Review Positives & Negatives V Saints

[Bleedblueandgold]

I love me a bit of Schoey. How good was he in 2018? Unquestionably a top bloke. Fills a role exceptionally well. Can he get another medal in 2020? Or can he go around again next year?

No way he'd choose to retire imo, he'll be more happy to stick around. We need him as we only have Gov, Barrass & Edwards as genuine KPD options. We'd have to rely on Allen and Rotham otherwise. Plus Edwards has only played less than 1 game.

 

[Scotland]

the commentary team on 7 wasn't half bad today

Get your ears checked. Audiological health is important.

 

[Rowan18]

+ve

Simmos little dig at the schedule in the presser

That was great. Said that we are not built to play 5 games in 19 days and that it's shit that we have to do it at the back end of the season. Reckon the media will turn that into a story? Nup - nothing to see here.

 

[WCE Wizard]

What a win missing the following from out best 22
Sheed
Shuey
Yeo
Redden
Cripps
Gov (after half time)

Missing good depth in Hutch and Jetta
That is 8 or 9 of our starting 22 and we beat the saints my god what an effort

 

[Rowan18]

Brave win guys and gals! Celebrate, you have earned it. Lets pray to the footy gods we meet up in either a PF or GF

Thanks!

Don't take it personally, but really hope you lose tomorrow night. We need it to make top 4!

 

[xInfected_Virus]

Positives +

+ Tim Kelly standing up when our top mids are out.
+ Gaff was also one of our best mids standing up when the top mids are out and played 100% TOG.
+ Won without Shuey, Yeo, Redden and Sheed.
+ Liam Ryan was one of our bests. Competed well in the air and played like a proper crumber. Lock him in for AA.
+ Nic Nat at his best and giving our mids silver service. He spent 80% TOG. Lock him in for AA.
+ Barrass stood up when Gov went down and shut down Membrey and King although King couldn't kick straight.
+ Schoey and Rotham solid down back.
+ Waterman working hard and linking up with the defense and midfield.
+ We won in wet conditions.
+ Duggan provided hardness in the middle.
+ Ainsworth shutting down Jones. Although he can be too slow with decision making and fails to bluff the umpire with "genuine attempts" thus getting done HTB.
+ Nelson was composed with ball in hand.
+ Bunga led the backline well.
+ Cole's after the siren goal which helped our percentage.
+ Allen and Darling provided us good targets.
+ JK was decent but was a bit quiet.
+ I'm soo happy that I was way off in my predictions.

Negatives -

- Gov doing his hamstring. Time for Edwards to shine.
- Too fumbly. Yeah I know it's wet but against a cleaner team, that will bite us hard.
- Brander was quiet.
- Petch was also quiet but is coming back from injury.
- Missing crucial shots especially near the end of the third. Will come back to bite us in finals against a straight kicking team.

After game review.

The Saints looked on top early but our defense managed to repel the Saint's constant F50 entries after they smashed us on the outside thanks to our aerial presence with McGovern when he was still on and Barrass who stood up when Gov went off. Both Barrass and Gov play better when Schoey's in the side since he actually plays on a man and provides subtle blocks to allow either Barrass and McGovern to intercept. We did well in blocking the corridor so we force them down the line where we were ready to fist to the boundary. I noticed when Darling was outnumbered or the kick isn't to his advantage, he did well in killing the contests and even spoiling the footy to the boundary where Nic Nat can work his magic.

With no Shuey, Yeo, Redden and Sheed and with the Saints having a decent midfield, you'd think we'd get smashed even I thought so too. Kelly stood up like his life depended on it and Gaff showed he can play on the inside having improved his inside mid ability from 2019. Our make shift mids filled with half back flankers Duggan, Nelson and Cole did a great job and our C grade mids in Brander, debutant Brayshaw and Ainsworth also was decent despite Brander being quiet. We've managed to get +1 in contested possessions considering the Saints are a good contested possession team. It's nice seeing Cole linking up to our forward line to provide us an easy target as he's scored three goals this year.

Speaking of Nic Nat, he beated both Ryder and Marshall in the ruck and Allen did well with solid support. He had 18 disposals, 33 hitouts, 9 clearances and played 80% TOG mostly when Allen went off. It showed why we badly missed him against the Dogs since he would've destroyed English but resting him was the right call though. Ainsworth did a great job tagging Jones since Jones had 7 disposals in the first half when the Saints was firing but he only had 8 disposals for the rest of the game which slowed the Saints mids down as Jones is one of their faster players. Ryan showed that he can also crumb like Rioli did and it's nice that he's cutting down those mark of the year attempts to be threatening ground level making him the perfect small forward who's also damaging in the air.

Petch has been quiet but he's providing good pressure but just needs to stick them and not let them slip otherwise the ball will be rebounded at will. JK's quiet game but he did kick a crucial goal.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Positive: We had a wet weather plan which totally neglected the kick mark switch play. We went for territory and backed our talls to win the 50/50s on the wing. Hurn kicking it 60m opens up the game.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

How the **** did we win that after St Kilda kicked the first three goals of the last when we were literally missing a premiership midfield and then lost Gov before half time.

Inspirational performance.

 

[DRK_13]

Not going to lie guys I thought we were gone when St Kilda hit the lead in Q4. All the boys, including the kids, played with nothing but heart and guys tonight. Love to see it. All the boys dug deep and we grid ed out a win for the ages.

Only negative is the injuries. No one gets called out tonight. We won that on pure willpower from every one of the boys tonight. Love to see it

 

[Tiger71]

Thanks!

Don't take it personally, but really hope you lose tomorrow night. We need it to make top 4!

Dont worry brother, I was doing the same tonight lol.

Got to love this time of year!

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Not going to lie guys I thought we were gone when St Kilda hit the lead in Q4. All the boys, including the kids, played with nothing but heart and guys tonight. Love to see it. All the boys dug deep and we grid ed out a win for the ages.

Only negative is the injuries. No one gets called out tonight. We won that on pure willpower from every one of the boys tonight. Love to see it

Best win since the Grand Final. So much heart. There were signs last week but with our backs so far against the wall we started to merge with the damn thing tonight we showed even more fight.

More than I thought we had if I must be honest.

AND IT WAS RAINING!!!

 

[IceNine]

The biggest positive for me is Liam Ryan’s continuing development. He is fast becoming a superstar.

This year, and in particular over the last few games he has started to show amazing poise in heavy traffic. It’s like he’s absorbed Rioli’s talents in his absence. He’s really becoming a multifaceted force that any opposition will struggle to suppress.

 

[wce4premiership]

Also loved Waterman's game, the sort of game that is meant for him, played with heart and desire.

I will be watching the replay on Sunday.

 

[RookiePick]

+ folks getting around Ainers

- folks straight into potting 1st gamer Brayshaw


One for the ages. Amazing win. Really proud of the boys to hold the saints out for 2 quarters and then grit their teeth after going down in the 4th.

HUGE.

 

[Altum Volantes]

May never happen again, but you love to see it. #buildwiththedraft

 

[Wedgetailed Westerner]

‘no midfield’

That was a real ‘hold my Gatorade’ game from Kelly and Gaff

Willy would have liked this

 

[Astro7]

Simply Wow! What a great game, when they rolled over us in the 4th, I thought here comes the spoiler - but it was still a great fight even if they'd lost - and goddamn they just willed the win!
Such a great confidence boost for the team going forward!
Leave Gaff in the guts, he was superb! He's just improved his game so much from when he hardly laid tackles at all.
TK finally found his mojo, he deserved a goal after repeated efforts and what a goal it was!
Not worried so much about Gov, Barrass plays better alone, and after tonights effort believe the team can cover anyone from here on going forward..
Surely one of the best wins ever given the circumstances.
Only negative is the criticism of some of tonights new ins - they were all part of that win, we couldn't have won without them, who else did we have to take their place?
Positive- regardless of this season's outcome, how good will next season's team be!! For a team supposedly lacking depth, we seemed to manufacture it as required.
Finally - Dashing Dirk Diggler!! A Rottwieler with pr0n panache!

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Club Champion will be interesting will Flyin's patch of form.

Nic Nat, Shep and Ryan have been three standouts this year.

 

[Dale Doback]

Spoke to my old man pregame about Petrucelli being in. He said he needs a rocket! Needs to be told 8 tackles! Some intensity!
Petch was OK. Did his bit and chased for real. He had a few shots and could have kicked 2. Good signs

 

[Scotland]

Did enjoy the commentators fawning over Barrass for learning how to mark for the first time instead of just being a defender.

Barrass 2020:

#3 in marks
#2 in contested marks
#8 in intercept marks in the comp
#2 in contested marks for defenders in the comp

 

[TY24]

Half a premiership side out and we’ve still pulled out a great comeback.

positives: some teams just have #alltheluck

Negs: the SJOGHCIU or whatever it is will be a feature length novel this week

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

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May never happen again, but you love to see it. #buildwiththedraft

All the stars (injuries) lined up to make this a reality, but it's pretty astonishing that they all actually ended up playing a game together. The full set lol.
I'm really happy that Brayshaw got to have this moment.

 

[amazingjoshy]

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May never happen again, but you love to see it. #buildwiththedraft

Surely Kelly gets in on that pic?

 

[DickDunn]

Bloody awesome performance. Kelly was unreal - just willed himself to it, won the ground balls and looked so dangerous all night. Hard to think of a better individual performance from an Eagle this season. And Gaff just continues to deliver, has been outstanding this season.

Plenty of other positives that have been noted already - Barrass enormous down back, Nic's huge fourth quarter, Ryan continuing to kill it, Duggan delivering in the midfield - but I liked what I saw from XON too. Didn't get a heap of it but out of all the kids who've had a run through the midfield this season, he just looks like he belongs. Hard at it and enough composure to suggest he'll be a player in the next few years.

Honourable mention to Ainsworth's job on Jones too.

 

[Bernie the Weatherman]

To be fair, Ainsworse kept Jones to 7 disposals after quarter time. Although he didn't hurt St Kilda the other way at all. Prefer Hutchings, still want Ains delisted asap

Gotta give A credit when it’s due! Lots to like tonight ...



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