Autopsy Draw

[FreoMatt]

I think Darcy and Jackson are both in isolation a problem based on their own form.

Jackson has been unclean at ground level, although a bit better yesterday; hasn't been taking the marks around the ground that we need and his decision making is haphazard. He completely changes games when he's on.

Then Darcy hasn't been great all year. Clearly, clearly underdone. I'm not going to beat the Darcy horse as much as I already have.

Not sure what you are on about saying Jackson has been unclean at ground level. He had 15 ground ball gets last week which was only behind Adam Trelor in round 10 and he has been averaging 6.8 a game which rates elite


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[Footskill]

Not sure what you are on about saying Jackson has been unclean at ground level. He had 15 ground ball gets last week which was only behind Adam Trelor in round 10 and he has been averaging 6.8 a game which rates elite


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Yeh he has been good at picking it up..just please don't handball it to his team mates who has someone else on his hammer as soon as he gets it

 

[Madas]

As much as I think we were desperately lucky last night to steal the draw, the Pies meltdown on Twitter is something else RN.

You'd think no other team has ever copped a rough umpiring decision before

Probably a new thing for them

 

[FreoMatt]

Last year was a s**t year, not sure what to tell you! He goes to ground, plays for frees and runs up and down on the spot. He’s done and has been for some time.

I’ll take 33 goals in 20 games any day of the week


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[ROGS]

If we are serious about the year, it should be Brodie replacing a possibly tired Fyfe for now. Imo. Others will see it differently

Brodie played well today at Peel

 

[Freo123]

Is "winder" a mid season hint?
As for Mcrae, he is a former teacher & therefore well versed in the art of having a whinge, while not appearing to do so.
(I have worked in education)

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As a teacher?

 

[oldgoat]

So when do you decide a game isn't winnable?
Then it's ok 2 go?
This explains train capacity during wc games

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My boys are out there till the final siren...how could I leave?
Would you go home if your kid was playing heading for a loss?

 

[Kapow!!!]

Not sure what you are on about saying Jackson has been unclean at ground level. He had 15 ground ball gets last week which was only behind Adam Trelor in round 10 and he has been averaging 6.8 a game which rates elite


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Jackson's issue was far from his cleanliness at ground level. He was elite in that area in a way that is ridiculous for anyone over 6 foot let alone his height. His problems started when he had clean possession: Couldn't identify the right pass to save himself last night.

He wasn't a unicorn last night: he was a paramedic. Constantly ferrying blokes to hospital with his passing.

 

[MadEyeEmmy]

My boys are out there till the final siren...how could I leave?
Would you go home if your kid was playing heading for a loss?

I don’t have a kid- but yes.

 

[arsesmart]

Nope. As soon as we evened it up, Collingwood took over again, they went back into attack mode and we were holding on till the siren.

I want to win like everyone else and I’m sure the team would have taken extra time, but we were outplayed last night, we gained 2 points we didn’t lose 2 points.

"Collingwood took over" is a very generous assessment. They banged it long from the kick in, got a free kick, a dinky little kick to Daicos who also banged it long, then some slapping it around. Had it in their hands for about 10 seconds max.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Pearce going forward was a set play. Both he and Ryan were signalling to the bench after Young's goal to get the all clear to do it.

watching the replay of the last few minutes really shows how some commentators are useless - if you watched 7 you'd think it was reactive from us due to frampton shifting back when in reality as soon as young kicked the goal moose/ryan were getting ready to push AP forward and directing traffic (andy started at half back and pushed forward straight away) accordingly

 

[FreoMonocle]

Walters is there as a small forward, yes a coach would prefer more output and to drop to the magoos if he doesn't improve. But, screaming for him to be dropped is just staring at a pointed finger, not looking in the direction of the finger.

Our forward line lacks experience. It's not ideal for Amiss and Treacy to shoulder the main duties, they should be doing their apprenticeship behind a mature KPF (or two). Tabs has player skills but aint a leader. Jackson plays a lot of Midfield. Maybe we rob Peter to pay Paul and put Cox up forward? Swit goes missing too often.

The other candidates for leadership in the forward line aint goalkickers (Fyfe, JOM etc).

Walters rallies around his team mates in good times - and bad times and does it all 4 quarters, da yoof need that resilience. He also structures the forward line, maybe for better - or worse, but someone has to. Probably, we need to give an old workhorse forward from another club their swansong at Freo for 2 years if we move Walters to Peel or retire him. A shame about Schulz, he coulda been that leader we need.

 

[millsy]

watching the replay of the last few minutes really shows how some commentators are useless - if you watched 7 you'd think it was reactive from us due to frampton shifting back when in reality as soon as young kicked the goal moose/ryan were getting ready to push AP forward and directing traffic (andy started at half back and pushed forward straight away) accordingly

Random query. Does anyone know the logic of AP going to the wing and pushing right to the front of the square, rather than just moving one of the forwards to that spot and sticking himself i50?

Last night after he kicked the goal he still went back to the wing position for the last bounce.

 

[Minz]

Watched the last 15 minutes.

Holy sh*t, I can’t believe Sharp missed that last shot. Very very Dockery to be about 20 m out running into goal to win it and miss. Poor bugger, he is a very handy player and it would’ve been an amazing lift to the club. Just didn’t read the script

Can’t believe 7 gave Alex Pearce

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Alex Pearce

Age

29

Ht

201cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.6

3star

K

5.2

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

106.3

2star

No current season stats available

D

11.0

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

6.0

4star

M

4.4

4star

T

0.8

3star

MG

103.2

2star

’s stats for the interview and didn’t include 1.0

 

[Cobbler]

Random query. Does anyone know the logic of AP going to the wing and pushing right to the front of the square, rather than just moving one of the forwards to that spot and sticking himself i50?

Last night after he kicked the goal he still went back to the wing position for the last bounce.

Probably an attempt to create a mismatch.

Obviously if he just went forward he gets a competent back 6 defender.

 

[gaskin]

Watched the last 15 minutes.

Holy sh*t, I can’t believe Sharp missed that last shot. Very very Dockery to be about 20 m out running into goal to win it and miss. Poor bugger, he is a very handy player and it would’ve been an amazing lift to the club. Just didn’t read the script

Can’t believe 7 gave Alex Pearce’s stats for the interview and didn’t include 1.0

It was a difficult shot. He had to snatch at it with 2 defenders closing in on him. If he waited a second later to straighten up it would have been smothered.

 

[noise36]

Holy sh*t, I can’t believe Sharp missed that last shot.

He had time and space as well, plus didn't we have others free in the area? Would have been the perfect narrative after Mooses's goal to steal the 4 points like that. A lot went right for us prior to that kick so something had to give eventually I suppose.

 

[s_wd6]

I know it's been done to death but I've just seen yet another bunch of w***er vic journos discussing it last night. I lose my mind their Darcy/Jackson discourse after every game. It's the same thing every time.

Jackson was poor against Collingwood which means that he can't play with Darcy. He needs to be solo ruck. We won't mention his multiple poor games this year without Darcy because he played well last week (even though it was his first good game in over a month) and it doesn't fit our narrative. We also won't mention that the ruck split was 40/60 and Jackson got absolutely monstered every time he went in there. Or that he had 10 HOs, 1 HTA and 1 CLR from 45 ruck contests. No, instead we'll talk about how if he played as a solo ruck he could have had slightly better numbers, and freo are ****ing idiots for putting Darcy (8 CLR, 30 HOs, 10 HTA from 66 contests) in there instead. Doesn't matter that it would have been a huge net negative for the overall team performance. It's all about maximising Jackson's personal output rather than team output isn't it?

And then fans and oppo fans latch onto that because that's what they've been hearing and keep parrotting the same shit.

 

[DragoDelph]

I don’t have a kid- but yes.

Wait. That’s an option? I don’t have to watch 100-0 losses every week?

 

[anchor man]

Is "winder" a mid season hint?
As for Mcrae, he is a former teacher & therefore well versed in the art of having a whinge, while not appearing to do so.
(I have worked in education)

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Sorry, porky fingers and phone don't go together. Too lazy to spell check. Wonder*

 

[anchor man]

Random query. Does anyone know the logic of AP going to the wing and pushing right to the front of the square, rather than just moving one of the forwards to that spot and sticking himself i50?

Last night after he kicked the goal he still went back to the wing position for the last bounce.

I would say it was because noone could take a mark down there. Do the unexpected. Moore and the other backs never looked to block him, as theh had done with Amiss, and might I say, not very subtely either. When does a block become a shepherd in marking contests?
More than likely the skipper would have out marked Moore if it came a marking contest.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

I have had a good look at the replay of our final passage with Sharp kicking the final behind to level the scores.
I think he took the minor score option intentionally.
The Pies defender coming at him to his right side would have smothered the kick off his boot. There was the space and time to kick straight in the direction he was running which is what Jeremy did.
He would have had to baulk the pies defender to change direction to kick the goal. It was too crowded and pressured there to attempt that.

 

[mightymouse75]

Sorry, porky fingers and phone don't go together. Too lazy to spell check. Wonder*

I always had a lot of respect for teachers, until I partnered up with 1.

 

[Purple Jesus]

I have had a good look at the replay of our final passage with Sharp kicking the final behind to level the scores.
I think he took the minor score option intentionally.
The Pies defender coming at him to his right side would have smothered the kick off his boot. There was the space and time to kick straight in the direction he was running which is what Jeremy did.
He would have had to baulk the pies defender to change direction to kick the goal. It was too crowded and pressured there to attempt that.

He definitely made the right decision in the moment.

 

[arsesmart]

I have had a good look at the replay of our final passage with Sharp kicking the final behind to level the scores.
I think he took the minor score option intentionally.
The Pies defender coming at him to his right side would have smothered the kick off his boot. There was the space and time to kick straight in the direction he was running which is what Jeremy did.
He would have had to baulk the pies defender to change direction to kick the goal. It was too crowded and pressured there to attempt that.

Well....I'm pretty sure if someone stopped time and offered Sharp the options he'd 100% be taking the goal.

The thing lending most to your theory there would be Sharp preferencing scoring anything higher than, say, taking on the Pies players a little more to attempt greater precision shot (and therefore greater risk of scoring nothing at all).

It was definitely a very difficult shot under that pressure with the defenders rushing at him.