Review R20: The Good, Bad and Ugly vs. Hawthorn

[jamesclean]

let's goooooooo dude316

 

[Scorpus]

Good: Our draft pick

 

[walterhobbs]

Ugly - Murphy.

 

[Minor Threat]

Good: coaching

 

[aabp1978]

Pick 4 a lock now. Select Draper. Trade the second pick. Hope Nicks sees reason and resigns like Simmo.

 

[radiojake]

Good: Our draft pick

We will slide it back to #8 and pick a skinny flanker

 

[mr.sheen]

Good: Our draft pick

Bad: inevitably wasting it and playing them in the sanfl despite injuries sickness and perpetual plodders filling the list

 

[pjcrows]

Whilst wins like last week are fun sugar hits, we are simply plodding along as a footy club. In no man's land.

Outworked on the field and outcoached off the field today.

Hawthorn have a good coach, draft for talent and trade for need, and are willing to go through short term pain to play young players for long term gain.

We have a poor coach, ignore midfielders at the draft, and gift games to average players because something something winning and something something four points.

One is a professional football-focused organisation and the other one isn't.

 

[Eddie Murphy]

What’s our % chance of making finals now Nicksy?

 

[CrowBloke]

We will slide it back to #8 and pick a skinny flanker

No, they'll pick another fresh-faced , scrawny boy who's excelled in the Juniors, comes from a good family and tries very, very, very hard.

 

[suburpy]

Ugly: everything
Even Uglier : Dan Curtin heading home to WCE to win 5 premierships in the next 3 years with Harley Reid
Uglier again: I still continue to be a supporter of this team and will die before I see another premiership

 

[CrowToon]

Good:

Sholl
Soligo
Nankervis
Curtin came on and got involved
Dowling had some good moments under pressure.

Bad:

Rachele is becoming a huge issue
Fumbling
Lack of defensive pressure
Letting players just get off the chain at various times - Day, Impey etc
Borlase and Keane were horrific tonight - Borlase getting destroyed by Newcombe should be the end of his AFL career.

Ugly:

Going that tall - for what reason?
As above, seemingly gifting games
Another game where we concede 8 in a row
Going over an hour without a goal


Worse than ugly:

Nicks getting outcoached again.

Worst:

Nicks knows what the gamestyle that brings out the best. We saw it in 2023 and we have seen it in games this year, most often when the game is nearly cooked but he never ever seems to want to go that way.


Post-game Edits since I posted at the start of the last:

Apparently 13 or 14 goals in a row? Putrid.
No goal for well over a half of footy until right at the end of the game.
Should be coach killing stuff at home against a (albeit in form) bottom 8 side at home.

 

[CrowBloke]

Will the AFC Admin. finally see and accept that Nicks is not The One, and re-signing him was a blunder of massive lack of judgment?

 

[Crow till I die]

With richmond to come for st kilda, it means at the least we have to win 2 of our last 4 to jump them assuning the don't win any other game. Pick 4 and avoiding the band 1 compo for them for battle might be the outcome

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Left half way through the third and watching Olympics highlights at the pub, and I don't care. So disengaged with the club it's scary

 

[CrowBloke]

What’s our % chance of making finals now Nicksy?

3/5 of 5/8 of sfa.

 

[GreyCrow]

The Bad

Effort
Its the one non-negotiable the whole 23 must embrace

 

[Scorpus]

Ugly: Nicks puts Curtin on the bench for the first 9 minutes of the last quarter despite being the sub and having fresh legs

 

[cleanhands]

Ugly: Nicks puts Curtin on the bench for the first 9 minutes of the last quarter despite being the sub and having fresh legs

That’s just bs

 

[spenze]

I can see why Murphy is in the leadership group

 

[1990crow]

Ugly: Nicks puts Curtin on the bench for the first 9 minutes of the last quarter despite being the sub and having fresh legs

Worst coach in AFC history.

 

[Smoooothy]

Letting Chol dominate like he's peak Buddy Franklin. What the hell!

 

[Magma]

good: another game closer to this disaster of a season being over
ugly: knowing nothing will change

 

[Owen_AFC97]

Ugly: Nicks, Burns, Van Berlo, Adam Kelly, John Olsen, Tim Silvers, Ogilve, Reid

 

[GROTTO]

What’s our % chance of making finals now Nicksy?

We are odds of $501 to still win the 2024 flag.