Autopsy Port v Essendon review

[PAFC66]

Impey is a tease.

Clearly loves the club and is blessed with some insane athletic traits but is struggling to take that next step.

Perhaps I think his ceiling is higher than what it is.

He'll always be a almost player. Frontrunner. Unfortunately

 

[edgie]

Impey is one of the types that we have been afraid to cut our losses with too early, and he isn't even a core middle player or KPP to boot.

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[Lagooner]

Nah I was there. We didn't have the cattle. Last night we did. 2007 GF we also did. Just the same old mentally fragility

Every year there are teams who are sans Kobe Beef but they make do with whatever vegetables they have lying around and amazingly don't get machine-fisted by 28 goals every week.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol just had a fortune cookie, thought this was relevant.

 

[NEGAN]

Impey is one of the types that we have been afraid to cut our losses with too early, and he isn't even a core middle player or KPP to boot.

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He is our speedster,

Bit unfair too his overall game has improved in a few instances this year, his skill haven't unfortunately.

But I can understand the panel not wanting to cut their losses yet or even in the near future , but absolutely droppable at the moment.

 

[Powerstufff]

Impey is a tease.

Clearly loves the club and is blessed with some insane athletic traits but is struggling to take that next step.

Perhaps I think his ceiling is higher than what it is.

The sheer variety of errors from him in that 1st quarter was impressive. Missed passes, missed shots on goal, missed tackles. Burnt us again and again. For me that was his Pettigrew in the 2007 GF game.

 

[GremioPower]

I have doubts on what would be:

- Clearances
- Disposals
- Hit-outs
- Bounces
- Interchanges

No idea on what they mean...

There's some terminology in AFL different to most sports.

Referee - Umpire (ump)
Foul - Free
Plays - Game plan
Our end/their end - Attacking end/Defending end
Field - Oval

That's all I can think off for now

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[GremioPower]

Ah Chee didn't get anywhere near enough of the ball on the night (although in his defence he was once again hamstrung by low TOG%) but at least he does something with it once he has it. Right now he's just about the only guy in the side who I trust with a set shot.



Good luck on learning tactics and plays but I wouldn't bother trying to understand 'fouls' (in AFL they're called free kicks). I've been watching this sport religiously since I was about four and I still don't understand how this game is umpired. I don't think most of the umpires do either.

I am soccer-minded. Since, in soccer, a "free kick" is what you earn from a "foul," that term was easy to grasp. Others, though...

P.S.: On umpires... LOL!!!

 

[Doctor Feel]

I have doubts on what would be:

- Clearances - when there is a ball up, the team or player that clears the ball for their side is called a clearance.
- Disposals - When a player kicks or handballs, that is a disposal.
- Hit-outs - When a ruckman taps the ball or gets first hand to it at a bounce/throw in. That is a hit-out.
- Bounces - When a player bounces the ball while on the run, that is a bounce. Players have to do this atleast once every fifteen metres.
- Interchanges - Every time a player is rotated from the field onto the bench, this is an interchange.

No idea on what they mean...

Some basic responses in bold in your quoted post.

For a great list - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Australian_rules_football

 

[Adam Marrett23]

Anyone that was at the game in the cheer squad see why 6 or 7 of our supporters got kicked out?

I saw them get kicked out but I have no idea what it was actually for. I noticed it but can't say much more then that

 

[Marmozet]

I have doubts on what would be:

- Clearances
- Disposals
- Hit-outs
- Bounces
- Interchanges

No idea on what they mean...

Clearances: Winning the ball out of the centre or a ball up.

Disposals: Kick or a handball

Hit-outs: When a player, most commonly the ruckman, taps the ball at the centre bounce or a ball up.

Bounces: Can be the centre bounce to begin the game or just after a goal has been scored or for a ball up anywhere on the ground. When a player is running with the ball they must take a bounce on the ground. I think it's if they go 15 steps without bouncing, they will be penalised for running too far without bouncing.

Interchanges: There are 4 players on each teams bench at a time and they are constantly rotating with the 18 on the field.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I have doubts on what would be:

- Clearances
- Disposals
- Hit-outs
- Bounces
- Interchanges

No idea on what they mean...

Others have beaten me to it but their clearance definition is only partial

Clearance - who wins the ball from a stoppage in play ie
1) when the umpire bounces the ball in the centre at the start of every quarter or after a goal,
2) when they throw the ball up around the ground or
3) when the boundary umpire throws the ball in when the ball goes out of bounds.
The ruckman will get a Hit Out from the umpires action, and then the player that gets the ball out of this stoppage in play with either of a kick, or handball or might punch or tap the ball out, will be credited with winning the clearance.

 

[Power Girl]

I thought I took a long time to get over the eagles and then the cats game but apparently my pain threshold hadn't been reached.

I'm terrified there's even worse to come faaarrk

 

[edgie]

He is our speedster,

Bit unfair too his overall game has improved in a few instances this year, his skill haven't unfortunately.

But I can understand the panel not wanting to cut their losses yet or even in the near future , but absolutely droppable at the moment.

He started as a lock down small defender. How hard are we gonna persist at turning him in to a reliable speedy forward? He has shown he can do it well, undoubtedly, but even Trengove looked a competent forward in a few games this year at times, but blind Freddy can see it ain't gonna hold up.

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[Marmozet]

Anyone that was at the game in the cheer squad see why 6 or 7 of our supporters got kicked out?

I saw them get kicked out but I have no idea what it was actually for. I noticed it but can't say much more then that

In the first quarter they were giving it back to these campaigner Essendon supporters.

Apparently things almost boiled over at quarter time when one Essendon supporter came right up to them but I missed that alleged incident as I was at the loo.

Port supporters in front of them were also very upset with them and looked like they were trying to get them ejected. Security came and said they had been warned and that they were now being kicked out.

Imo the Essendon supporters were the instigators. One of them pushed a 2 year old child over after the game too.

 

[Adam Marrett23]

In the first quarter they were giving it back to these campaigner Essendon supporters.

Apparently things almost boiled over at quarter time when one Essendon supporter came right up to them but I missed that alleged incident as I was at the loo.

Port supporters in front of them were also very upset with them and looked like they were trying to get them ejected. Security came and said they had been warned and that they were now being kicked out.

Imo the Essendon supporters were the instigators. One of them pushed a 2 year old child over after the game too.

I heard the story about the two year old as well. Bloody pathetic that is and we won't hear anything about that one.

 

[GremioPower]

"Mark" and "Fifty" are odd, but their meaning is easy to grasp.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I thought I took a long time to get over the eagles and then the cats game but apparently my pain threshold hadn't been reached.

I'm terrified there's even worse to come faaarrk

I dont know whether its because I've been staying at my brother in law's the last couple of weeks and he is an Essendon supporter and I have watched Essendon games with him whilst here, but at dinner last night I said to him I'm no longer pissed off with the loss but I'm still pissed off about the Geelong game. I would have probably still been pissed off about WCE games but jumping on a plane to Hong Kong and China for the Shanghai game eased my 48 hour wild frustration.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

"Mark" and "Fifty" are odd, but their meaning is easy to grasp.

Mark comes from the concept that you would mark the ground and that's where you can kick from and the opponent would stand. That's why its not called a catch. I think it came from Rugby as the inventor of the game Tom Wills was sent off to the Rugby School in England in the late 1840's.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I am soccer-minded. Since, in soccer, a "free kick" is what you earn from a "foul," that term was easy to grasp. Others, though...

P.S.: On umpires... LOL!!!

Umpires are a universal.

 

[edgie]

I am soccer-minded. Since, in soccer, a "free kick" is what you earn from a "foul," that term was easy to grasp. Others, though...

P.S.: On umpires... LOL!!!

Thought you would be soccer. Was I correct when I said earlier than in footy 'our end' means the attacking end because most soccer people I talk to refer to 'our end' as the defensive end?

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[1954]

Our skills under the roof where deplorable. You would think we were playing with a heavy wet slippery ball.

When Essendon had kicked 17.14 116, 103 of those pts came from turnovers according to commentators. They kicked another 1.3 for the game and I think 1.2 of that came from turnovers. On Saturday I put up the stats that showed our turnover average pts conceded was 43 pts and best in the league before the game.

We have a side of fumblers and bumblers and we could have had Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell in the side and they would not have stopped Essendon's run when they set up a handball chain from their HB line scooping up our error and then 7 or 8 handballs in the chain that were slick, soft and not belted at the runner, were put in front of him to grab not behind him to have to stop and prop and the player receiving the ball grabbed it cleanly. Having spent a couple of weekends with my Essendon supporting brother inlaw I had watched them play their previous 2 games and their strength was their outside run. We should have been prepared for it but we weren't. Our coaches didn't react when they started using it.

Impey was a classic selection dilemma. He has the pace you want under the roof at Docklands but his fumbles and bumbles kill you because he burns the ball and those turnovers at Docklands hurt you more than elsewhere. He had plenty of error laden teammates, which was a big problem.

Even though the Maggies had a huge win yesterday, one of the glaring weaknesses was the number of times players under little to no pressure hand balled either behind, or too close to the running player, causing that player to slow down and/or reach back to get the ball, which often destroyed their momentum.

That scenario, plus also the times the handball was to the feet of the receiver, cost 2 or 3 goals at the members' stand end yesterday, and that was against an extremely weak opposition.

 

[1954]

The sheer variety of errors from him in that 1st quarter was impressive. Missed passes, missed shots on goal, missed tackles. Burnt us again and again. For me that was his Pettigrew in the 2007 GF game.

Probably a very apt comparison, but let's hope the end result isn't the same, because the Grew hardly fired another shot after his 2007 gf fizzer.

 

[GremioPower]

Thought you would be soccer. Was I correct when I said earlier than in footy 'our end' means the attacking end because most soccer people I talk to refer to 'our end' as the defensive end?

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We do. Our end/goal is the one we defend.

In soccer, however, refs (umps) will point toward the offensive side to show which team got the free-kick. I found funny that in rugby, the signal means the opposite.

Moreover, in the coin toss, teams choose the side they will attack. So, capitain points to one side, and his team takes position in the other.

Thus, such a terminology is more coherent in Aussie football than in Association football!

 

[NuriootpaTigers]

In the first quarter they were giving it back to these campaigner Essendon supporters.

Apparently things almost boiled over at quarter time when one Essendon supporter came right up to them but I missed that alleged incident as I was at the loo.

Port supporters in front of them were also very upset with them and looked like they were trying to get them ejected. Security came and said they had been warned and that they were now being kicked out.

Imo the Essendon supporters were the instigators. One of them pushed a 2 year old child over after the game too.

The lads were simply giving it back to the Essendon supporters. There was one point when an Essendon supporter came into our bay but nothing came of it, he backed down pretty quick.

What troubled me the most was the way our own cheer squad turned on the guys, just because a few swear words were thrown around. Pathetic.