Review Round 12 = Collingwood 82-100 Western Bulldogs

[Soaring Magpie]

can’t win games when when you don’t play any offense in a last quarter. 2 weeks in a row it’s lost us the game and we got lucky against the crows.
That’s on the coaches, it’s clearly instructed and it needs to change.

 

[CheckerTrade666]

I Want to go on about the last quarter, but in reality we were absolutely cooked, give us another 30 minutes and we wouldn’t get a goal.

Should’ve been close to 30 points up in the first quarter, at least we would’ve had a handy lead to sort of maintain with.

Think this was also the first game where our inexperienced players looked out of depth. There’s no doubt the injuries are not helping.

Not an awful performance, but definitely frustrating and winnable. Top 4 is gonna be tough with our current injury list.

 

[anshell]

Injuries killed us,no doubt about it.How the hell are you supposed to win games when you’ve got absolutely no forward structure,and half your midfield out,including champions like Pendlebury and Degoey?

 

[Truthy7]

Lost in the coaches box. Completely stifled our ball movement in the last qtr and we had no answer. Even more disappointing that Dogs had a man down and we still couldn't play the minutes.

 

[Doc1763]

My 1 Post

Nick Daicos is a Champion and our only good player we had out there tonight over 4 qtrs

What do you think of De Mattia, is he going to make it?

 

[frizzle]

Great effort by the boys. We had nothing left to give in the last. I’m just glad no injuries.

Johnson over Kruger proved to be the blunder we all expected.

I keep hearing this but it’s not a big deal. Neither would have made a difference & neither should be on the list next year.
When Reef didn’t get over the concussion I knew we would have no full forward with any chance of kicking goals.
Johnson & Krueger aren’t up to it. But there are a few more on our list that aren’t up to it either.

 

[Bramax]

I expected to lose by a few goals but we should've been 6 goals up in that first quarter. And subbing off Noble instead of AJ lol.

Oh well. ottno. Brave effort if nothing else.

Our conversion early was what cost us along with selecting AJ instead of Freddie.
Annoyingly, we should’ve still won this game against all odds.

 

[jmac70]

Good effort but undermanned.
We are in trouble.

 

[doofdoof]

At least 5-6 goals from BS frees, 50m penalties or missed frees.

Every time we got away, the umpires found a way to get them a cheap goal to keep it close

 

[LuckyLee]

Gutsy effort but poor goal kicking in Q1 and too many cooked youngsters in Q4 was the difference. Incredible effort really with 17 players unavailable.

I’m not sold on Dean at all and continue to wonder what the Fin Macrae fan club sees in him - no impact from his 11 touches and only 1 handball in Q4. Nowhere near good enough from a 4th year wannabe-midfielder.

Next week drop Dean, push Frampton back to defence and bring in Kreuger.




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[CasuallyDressed]

That last goal from Darcy cost me 60 bucks ffs.

 

[WakeUpPies]

Firstly, **** the scumps.

Secondly, game lost at the selection table …

• Markov is NOT a forward
• Playing Billy up forward makes 0 sense. WB has a huge forward line and Billy has been arguably our best shutdown defender this year. Baffling.
• AJ has done nothing to warrant his place in the side. I hate Kreuger but he would have offered more and needs to be in the side next week.
• Why wasn’t Bytel subbed? Offered nothing except slow turnovers.

 

[Chronz]

Just got to suck it up and accept we may not win a game until the bye is done. Although the dreamons love losing to an underdog.

 

[NMBB]

Kick straight 1st quarter - scoreboard pressure - who knows ?

 

[Axl the great]

Not having a key forward cost us.

Missed Pendles leadership too.


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I’d argue set shot kicking early cost us the game, while those ****ing bulldogs pulling goals from everywhere on the ground, makes you sick.

 

[jmac70]

I keep hearing this but it’s not a big deal. Neither would have made a difference & neither should be on the list next year.
When Reef didn’t get over the concussion I knew we would have no full forward with any chance of kicking goals.
Johnson & Krueger aren’t up to it. But there are a few more on our list that aren’t up to it either.

Spot on.
Krueger gives nothing more than Johnson. Probably less.

We just don’t have the players available to win.

 

[GreekLunatic]

At least no new injuries

 

[Captivating]

Fly stubbornly let Dale just accumulate across the half back all game.

then let Bont just do whatever he wanted in the 4th.

 

[loki04]

Just ran out of puff in the last.

Good effort and beaten by a better team on the night.

But this umpiring was the most disgraceful I have seen. Paid them everything.


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The Dogs got away with throwing the ball all night, was the crow throw on roids. Fast small rugby throws, one handed throws and just handing the ball over on tackles. Only got 1 given in the last Q...

Also the amount of times Bontempelli (and others) got away with grabbing and spinning Nick Daicos as he was running through the contest and not get done for a hold was a absolute piss take.

There was one stoppage that Macrea just put the double under hooks on Nick and ran him from ones side to the other out of the stoppage ring before the ball had even landed.

Beyond that some shocking kicking by Noble, Sidebottom and Cameron was very costly. Schultz first term kicking gettable goals as points.

No KPF targets killed us. Markov is a defender and that is all.

And finally a brave effort to fight it out but looked like the mids were dead on thier feet in that last Q.

Treloar got them back on it in the 2nd.

 

[bucksisbest]

I’m not copping this ‘good effort considering’ crap.

Where were the changes during the game when it became clear several players were struggling in their new positions?

They would have like Liberatore, Naughton, Richards, Weightman, Bailey Smith and not the 2 ingame injuries.

Agree that the coaching was underwhelming tonight.

 

[Soaring Magpie]

Deserved that. They have major injuries too.

The first quarter is the lack of ruthlessness this group has when in control. The last quarter is this group going into their shell when challenged late.

This is happening consistently regardless of personnel.

Wtf.
This group won a flag 13 games ago, you don’t win a flag unless you are ruthless and a desire and hunger to win.

 

[crackerss08]

Gallant effort… bring on Melbourne

 

[thebaldfacts]

Should of buried them in the first and came back to bite us on the backside. Reality is injuries have cost us our season. We won't make top 4, so our season is shot.

 

[jmac70]

Lost in the coaches box. Completely stifled our ball movement in the last qtr and we had no answer. Even more disappointing that Dogs had a man down and we still couldn't play the minutes.

What would you have done differently?

 

[LuckyLee]

What is this final quarter strategy? Parking the bus? It's awful.

We were cooked. A bunch of kids out there with only a handful of games and 1-2 pre-seasons under the belt.


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