Looking at stats again......
Review Good / Bad / Ugly vs West Coast
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Why do they continually just ship off Jones from the middle after playing a decent quarter in there?
M Crouch in the best haha.
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You do realise you're basically admitting you think Doedee had a good game?
All I have to say is remember, big guys take longer. Took Ken McGregor 6 years to become a top AFL footballer. Many other examples of this. McAsey is a baby. Give him a chance.
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He acted like bus stop 39 out of hours when all the busses had not in service displayed..they just kept passing him byHe was putrid.
He took two uncontested marks when the game was all overwhat else did he do?
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Uhh, what?
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Ken McGregor? I hope that's not where he ends up
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I don't get it. Jones started the game on fire then spent the rest of the match on the wing or in the forward line.
The change happened as soon as Matt Crouch came on the ground in the first after starting on the bench.
It doesn't take a genius to know Jones needs to play the entire match in the middle
Worst season would be Fitzroy’s one win season - 1995 was it? We will be lucky to match it at the current rate. Every team thus far has shown “something” (well, perhaps not the Dees, but the rest). Saints after a woeful effort today will towel us up.
Send DMac on the next mission to space. He lives on his spaceship out on the field.
When you finish last, you get 1st pick, why would we get a priority
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It would send the wrong message if Nicksy played Gibbs.
He's pretty much stated that Gibbs finds himself a victim of poor drafting/age.
To be fair, we're 0-6 with a percentage of 53%. It's not like we've got much to lose on this front.
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Didn't get a number of basket cases one in recent years and we were in a GF just three years ago. AFL don't hand out PPs since tanking was popular way back when. Gold Coast were a one off assistance package to address the AFL's failures in setting them up.
People need to stop dreaming of a PP and stop dreaming that another club will offer sufficient $ and contract years to Brad Crouch to get us Band 1. Don't you think other clubs scrutinise every game and see at least what faults we see and probably a lot more faults to boot. Our shocking clearance numbers reflect on Brad Crouch as a footballer.
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Good:
--- Jones and Hamill, really good.
--- first time this year I've seen the Crows look busy, played on well in first half.
--- Smith took the game on, showed some dash and carry.
--- Freo put a 2-wins-gap between us. #1 Pick shaping up nicely.
Bad:
--- too much to list comprehensively and I ran out of gas writing a tome in another thread at 0300 this morning.
--- third quarter, terrible
--- disposal accuracy, terrible. Lost count of the number of times Matt Crouch, in clean air, kicked straight to an opponent or ootf or to outnumbered teammates. He wasn't alone
--- has anybody else noticed that the Crouch Bros run in circles with the ball, a lot? (= zero metres gained, from 15 metres run)
--- When in possession with man on the mark, they nearly always look behind and rarely to the corridor.
--- too many half-hearted tackles broken or easily shrugged away.
Ugly: At one stage 15 scoring shots to 6 (half-time?). Kicked half of their score. When WCE were 4.6, they might well have been 8.2 with Kennedy missing 3 gettables and one of their kids as well.
--- outmarked too often in our F50, although it must be said several of those were from Crows' kicks to WCE backmen.
--- Jones and Hamill, really good.
--- first time this year I've seen the Crows look busy, played on well in first half.
--- Smith took the game on, showed some dash and carry.
--- Freo put a 2-wins-gap between us. #1 Pick shaping up nicely.
Bad:
--- too much to list comprehensively and I ran out of gas writing a tome in another thread at 0300 this morning
.--- third quarter, terrible
--- disposal accuracy, terrible. Lost count of the number of times Matt Crouch, in clean air, kicked straight to an opponent or ootf or to outnumbered teammates. He wasn't alone
--- has anybody else noticed that the Crouch Bros run in circles with the ball, a lot? (= zero metres gained, from 15 metres run)
--- When in possession with man on the mark, they nearly always look behind and rarely to the corridor.
--- too many half-hearted tackles broken or easily shrugged away.
Ugly: At one stage 15 scoring shots to 6 (half-time?). Kicked half of their score. When WCE were 4.6, they might well have been 8.2 with Kennedy missing 3 gettables and one of their kids as well.
--- outmarked too often in our F50, although it must be said several of those were from Crows' kicks to WCE backmen.
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A key stat here is turnover - Chayce only had one as against 6 and 7.
Unfair on O'Brien. Beaten in the ruck by phoneman, but how many aren't? O'Brien killed him around the ground and outmarked him one on one twice at least. 19 possessions and no way were his marks all junk time.
Liked Jones 1st half. Classy player and once he gets a bit more muscle on, builds his tank and 50 games under his belt, he will be hard to stop. Such good tackles for a bloke his size and weight.
Short and strange season, this season will always been seen with an asterisk against it even if not officially by the AFL, all supporters will so who cares if we do win the spoon.
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That bit of play at the end when the ball looked to trickle out, everyone though it had, but Crouch kept it alive on the line so he could get a handpass into a contest which resulted in a turnover.
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Harto was alright, but he's unnecessary
I was talking to a good friend today and he is a partner in a prominent Adelaide business and a Port supporter and a rare type as he is very intelligent.
He said the biggest mistake was not doing a complete unbiased view of the board as Chapman and Ricciuto would have been the first to go.
He said a good organization has no room for overinflated egos at board level and that will kill any football club.
I couldn't disagree.
He said the biggest mistake was not doing a complete unbiased view of the board as Chapman and Ricciuto would have been the first to go.
He said a good organization has no room for overinflated egos at board level and that will kill any football club.
I couldn't disagree.
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Quietly going about his business is Keays. Solid recruit.
