Autopsy 2021 87 point win against Gold Coast

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Set up by the first quarter helped by GCS appalling pressure early on.

Dawson, Parker, Franklin and Heeney were the standouts Papley was good as well Hickey was everywhere roving his own taps!

McLean had a good 4th quarter but game was long fizzled out by then.

Florent kicking is a worry dont think he hit a target all day.
 

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Complete team performance. Florent continues to be a major concern, and Melican, COR, Campbell, McLean & Wicks didn't have their best games, but all did enough to still be decent.

22 contributors is pretty much exactly what you want on the eve of the finals. Everyone going in with some form and confidence.

Hewett was sublime. Like actually sublime. That was a clinic by him in calm, clean and clever footy.

Dawson was also sublime. That was a clinic by him in unbelievably slick ball use and setting up his team-mates everywhere.

Hope Mills is OK, but honestly knowing we have JPK or Warner waiting in the wings doesn't have me as nervous as I thought I'd be. For his sake though, he absolutely deserves to be there in our first final in two years. He's been great this year.
 

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Lance Franklin 48 goals 17 games
Tom Papley 41 goals 22 games
Isaac Heeney 32 goals 20 games
Will Hayward 28 goals 19 games

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Let's not forget Jon Pierik's pre-season prediction in The Age.

It's easy to poke fun in hindsight but how many of us had us this close to top 4? I'd be guessing most of us had us in the bottom quarter of the table.

That's not to say I'm not relishing our resurgence this year, it has some real 2003 vibes about it, but picking us for the spoon wasn't exactly a ridiculous take at the start of the year.
 
Florent was okay today I thought, copping a little unfair criticism. He works back in defence as hard as anyone bar the actual defenders and pushes forward just as hard. Fatigue affects his kicking at times, but he actually hit a few nice passes today anyway. He’ll be a very good player in a year or two in my estimation.
 

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