Autopsy Cats lose 4th straight to GWS by 4 points.

[dazbroncos]

IT aint working.

Lost by 8, 6, 64 and 4.

First time since 2006 we've dropped 4 in a row.

Cant go to sleep for a 1/4 and expect to make it happen in the end.

Jezza is a shell of himself.
Tomma too.
Duncan's best is behind him.

We have some really good kids coming thru.

Bruhn, Atkins, Stengle, Clark all really good. Conway too - nice back to back games from him.

Bowes good whence he came on. Zuthrie solid too for sure.

2E started ok then disappeared

Stewy, SDK, Jack Henry

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Jack Henry

Age

26

Ht

192cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.3

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

MG

142.6

2star

D

8.6

2star

K

6.7

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.1

3star

MG

142.6

3star

D

9.6

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.6

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.0

4star

all inconsistent. Blitz too. Miers up and down - mostly down of late.

The cohesion and team stuff ebbs and flows and you cant have that in the AFL today.

Midfield still getting lessons the hard way.

GO Catters

 

[Jeff76]

Year over


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[foxdog50]

The first 7 games of the season were fantastic. Honestly we were playing above our average..
We are a middle of the range club...
We are only making the numbers this year

 

[catsfootyfan89]

You can't leave the next generation of mids in the sub vest. They need to be fast tracked into the drivers seat. Stupid decision to have Bowes sitting out half the match.

Probably cost the game.

 

[patience]

Can’t leave finding intensity until the last quarter.

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Only shining light is it's our younger players who continue to impress.
Holmes and Stengle were awesome for large parts of the game and Clark looked great and at home and even late made some decisions seemingly beyond his "veteran" team mates.
Otherwise, typical horrible game from the Cats.
No leadership. Nobody standing up.
Even late, nobody trying to slow it down and make better decisions, just more long blind bombs to the top of the square, but for some reason a forwardline whose unable to read those exact kicks and allow the GWS tall backs to continue to either mark, or kill the entry. Time and time again.
All round, selfish, dumb football.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Stupid football at the end. Just bombing it to the top of the square where the Giants had 4-5 players just waiting for the mark or spoil. Needed to be smarter than that - what was wrong with lowering the eyes and looking for a target at half forward?

Yep. If we can't do the friggen basics how can we expect to win?

 

[supahoops]

Not lost all hope but time to roll the dice. If Duncan can’t kick he can’t play. Get Lawson in. Persist with Mullin. Dempsey needs a spell - Mannagh in. Hawk can have a spell. Let’s see what Hardie can do in the ones.

 

[catters05]

pretty pathetic, we get back in it with tackling pressure which was missing for most of the game. Don’t do the simple things right.

Some stars stood up, most just waiting for results.

 

[Generalissimo]

Hawk can have a spell.

Hawk just had a rest last week, on on tonight's effort you wouldn't be dropping him.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I didn't get to watch due to family commitments.

Sounds like we suck?

 

[Seeds]

Hawkins needs to retire. His only value now is the double back lead for a 10 metre chip pass.

He doesnt even try to contest any pass longer then that. Clearly his body is stuffed.

He is a geelong legend. But he is done.

 

[frggr]

Losing games by 8, 6, and 4 isn't a sign that it isn't working.

Those margins are a miskick or a missed call (or a.dodgy call the other way).

It's a long season and we'll hit our straps in due course.

 

[MisterMarcus]

As with the other losses, the main silver lining is that most of our best players were younger guys.

Just that 20-odd minute span in the 2nd quarter cost us - can't go to sleep for a quarter and expect to win.

Frustrating because we played good Cats style footy at times, just had these horrible brain fades and lapses at times.

Oh well - hopefully at least we have an easy kill against Richmond next week....

 

[vikum123]

Anyone see Stengle give a massive spray to O Henry there right at the end. When you’re playing that third tall it’s so important to engage and put some body on your direct opponent ( Alleer was massive at the end).

Wouldn’t mind seeing Atkins have a spell and give another mid a crack.

 

[small 4wards]

had more than enough entries to try and get it done. we just looked like a disconnect between where our forwards were and where we kicked. If we're kicking to stengle in a 3 on 1 then what's going on with our decision making

 

[Cataholic]

IT aint working.

Lost by 8, 6, 64 and 4.

First time since 2006 we've dropped 4 in a row.

Cant go to sleep for a 1/4 and expect to make it happen in the end.

Jezza is a shell of himself.
Tomma too.
Duncan's best is behind him.

We have some really good kids coming thru.

Bruhn, Atkins, Stengle, Clark all really good. Conway too - nice back to back games from him.

Bowes good whence he came on. Zuthrie solid too for sure.

2E started ok then disappeared

Stewy, SDK, Jack Henry all inconsistent. Blitz too. Miers up and down - mostly down of late.

The cohesion and team stuff ebbs and flows and you cant have that in the AFL today.

Midfield still getting lessons the hard way.

GO Catters

Snuck out of dinner to check the final score.

The result was predictable early in the first quarter. The inaccuracy of GWS flattered us.

The weight of their forward entries, our mf getting smashed, and possibly the most disorganised forward line / method in the game was always going to tell.

Bizarre choice re: Bowes......

We're done for 2024 I suspect.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Think we've reached the point where we're fodder in 2024.
The midfield tries hard but is below the level required.

Time to try something different.

Mannagh, Hardie, COS, Knevitt in.
Dempsey (managed), Atkins, J.Henry, Neale out.

 

[Micksy]

Play the kids!

 

[Seeds]

Our best contested foward marks right now.

Tyson stengle

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Tyson Stengle

Age

26

Ht

175cm

Wt

71kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.3

2star

K

5.8

2star

HB

3.5

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.1

4star

D

10.3

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

5.0

3star

M

1.3

1star

T

2.0

3star

G

0.5

4star

D

8.8

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.6

4star

G

1.6

5star

no. 1
Close no 2
Neale no 3 (despite the silly uncontested drops each week)

That is all.

 

[SkittleCats]

This last month, every selection decision we have made has weakened the midfield for no discernible gain anywhere else. You can't do that in modern football and expect to win. The midfield is everything. It is appalling coaching.

Once again, GWS get ontop, string together a few clearances, and we are chasing the rest of the night. It is sad in how predicable it was. We are losing these games on Thursday.

 

[catsfootyfan89]

Typical Geelong. Try to snatch it in the last and come up short.

Classic.

Not exactly 'typical' geelong

 

[Mad_Hatter]

had more than enough entries to try and get it done. we just looked like a disconnect between where our forwards were and where we kicked. If we're kicking to stengle in a 3 on 1 then what's going on with our decision making

Problem as I see it, is we don't have the composure behind the ball to look to hit up targets, nor the movement forward of the ball, so resort to the long bomb (which we know doesn't work), but we don't have any talls who can crash a pack and take a big mark.
Our closest is Rohan, and that itself is a joke.
Neither Jez, Hawkins nor Ollie can take those big grabs amongst defenders, so we HAVE to lower the eyes and look to hit up targets across the 50-80m out, but never did.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Play the kids!

We kind of are

 

[Frappe]

We are tackling as though we we're worried about getting reported - hence we're not sticking tackles. We should have taken GWS approach as they were able to sling our players to ground multiple times.

Towards the end - we should have looked at hitting up around 40-50m.

Umpiring horrible again. Would like to be on the right end of the free kick count at some stage this season.