Autopsy 2023 Rd 20 Blues beat flag favourites and move into the 8

[gbatman]

If we get sent to Western Sydney for the first final that's going to absolutely suck.

St Kilda are going to play a 16 man defence and put four extra around the ball next week I hope we are ready.

If they do that we will eat them alive. Footy isn't played like that anymore, the new rules and the new game style we have, we will run them into the ground, and slaughter them with inside 50s if they go the flood.

Is a danger game though. IMO the Saints aren't much chop but they are coached alright, have beaten us before and our injury toll is growing in our elite player department rather than shrinking.

 

[Rosscoe 17]

What a night

1. Motlop’s tackle on Cameron
2. Cerra’s smother on Pendlebury
3. Cripps muscling Daics and Steele
4. Charlie’s 70 metre kick to owies
5. Holland’s coast to coast

 

[Mr_Plow]

What this team is doing right now is absurd. ****ing well done, but job not done.

 

[thylacine60]

He's very good but I think that Cuners is even better. Rarely misses.

Both have such simple techniques.

 

[WalshYouLegend]

Saints
Dees
Suns
Giants

all in finals contention. I wouldnt say anything is guaranteed in such a tight race yet

Guaranteed this weekend. Wow - pretty obvious from the context of my post.

 

[windows1]

Boyd has one more match on the sidelines. Then he could come straight back in, maybe for Marchy. Of course this makes our defence shorter, but pacier. Boyd is best 22 for mine, but has not really hit his straps yet this season. Hopefully we will see him do this in the coming weeks.

Boyd would be straight in against Melbourne for mine. They have some small pests that need watching.

 

[Opium]

All this and I've never seen such a scrawny little young bloke love the hard stuff as much as Ollie. Him taking it up to the hardbody veterans of the Pies was a thing of beauty

He's going to be a monster when he's body matures. It could truly be our 'Joel Selwood' drafting moment where a legit gun player missed out on a top pick and fell into our laps.

So losing the last round last year could have a silver lining. We wouldn't of been able to draft hollands if we made the 8 as bulldogs were really keen.

 

[BigFrizz36]

Boyd would be straight in against Melbourne for mine. They have some small pests that need watching.

We also have Newman and Saad for the small pests such as Tobias.

 

[Jimmyonesix]

He’s been talked up as a second coming of Jesus - we found a way to reduce his impact tonight and it was mainly through physical pressure.
16 other clubs will take note.

Once he adds size he be ok -- see his tackle count he's hungry for contest .. guys a gun ..

 

[Iamcarlton]

Hodge and a few of the others knocked that on the head pretty quickly though.

I prefer Foxtel, as much as giving money to them irks me, can't wait for next year when they no longer take 7s appalling commentary feed.

More than irks me had to give up foxtel.
Couldn't stand continuing to give money to that grubby old propagandist Murdoch.

 

[Wickzki]

So losing the last round last year could have a silver lining. We wouldn't of been able to draft hollands if we made the 8 as bulldogs were really keen.

Reminds me of the collapse in 1994. Had we beaten Geelong in that final we would have missed out on Scott Camporeale in that draft.

 

[SurreyBlue]

He’s been talked up as a second coming of Jesus - we found a way to reduce his impact tonight and it was mainly through physical pressure.
16 other clubs will take note.

Spot on. He doesn't like the physicality at all and even worse, hardly earns the contested ball.
Magpie supporters are starting to see this now and are calling for him to go back to half back.
They also are saying 'they were flat' or 'it's the loss they needed' - in typical bias they give the opposition no credit. I don't mind that, hopefully their players believe it as well.

 

[Wickzki]

Once he adds size he be ok -- see his tackle count he's hungry for contest .. guys a gun ..

You either have the want for the contest or you don't. It's not really something that can be trained.

Hollands is as undersized and under developed as they come yet has mongrel. The opposite is true of Nick Daicos.

There is never been any criticism of his skill. However, even in junior footy they were questioning his physical toughness and his willingness to absorb contact. It's not a boy among men issue

Although I do think he'll improve in this aspect I do not believe it will ever be a strength of his. Collingwood has enough hard nights to running around him into minimise. It's deficit.

 

[norway blue]

Spot on. He doesn't like the physicality at all and even worse, hardly earns the contested ball.
Magpie supporters are starting to see this now and are calling for him to go back to half back.
They also are saying 'they were flat' or 'it's the loss they needed' - in typical bias they give the opposition no credit. I don't mind that, hopefully their players believe it as well.

That squib in the middle. We bullied Collingwood.


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[windows1]

Cripps ran straight at him and only decided to go back the other way because another Pies bloke was coming in from the side.

If we can get Walsh, Cerra, Kennedy and Cripps around the ball the Pies mids will not stand a chance.

Don’t like the Doc? He’s as tough as they come. I think our best mid 4 rotation is Cripps Walsh Cerra and Doc. Time will tell whether Hollands can hang on to that wing.

Set up 1: Cripps, Walsh, Cerra, Doc, with Acres and Hollands as wings (Cotts wing cover, Cuners and fog midfield caneos)

Set up 2: Cripps Walsh Cerra hewett/Kennedy, with Acres and Doc as wings (Cotts wing cover, Cuners and fog midfield cameos).

I think I like set up 2….just.

 

[katmanblue]

As soon as defenders realise that holding and blocking Curnow when the ball is nowhere within the contested call area the the sooner there will be less free kicks given to Curnow.

I thought Charlie should have had about 3 more free kicks in the first half

Happens every game. To H as well. They get scragged when the ball is two kicks away.

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[myblueroan]

Then again, Pies can’t count on all of Walsh, McKay, JSOS and Cerra missing. Would love to play them in the finals, I really

Thought you were gonna say
" pies can't count on all of their fingers"...
Anyhoo
Carry on.

 

[Jimmyonesix]

Worst decision of the night

Charlie getting his ripped off in the second must of been a close second

 

[The_Wookie]

im tell you whats annoying. doing a 15 minute highlights package - as well as for the last 5 weeks - to have the entire lot copyright striked by the league. wtf

 

[Blue and Blue]

What a night

1. Motlop’s tackle on Cameron
2. Cerra’s smother on Pendlebury
3. Cripps muscling Daics and Steele
4. Charlie’s 70 metre kick to owies
5. Holland’s coast to coast

6. Weitering sending out electron waves to convince oppo players he was wearing stripes

 

[BlueBelle]

Don’t know about you guys but I’m still pumped after last night!

I couldn’t be more proud of the players and how they’ve rallied and turned our season around.

GO BAGGERS!!

 

[Blue By Blood]

I love how when we beat teams at the moment they all say in their autopsy thread that their team didn’t work hard enough or that they kicked inaccurately. That’s a clear sign to me that our application and effort around the contest is top notch at the moment and is causing teams to crack and wilt under that kind of pressure. It’s been four quarter efforts. We have patches where the opposition get on top but we are holding up.

Teams that rely largely on scores from defensive transition or outside leaning teams can have their key strengths taken away from them. E.g. clogging the corridor, applying frontal pressure rather than corralling space, manic pressure around stoppage and at the ball carrier, forcing repeat stoppages in our forward 50 etc.

It’s harder to take away our key strength though because that’s having contested bulls who crack in hard all game long and are always a presence around the stoppage. There’s a reason contested ball winning teams largely are the ones who stand up in finals. It’s a strength that is hard to quell. The big change for us has been obviously the manic pressure but also adding the transition game to our strong contested ball work. It’s a model that will stand up if we can keep bringing that heat week in week out.

Massive win last night. I said in a previous post that a win against the Pies would give the boys genuine belief that they’re good enough and be the genuine arrival of this team. Let’s keep riding this wave of momentum.

 

[gbatman]

The thing is there were heaps of moments where we missed McKay. Plenty of times we had to kick long up the wing or deep forward where he usually is and it came back. Then no Walsh who has been the backbone of our new onball style.

Imo Walsh, McKay in and Cerra doesn't get injured and we win this by about 50 points as well.

Walsh in and we maintain the run and burst out of clearance. McKay in and we have that tall for out kicks and top of the square kicks and we'll Cerra is Cerra.

Thing was we were putting them away right to the end of the last quarter. Wasn't just a hard fought win, we did it by 3 goals, lead most of it with a heap of our better players out.

I think our players are loving the new game style, injuries to our top end worry me, but winning is winning.

 

[bigblueboy]

Don’t like the Doc? He’s as tough as they come. I think our best mid 4 rotation is Cripps Walsh Cerra and Doc. Time will tell whether Hollands can hang on to that wing.

Set up 1: Cripps, Walsh, Cerra, Doc, with Acres and Hollands as wings (Cotts wing cover, Cuners and fog midfield caneos)

Set up 2: Cripps Walsh Cerra hewett/Kennedy, with Acres and Doc as wings (Cotts wing cover, Cuners and fog midfield cameos).

I think I like set up 2….just.

I think set up 2 is likely to be our preferred model when fitness allows.

 

[katmanblue]

im tell you whats annoying. doing a 15 minute highlights package - as well as for the last 5 weeks - to have the entire lot copyright striked by the league. wtf

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