Autopsy Rd 10 v Saints. Not good enough when it counted.

[Macca43]

Anyone questioning why Kennedy was held back because he wasn’t spreading from the contest well enough needs to contrast his first quarter with his last 3.

7 possessions in the first, 9 in the next 3

 

[Sharks On A Plane]

What did we make of Kennedy?

Seemed to start well then went unsighted for long periods.

Thought he was okay, jury definitely still out.

 

[BlueTongue]

Ok, I'm gonna cop it for this, but i just cannot see Weitering being anymore than a depth player for us. He needs to be traded whilst he still has some currency. When in front, he is a good reader of the play and intercept mark.
However, he is just so slow, gets caught behind 20m away from the play way too often. When he manages to stay with his man, he scraggles and holds on way too much and is penalised nearly every time. Casboult did better in one game than he has done all year.

 

[Mr_Plow]

Im not one to pot players normally but if charlie isnt playing vfl next week the match committee should all be sacked.

??????????????

 

[rog1995]

We need change. This can't be tolerated any more. Sick of mediocrity.

 

[PrendersBigEngine]

Weak as pi55. 4 years in to the rebuild and we cant get over the line against a side that is decimated with key players. Especially given on the back of such a pathetic perfornance last week. Line was in sand and we just had a token look at it. Pathetic.

 

[Macca43]

I thought okay for first game back. 16 disposals at 81% efficiency in a 50% contested game, 3 clearances. Maybe working his way back into the tempo considering it is his first game at the level for the year.

Great in the first average for the rest, needs to work harder outside the contest

 

[Aphrodite]

Can someone please just ring Paul Roos and ask him what his doing next year and also his friends.

No thanks.

 

[rog1995]

Ok, I'm gonna cop it for this, but i just cannot see Weitering being anymore than a depth player for us. He needs to be traded whilst he still has some currency. When in front, he is a good reader of the play and intercept mark.
However, he is just so slow, gets caught behind 20m away from the play way too often. When he manages to stay with his man, he scraggles and holds on way too much and is penalised nearly every time. Casboult did better in one game than he has done all year.

So I agree. It's a very average 1 on 1 defender. As is Marchbank.

 

[Drexl 31]

Well that was enjoyable. The CFC ruining 60% of my weekends for nearly 20 years. Take me back to when we were good. I miss being good. I’m over being bad.

C Curnow building

Cripps and then daylight as usual.

Walsh had an alright game

Fish was stinky

SPS will never play a worse game.

JSOS tries his guts put

Levi in our top 5 today

Cuners with flashes of brilliance and stupidity like much of the squad, we are playing under immense pressure and it shows

Ed C playing as a mid, who would’ve thunk it

Bolton was playing for the win today, not this green shoot bullshizen.

Came home hard.

Umpiring was deplorable but as we are under pressure we make more mistakes, we do it to ourselves.

Kerr has had a couple good games in a row, should come in for Gov.

Lang, Fasolo and not a heap else coming through unfortunately.

Need Jones back.

We need to learn how to win.

Don’t like St Kilda, we are their bitches. We are everyone’s bitches.

Flat af right now. But the losers mentality is creeping into my overly positive self.

Really needed that win.

Great post.

 

[macca_74]

Getting stuck into Dow or SPS or anyone else isnt going to achieve a thing. The guys can play. ALl of them pout there today can play. But they arent playing well.
Why is the thing that needs figuring out.
In my opinion that is the only real thing a coach controls. Getting them in form and most of that is mental.
And not playing them when they arent in form.
Basic stuff forever.

I agree to a point but part of getting players to play well consistently is providing good direction, structures etc. A young team will always make mistakes but that will be amplified if not coached well. Motivational speeches will only take you so far particularly with a young team.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

It would be interesting to see how many centre bounces he attended. Really should be in there 80% of the time instead of Dow, SPS and Fisher.

Dow has some obvious issues to work on, might be time for a run in the early game next week.

Heard somewhere they think Kennedy is too similar to Cripps, but watching that first quarter, it freed up Cripps to run forward with the pill, and he’s damaging when he’s going forward, with Kennedy behind him, taking up the slack.

 

[LanceRomance]

Barrel of laughs in here. Seriously though, if we learn to tackle properly (and this will come with bigger bodies) we can expect to get more free kicks and give away less with the holding the ball rule.

If your hypothesis is true we would have led the free kick count at half time.

 

[rampar]

yes saw that also....hes looking deflated,poor guy.

Obviously dawned on him that they all were bullshitting straight to his face during that fateful meeting last week.

 

[RAPPA]

If/when Cripps stops caring, we are even more ******.

Wouldn't mind just ending the season now and coming back next year, hopefully with Docherty there to ease some of his pain.

I’d like to see Doc back this year. Not just to see him play but to also give some on field support to Crippa

 

[Blue and Blue]

I agree to a point but part of getting players to play well consistently is providing good direction, structures etc. A young team will always make mistakes but that will be amplified if not coached well. Motivational speeches will only take you so far particularly with a young team.

Not speeches no. Its about demanding from the individual and knowing what buttons to press.

 

[BlueTongue]

No thanks.

Seriously? If he was available, I'd take him any day of the week over our current coach.

 

[PP34]

Plowman is the worst player in the AFL who gets a regular game.

His decision making is possibly the worst I've ever seen.

Down by 13 points with no time left, chips short to the pocket. I mean, really?

Please drop him.

Defenders of him constantly talk up his ball has. The only reason his stats ever look good is because of the amount of sideways kicks he does.

Rarely takes risks because he can’t and messes up.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

No thanks.

Director of Coaching.

 

[jackn]

Im not one to pot players normally but if charlie isnt playing vfl next week the match committee should all be sacked.

Seriously? We had so many far worse than charlie. He was actually pretty decent.

 

[Arr0w]

He set up down the line at the end of the first quarter, we continued to kick it to the set up sainters down the line when blind freddy could see we needed to run it out of defense through the guts

All while we were missing 15 metre targets?

 

[Macca43]

Im not one to pot players normally but if charlie isnt playing vfl next week the match committee should all be sacked.

Seriously? 16 possessions, 6 marks and 2 goals and he is the player you pick to be dropped?

 

[windows1]

That's just crap. The coach has a massive input on structures.

I agree. But more than structures - it really looks to me like they don’t believe. They are absolutely devoid of spirit in my view. That manufactured fight today was pathetic. It looked like ‘oh yeah Bolton said we should run in so...ok here I am (said with casual voice) running in now.

The backmen don’t look desperate to me. Put Jack back there and stop ****ing around. Like just stop it. How many times guys just stand alone and mark in our forward line. Are they confused? What are you thinking????????????

I’m bewildered. I really am. How does this not happen: “they have the ball, best I look around and check. Oh shit, there’s a Saints forward. Ok I’ll get over there. Fast.

Just be desperate. Why not be desperate? So many look like going through the motions. Simmo looked like he couldn’t be bothered in the third. At half time the camera in the rooms was on Weiters and he looked disinterested while the assistant coach was talking to him.

Like, there’s ‘trying’......and then there’s BEING ****ING DESPERATE.

Ok season hasn’t gone your way. SO WHAT? Burn for the club! Burst yourself!!!! Where’s your pride in your performance Sammo? Dow? Where is it?

 

[Arr0w]

We’re you a politician from the ages of 23-27?

Facts are hard to swallow aren't they, especially when emotions run high

 

[HBF]

Was in Perth listening on the radio to 3aw. We got Benn Hill music from them FFS

And deserved it.