Review Cats demolish North by 75 points.

[Chinacats]

Professional performance and good to win the last qtr when it was all over…. Liked Bowes game today……
Always been a fan of the squad mentality, so happy Hawkins was rested….. top stuff!

 

[Hamingja]

This is a little off as Footywire is somewhat confused by Sellers...

View attachment 1959475

The 100 year old guy did well to play 70% TOG. 1 touch, not so great.

 

[cats_09]

For those wondering, this is why Norths age profile is skewed





Thanks to Ricky Vaughn for posting the above in the preview thread

 

[Turkey Tom]

I remember going to the 95 GF as an 11yr old - barely remember the match, but do remember going to Town Hall that evening to thank the team for the season


Maybe it would have been different if we had won

Yeah, probably sticks in her mind as it was our first flag as well. So sure there would have been big celebrations.

 

[numbwombat]

We are such an even team this year. No one is having huge numbers. Especially in the midfield.
It’s a great sign.

Jeremy Cameron's combined 48 touches, 8 goals, 4 goal assists, 1096 metres gained, have been fairly useful in the last 2 games.

 

[Grimoz]

To make the day even better Richmond are getting pantsed by Wet Toast

 

[year of the cat]

One of the pleasing things is surely how even of a contribution we're seeing across the board, and not simply a reliance on a handful to get the job done each week

North had the top 4 disposal winners on the ground, they also had 4 players with double figure marks and it was Sheezel leading the way in both those stats with 38 disposals & 15 marks - but surely the key question is how many of those disposals were damaging & were we troubled with those many marks being taken? At the end of the match, for the amount of time he got his hands on the ball, Sheezel finished with just 1 goal, 2 goal assists, a total of 5 score involvements and 525m gained

Compare that with us, and our leading disposal winner was Holmes - finished with 2 goals, 6 score involvements and a lazy game high 616m gained
Our leading mark taker was Merrick with 9, including a few really strong marks and he also got on the scoreboard with 1.1 and 6 score involvements himself

And the following is a really good example of the saying, "don't count your touches but make your touches count" - Ollie Henry only had the 8 touches today (6 kicks & 2 handballs), he kicked 1.1, had 4 goal assists and 8 score involvements. So everytime Ollie got his hands on the ball today, we put a score on the board - not sure you can ask for much more from your young forward


So sure, we didn't necessarily win the head to head of various statistics, but we made sure what we did with the ball counted


View attachment 1959482

Ollie even got his hands on the ball when he shouldn’t have! (Thought he should have had better awareness in that situation…looked a bit selfish).

But agree with your post. We are currently getting a very even contributions from nearly all our players. We look fit and hungry again. But we haven’t beaten much yet. The next 3 weeks will show us where we are really at.

 

[cats_09]

 

[year of the cat]

To make the day even better Richmond are getting pantsed by Wet Toast

And WC will be ahead of the Hawks on the ladder in 17 minutes time

 

[cats_09]

Ollie even got his hands on the ball when he shouldn’t have! (Thought he should have had better awareness in that situation…looked a bit selfish).

But agree with your post. We are currently getting a very even contributions from nearly all our players. We look fit and hungry again. But we haven’t beaten much yet. The next 3 weeks will show us where we are really at.

That passage frustrated me - it looked like Ollie was going to shepherd the ball through and then made a late decision to go for the mark

I'm glad it didn't cost us anything more than a chance to boost percentage a little, but I'm sure during match review it'll be discussed with Ollie and the importance of spacial awareness

 

[BotsMaster]

Who was on Harry Sheezel today?

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

For those wondering, this is why Norths age profile is skewed


View attachment 1959540


Thanks to Ricky Vaughn for posting the above in the preview thread

Thought he moved OK for 124 year old.

 

[year of the cat]

That passage frustrated me - it looked like Ollie was going to shepherd the ball through and then made a late decision to go for the mark

I'm glad it didn't cost us anything more than a chance to boost percentage a little, but I'm sure during match review it'll be discussed with Ollie and the importance of spacial awareness

Duncan didn’t look overly impressed.

 

[iameviljez]

Instead, Crazy Clarko goes and trades the world for B-Graders in Mitchell, O'Meara, & Wingard

To be fair, he tried to moneyball his way through it with Patton, O'Meara, Vickery and Scully, only for all of them to basically fall apart.

It's not just Clarko - Gunston was a stupid, stupid decision.

 

[Kobe Gryant]

Who was on Harry Sheezel today?

The better question is who was Sheezel on?

He's a defender who doesn't play on anybody. Feel for the kid, but his 30 odd touches every week aren't hurting anybody.

 

[Heckler]

Very scrappy Q1 : Great Q2
Held Roos at bay in 2nd Half.
Cats defense nullified Noorf
Roos forced to chip sideways.
Cats played bruise free footy
Workman like victory, Job Done.
Everyone contributed evenly
75 point win, yet unsatisfying.
Cats saved energy for next week.
Relief that No injuries reported,
Kittens given AFL experience
Pleasing signs from Neal & COS
Both future senior material.
There will be no Cat Cliff
Cats are building a Meowtain




Cats will be tested next 6 weeks
Seniors stars returning helps.
Pressure to perform increases.
Win 3 or more to secure finals.
Contender or pretender? revealed

 

[Kobe Gryant]

To be fair, he tried to moneyball his way through it with Patton, O'Meara, Vickery and Scully, only for all of them to basically fall apart.

It's not just Clarko - Gunston was a stupid, stupid decision.

O'Meara was pick 10 and second, that's closer to selling the farm than it is moneyball.

 

[iameviljez]

O'Meara was pick 10 and second, that's closer to selling the farm than it is moneyball.

Christ I forgot just how stupid that was

 

[kickazz]

He will be right one day and he will never shut up about it despite being wrong year in year out

He would fit in well on the main board

To be fair he had us home in 2022 months out, way before anyone else.

But when he is wrong, he just doubles down on it constantly.

 

[Gazza Greatness]

For those wondering, this is why Norths age profile is skewed


View attachment 1959540


Thanks to Ricky Vaughn for posting the above in the preview thread

Age shall not weary.... amazed he's still 90kg

 

[iameviljez]

Feel for the kid, but his 30 odd touches every week aren't hurting anybody.

Not his fault that the midfield is basically VAFA standard and cannot make anything of it

 

[iameviljez]

Who was on Harry Sheezel today?

I believe the answer is "nobody".

 

[cats_09]

Duncan didn’t look overly impressed.

It's somewhat interesting that after our first couple of matches there was some comments about Mannagh maybe being a bit goal hungry and not "playing the Geelong way" - I would suggest Henry's effort on the goal line was more goal hungry than anything we saw from Mannagh, but not a lot of commentary about it

That doesn't mean we omit him next week, but maybe we need to realise the game is full of split second decisions and the importance is watching how players learn from decisions they've made which may not have been the best option

 

[bulletproof]

Thought O’Sullivan showed enough. Hope we see him a few more times this year. Love it when a draftee shows up early.

 

[you pick one]

That passage frustrated me - it looked like Ollie was going to shepherd the ball through and then made a late decision to go for the mark

I'm glad it didn't cost us anything more than a chance to boost percentage a little, but I'm sure during match review it'll be discussed with Ollie and the importance of spacial awareness

I thought both Ollies were a bit to keen to get on the scoreboard at times pressure for spots can work both ways there was probably the thought that someone misses out next week I don't want it to be me a goal on the board might help.