Review Rd 1 Review - !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? (Freo Beat Adelaide by a Point - Praise be to ChapGod)

[dont bowl there]

First game where he has played full midfield in an AFL game in a long time. He was 100% out of energy. Same thing happened with Serong in his first season at Freo. Nothing to worry about I don't think. It was round 1 after all.

Hope so because he was very very good. Would hate to see him with a small injury.

 

[estibador]

Henry - couple of nice passes early then became the invisible man. Cannot carry either one of he and Walters but definitely not both.

My impression was the opposite. Completely ineffectual early and lost every contest due to not putting his body through the ball, but then I thought he worked his way into the game ok.

 

[WaywardSonSon]

Well, Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy just won himself a new fan! Keep calling out the corrupt AFL umpiring department for what it is good sir!

 

[estibador]

Oh and I'm carrying Henry over Walters if that's the choice. Henry is slight and soft at this stage, but the investment will (might) pay off. Walters continues to decline and goes to ground at every single contest - it's infuriating.

 

[Minz]

Oh and I'm carrying Henry over Walters if that's the choice. Henry is slight and soft at this stage, but the investment will (might) pay off. Walters continues to decline and goes to ground at every single contest - it's infuriating.

Much as I love Walters, I'm starting to believe his best is behind him; I'd rather carry someone who might end up being very useful than someone unlikely to be so again.

Sad tho.

 

[poshman]

Oh and I'm carrying Henry over Walters if that's the choice. Henry is slight and soft at this stage, but the investment will (might) pay off. Walters continues to decline and goes to ground at every single contest - it's infuriating.

I agree with that. We just can’t carry both. Probably shouldn’t carry either.

 

[poshman]

Well, Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy just won himself a new fan! Keep calling out the corrupt AFL umpiring department for what it is good sir!

Where do we find this?

 

[Crow till I die]

Full name	Minairo Frederick
Date of birth	17 May 2000 (age 21)
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL)
Draft	No. 61, 2019 National draft, Fremantle
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Position(s)	Wing / Forward

Ahh. He was part of that talented South Adelaide crop..jason horne francis, arlo draper, will verral this year

 

[salim malik]

Much as I love Walters, I'm starting to believe his best is behind him; I'd rather carry someone who might end up being very useful than someone unlikely to be so again.

Sad tho.

Really sad but you're right unfortunately.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Well the beta blockers have finally kicked in and I'm in a fit state to look back at the game. **** me, who'd be a Freo supporter?

+ve
First half ball movement - we looked great; skills and pressure were there.
Freddy - a little fumbly at times and some drops, but pace to burn, inventive and a showcased potentially some great overhead mark. He'll explode at some point.
Logue - can't believe people want him dropped, myopic. I'd put him on the smalls though and put Ryan in his role for the next game.
Chapman - all people will talk about is the believable finish (more so the second effort for mine). A few mistakes throughout but he looks smooth coming out of the back and distributes well with genuine vision. I'll back him in to grow and learn from the mistakes he did make today.
Brayshaw & Serong - Genuine grade A mids
Switkowski - Champion Data is horseshit (Nic Nat #1? Get ****ed) but here's proof that a broken clock is right twice a day - offers a spark and work rate is phenomenal.
Shultz - 3.2 from a small forward, and passion for the badge - yes please.
Jordan Clarke - Upgrade on Wilson offensively, about the same defensively (a bit shithouse). What a goal though, and genuine line-breaking ability.
Meek - Pantsed O'Brien in the first - Darcy is a big upgrade no doubt, but Meek's one of the better genuine rucks I'd argue. Great depth.
Injuries - no one else down as far as I know.
Points - 4. Job done.


-ve
Henry - big supporter of his, but he'd be one of the first out for me to make way for players in. Needs some time in the WAFL, Colyer or NOD stiff to not be playing in his stead.
Luke Ryan - Prefer him playing tall - swap with Logue next game.
Walters - currently behind Switta in that small fwd/mid role. Too easily pushed off the ball.
Goal Kicking - FFS
3rd Quarter - What the ****?
Umps - What the Actual ****?
Commentary - Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Changes:
Drop Banfield when Tabs comes back and play Treacy as the 3rd tall.
Move Chapman to the wing (drop Henry) and play Hammer and Logue on the smalls, Ryan as the 3rd tall. If Hammer not available same but with Walker.
Meek for Darcy
Fyfe for Walters (Keep Brodie in for his grunt - did a job today)

 

[CapitalA]

Weird to feel so flat after a Rd 1 win but that was pretty sloppy

We still look way short on basic competence to trouble the better teams

Biggest worry for me out of all that is all the draft picks we’ve poured into the backline and it looks no better than 3/4 of the teams who have scrapped together bits and bobs from the rookie list

If it was just our finishing or butchered by the umps you would say underdog win on the road nothing to sneeze at but as soon as Adelaide cleaned up their ball use they cut us to pieces and our much vaunted backline looked garbage

Not good from a “ we are building something special “ perspective that’s for sure




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You need to remember half of the back line is 7 games, 14 games and 33 games of experience....

 

[vidwhal]

Man, after rewatching Chappys game winning spoil, it was beautiful to see him lay such a composed kick out to Henry on the edge of the wing in space. So classy.

 

[MrDanggazz]

Best 5:
1. Andrew Brayshaw

8

Andrew Brayshaw

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

9.3

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

4.8

5star

CL

2.1

4star

D

18.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

10.8

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

4.8

5star

CL

3.1

4star

D

12.6

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.8

3star

2. Caleb Serong

3

Caleb Serong

Age

23

Ht

180cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

4star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

5star

3. Jordan Clark

6

Jordan Clark

Age

24

Ht

185cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.7

4star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.3

3star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.6

4star

MG

172.0

3star

D

12.5

3star

K

8.5

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.5

2star

MG

172.0

3star

D

12.2

3star

K

10.4

4star

HB

1.8

2star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.4

4star

4. Will Brodie

17

Will Brodie

Age

26

Ht

190cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

8.2

3star

HB

10.8

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.9

5star

CL

4.1

5star

D

14.0

3star

K

4.0

1star

HB

10.0

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.0

2star

CL

3.0

4star

D

13.8

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

5.4

5star

CL

2.8

5star

5. Sam Switkowski

39

Sam Switkowski

Age

28

Ht

179cm

Wt

74kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.8

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.7

3star

T

4.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.4

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.2

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

4.0

5star

G

0.4

3star

Positive Signs: Meek, Logue, Shultz.

Negative Signs: Walters, Henry, Treacy, Frederick.

 

[blue shark]

Really sad but you're right unfortunately.

Lost his speed, reaction time, but needs to play smart. Doesn’t help that we don’t play talls in the forward line.
If he can stay down and rove to a FF, CHF, 3rd tall he could turn back time.
Big if though, and older players need to adapt.
Forwards need to average at least a goal a game, Henry needs to push him out, deserve his spot.

 

[Sumwun]

Anyone have a link to some views of the Chapman spoil from a different angle? Just the one angle from a long way off on the replays doesn't do it justice

Try Fox Sports videos, there's a few angles there.

AFL | Fox Sports Videos

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www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Superkoops]

Additional thoughts

• I've supported Henry as much as anyone but you cant excuse that game, time for an extended stint at Peel. Noddy/ Erasmus in
• Harder to know what to do with Walters, we cant keep carrying him playing like that
• That was the biggest load of corrupt bullshit umpiring I have ever seen. In the space of 10 seconds the same scenario would lead to play on for us, but free kick for Adelaide, and it happened about 10 times in the 3rd quarter alone.
• Anyone thinking we werent going to miss Cerra was kidding themselves. Our midfield looks VERY shallow.
• Chappy was invisible the whole game until the last when he was massive.
• Schultz and Switta are now miles ahead of Walters
• Banfield is not going to take us anywhere
• Clark looks like being very good offensively but there was some serious laspses defensively that cost goals
• Speaking of lapses causing goals, what the fu** was that from Young
• AB, Logue and Serong where absolutely massive. Logue felt like the only defender actually winning contests and was the sole reason the 3rd wasnt worse
• I cant do another year of this goal kicking, I just cant
• We arent playing finals with how we played today but there was some excellent passages of play in every quarter bar the 3rd

I’d give Henry another game. He has been bad last two games but there have a couple of good things he has done. He was forward in the 3rd QTR. He is still undersized and pushed off the ball too easily.

First game where he has played full midfield in an AFL game in a long time. He was 100% out of energy. Same thing happened with Serong in his first season at Freo. Nothing to worry about I don't think. It was round 1 after all.

This is the reason he has struggled to get a game at GC. The guy knows how to find the footy no question there. In the pre-season he really struggled with those time trials.

To be fair the time trial that he struggled (where the likes of Brayshaw, Logue and Clark did well) he hadn’t been with us for long and just out of quarantine. There was an article from Dec 2020 when with GC in the pre-season TT he set a personal best by over 30 seconds. They emphasised that the entire thing playing group made a big fuss about his efforts.

He was selected at Pick 9 so he can play but his weakness which in the modern game is quite significant is his tank. I agree with you that it will improve after first up game. But the third quarter his pressure and repeat efforts dropped off and he spent time on the pine late 3rd QTR and for a fair chunk of the final QTR. He only played around 66% of total game time.

We should swap him in and out of the forward line because he can take a mark and apply decent pressure.

If I was a selector I’d be looking to inject Erasmus ASAP. A few of the hard toilets like Banfield we can upgrade with genuine talent. The other one we need to get up to speed quickly is Sam Sturt.

 

[gaskin]

Man, after rewatching Chappys game winning spoil, it was beautiful to see him lay such a composed kick out to Henry on the edge of the wing in space. So classy.

Honestly, I reckon he was going for the boundary and Henry just happened to be there.

 

[theGav56]

Trying to take a step back and move past one of the worst quarters of football I've ever seen (given the rest of the game anyway) and lets be positive

• Missing our best forward, even though, yes, Adelaide kicked it poorly, we had 17 scoring shots in the first half. I thought we moved the ball well with some great kicking and the forwards worked well together
• Pressure was terrific (apart from the 3rd)
• We stood up and again played some good football the last quarter, that's not easy to do when you've just put out a quarter like we did.
• Clark is an offensive weapon coming off the backline
• Brodie is going to save the bodies of Serong, AB and Fyfe the next few years, did A LOT of work in and under and managed to pressure well.
• Tucker, given the limited preseason, was good on the wing, one of the few very good kicks for goal in the team
• The skills in general were very good the whole game, I think a lot of improvement has been made here of late. We hit difficults kicks and in particular, our handballs in close are very good

Happy to hear your positives. It is massive getting an away win early.

The most disturbing thing was our goals/points issue. It seems locked and loaded for a stellar season.

 

[AlwaysFreo]

Did anyone else notice the commentators talking about Freo fans hiding behind our couches? They said it a lot.

Kinda pissed me off...

My mate received an expletive laden text message from me expressing my feelings about the couch comments.

 

[AlwaysFreo]

Honestly I'm pretty filthy about that game and thought the result flattered us greatly etc. etc. <insert pessimistic diatribe>.

As a scientist though, I can now officially confirm the existence of either Jesus or "The Force" as I have no other explanation how Chapman's spoil/shot on goal didn't go through

Richard Dawkins would embrace a higher power after watching that.

 

[TheMcManusNose]

For our season I'm happy we won that but in a way it might have expedited a few hard decisions if we hadn't. Not a win that really fills you with joy in the end.

Backline is full of good players who currently aren't playing well as a collective.

A few coasting on reputation or potential rather than contribution.

Selection wise there's a lot more shuffling that needs to be done before we find a good combination and I think a few of these players, not just Walters, aren't going to be part of the team that actually starts moving up the ladder definitively.

 

[Freomaniac]

An emotional and sadistic roller coaster ride.

Glad freo won. Yeah i was at the game. To win without tabs ,fyfe and Darcy. Solid win

 

[AlwaysFreo]

As an aside... I checked my heart rate on my watch as the siren went... 135!

I can go for a run and keep my HR below 135!

Somewhat remarkably I did the same and I was also in the 130s. Like you, I can run at a lower heart rate. Says something.

 

[Taylor]

The Crows midfield stepped up in the second quarter and our outside players disappeared. It happens to every team. It's why the ruck is so important and why a side looks 1000% more damaging than they are when they have clearance domination.

We played pretty loose around the stoppages, it looked awesome when we won the ball.

Overall, I think we should plan for Fyfe to win us more first hands on it than not so changing structure for one game when it worked well in the first quarter would be premature.

Just make the most of our chances.

 

[Square Peg]

Yeah i was at the game.

Did the umpiring make you want to jump the fence and take matters into your own hands?