AFL Autopsy RND3: Beaten by the Saints

[ghostdog]

Just a really patchy effort across the game today. Saints were more consistent and killed us in the air. They wanted it more and deserved to win.

Absolutely killed us in the air.

 

[naraku]

Are we the only side that nearly always loses milestone game's be it our 150th or a players?

9.4 to 10.7 after quarter time. That start bit us in the ass so hard.

I guess a positive again is after that first quarter, we would of rolled over by 10 goals or more in recent years.

 

[Goat Hird]

Not having 2MP is killing us. We're clueless who to kick it to. Jones has been disappointing.

 

[BomberTime]

Key forwards who can’t get involved and goal less. If Voss plays well tomorrow it will be hard to deny him much longer.

That’s Redman’s worst game in a long time, big part of why we started so poorly.

Heppell…. Great servant to the club but he’s done. They have to drop him, we can’t be held hostage by his reputation.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Great game thanks
Best of luck for the rest of the season.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

That would have been more fun if Essendon won

 

[jannissary]

i think the important takeaways is that when we needed them to caldwell really stood up, and ridley is consistently in our best 5.

heps is the biggest worry & i think that's extremely worrying for us currently.

 

[citizen-erased]

So
Lav -> zerk
Hepp -> hobbs
Jones -> voss
Weid -> flip

Mason does that again and id remind him hbf is where we slide players into the 22 who don't have a spot

 

[carloss]

How do we get out of this? Not like we can draft our way out of it.........

 

[biglaycock]

- Jones & Weid were non competetive, not completely willing to give up on Jones but for now they are VFL standard.

- Saints small forwards killed McGrath, Mass and Redman who had an absolute shocker

- saints more willing to get their hands dirty all over the ground, they attacked each contest whereas we tended to hold back guarding space.

- Laverde can’t hit the side of a barn

- Hepp, enough has been said by others

 

[ghostdog]

It felt like we were defensively better for a lot of that game. Not sure where the momentum swing halfway through the last quarter came from but we shit the bed.

Hope Alwyn's okay. Maybe concussion protocols? ...or just his jaw?

 

[TheWeapon]

Got jumped in the first quarter and spent too many petrol tickets with a young side trying to drag the margin back
Saints were really motivated with the 150 celebration compared to us but we should have been ready for them at the start
Some positive signs after Q1 to be honest, key position stocks will need upgrading to improve the group going forward
Heppell again is the elephant in the room, so many terrible clangers and often got played through on opposition transition

 

[Bjchan13]

We could've and i feel should've won that. Credit to Saints though hanging in there when we had momentum and then making the most of their opportunities. Not too unhappy with how we went about it as a whole. We seemed to pay a heavy price for any mistake tonight but they took the game on and did plenty right. The bad that stood out. Redmans worst game of his career by a long long way. Laverde and Heppell had shockers. Heppell obviously well past it, its sad to watch.

 

[MightyDon]

Oh and Harrison Jones might not make it; Langford is a forward; and Stringer is not close to being match fit.

The number one draft pick is a bigger concern than Jones

 

[Lore]

I thought it was going to be a real low-scoring grind ending in a loss, and by quarter time I thought I'd over-estimated us even with those low expectations. The way it turned out was at least entertaining, exceeded expectations.

 

[Cold Sober]

We weren't at our best but, it was a bounce of the ball game that didn.t change

 

[citizen-erased]

That would have been more fun if Essendon won

Eh, this way the saints can release a dvd

 

[Runk]

I said last week out slow starts would hurt us and we could not afford to do it today. Well….

That said I’m so glad we fought hard and worked our way back.

Same concerns with Heppell. That said
Jake Kelly

29

Jake Kelly

Age

30

Ht

190cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.5

4star

K

8.3

3star

HB

6.3

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.6

4star

MG

157.8

2star

D

8.1

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.6

4star

MG

104.1

2star

D

14.8

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.2

5star

MG

107.0

2star

played his best game for us tonight.

 

[horj89]

Bar the first quarter I thought we were pretty good.

Their pressure certainly lifted around the footy when we drew level in the last. We won first possession on several occasions at the stoppage and charged forward but they either smothered or caused a fumble and just a ran away with it.

Plenty to work on but still plenty to like.

 

[The Donners]

Next week could potentially be our last win (if we win) until round 11 against the Eagles in Perth.

 

[Highly Evolved]

A few too many passengers tonight. To have the scores tied and then fall back by 30 points so quickly was really disappointing.

It's very hard to get a read of where either the Bombers or Saints are - I am not sure either team has played top quality opposition yet.

 

[eth-dog]

Credit to the Saints. Whenever we challenged they responded.

Some really frustrating aspects tonight. To be expected with a young side but still. Something to build on.

 

[Chief Hopper]

So close, yet so far away.
Heppel needs time in the 2s, afl looks past him.
Phillips should've played, Weidman couldn't ruck.
Redman costing multiple 50m penalties is amateur level stuff.
Still, after all that, we almost pulled it off.

 

[ghostdog]

i think the important takeaways is that when we needed them to caldwell really stood up, and ridley is consistently in our best 5.

heps is the biggest worry & i think that's extremely worrying for us currently.

Ridley is so reliable 99% of the time. Turned it over at a couple of crucial moments tonight though.

 

[citizen-erased]

How do we get out of this? Not like we can draft our way out of it.........

Patience

Essendon of last year goes down by 10 goals plus. We drew it level

We need to work on creating space then using it in the fwd line.