Review Good/Bad vs Geelong

[Redleg Crow]

Am worried our plans this year were:

a) Thilthorpe has a breakout year.
b) errr…

 

[Carn The Texan]

A one goal loss and a three goal loss. And yet somehow this is the most depressing start to a season I can remember.

Au revoir Brodie Smith

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Brodie Smith

Age

33

Ht

194cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.5

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.2

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.1

4star

MG

500.1

5star

D

17.1

4star

K

12.6

5star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

3star

T

2.3

3star

MG

438.9

5star

D

17.2

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.6

5star

you were once a terrific footballer.

Murphy gotta be dropped.

We need a rule at selection that says only one of Crouch and Berry in the team. It just doesn't work.

 

[Trigger13]

Well, it’s clear that you don’t

yup, because I woke up on a Saturday morning and thought, what can I make up on a footy forum about an injured player.

If you don’t like what the rep told me, then take it up with them. PM me if you want their number and you can annoy them too.

 

[My Tilly]

The biggest laughing stock of a performance I have witnessed as a crows supporter. This middling Geelong side who had several outs aren't even that good.
The current vibe at the club is disgusting. Patting each other's backs having achieved nothing at all.

Hope I'm allowed to comment but I'm really surprised by these comments and I read it all the time online by opposition supporters.
I don't think you guys were as poor as what you are making them out to be. When De Koning, Kolodjashnij and Henry are playing well, that is when we can allow Stewart the freedom to do his thing. We didn't have this last year as Henry was injured half the season.

It's the fittest our list has been for many years. They had a very strong summer.
Bruhn, Guthrie and Atkins are not stars but they are handy players to have come back into the team. This is the depth we have at the moment.

I would also say the inside knowledge Geelong received from Rahilly was invaluable. It looked as though every defender knew your forwards strength & weaknesses.

 

[GreyCrow]

Am worried our plans this year were:

a) Thilthorpe has a breakout year.
b) errr…

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth

 

[ABAB]

A one goal loss and a three goal loss. And yet somehow this is the most depressing start to a season I can remember.

Au revoir Brodie Smith you were once a terrific footballer.

Murphy gotta be dropped.

We need a rule at selection that says only one of Crouch and Berry in the team. It just doesn't work.

Because we played with any resemblance of last year for only a quarter last night and 1.5 quarter last week.

 

[Pugsley]

Hope I'm allowed to comment but I'm really surprised by these comments and I read it all the time online by opposition supporters.
I don't think you guys were as poor as what you are making them out to be. When De Koning, Kolodjashnij and Henry are playing well, that is when we can allow Stewart the freedom to do his thing. We didn't have this last year as Henry was injured half the season.

It's the fittest our list has been for many years. They had a very strong summer.
Bruhn, Guthrie and Atkins are not stars but they are handy players to have come back into the team. This is the depth we have at the moment.

I would also say the inside knowledge Geelong received from Rahilly was invaluable. It looked as though every defender knew your forwards strength & weaknesses.

No, we're shit. Bombing it to Tom Stewart repeatedly shows we are dumb.

 

[El Doederino]

yup, because I woke up on a Saturday morning and thought, what can I make up on a footy forum about an injured player.

If you don’t like what the rep told me, then take it up with them. PM me if you want their number and you can annoy them too.

Go on them. PM me the details of the medical rep … I mean surgeon … I mean rep.

 

[Carn The Texan]

Because we played with any resemblance of last year for only a quarter last night and 1.5 quarter last week.

We are going to get absolutely destroyed at Marvel and the MCG this year if we continue this trajectory

 

[My Tilly]

No, we're s**t. Bombing it to Tom Stewart repeatedly shows we are dumb.

We made St Kilda do the same thing the week prior.

 

[Pugsley]

I thought Burgess did well enough that McAdam wasn’t missed at all

He wasn't the worst out there.

 

[Pugsley]

We made St Kilda do the same thing the week prior.

Rosco Lyon has never been cluey.

 

[GreyCrow]

The Ugly

I seem to be the only person in Crows gear

Ok the ugly is really me

 

[My Tilly]

Rosco Lyon has never been cluey.

Have to say, was a strange game by Dawson. Maybe the worst game he's played for guys. He's a barometer. When he's on, you guys are a completely different unit.

 

[hornyhorne]

That's as flat as I've felt after a game in a long time...the thought of another 'almost' season feels exhausting to think about, and 'almost' might be generous, if we keep going like we are we'll be nowhere near it. I did worry about losing Rahilly, maybe it has left a dent. Only round 2, but dang, it's got that familiar feeling.

And god damn it, I hate loosing to Geelong...almost as much as loosing to Port Adelaide. They always seem to have our measure.

I do love Soligo though, we're lucky to have snagged him.

*losing

 

[Pugsley]

Have to say, was a strange game by Dawson. Maybe the worst game he's played for guys. He's a barometer. When he's on, you guys are a completely different unit.

I think he may be carrying a niggle.

 

[CutAboveTheRest]

Hope I'm allowed to comment but I'm really surprised by these comments and I read it all the time online by opposition supporters.
I don't think you guys were as poor as what you are making them out to be. When De Koning, Kolodjashnij and Henry are playing well, that is when we can allow Stewart the freedom to do his thing. We didn't have this last year as Henry was injured half the season.

It's the fittest our list has been for many years. They had a very strong summer.
Bruhn, Guthrie and Atkins are not stars but they are handy players to have come back into the team. This is the depth we have at the moment.

I would also say the inside knowledge Geelong received from Rahilly was invaluable. It looked as though every defender knew your forwards strength & weaknesses.

That's such a Nicks thing to do as well.. You mean a team has some information on us and we are forced to get a bit more creative?

Arrogance as it's finest. Well deserved win by your mob, think you should've beat us up a bit more though.

 

[CutAboveTheRest]

I think he may be carrying a niggle.

That's what happens when you carry a side for a whole year, I guess.

 

[FR0GGY]

I think he may be carrying a niggle.

Yeah in the coaches box

 

[maxlilly]

What do JHF and Harley Reid have in common that none of our newer draftees have?

A coach that believes in them ?

 

[MsTopG]

Nicks was not even asked about any individuals in his presser post-game other than Fog hitting the post, sure the answers to the questions he was asked were his typical gobbledygook crap answers but the journo questions to him were trash, almost makes you miss Rucci actually putting some pressure on him to come up with something unique to say.

A journo to have the balls to question him about Smith and also Crouch and Laird not being sustainable in the midfield together would be nice.

Also totally contradicted himself by saying early in his presser that he didn’t think the starts were that big an issue but then near the end he says next week they need to look into their starts as playing from behind obviously isn’t working

We will keep losing under him.

 

[CharlieCrow]

Yep. That Geelong visitor got that right, Rahilly would know about the weaknesses of our forward line more than anyone..... including the way we enter from the midfield. Our forwards weren't completely outplayed, with a good proportion of the problems being of our own making. But the entry from the midfield was terrible, picked off or sent to the edges or forced into kicking long or into crowded areas. We were left with kick and hope.

 

[Trigger13]

Go on them. PM me the details of the medical rep … I mean surgeon … I mean rep.

Read the post. It’s pretty clear a surgeon told the rep. Not sure why that’s so hard for you to comprehend. Stop wasting my time.

 

[ABAB]

Yep. That Geelong visitor got that right, Rahilly would know about the weaknesses of our forward line than anyone..... including the way we enter from the midfield. Our forwards weren't completely outplayed, with a good proportion of the problems being of their own making. But the entry from the midfield was terrible, picked off or sent to the edges or forced into kicking long or into crowd areas. We were left with kick and hope.

But we played the same last week against GCS for 2.5 quarters as well.

 

[Rank]

Was at the game in the nosebleed seats. I watched chayce Jones really closely during the game. He is a complete non entity out there. He offers nothing. On a couple of a occasions I witnessed him trying to direct traffic with his back to the play! not realising the ball was coming into his area only to be caught off guard and miles off his opponent. He looks like a guy scared to actually do anything but run around out there. It's bizzare that he keeps getting games to be honest.

I was watching him too as I backed him for 20 disposals, And your right it was like he didn't want the ball even when he was the best option. You can't have your wingman like that. It's a shame because he was playing good footy and was easily in our best 22 before his injury last year.