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Generally a good game against the Swans. I think we need to figure out how to enter f50 and adjust how we defend or we'll scrape into the 8 and do nothing with it
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Autopsy Geelong Loses to Swans by 2 points - Rd 7, 2021
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Ray Donovan
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Don't mind Zach Guthrie and believe he gets unfairly maligned at times. Champion Data rated his 38 minutes tonight as having more impact on the game than Jed Bews' 82 minutes.
According to this jed bews impacted the game under 38 Z.Guthrie minutes.
Which sadly comes as no surprise
He tries really hard Bews and I love his defence good size at 91kg for example I believe Stewart is mid 80's.
The game is moving past the back pocket plumber though with all the new rules 666 if you cannot kick in the back half the game becomes very difficult if your not a key defender.
Kolo gets caught in the same boat excellent defence but decision making and deficiency by hand and foot let him down at times.
Henderson reasonable kick and mark although can't really defend anything lol.
You miss players like Harry Taylor only come around so often
Camerons first game with you guys. Once Tomahawak and Jezz gel it will be scary.
Who’d have thought just a few years ago we would be reading this statement...how the worm turns.
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The early games 100% but it's now rd7, they're fit. You can almost directly measure how fit they are by measuring Dahlhaus' impact. Dropped in after no preseason and was diabolical up until last week. If he's fit, the side is fit.
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I've actually been impressed with a few of Bews new tricks. His attack on the contest has been good and that spinning side step manoeuvre looks like it has bamboozled a few.
Ray Donovan
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I would like to see more of Holmes his VFL form looks really promising I thought his AFL game was good. As bad as Stanley has been I think he matches up alright with nankervis and I'm not sure I want big Sav thrown into the ruck and asked to move around that much coming off injury.
If it backfires you end up with Blicavs in the ruck if Fort is available and it's like for like prefer to go that way
If anyone wants a R Stanley t-shirt they are selling them on facebook
Ray Donovan
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8th year on the list well I guess something to go with that 11 touch average.
For mine he has been pretty poor all year but tbh defensively is Geelongs area of weakness.
I think M.O.C and Jack Henry have just gone well past Bews I do admire his tenacity and team oriented play
Do you think Sav will help a lot in the ruck area when available?
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This is a poor take.
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Who would have thought we'd be naming Higgins as returning from injury and Smith and Cameron as key planks of the attack 6 months ago? In footy 5 rounds is a long term forecastWho’d have thought just a few years ago we would be reading this statement...how the worm turns.
Yeah definitely a slow build, but he's a long way removed from the player I used to groan about seeing on the ins list. MOC and Henry have gone past him, but there's room for him still I think
He has shown in the past he could ... we need to see how it all works together. No doubt he could have helped in the swans game
Ray Donovan
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Someone mentioned a 20k suspended fine hanging over his head. A calculated man he would of absolutely blown his lid behind closed doors which would be fair.
No point hurting the pocket as well
Dont think we will win either.
Ray Donovan
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The funniest one is Cam Guthrie where has that Bateman guy gone lol
the really slow build to explosion
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Maybe, but it's almost word for word the same thing he says every time the umpiring is brought up. It's a rehearsed line that he would have rolled out regardless of any fine
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Yeah a few red faces going back on that one
Tend to think we will, it’s the type of game we win
Vdubs
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Right now, I see us as middle of the road- (6-10).
It can improve but we are not having a great run with injuries and team stability.
Tigers, Saints...Good reasons for ambivalence.
Could be right.
Think we will give the tigers a shake. Will be close I think.
Vdubs
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Good reasons for that. Execution is very difficult from the coaches' box. It's our players who failed.
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Surely they are giving them away for nothing?
Or they are selling them as cleaning rags.
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Stanley, at his best, offers more now than Ratugolea, but his form is too hot and cold. So maybe it's better to get games into Ratugolea as a first ruck, as soon as he's physically ready. But that will require patience. Recall the game against WCE last year, when Sav held the primary ruck duties. His first half was excellent—he held par with Naitanui in hit-outs and won out around the ground in general play. In the second half, however, Naitanui's experience and tank came to the fore, and Ratugolea made some costly errors, one of which may have cost us the match. That is what you need to accept if he takes the role off Stanley. There will be moments where he stinks it up. The upside is that he may offer more than Stanley (and more consistency) by next season...or the season after.
Wojcinski
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nah surely it's a good take, I mean he is using a defenders career average possesions as some sort of indiciator of his impact on matches in 2021. Clearly a champion data employee
