AFL Toast R14: Win against the Saints!

[foj1]

All those comments about Truck prior seem a little silly now

Complacency and getting ahead of yourself 101

 

[Don Won]

Oh wow, that really did happen last night.

 

[foj1]

LOL Looks odd but he might be watching for the club playing one of these sides next week.

Clubs have people watching from different parts of the ground.

He is a forward scout

 

[windyhill]

Well done to the Ess fans who showed. Been a disaster of a season.

 

[foj1]

Never been sold on max king.
Ben's a gun. Max gets under the ball and relies on long arms and frees. Poor kick too.

For all the fapping on the box, ill take the wright and jones combo thanks

Mate did you see the mark tally in first 50 games?
he is going to be a very very good player.
would love him in just the red and black

 

[citizen-erased]

Mate did you see the mark tally in first 50 games?
he is going to be a very very good player.
would love him in just the red and black

Dont dispute he'll be good but i think there's a bit of mayo put on his overall impact to date.

Good mark, great athlete. But the hype is a little over the top for whats been put out so far.

 

[foj1]

Dont dispute he'll be good but i think there's a bit of mayo put on his overall impact to date.

Good mark, great athlete. But the hype is a little over the top for whats been put out so far.

Fair enough
i think if we could land a tall like him we would be much better placed to compete in 2024 and beyond
key position forwards take time

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Good to see the boys put together a mostly solid effort against a decent team.

Should have really won by 50+ but I’ll take it!

 

[gabbo32]

I actually enjoyed Roaming BT after the game too.
Great to have extended chats with Mass’s fam.
Jake Kelly

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Jake Kelly

Age

29

Ht

190cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.5

4star

K

8.3

3star

HB

6.3

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.6

4star

MG

157.8

2star

D

8.1

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.6

4star

MG

104.1

2star

D

14.8

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.2

5star

MG

107.0

2star

being a Dad to the young group.
Also showing a Chaplain without a Parish (but all the burgers to himself).

 

[ant555]

First up. Selection ended up being okay. Guess I am not in the frame for chairman of selectors next week.
There are no excuses for some of the lack of effort this year but with players coming back into full training I suspect the group will start to feel a bit better within themselves and there will be some selection pressure.
Key things this week for me where
Efficiency inside 50 much better. Made a lot more of the opportunities.
Tackles inside 50 well up.
Marks. Contested and non contested.
Work rate. Seemed to be more run from behind and spread at stages.
Not being corridor focused. We seemed to be happy to forward handball or kick along the wings when the Saints zoned the middle. It gave us back a bit more forward momentum footy.
Can not just rest on that effort and fall back again. The bar is set. Need to actually raise it now.

 

[Vindicater]

Tone was set in the first 3 minutes when St Kilda were existing their back 50 and McGrath left his man to attack the player with the ball.

Any other game this season he would have folded back to defrnd his own man.

 

[MiguelM]

Forward pressure and run from the backline were key last night. Less turnovers in the forward half too.

Turnovers & lack of run in past games made our defensive structures look poor. No team can defend that. Having Runners & Jones back in form makes a huge difference.

Thought that was Guelfi's best game this year.

 

[Cold Sober]

Noticed players moving back off the mark 2 or 3 mts then surging forward once play on called, seemed to be effective.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Draper has really improved these last few weeks, clunking marks and kicking goals.

Jones back has been immense for our forward line, suddenly we have two guys to bring the ball to ground and while we may not have natural small forwards we still snagged a few.

Loved Perkins’ game

Jones just crumbs his own balls and goals anyway.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Beautifully set up now to snag a bunch of wins in the run home, degrading our draft position to its usual mediocre level and allowing us to get ahead of ourselves.

Good times

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

We can still finish 12-10 and make finals! Don't give up!

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Is it worth trialling Merrett in a different role once Parish is back?

Merrett looked off the pace tonight, was he tagged?

 

[Yoda_]

I know Ham has copped some hate but he played a very under appreciated role last night, along with Guelfi who was rewarded with two majors for himself.

Noticed we were getting much deeper entries at the ground than in previous weeks, this was obviously a result of those half forwards creating space behind them and even marking the ball 45 - 75 out from goal, creating overlap run for the defenders and thus, had shots on goal inside 25.

I know Ham in particular is a very limited player but those 2 - 3 contested marks were great, couple of missed targets by hand wasn't. Is a player who we'll end up upgrading to be more competitive (when is Snelling back?).


Had a few unheralded players last night imho. Phillips did ok when in the thick of things. Laverde and Ridley did reasonably well against the twin towers of Marshall and King.

 

[Squeaky]

Welcome to season 2022... You re late! where have you been?

 

[citizen-erased]

I know Ham has copped some hate but he played a very under appreciated role last night, along with Guelfi who was rewarded with two majors for himself.

Noticed we were getting much deeper entries at the ground than in previous weeks, this was obviously a result of those half forwards creating space behind them and even marking the ball 45 - 75 out from goal, creating overlap run for the defenders and thus, had shots on goal inside 25.

I know Ham in particular is a very limited player but those 2 - 3 contested marks were great, couple of missed targets by hand wasn't. Is a player who we'll end up upgrading to be more competitive (when is Snelling back?).


Had a few unheralded players last night imho. Phillips did ok when in the thick of things. Laverde and Ridley did reasonably well against the twin towers of Marshall and King.

yeah. Early was killing our momentum with a couple of poor kicks. But grew into the game and really did a good job on the wing.
needs to build on that

 

[Yoda_]

yeah. Early was killing our momentum with a couple of poor kicks. But grew into the game and really did a good job on the wing.
needs to build on that

For us to be a serious football side, hopefully round 1, 2023 Langford is lining up on the wing instead of Heppel.

Loved what Hep has done for the club over the last decade but the times are moving on. Would love to see him stay around as a leader but as far as being a lock? We probably need to have that chat to him about the direction the football club is going in.

 

[citizen-erased]

For us to be a serious football side, hopefully round 1, 2023 Langford is lining up on the wing instead of Heppel.

Loved what Hep has done for the club over the last decade but the times are moving on. Would love to see him stay around as a leader but as far as being a lock? We probably need to have that chat to him about the direction the football club is going in.

true
if I look at what the future of that side should be
Parish for Ham
Langford for Heppell
Snelling for Guelfi
Reid & Cox probably play KP somewhere (Flip & ?)

 

[IHurley]

Beautifully set up now to snag a bunch of wins in the run home, degrading our draft position to its usual mediocre level and allowing us to get ahead of ourselves.

Good times

We would need probably 5 wins from here to break out of bottom 4. Conveivable but getting confidence in the game plan and not having a knee jerk reaction and sacking the coach are more important than pick 5 vs pick 3.

 

[maskmcgee]

This, unlike the Hawthorn "win" is actually deserved, the result of far better effort and intensity over the past 3 games. Let's see the same for the rest of the season.

 

[Beerfish]

yeah. Early was killing our momentum with a couple of poor kicks. But grew into the game and really did a good job on the wing.
needs to build on that

I felt he was appalling for a lot of the game. Seemed to fluff it in the contest and make poor decisions at every opportunity.

I was half a dozen pints in though so maybe not the best judge.