Autopsy Demons 97 defeat Dogs 71. Never was so much owed by so many to so few

[Norm De Guerre]

Tonight there were more passengers in our side than the 6:01 train departing Tokyo station.

 

[Doggiesfan14]

Two things which stood out for me:

1. What exactly have Matt Spangher and Marc Webb brought to the table? There is nothing that is any different to last year when we had different midfield and forward coaches
2. A forward line of Naughton and Hannan simply cannot cut it. The decoys we put down there offer next to nothing. I know Jamarra has copped it from many due to his lack of effort, and not defending him, but I personally would be more comfortable with him down there then Schache and Cordy. Just give him 10 games and let him learn with Naughton and try to portray a working forward line

 

[Oliver G]

One sentence…

Bailey Williams had 6 turnovers punished by goals, an AFL record by some margin.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

I thought it went how I expected it to pre game.

 

[charcoalchicken]

Bin cordy for a minimum couple months, schache made mistakes sure, cordy can’t even get to the ball or even a contest to have the opportunity to make a mistake

Too many players had poor games and it looks like we have a lot of problems to work through over the season, hopefully we can sort them out

 

[Chicago1]

The jalapenos in my nachos gave me gas. I blame our loss on that.

 

[DueWest]

One sentence…

Bailey Williams had 6 turnovers punished by goals, an AFL record by some margin.

At least he got near the ball

Wtf does Schache, Cordy as a forward and Hannan offer ?

Schache gave away as many goals as Cordy got possessions

 

[TedDougChris]

How can we still have no forward structure of any sort at all ?

How can we continually turn it over to 4-2 or 5-2 contests, by taking shit options into the corridor ?

How can we expect Schache and Cordy to get any sort of continuity - if they are continually swapped from one ****ing end of the ground to the other every 20 seconds ?

What did we work on in the off season ?

 

[DognBones]

One sentence…

Bailey Williams had 6 turnovers punished by goals, an AFL record by some margin.

If that's an accurate stat, that is just deplorable. Rabbit in headlights standard.

 

[Dog 36]

Too many passengers along with little structure gave a predictable outcome.

We also pick and choose when to play with intensity

 

[Chicago1]

And I missed Home and Away to watch that? grrrrrrrr

 

[Mingo]

I'm not normally the one to have a go at players, and I've had a few bourbons so excuse any stupidness, but Schache, Cordy and Smith really have a lot to answer for. Not only that, but players who normally are composed and skillful were just making stupid mistakes. Macrae, Bont, Bailey Dale

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Bailey Dale

Age

28

Ht

188cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

5.6

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

1.6

4star

MG

117.4

2star

D

9.0

2star

K

5.1

2star

HB

3.9

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.7

3star

MG

117.4

2star

D

8.0

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.0

3star

M

1.4

2star

T

2.0

4star

, Caleb Daniel

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Caleb Daniel

Age

28

Ht

171cm

Wt

72kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.4

4star

D

19.5

4star

K

11.1

4star

HB

8.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

CL

1.0

3star

D

16.4

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

9.2

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.2

2star

. There's no doubt Melbourne are about a 26 point better side than us and we need to do something about it.

 

[bresker]

After dragging ourselves back into the game we were horribly timid. No urgency or dare.

Some of our players were timid into the bargain.

Awful game of footy lit up by some individual performances.

 

[Jeff 1975]

It's time to ditch the extra small runner and structure up

 

[SammoSammo]

Cobwebs to blow out and plenty of room for improvement. Bont was clearly not 100% tonight.

Despite the errors we did some nice things and had a reasonable score. Naughts looking great. Flag is not won in March despite what Melbourne supporters think.

Glad we can finally move on from this one.


Go dogs.

 

[Virgin Dog]

Not sure I saw a good disposal from VDM tonight. Him, Williams and Schache had shockers

 

[Struggle]

Stop giving up 5-10m on every single mark. It's a game of territory and we are giving up so much to gain absolutely nothing. Locking the ball in the forward half is gold and we man the kick ins 45m away

It allows a more accurate, uncontested kick instead of forcing them to kick over a man.

Will be interesting to see if any other team does it this week

 

[ScragCity]

The ruck situation was a non-issue. We won clearances 41-30. They won the game through superior ball movement and efficiency inside 50.

 

[footscray1973]

One sentence…

Bailey Williams had 6 turnovers punished by goals, an AFL record by some margin.

Curious to see same stat for others - Macrae had one absolute shocker, as did others - not directly resulting in goals, but some of our decision making running free through the midfield, and also into the F50, was deplorable for an (alleged) top team.

Edit: Forgot VDM, maybe because I've tried to put his complete suite of disposal efforts tonight out of my mind!

 

[_Mike_]

If I was to write up every player that hammed it up tonight it would be pointless, I think the main thing is that this team is no where near where it needs to be and far too reliant on playing a high risk game.

 

[hutchy31]

I think we were lucky it was only 26 points. Should have been closer to 60.

Weightman, Vandermeer, Schache, Gardner all very poor imo. I like Roarke but he’s not good enough against the best teams. Treloar went missing second half, a bunch of others were well down.

We’re playing the best team in the comp with a sub-standard ruck (imo) with no backup, no decent talls except for Naughton and Keath, square pegs in round holes in the forward line.

The players weren’t great tonight, but they are continually set up to fail and when they do succeed it’s despite match committee and the coaching panel imo. Nothing has changed, and we’ll end up finishing 5-8 on talent and wasting another year of the primes of some of the best players in the comp.

 

[Oliver G]

The ruck situation was a non-issue. We won clearances 41-30. They won the game through superior ball movement and efficiency inside 50.

Yep our mids were the only ones that kept us in it. We only lost the hit outs to advantage by 3 as well, which is pretty good for us.

 

[badkicking]

It's time to ditch the extra small runner and structure up

Would Cordy, Gardner, Roarke Smith get a game in any other final side ? Cordy is just not up to it, to see him wave "kick it to me in the air" was unbelievable, no pace no skills - he cannot play next week

 

[Dale4captain]

Really disappointing. Looks like we will take a few weeks to get our legs under us.

• Few of our regulars in the backline were really poor. Williams, Dale and Daniel were all well below average.
• Bont playing damaged.
• Hunter slowed the game down at every point when he got the ball. It killed momentum.
• Libby looked slow and unfit. Covid is an excuse but why put him straight back in?
• Schache and Keath were both really bad.
• the surges in the game were so poorly managed. It’s terrible to let a team get on a 6 goal run twice in a game. That’s a system failure. Coaches need to fix it.

The good:

• English stood up. I checked the stats at the end of the game and he was only credited with 18 hit outs. Bullshit. I counted 30 where his hand was first to it. Much more physical and great in the contest.
• Richards was great. Disposal and hardness were awesome.
• Croz is back in form
• Naughts looks good

A LOT to work on. We need natural forwards in ASAP. Marra comes in next game for mine. The breakdown is still at that half forward line. Fix it.

 

[ScragCity]

Jamarra should just come in and develop in the AFL team. He can't be any worse than the shit talls we are playing, but he actually has the potential to become good, unlike the others.