Autopsy North V Crows

[Gasometer]

Swallow is fair and square in the middle of Richie Vandenberg territory.

Matt Larkin

 

[Gasometer]

It was lol walking away hearing the Crows fans talking about GF tickets.

 

[Hazey1977]

Just heard Dimwitt brereton say we will win only 4 games next year. He is an absolute f... Witt

But could well be correct.....

 

[Samsquanch]

Ralph thinks Hartigan's trip/kick is just a fine, tried to talk it down and was almost laughing at the fact it was on LT.

I so want to kick a wet footy straight into his smug face.

Say that again?

That pinhead Footscray prick on 7 away rabbiting on that suspension in finals should only happen for acts of violence. That "trip" should only be a fine.

 

[arden station]

Harveys, Dal Santo and Wells defensive application was deplorable tonight.

Wells was pressuring and tackling so well at the start of the year but tonight it was non-existent in the most important game of the year.

 

[Shinboner roo]

It was lol walking away hearing the Crows fans talking about GF tickets.

No diff. Heard the same thing last year at fountain gate shopping centre at 6am in line from some richmond crab

 

[True North]

Serously? Mate i reckon he was just doing enough to get his card stamped, i for one will not miss him

I thought it was his best game of the year and exactly why we got him.

He had to get the chop though. his year was awful.

 

[Gasometer]

I am still coming to grips as to how in two Bays 330...331...two rabid Crows fans had seats in two North Bays.

How does that happen?

 

[XU1-ROO]

indeed, we were never a realistic chance, woulda been nice to keep it under 5 goals though .

Yes it would of been good to keep it under 5 goals, but it wasn't a 100 point smashing. Witch in a way is a good thing.

 

[Arden]

Brad's presser.

This should be fun.

 

[giantroo]

Brad Scott: Adelaide's efficiency was good in the first half and ours wasn't where it needed to be
Scott: There's no doubt the landscape will look different next year
Scott: The legacy for the next generation of North footballers, they'll get to experience what (the four players) have left for them.
Scott: We started losing guys in games (from Round 7) and week to week, and we never really got them back
Scott: Sides who challenge for premierships are able to cover losses. We weren't able to cover them.
Scott: Majak showed some really good signs in a high pressure game against quality opposition
Scott: Last 10 years we've taken first, second, third pick at the draft
Scott: It would have been a massive gamble to play Waite. He trained, but he didn't hit the measures we needed him to
Scott: We were really disappointed with our defensive effort tonight. We were poor in our execution
Scott: People have got their view on Lindsay Thomas, but I can't speak highly enough of him

 

[Brian Fontana]

I'm sure Pyke had one of the easiest nights of his career in the box.

Predictable set up by Brad and didn't challenge him once with something new to look at.

It's not often Brad Scott makes a decision that requires an opposition coach to have a think about how to counter it.

thought he was really poor. Late in the third we were still sitting there with swallow ziebell wells goldy. Try something FFS! Maj, Thomas or atley on the ball. tarrant forward. Something!

 

[danj]

I thought it was his best game of the year and exactly why we got him.

He had to get the chop though. his year was awful.

Ok let me put it another way he did enough to raise his stocks with other clubs without playing a match winning game for us

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

Spud Scott at the presser.

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

Laughable, this bloke has to resign

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

Scott is haemmoraghing

 

[Mav]

We played an extra man in defense again tonight. Every time we come to Adelaide Brad plays an extra man and we get burnt by their run from defense. Surprise surprise it happened again. Every time we won a contested ball or stoppage we blindly bomb it long to their spare.

Every time they won the ball they ran and linked up with handballs to avoid our spare. Lachie was playing our spare and he took 1 intercept mark for the whole game. ****ing joke.

But here's the killer. Pyke thought it was so funny having the better of the extra man he threw Betts to the back of the square for Center bounces to cause a second spare man. This meant we had Dal playing as a spare back and Betts running off the back of the square for them. Brad didn't man Betts up once, not ducking once!!! Brad actually thought we must have been getting the better out of this set up.

It was obvious tonight that Scott has absolutely no idea how to coach on match day. The guy is an absolute tool.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Unfortunately we play really dumb, unaccountable football.

 

[Thewlis Dish]

Even if he coaches next year he is done. We all know it - a couple of prelims doesn't change the fact that we don't have the consistent habits that contending sides do.

 

[giantroo]

 

[tazaa]

Just on the midfield.
It lacks leg speed. If we don't win the clearance we get killed on the spread. If we turn it over at half forward we get killed on the rebound.
It is so pedestrian that it isn't capable of being defensive due to the tanks of the players, and it isn't capable of being offensive due to the lack of pace.
We are so ****ed

 

[goalieboy82]

one last time for the season:

 

[The Other Dean]

Sam Gibson - mostly anonymous. Thought he used it well but hardly noticed him. If he was doing a defensive job I don't think it came off.

May as well get in my last token Gibbo analysis for the year.

Pretty quiet night by his standards with just the 17 touches. Thought he was one of the cooler heads out there when he did have it in hand, and like you I thought he seemed to use it quite well. (Although ended up with a DE of around 75-ish%, which is pretty much where he's been at for the whole season.)

Stats only have him as registering 1 tackle but I'm calling bullshit on that. (Or their definition of what constitutes a tackle, anyway.) Can specifically remember 3 or 4 crunching tackles by 'The Bearded Clamp', and certainly wouldn't put him on tonight's lengthy 'Turnstile Tackling List Of Shame'.

As for opponents, I do recall seeing him standing Cameron on quite a few occasions, but that might have just been Gibbo helping out down back. I'd have to watch the replay again to confirm. Meaning I'll get back to you with an answer on that some time after I'm dead.

Anyhoo, not a bad season from GibboTheGreat. Arguably his best. One of the few guys who stepped up when the going got tough this year, and will be rewarded with a top 10 finish in the Syd. And a place on our list again next year. This of course will upset a bunch of people. Which is nice.

Lastly, thank you to his many critics for keeping me busy again this year. It's been a blast.

 

[shinboner spiggs]

The "structurally was ok" call. Don't need to hear that when we get smacked by 10 goals.

 

[Valian]

It's the end.
Shut the gates.
Get trades done get kids in.
Open the gates, create an era.
2017

isnt that what we said when laidley went?