Autopsy 2022 Grand Final

[Deccas]

I'm chalking this one up as psychic investment in the next premiership

 

[Tedeski]

We’ll done to Geelong Football Club. Too professional for us.
First thing.
NEVER GO INTO GAMES WITH PLAYERS CARRYING AN INJURY.
Second thing.
We’ll done Robbie Fox

42

Robbie Fox

Age

31

Ht

185cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

5.7

2star

HB

5.6

4star

M

2.2

2star

T

3.6

5star

MG

151.3

2star

D

10.8

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

4.3

3star

M

2.5

3star

T

2.8

4star

MG

151.3

3star

D

12.2

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

6.8

5star

M

0.4

1star

T

3.6

5star

& Chad Warner

1

Chad Warner

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.0

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

2star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

3star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

1star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

2star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

2star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

2.5

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.5

4star

CL

0.0

1star

.
No third things for now.

 

[momentbymoment]

Not a lot of glass half full here obviously, but I don't think anyone was beating the Cats today. Not Collingwood, not anyone. Their most brutal performance of the year. We were crap, but they were excellent.

I really would have been ok losing if we had just showed up.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Kinda wish you didn't say go catters at the end, but congrats anyway

Any post he does no matter where or when he signs off like that.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

Geelongs ability to play Blicavs, Stanley and Hawkins in the ruck against Hickey killed us. Blicavs and Stanley just too athletic, played like extra mids and Hawkins rag dolled poor Ruck Jesus. It was a 3 v 1 smash up. Hickey got no respite whereas the 3 big cats all got decent breaks and remained fresh. I think this was pivotal to Geelongs dominance at the stoppages and also took away Hickey's (who was our top rated player of the finals) influence around the park.

 

[Wolfgang West]

One thing is confirmed. Warner is a straight up superstar

Term thrown around way to easily.

Exhibit A. I. Heeney.

 

[Banyo Bloods]

Kinda wish you didn't say go catters at the end, but congrats anyway

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[ashep]

Lloyd has had an up and down season but was annihilated today. Looked all at sea whenever the ball came in his direction.

 

[BloodRet]

Exactly what I was thinking.

It’s his sign off to every post he writes on this forum tbf, has been for years. Was a classy post

 

[Banyo Bloods]

It’s his sign off to every post he writes on this forum tbf, has been for years

Don’t give a shit still a dick move

 

[Tedeski]

So what does Longmire say in the presser?

We didn’t find a way.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Genuine commiserations to you guys.

I’ve been through 94 and 95 so I know the feeling, can’t have been any fun sitting through that.

You’re a great young team and will be back in the coming years, no question.

 

[kickthething]

You could tell in the first 3 minutes it was all over.

You could tell early, we were slow to respond. We lost it tactically. The defensive structure we applied was way off, we needed one on one to start the second to get some accountability. The space Geelong worked into w our zone just killed us. We panicked and just failed in applying pressure.

It was a very good year for us, got back here quicker than we should have. I am not as flat, I think the actual game took care of thst….one consolation was Rohan was rubbish. It’s all I got!!

Hats off Chad Warner….exceptional in a poor team effort.

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

Our best wasn’t getting close to them today unfortunately. They were just too good.

I wish we’d been better though. It’s a bloody long road back.

 

[DavyRed]

Best:

Fox - the only genuine success story, at worst came out even with his opponent and probably beat him

Daylight

The rest but only within the context of a team totally destroyed right across the ground and who played putrid football

Warner

Parker, Rowbottom
Clarke
Papley

Mills

Rest of backline - some acknowledgment that theirs was an impossible task given the frequency and way the ball came down to them





The others - I can’t think of an adequate adjective to describe how bad they were

 

[zyzzbruh]

I'm chalking this one up as psychic investment in the next premiership

This is actually huge. You can tell in the first qtr we were absolutely out of our depth. Nervous kicks shit decisions etc. We were clearly over raord by the occasion. In a year where we didn't expect to make it, if we make it next year I have no doubt our boys will be better prepared. This loss is the best thing to happen to us. It's no different to the Essendon loss except we're talking premiership stakes. If it's is against a Fremantle or Brisbane next year we will be prepared whilst they will be nervous just as we were.

 

[Jack Lord]

Reckon we played our grand final last week.

By contrast, there wasn’t much celebrating when the cats flogged the lions. They had a job to do and good luck to them.

Most important thing is that the players use this as an incentive rather than a curse.

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

I can’t help but feel a bit angry.

The Reid selection was clearly a blunder - a professional club full of medicos should know better.

Who knows what impact Logan’s axing had on the team spirit - especially when they knew Reid was hobbled.

We got beaten by the (vastly) better side, but it feels like there was a very big self inflicted wound at the selection table.

100% we should never have played Reid he was hobbled and now we wait and hope Logan responds like a true blood!

Questions need to be asked of the match committee for mine

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

Fox and Warner were the only ones who were at the level today.

I didn’t notice him at the game but Parker can also hold his head up high based on his stats.

Rest of our team were not at it unfortunately.

Hope this spurs is on in 23 and forward.

 

[The King!]

I will say one thing

i did the preview for this game

and I did 2014

so I blame the mods of the board for letting me

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

Questions need to be asked of our coaches around allowing Geelong to have a spare in defence all game.

Set them up and we played into their hands, couldn’t get it forward and when we did they picked us off

 

[WhippingCupcakes]

What I don't get was where was our pressure? Sure our offense can suck but we can keep tackling. Apart from Parker our individuals had a low tackle count. I could give them a pass if the pressure game we've had the whole year was there.

 

[DavyRed]

Questions need to be asked of our coaches around allowing Geelong to have a spare in defence all game.

Set them up and we played into their hands, couldn’t get it forward and when we did they picked us off

To be honest I don’t think it really mattered. Cats were so dominant in midfield that the ball rarely got that far.

 

[Tesla Tenet]

Happy for PMac to kick a goal in a GF, it was pointless, but symbolic in his life.

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[Dan87]

We had no midfield presence what so over

7 goals to 0 from stoppages at half time

There's your game

Started with Hickey ended in Geelong's senior bodies

Every fn bounce went their way. Fortune favours the bold