Game Day 2023 Round 06 Geelong v Bloods at Kardinia Park Sat. 7.25 pm

[Kennedy Parker]

Half time margin 1 point less than grand final

#improvement

 

[stevie26]

Geelong supporters jeering the umps! lol.

 

[The King!]

how the **** did we get within 35

 

[Dangas]

Half time margin 1 point less than grand final

#improvement

Always a positive. I mean in this game I'll take it.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Think one of the differences is Geelong play it smart getting into the right position, we just overcommit like headless chickens

 

[Citrus22]

Got way more physical as the quarter went on, gunna need to keep that up to have any chance. Also, if you go for a defensive mark you MUST take it. Otherwise just spoil.

 

[The King!]

when you are winning you can't bag umps, when losing its like well they are just better

Yes Geelong clearly ****en better

but the umpires been one way traffic, they get every call

 

[Cadsky]

Don't get too excited with 2 late goals. Second half we will be physically drained after chasing our tail all game and drop off again. Probably 60+ point loss coming up

 

[Nuggetz]

Too big, Too fast, Too good.

The boys are battling but physically can't match them.

Blicavs is a cheat code.

 

[RedBloodBlackSwan]

Half time margin 1 point less than grand final

#improvement

At that rate of improvement, we will best Geelong in about 50 years

 

[Wolfgang West]

Meh don't care...he's the only player that takes on the game

Agreed but he needs to stay in his lane. Some of his fumbles tonight don’t quite add up to the levels he is being spoken of.

 

[SSwans2011]

Mills on Hawkins

 

[The King!]

Duncan laughed at stephens

cats think he is soft

 

[Citrus22]

if only Rowy could find more ball, looks so good when he gets it but 6 touches is disappointing

 

[Nuggetz]

flipping hate the spare back for us which is allowing the cats to have an extra at the contest. That's just letting geelong dominate in the mids. It's a poor strategy & not a good defensive move. If you want a defensive move then man up at the contest & win the ball. That's the BEST defence.

 

[Citrus22]

Duncan laughed at stephens

cats think he is soft

More like look at the scoreboard I reckon

 

[The King!]

Losing but playing like the last 5 minutes for the rest of the game would be a different story

Papley putting his head over it and drawing a free was a spark


Now do we have any all australian midfielders we could play in the middle

 

[RedBloodBlackSwan]

Duncan laughed at stephens

cats think he is soft

I’m glad Papley came in to back up his team mate. Not a good look by Duncan.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

When we win a clearance and move it quickly (rare) or transition well out of defence or off a turnover, our forward line looks dangerous enough. It would take a massive momentum shift but technically, we are not out of this.

 

[SSwans2011]

if only Rowy could find more ball, looks so good when he gets it but 6 touches is disappointing

Wouldn't surprise me if he's playing a defensive role.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Think one of the differences is Geelong play it smart getting into the right position, we just overcommit like headless chickens

Like watching Auskick

 

[Jeffers]

Gould sub was ******* stupid in the first place. Imaging being 2 kd's down in the first place coming up against the best 2 KF's going round and starting a KD as sub. ******* brain fart if I've ever seen one.

Almost as bad as playing a clearly severely injured Reid in the most important game of the year.

 

[Wolfgang West]

*ing hate the spare back for us which is allowing the cats to have an extra at the contest. That's just letting geelong dominate in the mids. It's a poor strategy & not a good defensive move. If you want a defensive move then man up at the contest & win the ball. That's the BEST defence.

Unfortunately it’s exhibit A in the Longmire coaching manual. Always has been. When you have a game unfolding in this fashion it’s back to man on man across the ground.

 

[Millky95]

OK. Half time. Emotions down. Logical brain.

1. Gould sub and Mills FB: bad tactical call. Geelong forwards are too big for that and it showed. They were marking everything. Hopefully Gould on now releases Mills forward

2. I hope Roberts is OK.

3. Beaten in contested ball again. Either this is a tactic (crap tactic) or we need to change up something. Clearances should be going our way given Ladhams' dominance but even then we get beaten at the ball

4. Despite the ball living in our back half, nothing from lloyd or Ollie so far. Being well tagged out of it

5. When our mids are being beaten, they do go a bit soft particularly our wingers. J.Mac and Stephens have been poor in this regard all year

Better 2nd term (particularly last ten minutes) but we need to start winning some hard ball. Let Rowbottom be an extractor. Please. That'll let Chad do his thing. Or tell Chad to win a ball and not stroll down the wing into the most obvious tackle ever

 

[lazy77]

When we win a clearance and move it quickly (rare) or transition well out of defence or off a turnover, our forward line looks dangerous enough. It would take a massive momentum shift but technically, we are not out of this.

We are absolutely out of it. We can safely write this one off. Coming back from 50 points down in Geelong would be an all-time upset. It's not gonna happen. We don't have the weapons to pull that off. Best we can hope for is an honourable 25 point loss.