Autopsy QF 2019 - Pies d Cats by 10 points

[Strange Cat]

What does that tell you? It's not the players, it's the game plan.

People laying into Hawkins seriously have NFI. He deserves a medal for not putting Scott into traction.

Did nothing last week

Missed a goal right in front of the sticks and then goes missing all game

There’s no defence for him at all

 

[fpm84]

I thought Chapman starting as sub in his 250th in a QF was our worst match committee decision ever.

Then I thought Hawkins being a late withdrawal from the same game, after we’d played him injured all season, was our worst match committee decision ever.

Then I thought that dropping Dan Menzel for a QF and replacing him with Zach Guthrie was our worst match committee decision ever.

I stand corrected.

Dropping Rhys Stanley from the 2019 QF is the worst match committee decision this club has ever made.

Slow clap, Geelong

 

[Pavlovs Cat]

Top of the ladder. No anticipation. Two kicks in it, three minutes left, no excitement. We all know why, we all saw this coming, we all knew we wouldn't win. Never really out of it but never really in it. When we rock up and don't take the game on our forward 50 entries are helicopters. When we turn the ball over the opposition are running into space inside their 50 and score much more easily than us. We are reactive, predictable, in two minds...the players don't believe in what Scott is selling.

Now we don't either. Scott has reached his ceiling and most go.The lack of flexibility is bad enough but the appalling arrogance is the hammer that has driven the nail into our coffin for eight seasons. He isn't learning and should be leaving. We aren't watchable anymore and that is an awful legacy to leave a club. .

 

[caitsith01]

They gave a stat on the radio some time in the second half - Collingwood played on 1 in every 4 times they took a mark.

Geelong? 1 in every 10.

I think that sums it up.

A few games ago they pointed out that we play on about the amount that happens accidentally by stepping off the line.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Chook would be a welcome sight.


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Yep.
Chook in.
Duncan out inj.
Selwood more wing.
Chook in guts.

 

[And_ROOS]

Can someone give me the TL;dr for Scotts presser.

I assume they were happy with the game, a few tweaks, Grundy wasn't an influence, etc etc.

If Stanley was injured, why no Abbott or Smith.

If Stanley wasn't injured, why no ruck.

That cost us at least 2 goals. End margin? Hmmm...

 

[caitsith01]

Check out the I50 marking contests. Scott has it so there are all 36 players in the I50, the way he has us slowly going forward. Also, our kicking skills are s**t. Except for Ablett.

And of course we never kick OVER the mass of players.

 

[GetDimmaBack]

Please excuse my intrusion, guys, but I just heard a snippet from Scott's pre game comments:

"...we got the weather wrong, but we're still taller than Collingwood, so we don't think (dropping Stanley) will have any impact on the result."

What the...?

 

[Zouz Kitty]

If you keep talking out the PM's they are going to keep doing it.. Just ignore it..

Oh!!! They kept coming long before we discussed them!

 

[Baudolino]

It's the fact that literally ALL the ingredients from previous finals losses were there that made this so demoralising.

Unnecessary, self-defeating, galaxybrain selection decision by Scott that backfires spectacularly? Check.
Atrocious first quarter leaving us chasing the game the entire match? Check.
Constant fumbling from the entire side? Check.
Normally reliable set shots choking and missing easy shots? Check.
Slaughtered in the ruck? Check.
Hawkins having a down game? Check.
Killed on the outside? Check.
Endless directionless long bombs inside 50? Check.
Normally composed players suddenly becoming a panicky mess? Check.
Inexplicable moments of bizarre clownishness (eg defenders spoiling goalward directly to an opponent, players running in to one another, etc)? Check.
Brilliant but ultimately futile performance from one of Selwood or Dangerfield? Check.
Desperate, doomed-to-failure decision to throw Harry Taylor forward? Check.
Final term comeback resulting in a full time margin that's way more flattering than we deserve? Check.

How many times have we seen this *exact same script* with all the exact same elements?

Ugh.

 

[God Mode]

Wasn't I responding to some claptrap about where the final was played?

EDIT: Yes, I was



The club clearly aren't focussed on the final being played at GMHBA and *do* focus on preparation.

You can argue that their preparation isn't quite right, but to suggest they're putting sooooo much effort into whining about where it's played is disingenuous.

Perhaps it is disingenuous. perhaps not. Contrast is a confronting thing. Tonight, once again, we all saw what hunger and desperation looks like, compared to just going through the motions at training. We play with no creativity and enthusiasim.

We are like a cover band really. We can emulate the classic hits to a degree. But when it comes down to creativity and making something our own. We just can't do it.

 

[Partridge]

I thought Chapman starting as sub in his 250th in a QF was our worst match committee decision ever.

Then I thought Hawkins being a late withdrawal from the same game, after we’d played him injured all season, was our worst match committee decision ever.

Then I thought that dropping Dan Menzel for a QF and replacing him with Zach Guthrie was our worst match committee decision ever.

I stand corrected.

Dropping Rhys Stanley from the 2019 QF is the worst match committee decision this club has ever made.

Slow clap, Geelong

Good thing it wasn't the same coach who made those decisions.

 

[STPer18]

Just heard a snippet from Scott's pre game comments:

"...we got the weather wrong, but we're still taller than Collingwood, so we don't thing (dropping Stanley) will have any impact on the result."

What the...?

Don't try work it out, embrace it.

 

[Stev0]

We’re looking at a management structure that celebrates mediocrity. Close enough is good enough. There is a rotten element far up in the hierarchy that is preventing it from progressing because the top echelons of the club are embroiled in the cultural deprivation - where if allowing it to be exposed would mean a loss of their job/the incompetence shows - so they cover for each other. In other words, a level of (moral) corruption exists within the ranks of the football club that needs exposing.

What we are witnessing within the Geelong Football Club is like that of a company that continues to live off it’s past record without accounting for the present; it presents comfortable profits but the rot has set in, and the exposure of fraudulent details behind the scenes will only be exposed once everything has gone **** up, and the investors and public sit down to analyse what the hell went wrong.

The entire club needs a clean out.

 

[Zouz Kitty]

Report it first

Well + truly reported, before posting here

 

[And_ROOS]

Please excuse my intrusion, guys, but I just heard a snippet from Scott's pre game comments:

"...we got the weather wrong, but we're still taller than Collingwood, so we don't think (dropping Stanley) will have any impact on the result."

What the...?

I heard that and nearly put my phone through the TV. Its proof he doesn't know what he is doing.

 

[Grimoz]

Please excuse my intrusion, guys, but I just heard a snippet from Scott's pre game comments:

"...we got the weather wrong, but we're still taller than Collingwood, so we don't think (dropping Stanley) will have any impact on the result."

What the...?

Dont try and make sense of the horse shit that he talks, it will hurt your brain....believe me... We know

 

[BotsMaster]

Anyone else getting the same abusive message from the hawk troll

No matter how many times he gets banned still continues with the same message after a loss

No and I feel like I'm missing out

 

[son of meto]

Who on earth would want him?

Are you serious?

 

[cats_09]

 

[Partridge]

Can someone give me the TL;dr for Scotts presser.

I assume they were happy with the game, a few tweaks, Grundy wasn't an influence, etc etc.

If Stanley was injured, why no Abbott or Smith.

If Stanley wasn't injured, why no ruck.

That cost us at least 2 goals. End margin? Hmmm...

I'll give you another question that hasn't been asked (and I'm guessing won't be)...

"Chris, is the form of Joel Selwood a concern?"

 

[Tristan34]

Please excuse my intrusion, guys, but I just heard a snippet from Scott's pre game comments:

"...we got the weather wrong, but we're still taller than Collingwood, so we don't think (dropping Stanley) will have any impact on the result."

What the...?

Now you know why we have a terrible finals record..

 

[cats_09]

 

[frggr]

Christ McGuire's whining about the jumpers was ****ing nauseating.

 

[cats_09]

That's all folks