Autopsy Round 12, 2024: Positives and Negatives vs St Kilda
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The more I think back on Gaff's game the better I think it was. He was clean when receiving awkward half volleys and his disposal given the situations he was in was pretty good.
He was down back helping out a fair bit it seemed and positioned himself nicely. Surprised he got credited with 0 tackles because I thought he had some on the wing in the last. Took some hits as well.
He came in and got 21 touches and a goal. So how do we get our other wingers to get the ball as much?
He's not a long term solution, but if he does get 20+ next week as well, what can the other players do to copy him? (Edwards, Hunt, Chesser etc)
Interesting he played 84% TOG when he'd normally be +95%
He was down back helping out a fair bit it seemed and positioned himself nicely. Surprised he got credited with 0 tackles because I thought he had some on the wing in the last. Took some hits as well.
He came in and got 21 touches and a goal. So how do we get our other wingers to get the ball as much?
He's not a long term solution, but if he does get 20+ next week as well, what can the other players do to copy him? (Edwards, Hunt, Chesser etc)
Interesting he played 84% TOG when he'd normally be +95%
I do not rate Williams in center ruck at all. He plays as a midfielder in there.
Everytime he gets a tap he grabs it and boots it in the f50.
3 plodders in Sheed, Gaff and Trew was always going to work so well.
Last quarter vision is damning.
1000 times better than that spid jamieson
match committee on crack
Umpiring was incredibly frustrating both ways.
HTB, hands in the back, high contact and holding off the ball all varied wildly throughout.
Having a 4th umpire only seems to result in providing a greater variance of interpretation during the match.
Think it's time Simpson speaks out about what is holding the man around stoppage as well. Windhager was allowed to pull at, and hold back Reid throughout the entire second half without a single free kick being paid against him.
If N.Daicos received the same treatment, he'd be getting frees all over the place. Time to highlight that and call out the double standard that is currently being received by the club in the middle.
HTB, hands in the back, high contact and holding off the ball all varied wildly throughout.
Having a 4th umpire only seems to result in providing a greater variance of interpretation during the match.
Think it's time Simpson speaks out about what is holding the man around stoppage as well. Windhager was allowed to pull at, and hold back Reid throughout the entire second half without a single free kick being paid against him.
If N.Daicos received the same treatment, he'd be getting frees all over the place. Time to highlight that and call out the double standard that is currently being received by the club in the middle.
Darling just gets muscled out of the contest and then looks for the umpire to have a whinge, while the opposition run away with it. Rinse repeat.
- Reid needs to learn to shut up when it comes to the umps and stop playing for frees or he's going to have a bloody hard time of it. He just doesn't need to.
We're seeing that they're already trying to take him down a peg or two with minimal legit frees for, and soft frees against.
We're seeing that they're already trying to take him down a peg or two with minimal legit frees for, and soft frees against.
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The problem is, who plays instead of them? Culley, Hall and ??? None of them are quick either
Gaff & Sheed are getting games because there’s no one else who’s really playing WAFL that’s ready & would have made much difference to the result. It’s just first & second year kids.
The outs for the week really messed with the structures. Waterman was a massive loss & then you have the fact that Flynn was back so we where working out how to best to use him & B.Williams.
Really not sure why there’s so much melting about selections & Simmo.
The outs for the week really messed with the structures. Waterman was a massive loss & then you have the fact that Flynn was back so we where working out how to best to use him & B.Williams.
Really not sure why there’s so much melting about selections & Simmo.
If cripps and fyfe get let off woth fines and go on to win a brownlow in their respective years then reid.should get.off.
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First half yeah, what happened to them both in 4th quarter? Why couldn't the midfield win a clearance in 4th quarter Simpson?
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Speed isn't everything.
Jones, Petruccelle and Chesser have a decent amount of it and none of them did much with it.
Although I agree they shouldn't all play in the middle, Gaff was kept to the wing and the centre bounce usually had Yeo, Ginbey, Reid or Sheed.
We forget that Gaff is a player that averaged 30 touches for like five seasons in a row. He has always been elite at finding the ball. He SHOULD still be better than guys like chesser. Hunt just isnt the same level of player.
You dont have to get touches to apply pressure tho. You need speed to apply pressure.
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+ Ryan starting to slowly look like his old self
+Flynn looked comfortable, if not amazing, out there. Will only get better.
+I actually thought sheed did pretty well today
+Gov and Barass....as always....that spear tackle was awesome to see up close
-just really poor when the ball was on the deck, nobody using their iq
-saints waltzed it out of our forward line very easily on many occasions
-seem to always commit one player too many to contact which allows an overlap for the saints and they take full advantage
-im not one to blame the umps, usually I blame our boys first, but fmd.....in the last quarter the umpiring was unhinged, st.kilda got away with at very least half a dozen drops and throws....amongst other dodgy call or non calls
Norf next week, surely we get up there......surely
+Flynn looked comfortable, if not amazing, out there. Will only get better.
+I actually thought sheed did pretty well today
+Gov and Barass....as always....that spear tackle was awesome to see up close
-just really poor when the ball was on the deck, nobody using their iq
-saints waltzed it out of our forward line very easily on many occasions
-seem to always commit one player too many to contact which allows an overlap for the saints and they take full advantage
-im not one to blame the umps, usually I blame our boys first, but fmd.....in the last quarter the umpiring was unhinged, st.kilda got away with at very least half a dozen drops and throws....amongst other dodgy call or non calls
Norf next week, surely we get up there......surely
The only way first and second year players get better is by playing AFL. Harvey played well in his limited minutes at AFL level and should have been given more opportunity. Dewar did well at AFL level with his limited minutes.
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St Kilda are a boring team to watch.
How do their supporters do it every week ?
How do their supporters do it every week ?
Grim game in plenty of ways. I hate watching Saints games as a neutral fan and that was a good reminder of why.
Ginbey big positive - keeps building and was genuinely good today.
So good to have Ryan back.
Flynn clearly underdone but good to get that incorporation started.
Gaff was pretty good especially in the first half. Sheed similar. Should they have been playing? Maybe not, but can see why they did with Kelly out which I'm guessing was known before Thursday.
Hope we ask the question of the umpiring department about Harley's treatment with the tag. Was way over the line at times and we need to put it on the radar to at least get umps looking at it at least before it becomes the go to against him.
Ginbey big positive - keeps building and was genuinely good today.
So good to have Ryan back.
Flynn clearly underdone but good to get that incorporation started.
Gaff was pretty good especially in the first half. Sheed similar. Should they have been playing? Maybe not, but can see why they did with Kelly out which I'm guessing was known before Thursday.
Hope we ask the question of the umpiring department about Harley's treatment with the tag. Was way over the line at times and we need to put it on the radar to at least get umps looking at it at least before it becomes the go to against him.
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