Autopsy Roast & toast vs Melbourne and changes for round 21 vs Western Bulldogs

[beema limapep]

Umps corrupt.

But a few of our older guys are done. I'm looking at you Grimes there I said it.

 

[mctiger33]

Today was story of our year. Not good enough against the top 4-5 teams, tried but can’t go the 4 quarters. Cotch and Jack are cooked and will retire, reckon Grimes would be gone also if they held off on offering another year, can’t be captain next year as unlikely in best 22. Desperately miss Lynch, need to see some games put into Bauer and Brown now.

 

[59Stanley]

No one sugar coat that. It was a poor effort by us, full of simple errors that should not be made in the afl and just stupidity utter stupidity.
It was embarrassing

 

[voorhees]

dropping our heads in the final quarter..huge disappointment
the umpiring for our games is beyond a joke now..lodge a complaint for the love of God!!!!

 

[Rubber Hips]

Season over


not sad…just frustrated


could have been different

 

[Lsta062]

Something that stuck out is that our midfield is still ordinary. Taranto and Hopper are not enough. Is the problem strength/fitness, is it personnel, or is it both? I think it’s a mix of both.

I really don’t know what we should do about it in the off-season because our current VFL midfielders are probably not going to bridge the gap in the next two weeks. We don’t really have any explosive and strong-bodies midfielders among them. The difficult thing is that our forward line needs attention first, so we may need to wait until the following off-season before we can address this.

 

[fargothegreat]

I would have left miller in and subbed out grimes

Cotchin was the obvious one for me, but they don't have the balls.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Cant fit a guy who kick 6 in vfl last week into this stellar forwardline?

Our offense is nearly 100% reliant on individual pieces of brilliance. We haven't got a single player in our forward half that can take a contested grab outside of JR and he's going at about 30%.

 

[SplintWhisky]

That was a loss that all comes down to Nank. Don't do something silly and we will probably get closer in that game.

Though to be honest, we are showing that we are only really a key forward away from really competing and challenging.

 

[Rubber Hips]

soldo as actually good for most of the game…couldn’t sustain it for the whole match

i prefer Soldo over Nank

 

[krustyman]

they were playing well up to the point the dees were gifted a few freebies and brain fades, despite a fragile backline

 

[Muddiemoose]

Not angry just disappointed

Had some fantastic highs in that game it’s a shame we shit the bed on the last & on multiple fronts
Coaching and players all share the blame in that one

 

[Antzzz]

We gave it our all ......this game was turned on its head with that 3 mins of just diabolical umpiring when we were 20 points up ......after that it was s no lube job .....I hate blaming umpires but AFL have destroyed this game with farcical rule changes and interpretations that has 4 umpires having different opinions on what a free kick is .......it's so frustrating to watch...and I mean all games not just ours ......I'm proud of the boys today .....but the arse sucking of the AFL from commentators and the media is putrid......just ask Mick Warner ......anyway that's my take !

 

[fargothegreat]

Grimes has really dropped off badly this year. Bit concerned we're going to be carrying him next year the same way we carried Shedda last year and Cotch (and Jack if we didn't have 0 key forwards) this year.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Something that stuck out is that our midfield is still ordinary. Taranto and Hopper are not enough. Is the problem strength/fitness, is it personnel, or is it both? I think it’s a mix of both.

I really don’t know what we should do about it in the off-season because our current VFL midfielders are probably not going to bridge the gap in the next two weeks. We don’t really have any explosive and strong-bodies midfielders among them. The difficult thing is that our forward line needs attention first, so we may need to wait until the following off-season before we can address this.

They've clearly made Hopper slim down and become more outside. He's not that player. Needs to get to GWS size and get back to being a ball winning beast.

 

[beema limapep]

Jack Graham

34

Jack Graham

Age

26

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.7

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

6.8

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

6.3

5star

CL

1.8

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

4.2

5star

CL

1.2

4star

D

14.0

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

8.0

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

7.0

5star

CL

3.2

5star

17 of the least damaging possessions in afl history. And going 52% DE.

 

[Coach_Required]

12.5 to 4.1 after we got out to a 20 point lead the 1st time.
I was so pissed off at the umpires today but I don't expect anything different, started with 50 metre penalties then went to bullshit holding the ball free kicks. To the dickhead commentators on top I had to turn the sound off and stew in my own vomit.
AFL can get ****ed.

 

[DustinsGuns]

Couldn't believe we went unchanged after last weeks insipid performance for 3/4. Reap what you sew.

 

[cairo tiger]

backline shite themselves. bring in brown. balta and grimes no connection. grimes should retire. we had it we blew it. maggots were appalling. get full games into cumbo and couldhartd.

 

[tigers12]

some dogs spud is surely going to kick a bag or 2 against the tigers backline

Ugle hagan

 

[RichmondEshays]

The result makes it seem more doom and gloom then what it is. Petty and Melksham are shit players who kicked accurately, Van Rooyan is also a good youngster who kicked well. For the larger part of the game we were playing great footy. When petty kicked at the end we were clearly demoralized at how easy they were scoring from entries i50. If Taranto could evade space and kick he would be the best player in the comp too

 

[Coach_Required]

Jack Graham 17 of the least damaging possessions in afl history. And going 52% DE.

He was back to his running as fast as he could on the spot self. He sucked too

 

[beema limapep]

Cotchin needs to call it a day. 9 touches and only 4 hit a target. 5 out of his 7 kicks didn't.

 

[Armitage Shanks]

Grimes is no longer up to standard and has been on the decline for the past 12 months.

 

[prodigy]

Melbourne were very good.
We had no answer to Gawn and I dont think we have one on our list. When he gets up and going he feels impossible to stop.

When picking the best 5, I thought it would be easy. But after, Soldo, Martin, Bolton and Pickett it was tough to find the next best.
I couldn't give the backline a vote considering how heavily their forwards hit the scoreboard.
Ended up landing on Mansell but that pretty much tells us too much was left up to too few.

Contrary to the OP, our finals equation doesn't change much. Win one of Bulldogs and Port and then win the rest will likely see us make it.