Review Good vs West Coast, R13 2023

[MsTopG]

We already know we are a top 4 side at home don't we?

Yes but that's only 50% of our games. Away we are bottom 6.

 

[spenze]

I'd like to see C Jones get a few CBAs in the future

 

[MRB37]

In the "I just found it sorta odd" basket, Greg Clark playing on the wing and seemed to be giving a thumbs up to his forwards and defenders before every centre bounce.

 

[Golumless]

It was probably the one thing this group lacked at home, a proper and ruthless demolition of a poor side. Good time for it too, as percentage will likely dictate who finishes where.

Tex getting 10 was the major highlight, and without any injuries, there isn't a complaint for me. A tick in every sense of the word.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Tex might not be the greatest Crow of all time, but he’s the most loveable Crow of all time. That includes his ability, his personality, his character and his loyalty.

Only the Adelaide board’s biggest knobs will disagree with this.

I disagree.








Nah, I love him.

 

[Golumless]

I gotta agree.
It makes me wonder what Nicks is thinking.

Sounds like a statement about being ruthless.

Especially as there is no genuine benefit to giving kids CBAs, and hopes of an elimination finals berth this year could come down to percentage, it's reasonable.

 

[Cleric]

I saw the big man in the Central Markets during the week having a suculant Asian meal. As I stood there taking in his greatness as he slurped down his Laska, little did I know he would kick 10 goals on the weekend.

 

[Cleric]

Will go down as the greatest forward to never get and All Australian jumper.

 

[Interloperer]

him and Dawson the onky mids at the moment that will run hard forward with the ball and try and break forward of the contest. No way he should g9 back to sanfl. Sloane and Murphy should be the first 2 out.

He's too good to be going completely AWOL in 20% of matches though. If he was still responding to his bad games with coaches votes tier performances then I'd be inclined to agree and shelve the issue for this season to be solved in the next-preseason.

But that's increasingly not the case.

MCrouch didn't deserve to be dropped for one disappointing game in 2016, but the break turned him from a 20 disposals per game player into an All-Australian

 

[FR0GGY]

Sounds like a statement about being ruthless.

Especially as there is no genuine benefit to giving kids CBAs, and hopes of an elimination finals berth this year could come down to percentage, it's reasonable.

No genuine benefit?
I find that very hard to believe.
So what happens when we actually get injuries and we have to start bringing in blokes for their first game or close to it, or play blokes in the center that haven’t been exposed to it?
Surely no one thinks we can continue on this lack of injury ride much longer?

 

[StonesThrow]

I saw the big man in the Central Markets during the week having a suculant Asian meal. As I stood there taking in his greatness as he slurped down his Laska, little did I know he would kick 10 goals on the weekend.

That's Asian gourmet for sure

 

[Golumless]

No genuine benefit?
I find that very hard to believe.
So what happens when we actually get injuries and we have to start bringing in blokes for their first game or close to it, or play blokes in the center that haven’t been exposed to it?
Surely no one thinks we can continue on this lack of injury ride much longer?

The thing is players like Dawson coming in and hitting the ground running in the midfield is normal, even if they've never played there as a pro. That playing half forward, half back, or any role that isn't a KP is ultimately developing a player to play inside midfield. Inside midfield is purely about talent, and being fit/strong enough to use said talent. It's not a specialised role that anyone needs to be exposed to it and given time to work shit out.

When injuries hit, a player like Soligo or Pedlar gets more inside minutes. If they're ready to step up, they'll run with it and change the face of our side doing so. If not, it'll be a downgrade. Regardless if they've been exposed or not.

 

[Cleric]

That's Asian gourmet for sure

Yep.
$5.90 for a 600ml coke. No wonder Tex feels at home there, they are charging AO prices.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

suculant Asian meal.

 

[Samcro24]

Will go down as the greatest forward to never get and All Australian jumper.

He might this year

 

[Samcro24]

My thoughts exactly

 

[Bearded Clam]

So? It’s still AFL, you can’t win a game by 122 points and play poorly. Can you imagine actually saying out loud to someone that your club didn’t play well after winning by 20 goals?

Once again you, and some of your human centrepede mates, completely miss the fxxkn point because you are so desperate to defend everything the club does.

no one here thinks it was a shit win. It was a massive win even if it was against the worst side ever assembled in AFL history.. injury ravaged and cooked.

and it was a brilliant night for Tex.. and the team played bloody well.

what a few are saying is it was a massively missed opportunity to really blood some of our youth in the middle.. I mean… a lad like soligo attending less CB’s than Sloane??.. come the fuxk on.. we have another lad in Jones who is on fire at the moment playing his best footy for the club and is showing us the speed, skill and grit that they picked him up for.. but did he even get one run in the middle today?.. did he attend one centre bounce?.. even with us 120 points up?

thats poor coaching. God help us when sloane finally retires, laird and dawson are cooked, and keays slows.. we’ll have a heap of 20-26 year old midfielders that have fuxk all real experience playing in the centre and attending CB’s to replace them with.

but at least we can fondly look back at that time we absolutely flogged West Coast to death!.

the way some carry on around here you wouldnt think we’ve gone 25 years without a flag.. i mean.. sure, being a west coast supporter must be tough at the moment.. until you remember that they‘ve actually won a flag in the last 5 years.

 

[MarcusP2]

Yeo on Tex was shades of Smith on Robran in the 98 prelim.

Just watching the replay he has 6 with 15 minutes left in the second. Maybe 10 was unders

We were calling 13 for a Modra at that time. Disappointing second half lol.

 

[Cleric]

He might this year

I'm hoping, but they do love Hawkins and Cameron in the Victorian media.
Add some Curnow, and Danaher to make the Queenslanders feel warm and fuzzy, and it's not going to be easy.

 

[MrBarry]

Those saying we had ****ed the top 8 last week. We are now 6th.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Those saying we had ****ed the top 8 last week. We are now 6th.

Still think we will atruggle for the top 8. Our away games include Collingwood, Melbourne, Brisbane and Essendon. And we have port at home.

5 and 5 won’t get us a finals spot. Not in a 23 game season.

 

[Golumless]

Still think we will atruggle for the top 8. Our away games include Collingwood, Melbourne, Brisbane and Essendon. And we have port at home.

5 and 5 won’t get us a finals spot. Not in a 23 game season.

5 and 5 would put it down to percentage at worse, and likely us outright making it, seeing that's a 13-12 record to end the year. Really, I wouldn't put it past us to have the highest out of the teams vying for that 7th-8th spot. After all, we've just creamed West Coast and have a few easy kill match ups.

There won't be 9 teams above a 500 win record this year, seeing there isn't enough soft kills in the league.

 

[FR0GGY]

Those saying we had ****ed the top 8 last week. We are now 6th.

We haven’t had our bye yet

 

[CrowBloke]

I expected us to beat west coast by 120-150. It met my expectations.

Your backtracking is not effective, nor helping.
In the post that has prompted disagreement you said: "Didn't think we played that well today.".

You expected the Crows to win by 120-150 and the 122-point win "met [your] expectations".
Uhhh, wait --- does that mean you expected them to not play "that well"?

The Crows' score was the AFL's highest for 7 years. To win by 150, they would have had to kick another 28 points (while keeping WCE to 8.4) ie 31.16.
C'mon.

Your expectations are way too high

This, most definitely ...

Lol, kicking the highest AFL score in 7 years only just met your expectations.

Perhaps time for you to call it a night...

... and this.

 

[ams4crows]

Anyone catch the last question of Nicks's press conference? He said something along the lines of "I don't want to be a controversial coach and I don't want to end up in those types of conversations but we all have two eyes" and then it cut out..... What was he referring to?