Begley i reckon
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AFL Autopsy Round 14: Essendon defeated by Sydney (1 point)
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Don't know why some want Greene dropped.
Yeah he hasn't been hitting the scoreboard much but is always involved either by harrasing,chasing or laying a tackle.
Yeah he hasn't been hitting the scoreboard much but is always involved either by harrasing,chasing or laying a tackle.
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People need to consider that our midfield numbers have improved markedly over the last month or so & considering how ridiculously well Sydney's played for most of last night, ours held their own enough to help put us in a winning position. Onwards & upwards.
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No way whatsoever is Gleeson losing a 1 on 1 with no support as bad as Goddard playing on from a kick in and getting the kick smothered.
Watching Goddard's kickout again, he was in one sense a little unlucky. Rohan was just the right distance away from him for the ball to reach hand height and be smothered. A step or two before he kicked he looked to have enough room. Ironically, if Rohan had been a bit closer to him, the ball would have passed him on a lower trajectory and probably gone under his hands. There is a lot of luck in this sort of thing. Colyer's goal went past a Sydney defender's hands on the inside of where he was trying to smother, but at a height where he would have smothered it.
Having said that, Goddard could have just kicked it from the square. I suppose he thought he would get an extra 10m and a couple of seconds off the clock by kicking to himself. And you shouldn't have to rely on kicking under an oncoming opponents hands - desirable to make sure of it and kick it over him.
I thought we had two other near smothers in the last few minutes, one was Joe when he was called to play on near the point post, and I think the other might have been Hurley, when both times we were trying to use up the max time to take the kick. The first rule that we often ignore is to get back significantly from the mark and give yourself maximum space to work with if you don't want to be cramped by a play on call (Joe couldn't as he was hemmed in by the boundary).
Having said that, Goddard could have just kicked it from the square. I suppose he thought he would get an extra 10m and a couple of seconds off the clock by kicking to himself. And you shouldn't have to rely on kicking under an oncoming opponents hands - desirable to make sure of it and kick it over him.
I thought we had two other near smothers in the last few minutes, one was Joe when he was called to play on near the point post, and I think the other might have been Hurley, when both times we were trying to use up the max time to take the kick. The first rule that we often ignore is to get back significantly from the mark and give yourself maximum space to work with if you don't want to be cramped by a play on call (Joe couldn't as he was hemmed in by the boundary).
Both were bad.
Just annoys me a lot of fans suggest Goddard should be dropped, but that Gleeson was just 'unlucky' after he was blatantly beaten.
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Gleesons error wasn't one of skill or error I guess... he's just so ridiculously undersized that a skinny flanker was able to take him from front position and just swat him aside like a toddler.
Goddard's error was poor but it was just one of many, many errors in the last few mins.
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The Goddard should be dropped is either post game, mindless, reactive stuff, or just plain mindless.
Marty had a very good game. He was beaten out on a one on one, at an unfortunate time.
That last 5 minutes required about 10 individual **** ups, and the team delivered.
Gleeson held his own. He did the right thing by engaging Rohan. There should have been a loose player to cut off the kick to Rohan or at least punch it through. Quite frankly, Rohan should've been double teamed instead of having a one on one contest in the goal square with 15 seconds left on the clock.
Adelaide aren't the team we played in Rd.4 anymore.Adelaide. I'm nervous about every single one of those games.
Adelaide. I'm nervous about every single one of those games.
Playing them at Etihad makes them gettable
Nervous, but mainly cos we can win every one of them.
That whole last passage of play was luck imo.
Isn't that an issue though? That our third/fourth backman got shoved aside by an opposing forward pocket/flanker?
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Gary Rohan is hardly a featherweight in build though.
People keep suggesting there should have been a loose player, but then that gives the Swans another free man.
Any way, it's one sequence in a 120 minute game. Overall a poor team effort for the last three or four minutes.
The point I was trying to get across was that Goddard alone is not to blame for the loss.
As a team, we were mind-numbingly sh*t in that last few minutes.
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Goddard most definitely wasn't all to blame.
I guess I just meant it's not like Gleeson got outbodied by someone he should always be beating in a one on one.
How far away is Laverde?
Nor is he aaron hamill. It happens every week.
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I think we've well and truly established that you think it every happens every week. 
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So Parish played the whole game today for VFL. Why the **** then wasn't he playing last night?
Slowly getting over the loss.
The last 4 minutes was a bunch of errors on our part, yeah Sydney put the pressure on us, I'm not sure I'd list Gleeson in there though, when it was arguably a free agains Rohan, but not being able to hold a 19 point lead with 4 odd minutes, their is no blame on the umps.
Buddy seemed to get a little space late, no goals sure but he kept firing it I50.
BJ's smothered kick
Joes kick to Tippa contest one of the shortest guys on the field
As others here have said no one between the contest and goal line where Gleeson and Rohan were were all far bigger errors
Buddy seemed to get a little space late, no goals sure but he kept firing it I50.
BJ's smothered kick
Joes kick to Tippa contest one of the shortest guys on the field
As others here have said no one between the contest and goal line where Gleeson and Rohan were were all far bigger errors
Said someone on this board, first game agains a big physical bodied Sydney may not have been the best for him
I was behind a ute with a logo on the tray "BJ's garden services" in traffic an hour ago and got all riled up.
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If we are going on that theory he probably wouldn't have played a game last year.
Probably had more to do with only wanting to make minimal changes after a 12 goal win. Langford had the form on the board in the vfl. Parish hadn't played at all for a few weeks.
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