Autopsy Pipped by 1 in a thriller!

[Wheresbuddy]

Reflecting on today, Freo did really well to nullify our midfield prime movers in Grundy, Heeney, Chad and Errol yet we still got within a kick. If only one of the above mentioned played to potential, we would've won by at least 20.

 

[caesar88]

Freo's mids literally just walked out of stoppages unimpeded. Not surprised we won the contested possession count. We didn't contest many of Freo's possessions!

 

[The King!]

Interesting other boards reading a lot into Gulden Warner and Heeneys games today , all rubbish now

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

Now GWS and Pies losing. Weekend looking better after every match

 

[The King!]

Freo's mids literally just walked out of stoppages unimpeded. Not surprised we won the contested possession count. We didn't contest many of Freo's possessions!

Centre clearance stats surprised me, felt like they waltzed out every time

 

[J_Moore]

Centre clearance stats surprised me, felt like they waltzed out every time

Yeah I think it’s when they got it out, they got it out easily.

 

[Jack Lord]

You could tell we were off today by our ordinary tackling. When we're up for the fight we stick them.

Must be hard to go 110% when you look how far ahead on the ladder you are.

 

[Swannie0307]

Was at the game, here are my key takeaways:

• Chad was unbelievably poor! Not sure if huge $$ contract talk got to his head, but he needs to be told to pull his head in and play more “team oriented”!!
• thought Braeden had a good game (great goal when we needed it), which hopefully will instil some confidence in him
• our players consistently slip over more than our opponents… FFS, start wearing the appropriate boots!!
• our skills were appalling, so many crap kicks and handballs it wasn’t funny
• was interesting (and smart) to see Rampe telling all the talls to run down to the Freo goal line at the end … to help force the ball over for a behind, but Logan’s kick was so poor (short and wide), they couldn’t do it
• don’t have a prob with losing the game (we were due), but very concerning that Freo’s game style was able to dominate us for large parts of the game

PS. Heeney is looking more and more banged up (heavy fall on his shoulder again today) … definitely think he needs to be given a week off soon

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Interesting other boards reading a lot into Gulden Warner and Heeneys games today , all rubbish now

Neutrals been waiting 10 weeks for this

 

[The King!]

Neutrals been waiting 10 weeks for this

Same as a couple here

 

[Ticky009]

Centre clearance stats surprised me, felt like they waltzed out every time

It sure looked like. With ease. And even when we did get it our turnovers just killed what little momentum we had.

 

[Swannie0307]

Now GWS and Pies losing. Weekend looking better after every match

Utopia will be if the Tiges can somehow beat the Blues tomorrow

 

[the hypnotoad]

didn't see the game, followed the scores ... i think most of us felt a loss was inevitable, and again we almost pulled it out of the fire, despite it being arguably our worst of the season
but we've lost two games, by the total of one goal, and really we blew both, for whatever reasons
yeah, there's a few concerns, not least being the stupid giveaway starts
but we're the best team in the league, and clearly our own worst enemies ... that will be sorted out, i'm sure

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Ive watched football enough to have seen this club put in some shockers but still resulted in us winning the flag/making the GF.

If this is our "worst" we are in better shape than i thought.

 

[strauchanie59]

Ive watched football enough to have seen this club put in some shockers but still resulted in us winning the flag/making the GF.

If this is our "worst" we are in better shape than i thought.

Our worst got us 98 points, which more often than not, is a winning score.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Our worst got us 98 points, which more often than not, is a winning score.

6 points off our average of 104 per game! goes to show how insane our season has been to date

 

[Dan87]

I'm just so damn antsy to win this competition again

Can't imagine how Horse manages it

 

[The King!]

Watched the last 2 minutes

Florent had Gulden on his own 15 out in front , bugger

Gulden wasn't happy

 

[caesar88]

Watched the last 2 minutes

Florent had Gulden on his own 15 out in front , bugger

Gulden wasn't happy

Florent is actually the only Swan's form that genuinely concerns me. I just have no faith that he'll do something good when he has the ball, and he's looked like this dating back before the bye.

 

[Ticky009]

 

[The King!]

Florent is actually the only Swan's form that genuinely concerns me. I just have no faith that he'll do something good when he has the ball, and he's looked like this dating back before the bye.

This is BS fantasy stats but probably does reflect his form


Been a slow decline the longer the season goes in his form. Couple of just average months .

 

[GoTheSwannies]

This felt like a loss we needed to have. Leading up to this game, it felt as though a loss was on the cards, and Freo were always capable of being the ones to hand it out.

We've managed to peg back leads throughout the season but we were always going to end up finding ourselves in a hole we couldn't get out of.

This game was the perfect reminder that if you're not 100% switched in for four quarters you're going to get found out. Hopefully this a lesson we revisit on the eve of finals and gives the team the fuel to be relentless from the first bounce. Anything less and we leave the door ajar.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

So it’s a participation award now?

LOL that’s a dopey comment.

If Caesar is right and Campbell won more hard balls than Lloyd, Gulden, McInerney, Amartey, Melican, Wicks, Florent, Cleary, Hayward, Jordon, McCartin, McDonald, Rampe and Cunningham, that is way more than merely “participating”.

If you’ve got a grudge against a player maybe just refrain from commenting on him.

 

[Ticky009]

Watched the last 2 minutes

Florent had Gulden on his own 15 out in front , bugger

Gulden wasn't happy

I was watching from behind Florent up the ground - my entire area of the stadium practically wept.

 

[wills2g]

Earlier in the week, I posted that Freo's mids would trouble us. Best clearance team in the comp by a mile and a single kick gives their forwards a good look at the SCG.

They clearly beat our #1 mid setup - Heeney, Rowy, Warner, Paps (he attended a lot of CB)

We then changed it up in Q3. Jordon dropped the tag, played as a mid. JMac started going to CB and played mid. We then actually start winning doing something different.

We would then goal and suddenly Horse would again put 3 of our #1 mid setup back into the CBA. Low and behold, Freo's mids get on top.

I think this loss is as big of a learning lesson for coaches as the players. We rave on about the versatility of our players. So let Heeney start HF or wing, let Chad start HF etc etc. Let Jordon, JMac stay on top for longer and give them a chance to win the CB.