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Review Rachele, Bad & Ugly v Fremantle (Round 1)
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On Sundays showing there is no way in hell Murphy is ahead of Rachele, and falls behind Rowe as well
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Yup, Murphy is finished as a small forward (and likely full stop).
He's ran into the same problem as Petrenko ended up running into. Being a defensive forward is a good way to get games, however, you're absolutely screwed when a kid comes in who can offer offense and defense production at a high level. Especially as McHenry offers more.
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You forget Murphy is contracted for 2023 and he does have other strings to his bow....McPherson not coming on like expected and Luke Brown 30 next year, Will Hamill and Chayce Jones not yet nailing down their spots so don't be forgetting how good Murphy was as a small defender in the SANFL, a role that won him a spot on our list. And has been handy around the ball when given squirts on the ball.
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We will find a way to shoehorn him in. You can bank on it.
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I’d have Murphy in defence over Jones but I reckon McPherson after a shit first half of 2021 is coming on fine and Murphy won’t displace him.
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McPherson's problems dating right back to his junior days have been soft tissue/hamstring issues so you're braver than me if you think he's anywhere near a lock going forward. The only reason we were able to pick him up so late in the draft was his injury history back then obviously scared clubs off.
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This stood out for me yesterday. Those two matches Strachnie played, our mids got very good service with Stachnies tap work.
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We need to pull the trigger soon if ROB has more performances like yesterday.
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Regardless of whether he should be playing, we have to challenge that. That's a joke
Just to repeat - this incident didn't even get looked at, despite Knight telling the umpire at the time that was eye gouged. In fact Selwood got a free kick out of this. And they wonder why we are sick of the AFL.
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Weird that he knew how to coach midfield at West Coast then
The strategy isn't to try and put the ball on the advantage side of either player. It's to dump it on their head in a larger pack where nobody is likely to take a grab.
No. We don't play McAsey just because he was a high pick. Everyone needs to earn their position.
Capacity would be halved if they resubmitted a new plan without a vax requirement.
He's always been a terrible kick. The one where he bombed it in and it went out, he was actually going for goal, so that was just a bad decision as he should've put it in the square for his team to contest. He's not the one you want delivering to our forwards by kick. I'm also surprised every time he actually kicks a goal, because I never expect it to go in (same situation with ROB regardless of how close he is to goal).
If he made contact with the eye, then that is really bad and wth was he thinking. If he didn't and it was just a forehead wipe, why was his hand on his head like that in the first place?? Sloane has never been a dirty player.
Good:
Our centre clearance work has improved dramatically, actually winning and kept us in it in the first half.
Darcy Fogarty getting up to more contests.
James Rowe's skills, his pass to Rachelle in the pocket was elite
Matt Crouch is actually a pretty good player
ROB's around the ground marking has improved
Himmelberg calmly slotting a kick into forward 50 and hitting a target, who TF was that guy? (that guy should be running around like a stoned giraffe with the footy and getting HTB like normal)
Bad:
ROBs everything else is very average
The almost panic and brainlessness in the first half, hack kicking constantly out of every contest, missing every target out of defence, we couldn't possibly play worse.
Rory Lobb looking like a superstar in the first quarter, he is not... oh man... he can't be allowed to look like anything but the 2nd rate plodder he is.
Ugly:
Missed about 5 shots in front of goal to essentially ice the game.
Fremantle deserved to win by 5+ goals at least.
Thilthorpe's turnover with 4 mins left, yuck, but that fine. Better than down the line rubbish.
Our centre clearance work has improved dramatically, actually winning and kept us in it in the first half.
Darcy Fogarty getting up to more contests.
James Rowe's skills, his pass to Rachelle in the pocket was elite
Matt Crouch is actually a pretty good player
ROB's around the ground marking has improved
Himmelberg calmly slotting a kick into forward 50 and hitting a target, who TF was that guy? (that guy should be running around like a stoned giraffe with the footy and getting HTB like normal)
Bad:
ROBs everything else is very average
The almost panic and brainlessness in the first half, hack kicking constantly out of every contest, missing every target out of defence, we couldn't possibly play worse.
Rory Lobb looking like a superstar in the first quarter, he is not... oh man... he can't be allowed to look like anything but the 2nd rate plodder he is.
Ugly:
Missed about 5 shots in front of goal to essentially ice the game.
Fremantle deserved to win by 5+ goals at least.
Thilthorpe's turnover with 4 mins left, yuck, but that fine. Better than down the line rubbish.
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Down-the-line was absolutely the right play, or a 30-metre pass down the line to the unmarked Crow (pause replay, look).
Many have commented in here either way (game-losing/ NOT-game-losing) about this kick, by Nicks and Keays as well.
I'll say it again. Listen to the replay; watch.
An Umpire's call can be heard clearly (3.50 left to play, 7.03/7.57 in the highlights):
"Not 15, play on". Plus the Umpire has both arms in the air, signalling "Play on".
If Thilthorpe had not overkicked it, the mark was not going to be paid anyway.
Dumb kick, was not going anywhere with 4 unmarked Freo players waiting to pounce. Serious mistake, but "game-losing"??
Anyone who thinks so needs to watch the first half again (if you can stomach the garbage the Crows put up).
What was he thinking anyway? Have a week Sloane and hopefully Pedlar lights it up and you come back as a half forward only.
