from time to time.

Comben impacts the game forward. We haven't worked out the best way to do that but once Larkey started to lead his man away from the space, it opened up a little more. He is our CHF, just needs to continue to learn the position and he will be an absolute weapon. That and have a forward coach who can introduce strategy.

 

[LETSGOKANGAS]

****ing hate football sometimes…well most times. Probably always.

 

[Grogg]

Sleevo is a liability

Yep .

Delist.

 

[Moti]

I avoided as much of the game as possible because it was just so annoying. The bits that I did watch, Sleevo seemed to be one of our bests.

He was solid. Colby and Fisher made the same mistakes too. In fact a lot of running HB make similar errors. He just isn't a defender.