AFL Autopsy RND 12: Loss To The Suns

[Cold Sober]

Disappointing, beat ourselves, bad umpiring didn't help. Execution into our forward line was shocking.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Pretty poor performance, but youll take the fact that they are pretty good outfit on their home deck and are close to full strength (witts, weller and powell) while we are more hampered by injury and still only lost due to our own errors in front of goal.

 

[Beerfish]

Walters will be a beast.

Beerfish, can we **** Rich the babe Evans off?

It's already happened.

And some other idiot too.

 

[Loonerty]

Anyone still questioning Parish's importance to this team should genuinely be banned from the site.

 

[brutus76]

Goalkicking Demons today - but at least we weren't the actual real Demons team today

 

[ghostdog]

Disappointing, beat ourselves, bad umpiring didn't help. Execution into our forward line was shocking.

Neat and accurate summary.

 

[Darealrath]

Can't question the effort, just the execution.

 

[MiguelM]

Nah I say we lost because of Collins and Mac Andrews (in the first half). Blanketed our forwards and destroyed us on the counter.

I don't think Gold Coast kicked a goal from stoppage until the last quarter. All from turnovers.

I think at one stage their whole score (8 goals 4) was from turnovers. Andrew controlled the rebounds off our bad kicks. He is going to be something. Our kicking efficiency was around 57% in the first. Just not good enough.

We need to learn to put on scoreboard pressure when we have the game on our terms. Should have been 4-5 infront at quarter time.

That we didn't lose by lots is a credit to the players but Turnovers killed our momentumn.

 

[mxett]

Please don't complain about the umps, we got three gifts that got us close.

exactly. We lost it off our boots, and with some terrible decision making and skills. Full credit to the suns, they were harder at the ball too

 

[Jobe Watson]

Anyone still questioning Parish's importance to this team should genuinely be banned from the site.

Contrary to popular belief on here, taking one of the best clearance mids in the league out of your midfield doesn't actually make your midfield better.

 

[FootyGuru]

Anyone still questioning Parish's importance to this team should genuinely be banned from the site.

I’d argue setterfeild was missing more, we won cb and that’s parish’s best asset. Setterfeild may have held a few more tackles on Anderson or Rowell, instead of them getting their hands free. Tackling is parish’s weakest asset. I’d personally love them both in the side though.

 

[Keystone agony]

Pretty happy with the performance

Won alot of key areas

Pretty off Bryan now, great fantasy ruck but thats about it

 

[horj89]

Probably in the minority but I thought that was alright. Big tick for the defensive structure, pressure, tackling and ball movement just let ourselves down inside 50. Plenty to work with going forward.

 

[TheBrightSide]

Still in 2nd spot, Collingwood kicked out of the 8, not all bad.
Frustrating loss but hopefully the boys take it out on Carlton next Sunday night.

 

[Zach Package]

Suns are a radically different beast at home, we probably beat them pretty comfortably at home under the roof.

I’m far more concerned about the fact that at night, under the lights when the ball gets a bit greasy we are basically cactus

 

[Nicholas61]

You knew when Rowell or Andrew got it no matter how little time they had they seemed to find someone that ended in a forward entry. Their players looked set up for the hack forward too. They looked so much more dangerous with their forward entries in general. Ours felt like it was going straight to their defenders advantage 70% of the time. A year or two ago that would have ended in a belting so that ability to stick in the contest a positive.

 

[dank420_]

Stringer, Langford, Gresham, Wright all goalless.

Not good enough from our best forwards

Wright kicked a goal and was pretty good I thought.

 

[Happyskeret]

My take. I think Brad has had the fowards functioning the best in years with isolating our forward mids (Langers and Stringer) who have been on the end of some big scoring chains. Wright and Jones has been able to drag best defenders off them!

Today our leading goal kickers got the best defenders and on top of that they (GC) clogged our forward half with extra numbers. The only way we were going to get through that was if our big men (Wright snd Jones) were able to take contested marks in our forward line.

This conundrum was compounded by the fact our two best rucks in Drapes and Goldy did not play in regards to nullifying aerial threats in our forward 50. The end.

 

[yodellinhank]

Pretty happy with the performance

Won alot of key areas

Pretty off Bryan now, great fantasy ruck but thats about it

In my fantasies Visentini rucks, and dominates up forward too.

 

[FootyGuru]

Pretty happy with the performance

Won alot of key areas

Pretty off Bryan now, great fantasy ruck but thats about it

This is who Bryan is and has always been. He’s a great athlete and his follow up work is very good. He will get quicks hands out and get foot the ball in stoppages. Tap work is probably already afl level. Unfortunately he doesn’t have any presence in the air or really much physicality on the ground. When he isnt in the ruck has to also be off the ground because he has no effect up forward.

I thought he played pretty well, bar that fumble that cost us a goal.

I don’t know whether he is the kind of ruckman Scott likes though, especially considering he basically needs to ruck solo to be effective.

 

[Phone]

I think at one stage their whole score (8 goals 4) was from turnovers. Andrew controlled the rebounds off our bad kicks. He is going to be something. Our kicking efficiency was around 57% in the first. Just not good enough.

We need to learn to put on scoreboard pressure when we have the game on our terms. Should have been 4-5 infront at quarter time.

That we didn't lose by lots is a credit to the players but Turnovers killed our momentumn.

yeah but so were ours. no screenshot because kayo sucks, but with 15 to go in the third, when the score was 52 to 32, all 52 of their points were classed as turnover and 29 of our points was classed as turnover.

if free-kicks given away still count as turn-overs for the purposes of score source, i dare say many teams this week had more of their points scored via turnover due to the HTB change

 

[Happyskeret]

This is who Bryan is and has always been. He’s a great athlete and his follow up work is very good. He will get quicks hands out and get foot the ball in stoppages. Tap work is probably already afl level. Unfortunately he doesn’t have any presence in the air or really much physicality on the ground. When he isnt in the ruck has to also be off the ground because he has no effect up forward.

I thought he played pretty well, bar that fumble that cost us a goal.

I don’t know whether he is the kind of ruckman Scott likes though, especially considering he basically needs to ruck solo to be effective.

I thought he played pretty well too but he was pretty ineffectual due to his lack of aerial ability in the context of the game.

 

[gillon]

People really expected Bryan to put up his VFL stats just because he was playing another young ruck. Give him some time. He had more disposals in the first half than Draper has had all year. He had more tackles than Draper had all year.

 

[bommer16]

Bry will get there.

 

[Keystone agony]

This is who Bryan is and has always been. He’s a great athlete and his follow up work is very good. He will get quicks hands out and get foot the ball in stoppages. Tap work is probably already afl level. Unfortunately he doesn’t have any presence in the air or really much physicality on the ground. When he isnt in the ruck has to also be off the ground because he has no effect up forward.

I thought he played pretty well, bar that fumble that cost us a goal.

I don’t know whether he is the kind of ruckman Scott likes though, especially considering he basically needs to ruck solo to be effective.

Hes a poor to avg athlete. TDK, LJackson and B.Williams are good-great athletes for that size

I havnt seen him much as i dont watch a heap of vfl

I think its an over reaction as per usual