Autopsy 2022 Round 5 Heart attack Blues hold on again

[prisoner777]

We will be 10 and 1 at the bye.

At some point our close wins will become "honourable losses" unless we start putting at least 3 qtrs together consistently.

 

[Wickzki]

Personally, I'm still a big supporter of Vossy but the fact is that in professional sports you really don't know how good a coaching staff is until their second and sometimes even third season.

Teague had early success. We jumped on the train. It derailed.

Other clubs have had very strong coaches come in and have poor starts but came good.

Let's see where we're at in 12 months. Anything more is way too reactive game by game.

 

[therubbernub]

We overused the ball in the first half and were lucky that port ddint pressure the ball carrier enough. They started to in the second half.

 

[Arr0w]

I call bullshit, when do other team lose huge leads week in week out? 3 out of our 4 wins with clung on (which is great). But if we had a workable plan B this wouldn't br happening every week.

Every week there are massive momentum swings in a couple of games.

We are an 11-13 wins side, new coaches, new gameplan

 

[prisoner777]

As does 4 wins.

If we play like we have against Hawthorn and Port and sides like Melbourne will carve us up.

 

[therubbernub]

No idea how to be a good team
So far from a good team
Can’t keep playing this way

you can only win. It was ugly, but we still won

 

[Arr0w]

It does but we seem to do it more than most. Only 5 rounds in and we've thrown away 40 (v Hawks) and 50 (v Port). We were lucky to win both games. Our percentage speaks reams.

But we won our other 2 games in different style

 

[thebluenewdeal]

yessssssssss! Got the much needed win ! We have to realise this team haven’t been in these positions before. We have also opened our compaign with 3 wins on the g where it matters most come September. On top of that we have beaten 2 prelim finalists and actually bet them twice on the day. They gave us everything in that second half today and we still managed to recover and grind it out. This group will now know when a really good team is turning it up and just scrapping to edge closer. We asked for a response to our loss and boy did they respond. These wins will be so handy when we are in this same position down the line. They know what it feels like now and you can only learn about beating the best when you live it. Such a great win. GB

 

[Mezzoculo]

They are bottom 4 because we beat them LOL

Well, we beat two of them. By a combined total of 4 points. That's not really lol worthy.

The point is that if we play like Jekyll and Hyde against the top end end teams then we shouldn't expect the same results.

 

[teagueyubeauty]

Again, once we finally slowed it down and looked for short options instead of mindlessly kicking long to a contest, like the Hawthorn game we got it back in our terms.

It’s what should have happened half way through the third quarter when the momentum was clearly against us


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[SurreyBlue]

I’m exhausted and it’s only round 5.

 

[Wickzki]

But we won our other 2 games in different style

The concerning thing that has been consistent is our third quarter form.

Thus far we've kicked 2-2-1-1-1 goals in third quarters.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

We have the slowest 1 paced midfield in the comp who look quicker in the first half because of our speed of ball movement to our key forwards.

Come 2nd half when fatigue hits our “slow mids” we cannot afford to stop taking the game on as it allows opposition to outnumber of dangerous forwards.

Continue to take the game on but we may also need to find some balance with an injection of midfield pace going forward.

Worst 3rd quarter team in the comp by a fair margin it would seem.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

I’m exhausted and it’s only round 5.

Slow it down then.... chip it sideways & backwards!!

 

[Arr0w]

The concerning thing that has been consistent is our third quarter form.

Thus far we've kicked 2-2-1-1-1 goals in third quarters.

Yeap really sluggish after half time

 

[Benaly28]

What was the crowd figure today?


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[Percy2257]

6 games before the bye.

Freo (A) at Optus
North (H) at Marvel
Crows (H) at Marvel
Giants (A) at Giants Stadium
Swans (H) at Marvel
Pies (A) at MCG

A positive 6 weeks here into the bye is pivotal. 2 interstate trips and bit more trickier than it looks. Very important and can set our season up.

Freo will definitely beat us.

 

[Canyouhearthedrums]

The problem with this is that when it happens so frequently it risks becoming habit. Or at least messing with the players heads. Lots of work for the coaching staff to do here.

 

[Graffy4242]

Ffs, can't we ever just finish the job??????

We did.

 

[Gethelred]

We will be 10 and 1 at the bye.

With a percentage of 101.6, and posters on here will be telling us we're the weakest second in history.

 

[BigBreakfast]

If we play like we have against Hawthorn and Port and sides like Melbourne will carve us up.

Probably. I have faith that we will grow before around 22 though.

 

[SurreyBlue]

What was the crowd figure today?


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I think I saw flash up on the scoreboard approx. 33k.

 

[Beyond Blue]

It'll happen. Not an issue for mine.
Enjoying being on 16 points. Dont care how we got them.
I do know its a work in progress still and we havent had our best side on the ground yet.

We’ve been pretty close to full strength save maybe 1 or 2 each week and I think we’ve actually had a better run with injuries than most other clubs so I don’t think that’s an issue.

 

[Aphrodite]

What was the crowd figure today?


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33,433

 

[Beyond Blue]

If we play like we have against Hawthorn and Port and sides like Melbourne will carve us up.

Melbourne will carve most team up this year. The key is not to lose games like today and the Hawks game. That said we still clearly have a lot of work to do.