Autopsy Cats lose to Suns by 64 points.

[dazbroncos]

Older players were pretty horrible.
Younger ones did their best but belted.

Older blokes got belted and were invisible.
Blitz Guthrie 2E Rohan all useless in this one.

Dropped a tonne of %

19-4 free kick count at one point.

We were shit but thats unacceptable umpiring.

Im sure CGS will revert to their usual selves next week.

Good on them.

Got 10 days off now and we'll need it to get over that

Conway
Miers
Mullin
OH
Zuthrie
All get picked next week.

Hope they play Neale again but they wont.

GO Catters

 

[STPer18]

Scored 100 points with no Hawkins and Cameron. Good stuff, on to next week.

 

[winty]

41 less kicks.
42 less handballs.
43 less marks.
96 less effective possessions.
15 less tackles.
7 less hit outs
10 less frees.
9 less scoring shots.
15 less inside 50s.

Pretty much says it all.

 

[dazbroncos]

Be pissy but dont get personal.

Bans still exist and will be handed out if you cross the line.

GO Catters

 

[Art Vandelay_]

No beating around the bush. This midfield is not good enough and we're increasingly looking like being a lame duck in September given we cannot fix it in 2024. Bruhn, Bowes, Atkins, Parfitt look like being nothing better than support cast mids. We need to find some gun mids from somewhere. No excuses for ToG, or trying to spread the responsibility. Simply not good enough to carry us forward. Don't win enough ball, and our opposition midfielders completely dominate.

Conway put in a good shift tonight. Looks promising. Once he can play 20+ weeks we'll have a good ruck on our hands. Holmes would be our best, albeit he butchered the footy a lot. Not alone there.

Atkins, Bowes, J.Henry, Stewart, Blicavs, C.Guthrie, Neale, Rohan, Bruhn, Kolo all especially poor tonight.
Blicavs and Rohan joining the list of older players increasingly looking past it. Not sure how to make a tough call on Blitz, has a few roles to replace.

Neale can jog on back to the VFL for a few weeks. Does not even remotely look AFL capable at this moment. Has a lot of improvement he needs to make before he'll look like a future forward for us.

Called it pre-game after the late out. SDK made us very undermanned down back and the undersized backs of Kolo, Henry, Stewart and Zuthrie looked lost. COS is the one to pump games into. Form that relationship with SDK and get FB and CHB sorted. No surprise that with an undersized back 6 that their 3 big forwards kick 5, 4 and 3 goals.

Add the complete midfield dominance with their guys getting 41, 35, 37 and 32 touches and the loss of this magnitude cannot be unexpected. Spanked in the middle and incapable of handling the heat (pun intended) once they got it inside 50.
Got to seriously consider looking at Hardie and Mannagh. They can't do worse than this ensemble of midfielders, surely.

 

[Strange Cat]

Terrible night however they did kick 100 points

Lots of questions for the midfield group and no easy quick fix heading into 3 must win games to steady the season.

Still a measure approach is needed , it was an uphill battle tonight with the shit conditions, shit town and shit umpiring …well beaten tonight and the worry is that every team knows they can just steamroll the midfield to put tons of pressure on the backline

Regroup and re focus for the next match and just remember Norf cops this week in and week out so let’s not lose sight of that.

 

[calder_daddy]

Not sure how AFL fantasy points work but for fun

Jack Henry

38

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

20 lowest on the ground
Clark got 28 in just over a 1/4
Guthrie who we all stuck the boots into got 38

That just shows how bad J Henry actually was

 

[catstorm]

Just so ****ing deflating, we were cooked by halfway through the second.

People talk about cheat grounds and Geelong, **** me this is the biggest rort the league has ever seen.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Must win next week, we’ve found ourselves terribly out of form but can just as easily regain it.

 

[Interdimensional Bigfoot]

41 less kicks.
42 less handballs.
43 less marks.
15 less tackles.
7 less hit outs
10 less frees.
9 less scoring shots.
15 less inside 50s.

Pretty much says it all.

Yeah but do other teams play the rebound game.

 

[bulletproof]

Hope they play Neale again but they wont.

Absolutely they won’t. I will be ok not to see Neale again for a fair while to be honest.

 

[Micksy]

About what I expect from a 7-10 side.

 

[Romeoh1]

Forget it and move on. Learning experience for the kids. They’ll get better. Big, strong midfields are cleaning us up.

 

[catters05]

Pretty poor effort overall, umps stunk but can’t blame that performance on them.

We lose 4 in a row, we will be out of the 8

 

[Generalissimo]

Biggest bright spots were Mullin and Conway. Mullin is playing like a legit midfielder now, finding his way to the footy and importantly not kicking so up and under Gaelic footy style like he used to. Conway's got a bit of crash and bash in the ruck, which I like.

 

[Footy Smarts]

Is it weird to come away from that and actually think there were positives?

It's unbelievable how unprepared for the conditions we were and how little our mature players contributed. But Conway was unreal. Holmes is a star and has to play midfield. Stengle and Dempsey were really good. Clark showed a fair bit when he came on.

 

[DV2000]

I can’t remember the last time we conceded such a high score. In the game where Sydney smashed us by 110 points in 2014, they only scored 148. We’d probably have to go back 20+ years to find our last time conceding 164+ points?

 

[David the Cat]

Older players were pretty horrible.
Younger ones did their best but belted.

Older blokes got belted and were invisible.
Blitz Guthrie 2E Rohan all useless in this one.

Dropped a tonne of %

19-4 free kick count at one point.

We were s**t but thats unacceptable umpiring.

Im sure CGS will revert to their usual selves next week.

Good on them.

Got 10 days off now and we'll need it to get over that

Conway
Miers
Mullin
OH
Zuthrie
All get picked next week.

Hope they play Neale again but they wont.

GO Catters

Neale was a liability ..

 

[VerC]

I’d love Scotty to stop playing the umps always right card and let these maggots have it in the presser. Cop the fine, cop the bullshit “please explain” and just say what we are all feeling. Yes we were gonna lose this regardless cos our midfield is worse than a VFL side but that first qtr was pure corruption

 

[winty]

Leading possession winners

Holmes 32
Miers 29
Dempsey 25
Bowes 21
Conway 21
Stewart 21
Parfitt 20

 

[catstorm]

Absolutely they won’t. I will be ok not to see Neale again for a fair while to be honest.

Got his chance and looked completely disinterested.

 

[And_ROOS]

Play Hardie and plan Mannagh in the middle. Midfield is slow and for 3 weeks now getting the same old same old.

Mix it up. Do something new ffs.

 

[Catsace]

41 less kicks.
42 less handballs.
43 less marks.
15 less tackles.
7 less hit outs
10 less frees.
9 less scoring shots.
15 less inside 50s.

Pretty much says it all.

Smashed basically. And 26.9 kind of shows the lack of pressure many of their shots at goal had.

Hopefully it could be like that St.K game in 1993 where we got smashed by 77 pts that game, but won the last five.

But we really have zero firepower in the midfield, last three games, and against the Dogs we've been killed there. And we conceded a lot against Carlton too. Gotta focus on our midfield work and certainly in recruiting look to bolster that area. GWS at their de-facto home ground at KP, where we've not won against them there in years is not looking good either.

 

[calder_daddy]

Forget it and move on. Learning experience for the kids. They’ll get better.

Can’t have that.
We will get back a bloke out of form.
Cameron and Duncan “who’s not the same player anymore”

You are right we will get better but they’re hardly kids

 

[bulletproof]

I am sorry, I don’t like to overreact, and Scott pulled some great tricks early in the season to cover it, but our midfield is simply not up to it.

We are going to struggle to play finals let alone compete in September.

They are absolutely dire.

Thank heavens they moved Holmes in there in second half who is a class above the rest.