I thought Bailey had an ankle operation about 6 weeks ago. Maybe he has come back too early. Might take a little more time. It was only a few weeks ago Ah Chee kicked four goals, agree about Charlie his set shot kicking has been a concern for most of the year. There are a couple out of bound shots (for the year), that probably are not even recorded but indicated he has struggled this year with accuracy
Ah Chee is the biggest enigma,he plays a good game about every 5 or 6 weeks and in between he is barely sighted. And he often only plays a decent quarter and disappears again. He has great talent and at his best is a match winner, but needs to become more consistent to really become a regular player. Otherwise he will always be only the 22nd or 23rd player selected each week rather than a constant pick.
No votes for Windtagger
If ever a game needed to be broken up into "good", "bad" and "ugly" it was this one!
Maybe the fact there were only 6 games gave the selectors a shallower pool to pick from.
Geelong reserves?
I think they do subtract points for clangers and free kicks against etc.
I noticed this too. We had Ah Chee as a spare in and around Max King and co. I had a look down the other end at the same time and couldn't see a spare for St Kilda, so I reckon they had their spare around the ball. This might go some way to explaining why they were so dominant at winning clearances.
They played the end bit rather than the middle bit. Maybe they don't like us all singing while the game has already started again.
I saw a tweet from Dom Fay saying it was an error, and will be back to normal next home game
Opps, was wrong was thinking of Hinkley (LOL).
The bolded for me is a better explanation than my fits and spurts albeit the same thing.If ever a game needed to be broken up into "good", "bad" and "ugly" it was this one!
By the way I have finally figured out how to re-watch these games where we win but in a very frustrating manner. 4th quarter first, then 2nd quarter, then 3rd quarter then the 1st. Greatly enhanced user experience.
To be honest I really only rewatched because I saw Froggy was named in SEN's team of the week, which seemed a bit, well, generous, and I thought I must have been watching a different game. After the replay I stand by my original conviction
Team defence pretty average obviously. Minimal pressure from the forwards, poor transition efforts by the midfield and very ordinary one on one efforts by our defenders.
I'm always a big one for questioning our fitness, but watching the replay it really did look like it was as much complacency and mentally taking the foot off as anything. Combining this perspective with my recollection of the game live at the ground, it's becoming a pretty standard sort of pattern tho... First we stop moving for each other, standing around like Brown's cows instead. So we're forced long down the line to contests. Then we lose those and nobody can be bothered going back the other way with our opponents, so we get opened up on the rebound.
THEN things start getting a bit desperate, so blokes start panicking a bit and thinking "I'm gonna be the one to turn the game around here", get sucked into the ball in the contest which leaves all their numbers on the outside. Happened against Carlton and happened again on Friday night.
A better mental attitude is "I'm gonna be the one to keep things simple, absolutely nail my role right here, and THEN, if it'sI practical, I'm going to get over and support my team mate".
Fortunately we've actually been able to improve our forward method since the early rounds, so we were still able to score while we were under the pump, and in the end that was the difference. That will likely prove more difficult though against top 8 teams.
You would like to think we will really go to town on our defence this week, but it's pretty concerning that we're only 2 games into what is going to have to be a fairly solid 12 week stretch, and already it appears like our motivation is flagging. Getting involved in shootouts is often an early sign of this. When that happens it can mean you're only one game away from being completely opened up while not being able to score yourself.
Liked seeing Rayner's 3 consecutive centre clearances in the last quarter. Only to butcher it every time!
Payne some very soft efforts opposed to King. And I think my thoughts on McKenna are shared by enough here to need little elaboration. 7 disposals in 3 quarters is inadequate for a player as poor defensively as he is.
Liked the performances of Zorko, Hugh, Wilmot, Bez, Dunks, Joe, Lach, Eric, Kai, Loges and Oscar. We will need more to come with them in the coming weeks.
For those of us in the right demographic, you might remember this rather similar game.
This is completely at odds with my perception of Darcy as a bloke who gets it, runs off with it, then bangs it long as far as he can, somewhat indiscriminately.
Yep the fading in and out of games in 2024 is a huge concern, v the Bulldogs is the only 4 quarter performance against a decent side all season.
Kings first goal, Payne was in the goal square marking a saints player (i think Cordy), Harris just could not run with King. Agree, Kings second goal was Paynes fault, just too slow to react when pushed by King and looked a bit soft.If ever a game needed to be broken up into "good", "bad" and "ugly" it was this one!
By the way I have finally figured out how to re-watch these games where we win but in a very frustrating manner. 4th quarter first, then 2nd quarter, then 3rd quarter then the 1st. Greatly enhanced user experience.
To be honest I really only rewatched because I saw Froggy was named in SEN's team of the week, which seemed a bit, well, generous, and I thought I must have been watching a different game. After the replay I stand by my original conviction
Team defence pretty average obviously. Minimal pressure from the forwards, poor transition efforts by the midfield and very ordinary one on one efforts by our defenders.
I'm always a big one for questioning our fitness, but watching the replay it really did look like it was as much complacency and mentally taking the foot off as anything. Combining this perspective with my recollection of the game live at the ground, it's becoming a pretty standard sort of pattern tho... First we stop moving for each other, standing around like Brown's cows instead. So we're forced long down the line to contests. Then we lose those and nobody can be bothered going back the other way with our opponents, so we get opened up on the rebound.
THEN things start getting a bit desperate, so blokes start panicking a bit and thinking "I'm gonna be the one to turn the game around here", get sucked into the ball in the contest which leaves all their numbers on the outside. Happened against Carlton and happened again on Friday night.
A better mental attitude is "I'm gonna be the one to keep things simple, absolutely nail my role right here, and THEN, if it's practical, I'm going to get over and support my team mate".
Fortunately we've actually been able to improve our forward method since the early rounds, so we were still able to score while we were under the pump, and in the end that was the difference. That will likely prove more difficult though against top 8 teams.
You would like to think we will really go to town on our defence this week, but it's pretty concerning that we're only 2 games into what is going to have to be a fairly solid 12 week stretch, and already it appears like our motivation is flagging. Getting involved in shootouts is often an early sign of this. When that happens it can mean you're only one game away from being completely opened up while not being able to score yourself.
Liked seeing Rayner's 3 consecutive centre clearances in the last quarter. Only to butcher it every time!
Payne some very soft efforts opposed to King. And I think my thoughts on McKenna are shared by enough here to need little elaboration. 7 disposals in 3 quarters is inadequate for a player as poor defensively as he is.
Liked the performances of Zorko, Hugh, Wilmot, Bez, Dunks, Joe, Lach, Eric, Kai, Loges and Oscar. We will need more to come with them in the coming weeks.
For those of us in the right demographic, you might remember this rather similar game.
yep, we certainly are not at the level of last year.
