Review Good/Bad vs Geelong

[BRL121]

Thought Crouch, Rankine, Soligo, Michalanney and Hinge were all good. Burgess and Rachele pretty good in the first half, Walker and Fogarty were okay, McHenry was good as the sub. That's about it, the rest was pretty poor. Definitely the worst game I've seen Smith play, and Berry, Murphy and Jones were particularly bad as well.

Rachele is starting to worry me. He's definitely not living up to expectations. In particular, he's looked unbelievably weak in several situations, no effort in going for the ball or the man, weak tackles. He needs a heart transplant.

 

[bates121]

Surely this is all about the midfield? We have seemingly ignored bringing in any A grade talent in this area and M crouch clearly being our best mod is a disaster. (Nothing against Crouch he has been great since being back).

Who is a best young mid? I have zero confidence we have anyone on the list that could even be considered a future A grade afl mid.

 

[Crow till I die]

Good.

Bad. Ball movement and general skills

Ugly. Game plan. Thanks crows for locking nicks in when you shoukd have waited until he showed we were a finals side

 

[dylan123]

Dawson had a stinker because he was the only player in our midfield worth putting any attention into, and guess who Chris Scott tagged...

Shouldn't be given that easy of an out. He is meant to be an elite player, he had 26 touches, kicked it 18 times but had no impact with it.

He's a far better player than what he's shown in his first two games this season.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Watch us drop Berry and bring in Sloane next week...

 

[thebirdman 24]

Ugly
Missed tackles
Dysfunctional forward line
Slow midget midfield
Club hubris
Point score reviews
No more holding the ball
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[Kane McGoodwin]

Looking at his ability to run tonight, you’d have to say Tex will be lucky to play more than a dozen games this season. He looked old and rickety

Clearly his mind wasn't 100% there given the bad news.

 

[WheresGroomgone]

Absolute joke we are like the media is saying - Crowtenders

That was not good.

 

[Rotayjay]

I was at the ground

Poor skills

Poor decision-making

Poor positioning

Poor structure

Season is on the rocks already

 

[Scorpus]

Shouldn't be given that easy of an out. He is meant to be an elite player, he had 26 touches, kicked it 18 times but had no impact with it.

He's a far better player than what he's shown in his first two games this season.

He was trash but he was set up to fail

 

[BRL121]

Surely this is all about the midfield? We have seemingly ignored bringing in any A grade talent in this area and M crouch clearly being our best mod is a disaster. (Nothing against Crouch he has been great since being back).

Who is a best young mid? I have zero confidence we have anyone on the list that could even be considered a future A grade afl mid.

It's not all about the midfield. There seems to be a ground-wide lack of talent and skill. Even Tex looked as though he had forgotten everything he knew.

 

[Multiballz]

Time to jettison this re-build and start another one.

 

[MRB37]

Good
ROB and Crouch
For a depth guy Burgess is holding his own

Ugly
One of the most dumb, stupid, moronic, head up their ass coaching performances I've seen from a coach. It wasn't just inept, but we willingly handicapped ourselves because of having blinders on and focusing on one single area of football.
Laird
Smith
Murphy
General skills are ****ing shocking.
Berry who fumbles everything
Dawson has been rendered ineffective by seemingly becoming a defensive mid who supports Crouch, Laird and Berry's inside work.

 

[adelaidecrows]

What the heck were they doing in the last. You have a fit team (if nothing else). You have players capable of playing fast football.

Just devoid of dare and confidence. Get that back please.

Murphy and Smith need to go. Laird cannot play full time mid if Crouch is there and at present Crouch is comfortably outperforming him.

Tex looked well short of fitness and touch, should be better next week. Fog was significantly better than last week, but will rue those missed chances.

A few changes.. just a few and things will improve quite rapidly.

Rumours were in abundance in 2022 that Nicks had an ultra defensive mindset. After the first two games this season, its impossible to argue this isn't the case. He just wants the club to maintain possession and play safe.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Our midfield was smashed last week all over the park, with Gold Coast's four mids the top 4 players on the ground.

So what does Nicks do?

He rolls out the exact same ******* midfield again

I said the same during the game.

Soligo was in fire early & most the inside mids struggling so could have swapped for Dawson.

Pedlar was putrid up forward so why not throw him on ball?

We have a coaching group devoid of imagination.

Whohoo another 3 years of this...

 

[Minor Threat]

Missing two goals from 10m or less out

 

[BACCS]

ROB and Crouch looked more composed than most of our team tonight, didn’t think I would be saying that 12 months ago

 

[STrAng3C1oUdZ]

The main factors for this loss were
1. Coaching - let's just not put a player on Stewart at all, how hard is it to tell a bloke everywhere he goes you go.
2. Work rate - how many times did Geelong create the loose man over the top running forward.

I really am just starting to lose the passion to even watch the footy anymore, I went from being a member for over 10 years to now struggling to even watch a full game. This club makes it so hard we are so predictable how many of us just knew we would snap up Nicksy to an extension before seeing if we showed any improvement this year.

I don't want to rant and rave but the club is seriously a joke, the average supporter can see our problems but yet some how the people running the club can't? How long have we needed a quality midfielder or atleast a midfield group that has a different skillet like maybe someone with a bit of pace that isn't a no look handball panic merchant.

 

[Scorpus]

Rumours were in abundance in 2022 that Nicks had an ultra defensive mindset. After the first two games this season, its impossible to argue this isn't the case. He just wants the club to maintain possession and play safe.

I thought the way we played in the last 10 minutes about 3-4 goals down was pathetic and cowardly

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Someone call 5AA and unload, Rowey is as frustrated, pissed off and confused as we all are.

What's the point, it's not like Rowie will get any smarter about the situation....

 

[secondary]

Bookmark out first win, round 11 vs the Eagles. It's at home, so it may not be a walk in the park, but I think we have a chance.

 

[GameofSloanes]

The whole preseason telling everyone about how we're making the 8 has had obvious consequences

 

[kirky]

Our midfield has struggled the last two weeks and we have Freo, Melbourne and Carlton - who holy hell with their midfields.

 

[MRB37]

I'm not sure Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

even broke a sweat that match. That was like watching a grandmaster play an amatuer at chess. Just picked apart our "tactics" and had 90% of the match on their own terms.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Someone call 5AA and unload, Rowey is as frustrated, pissed off and confused as we all are.

There are a few of us on here who aren't surprised nor confused about our performances.

We are more surprised and confused as to why we re-signed Nicks when we did.