Autopsy Roast, toast vs Sydney and changes for Port Adelaide in two weeks

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This one burns being in a good position but ultimately succumbed to our mistakes. We are our own worst enemies trying to play too cute especially in our back half. Time and time again we kick the ball back and turn it over. We still haven't learnt that touching a player after they dispose of the ball is a downfield free kick but week in week out we do the same ducking thing.
 
Off the top of my head 4 goals that we gave up that we really could've avoided. Nank stupidly giving away the down the field free at the end of the 3qtr, Gibcus kick backwards and missing Baker who then under-pressure handballs to Rioli who also under-pressure slips and the Swans walk it in, Tarrant uncontested going the fist instead of marking and completely missing the ball, Swans walk it in for a goal and finally the Hayward mark (dropped) on the line where he poked it through despite 2 Tigers going up with him and unable to kill the ball. Now it is still too simplistic to say we don't concede those and we hang on, because you don't know what happens if behinds are scored instead. Could be turnovers from the kick-ins etc.

Plenty of people going on about the final play but there are 4 goals that we really shouldn't concede. Okay you may concede 2 of them because errors happen but to give up all 4 is poor and cost us ultimately.

Our 3qtr cost us, and specifically the 2nd half of the 3qtr we where 5 goals up and peppered them with I50's but couldn't punish them. Swans then get a run (with some assistance from the above incidents) and they are back.

I honestly thought we did well to turn the final term into an arm wrestle, when it felt like the Swans would overrun us. Never the less still a disappointing loss, especially with the 33 point lead, I'm sure the players will hate to sit with the result for the next 2 weeks until we play again.
 
dimma lost at selection table again

gibcus on franklin and he wont be moved off all game fmd :drunk:

remove this howler and we win easily

What were you saying at HT? Buddy had 3 touches, 1 goal and we were up by 5 goals. Unfortunately we coughed up 5 goals from free kicks and Bolton/Nank/Grimes gave away goals from Ill-discipline. That cost us the game, not Gibcus on Buddy.


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Someone else summed it up, I was nervous at half time cause we were actually getting all the frees that were there and we led the count and, outside of the absolute atrocity that was the Sam Reid free kick in the first minute (nearly threw up my Sandy Supreme pizza), we were getting a fair go. I knew it’d get evened up. I couldn’t watch the second half but apparently bad footy and even worse umpiring equals Richmond loss. Figures.


Someone please help me, I can’t quite put it into words… You know that feeling when you see free kicks like the Reid one, and the gif I just saw of the Rioli nudge, and the non 50 to Prestia, and you just HATE footy and what the rules have done to the game, and especially how it always seems to be Richmond that cops the worst of it? That absolute almost sickening rage in the throat that makes me wanna yell and never watch footy again. That simultaneously makes me think stupid things like wanting to try and become the umpiring boss and fix this absolutely ruined sport?! I hate it so much but I keep coming back week after week.

Someone help me, what is it that’s wrong with me?
 

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Roast
- Dima stubborn as a mule, I knew Soldo wasn’t up to it, needed Cumberland

- Dimas coaching, refusing to adjust after Longmire clearly changed their game plan after half time
Get a man on the spare Mills ffs

- undisciplined unnecessary free kicks and 50’s especially from our leaders cost

- disgraceful kicking all game, so many unforced errors, goals left on the table

- bottom 4 players cannot handle greasy conditions at all, liability stuff
 
Let me tell you now Sydney did not win this game we LOST IT

Nankervis gives away a goal in the last 12 secs of the 3rd qtr. terrible clumsy play. Undisciplined

But if I had to point out why we lost the game, Gibcus on buddy cost us, Hardwick that's terrible coaching, being too cute, sorry but you can't put an 8 gamer on buddy who kicked 4 goals on him.

No it didn't. Gibcus on Buddy worked for 2 and a half quarters as buddy couldn't get near it. What hurt was the silly free kicks that gave momentum and the easy clearances after goals. Had we been able to control the game like we did in the second and parts of the 4th, Buddy got nowhere near it.

Gibcus on Buddy was not why it was lost.
 

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