Autopsy North vs Western Bulldogs

[amaz199]

Gone backwards.

Went away from what we were doing in the first quarter.

 

[Waynesworld]

Oh well, bad loss and on to the next one.

It really showed Sheezel's leadership. We need a couple more like him.

Hopefully Comben is okay. I'd rest him next week, either way, and have a look at Maley.

Some players were very disappointing with their effort. Particularly some of the designated leaders.

He was subbed out with concussion, he ain’t playing next week either way.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

North make late run for wooden spoon with a 97 point loss.

Richmond say hold my beer.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Gone backwards.

Went away from what we were doing in the first quarter.

Yep.

Because the leaders on field are shit and can’t maintain a cohesive effort.

 

[Psi-Roos]

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Yep, and we get them next week.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I liked Bobbie, not much else.

Looks like a tired squad down and lacking any confidence after last week’s crap.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

I thought Tucker tried hard. Seemed to be in and around the footy more than anyone else. This is an understandably low bar.

Stephens was also not horrible. He was always where he needed to be.

Scott was constantly an option when our idiotic players hemmed themselves into a corner. Runs all day. Glad he has signed. Doesn't stop putting in, ever. Never takes a short step. Always there or thereabouts.

McKercher actually tried to take the footy through the lines on a few occasions. I don't understand the criticism of him. He's a first year player who weighs about 75kg dripping wet throwing himself around and driving us off half back. He's a baby. Can't see it being his fault.

Simpkin has had his career ruined by Webster. He should dead set sue for lost earnings. A shadow of his former self, timid and fumbly, can't get out of a jog, can't chase anyone down, can't hit targets and can't pick it up. It is actually hard to watch.

LDU commands attention and likely a big pay packet. I understand his frustration and his desire for the team to get better but he has to play an active role in being the change he wishes to see.

Wardlaw looks off. He's not taking short steps but he's not running in straight lines. I am a little concerned. He played on Bontempelli all day, presumably as a lesson, and got taught one. Check back in Round 1 next year.

Mcdonald is terrible. A genuinely terrible footballer. He has been such a disappointment. He doesn't offer anything. He is an irredeemable, diabolically bad captain, who's kit bag consists of a long left foot piss bolt and ****ing nothing else. I hope the rumours of his exit being stage managed are true. He absolutely cannot be in this team Round 1 next year.

Kal Dawson is probably not going to make it, but losing Comben early didn't help him. The Dogs identified his man and went there time and time again. Kal just wasn't tall enough to make a difference.

Corr was nowhere. Has had a good year, but was nowhere today.

Won't say much about our forwards as it wasn't there enough and our midfielders didn't do enough. Zurhaar isn't worth what we are paying him, and was never worth it. Ford is absolutely anonymous when we aren't on top and is good for about 16 minutes of footy a week. Larkey has to deal with three defenders every week. Teakle may as well not have played. Curtis ditto. Not sure what everyone sees in RHJ, and he's certainly not an LT replacement. He had a nice first quarter though.

I don't like playing against the Dogs because they always beat us. But it doesn't help that they get away with throws galore, they **** it out the front of stoppages and get away with it, and they celebrate goals when they're up by 90 points like they've just taken the lead in the last quarter of a grand final. They also seem to get the rub of the green in every single contest, especially out of the middle.
I also don't have any stats to back this up but it feels like they're the team that takes the piss against us (Khamis in the ruck, Bailey Williams as a full forward, et al) the most. It felt like they got the most piss weak set of free kicks today, over and over again.

We were really, really bad. This does nothing but strengthen Sheezel's AA case, if he's been the only thing between us and these beltings every week. We can't defend clearance, we can't defend turnover, we can't kick, we can't handball, we can't pressure, we can't move the ball quickly enough to put teams under heat, we have no active leaders, our best player is injured and our second best player is our ruckman who's easily negated when the umpires are drawing free kicks out of a weighted deck. Our best defender is the adopted offspring of a Japanese kamikaze pilot who is also made of glass, and our best forward is so concerned about going bald that in between going 70 minutes without touching the footy, he spends the interim smoothing his hair over the car parks. FYI Larks it's not growing back brother. Shave it now and get some confidence back into you.

Footy has been really *ing hard to watch for several years now. I just want some joy out of my weekends. I want to love these blokes again. Now I'm just tolerating them. An overwhelming feeling of sadness. I want the season to be over and I want to not have to watch these ****ing muppets for six months. Shoot me. * sake. It's made all the more worse by having to listen to Brad Johnson gurn his way through a commentary session, and Sarah Jones and the fellas actively barracking for Darcy to kick 10.

Hawthorn are going to Human Centipede us.

There needs to be a BF emoji where I can agree whole-heartedly with everything a poster says, but also feel deeply saddened by it.

I think the takeaway I got apart from our pitiful talls list, is that the move of McKercher onto a wing>middle will be huge for us.

I thought he had a cracking first term and looked so dangerous. When he can get to 80-85 kgs, he will be a cannonball.

 

[Event Horizon]

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[SammyRoo]

Even RayGun would score higher than many muppets out there today

 

[JGreezy]

He was subbed out with concussion, he ain’t playing next week either way.

I didn't see anything official that he failed the concussion test. He was subbed with a lower leg injury and went to hospital for that, according to the commentary.

 

[The Nostradamus]

If Finnbar doesn’t play next week we riot

 

[krakouers]

Ok, so who got through the VFL this week with a pulse and/or attached limbs?
They can play Saturday

 

[chickenonachain]

There needs to be a BF emoji where I can agree whole-heartedly with everything a poster says, but also feel deeply saddened by it.

I think the takeaway I got apart from our pitiful talls list, is that the move of McKercher onto a wing>middle will be huge for us.

I thought he had a cracking first term and looked so dangerous. When he can get to 80-85 kgs, he will be a cannonball.

There’s one poster on here who won’t be happy with what you have posted about McKercher

 

[wolvesRoos]

Got the train back to geelong before 3/4 time. I hardly ever do that. Was just so depressing today after first 5mins say.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Ok, so who got through the VFL this week with a pulse and/or attached limbs?
They can play Saturday

Out: Chom, Bergs, Teakle

In: The better Dawson, Hardeman, Finbar.

 

[Rollmop]

Not sure where to from here. That was as bad as it gets North.

 

[Waynesworld]

If Finnbar doesn’t play next week we riot

Mate you can go down to the club and riot, you’ll be the only one there.

 

[Only Forwards]

The chasm between where we think we are and where we actually are is vast.

That was as bad as we have played through the whole down turn.

 

[Rollmop]

I’ve never seen a team butcher the ball as bad as we do. Just horrible to watch.

 

[krakouers]

Not sure where to from here. That was as bad as it gets North.

Send some in for surgery, give some players their debuts/last game and just get through the next four quarters with two lists on the board:
• 2025 and Ahead
• Gorn

 

[zoomba23]

Pretty sure I have an emotional block about absolute thrashings. No issue sitting through this or the Dees game last year, but the Hawks game earlier this year and last year.... intolerable. Maybe it's nicer feeling numb than feeling hope drain out of you

 

[Only Forwards]

They got clapped off like oh it’s all good.

It’s not all good.

It’s f***ing pathetic.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I’ve never seen a team butcher the ball as bad as we do. Just horrible to watch.

Dropped chest marks. Missed 20m passes.

Just unacceptable shit.

 

[Rooniversity]

Remember when we and Hawthorn both lost our first five games? Our respective journeys since then couldn’t be more stark.

 

[The acurate one]

Ok so we headed into the game with some concerns around the Bullies talls and their spread and run.
We had no Logue and then lost Comben, then Bergman.
Hansen did ok, small fwds kicking 2 goals is a plus, especially for us as we haven't had one since L. Thomas.
So hopefully he continues to gain confidence.
We are shit and have some really average footballers getting games weekly, and contract extensions.
On todays game if things were different, Simpkin, Ford, Teakle, dawson & Curtis would all be omitted.

I cannot see us doing the above.