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

[BStaff17]

The rule says that the club medical staff have to "reasonably expect the player to be unavailable to play for 12 days" but I have never seen anyone queried over returning to play the following week, I'm sure it's happened before but I can't recall a circumstance off the top of my head, sorry.

Brennan cox rolled his ankle against north last year from memory. And played the following week.

Blakely was brought on to play the last 10 mins.

 

[go_the_dockers]

We need to push more people through the midfield.

 

[Madas]

She is just a horror show of an umpire.

Yes I’m more inclined to think she’s just been advanced to AFL a little too quickly.
I was trying to find some stats on how many VFL games she had under her belt but didn’t have much luck .
But then again is it the only way to truly learn to be thrown in the deep end ?

 

[Madas]

We need to push more people through the midfield.

Switta and Walters should have run through the midfield IMO particularly with that heat .
I hope JLo hasn’t cooked Serong and Brayshaw for this week.

 

[Taylor]

We need to push more people through the midfield.

We need the players who will not be in the bounces to be useful in that other position though.

 

[SiempreFreo]

Re goals. We need players with both adequate skill and confident, motivated mindset - like Shooter, Tabs, Fyfey as was and hopefully again, ditto Mundy and Sturt. Treacy, Sean Darcy

4

Sean Darcy

Age

26

Ht

203cm

Wt

111kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

3.4

1star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

2.4

4star

HO

28.8

5star

D

6.8

1star

K

2.0

1star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.8

4star

HO

20.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

6.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

32.0

5star

, Colyer are getting towards that balance as are Brayshaw, Serong, Switta, Clark and Tucker.

Current mismatches for me, i.e. skill but doubtful mindset, or vice versa, are:
Lobb, who looked to pass off one of his few shots last Sunday, never exudes even Sean D's confidence, and said in recent interview re trade he wanted not to be (in city) where he's constantly scrutinised.
Freddy - looks as if he's realised just what he can do and now needs to hold his nerve.
Ryan, Willo, Acres - the first 2 will give it a crack, the 3rd reluctantly, but all clearly with little hope of success.
Sonny - .my traditional favourite, but who knows where he's at currently.

For the go-for-goalers I want JL to decree that near enough aint good enough - they CAN get the goals and they MUST.
In the mismatch group give Lobb, Freddy, Sonny hypnotism sessions, pysch sessions or the like (seriously) - and tell the others to look for a better option up forward.

Goals fixed!
P.S.: I'd play Cox forward. No instructions needed.

 

[stax on the mull]

Yes I’m more inclined to think she’s just been advanced to AFL a little too quickly.
I was trying to find some stats on how many VFL games she had under her belt but didn’t have much luck .
But then again is it the only way to truly learn to be thrown in the deep end ?

Eleni Glouftsis - she's umpired 52 games of AFL. This is the start of her 6th season.

 

[theGav56]

That depends on how quickly our newly recruited players come along.

If you mean Clark and Brodie I agree. It also depends on significant improvement from previous recruits Frederick, Henry, Young, Chapman etc.

 

[arsesmart]

It's one round. It's round one.

Last year's round one, Adelaide beat Geelong.

 

[Bicco]

100% Lobb should be playing out of the square for the long bombs and pack marks, Treacy should be leading up to the 50

Lobb is terrible 1v1(body on body). He's no Tom Hawkins. He's very hard to stop on the lead.

 

[wayToGo_]

There is only one way to get to understand umpire bias... check out the research...

This paper entitled "Blowing the whistle on umpire bias in the AFL : an analysis of the effect of home ground status" seems an ideal place to start, especially when you realise its author from Perth is named Alfred Michael Dockery.

Blowing the whistle on umpire bias in the AFL : an analysis of the effect of home ground status / A.M.... - Catalogue | National Library of Australia

catalogue.nla.gov.au

 

[theGav56]

Lobb is terrible 1v1(body on body). He's no Tom Hawkins. He's very hard to stop on the lead.

I don't see the point in bagging Lobb about this. We have had a major pre-season focus on our forward line with a new line coach in place. It looked very much like Lobb was following the game plan.

If the game plan revolves around a player who cannot kick goals from outside the 50, that's not something the player should be criticized for is it?

(not suggesting you're saying this by the way)

 

[Purple Suit]

I certainly didn't see anything on the weekend that suggests otherwise. In both our game and the round as a whole

We played 1 bad quarter during a barrage of dodgy umpiring. We were also missing three leaders and still won away. I’d say that is good signs if we can learn some lessons without having the lost to go with it.

 

[Bicco]

I don't see the point in bagging Lobb about this. We have had a major pre-season focus on our forward line with a new line coach in place. It looked very much like Lobb was following the game plan.

If the game plan revolves around a player who cannot kick goals from outside the 50, that's not something the player should be criticized for is it?

Not at all. I was more commenting on the post that Lobb should be in the goal square and not leading out. His strength, IMO, is on the lead.

 

[theGav56]

Not at all. I was more commenting on the post that Lobb should be in the goal square and not leading out. His strength, IMO, is on the lead.

Yes, wasn't meaning to disagree with you.

 

[Purplrrr]

It's one round. It's round one.

Last year's round one, Adelaide beat Geelong.

Round one last year, I accepted we weren‘t much chop, but announced to all that would listen that Melbourne weren’t much better and weren’t going anywhere...

 

[theGav56]

It's one round. It's round one.

Last year's round one, Adelaide beat Geelong.

The equation for us to play finals is a reasonably simple one. Win most if not all home games, and snatch a couple of away wins. The Adelaide game always looked like one of our opportunities to put one in the bag.

 

[Madas]

Eleni Glouftsis - she's umpired 52 games of AFL. This is the start of her 6th season.

Why still so bad ?
Oh wait - Dean Margetts was still decidedly average after 20 odd years .

Still curious at to how much seconds she umpired prior .

 

[Purple_Turtle]

Interesting thing pointed out on Duff and Quarters was that we were very into Rachele at the draft last year. Obviously Adelaide took him without us getting a look in but if he made it to our first pick Duffield reckons Rachele wouldn't have gone any further.

 

[wayToGo_]

Interesting thing pointed out on Duff and Quarters was that we were very into Rachele at the draft last year. Obviously Adelaide took him without us getting a look in but if he made it to our first pick Duffield reckons Rachele wouldn't have gone any further.

100%. Plenty rated him higher than Erasmus, including me. We'd have been crazy to pass. I thought pre-draft he could win the Rising Star this year (over JHF and Daicos who I rate immensely). My reasoning was that Rachele is (and always has been) a game winner, as he almost proved on debut against us.

But it was never likely he'd last to us, so I'm more than happy with the WA trio despite none of them impacting so immediately.

 

[Sumwun]

Yes I’m more inclined to think she’s just been advanced to AFL a little too quickly.
I was trying to find some stats on how many VFL games she had under her belt but didn’t have much luck .
But then again is it the only way to truly learn to be thrown in the deep end ?

From Wikipedia

Glouftsis commenced umpiring in 2008 with the North Eastern Metro Junior Football Association in Adelaide, South Australia,[9] before commencing to umpire in the South Australian National Football League, umpiring her first senior SANFL match in August 2013,[3] being the first female to officiate as a field umpire in a SANFL match.[10]

She then moved to Melbourne on a three-year AFL Female Pathway scholarship at the end of 2014, where she umpired in 12 Victorian Football League matches during the 2015 VFL season, umpiring her first VFL match in June of that year.[11][12] Glouftsis was also added to the AFL umpires rookie list as a field umpire at the beginning of the 2015 season, and trained with a dedicated coach within the AFL umpires group.[13]

After officiating in two intra-club matches in the 2016 AFL pre-season, involving St Kilda and Essendon,[14] she was appointed to her first AFL sanctioned match after what were described as "strong performances" by the AFL's National Umpiring Director, Wayne Campbell.[11]

So one season and a bit in the SANFL and 12 VFL games.

 

[wakojako]

100%. Plenty rated him higher than Erasmus, including me. We'd have been crazy to pass. I thought pre-draft he could win the Rising Star this year (over JHF and Daicos who I rate immensely). My reasoning was that Rachele is (and always has been) a game winner, as he almost proved on debut against us.

But it was never likely he'd last to us, so I'm more than happy with the WA trio despite none of them impacting so immediately.

Don't make me sad, I always wanted him. He is a bit of a flight risk though.

 

[Madas]

From Wikipedia

Glouftsis commenced umpiring in 2008 with the North Eastern Metro Junior Football Association in Adelaide, South Australia,[9] before commencing to umpire in the South Australian National Football League, umpiring her first senior SANFL match in August 2013,[3] being the first female to officiate as a field umpire in a SANFL match.[10]

She then moved to Melbourne on a three-year AFL Female Pathway scholarship at the end of 2014, where she umpired in 12 Victorian Football League matches during the 2015 VFL season, umpiring her first VFL match in June of that year.[11][12] Glouftsis was also added to the AFL umpires rookie list as a field umpire at the beginning of the 2015 season, and trained with a dedicated coach within the AFL umpires group.[13]

After officiating in two intra-club matches in the 2016 AFL pre-season, involving St Kilda and Essendon,[14] she was appointed to her first AFL sanctioned match after what were described as "strong performances" by the AFL's National Umpiring Director, Wayne Campbell.[11]

So one season and a bit in the SANFL and 12 VFL games.

Interesting , thanks

I would have thought an umpire would have to do at least 10 years of seconds umpiring before they have a crack at the big league?

Are there minimum standards that anyone is aware of ?
Surely even someone who has a gift for adjudicating our game would need many years of exposure to player and supporter noise along with pressures of doing it week in week out before they had the confidence to make a fool of themselves in front of millions of people ?

 

[Bring back Drum]

Time to move on from the Umpiring, yes it was poor, but we were worse with our intensity after half time, not to mention the game should have been over at half time except for our ordinary goal kicking again.

 

[Purple Suit]

Time to move on from the Umpiring, yes it was poor, but we were worse with our intensity after half time, not to mention the game should have been over at half time except for our ordinary goal kicking again.

Time to move on about our goal kicking, yes it was poor, but the umpiring was worse after have time, not to mention we actually won the game with our exceptional young talent again.