Game Day Round 15: The West Coast v Essendon, Friday June 24, 8.40pm AEST - Optus Stadium

[Yoda_]

KICK. IT. THROUGH. THE. BIG. STICKS

 

[carloss]

Down by 5 to the eagles at halftime.

 

[Yoda_]

17 shots to 12 and we're down.

Could SHOULD be 5 goals up.

FTFY

 

[LB#16]

Essendon with expectations. Enough said.

 

[rumply]

No way we should be behind at the half, shit happens.

 

[fishardansin]

Nearly twice as many scoring shots ... and losing. FFS

 

[Mootsy]

Guelfi is awesome!

Gets better every game.

 

[Foxx]

He’s been good imo

Panic kicks everytime.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

The best part is how we are only kicking to Wright but somehow don’t have crumbers at his feet.

 

[sameolds33]

That was a frustrating quarter of footy to watch.

 

[rumply]

Redman has gone from Fringe player to one our best, Really good this year.

Fringe? Never been fringe.

 

[boncer34]

Hey Lore is there anyway on the AFL app to see the distance tracker for all players or is it only the top half a dozen available?

 

[citizen-erased]

That was a frustrating quarter of footy to watch.

Eagles run harder and smarter.
Until we learn to do this, we're stuck in this position.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Seriously our conversion rate is amateur and it costs us time and time again. Scoreboard pressure is king and we are truly the dunce

If you base your gameplan on a midfield spread of goalkickers with a midfield that can't score, what do you get?

 

[JT_the_Man]

“We should trade Parish”

 

[Mootsy]

If you base your gameplan on a midfield spread of goalkickers with a midfield that can't score, what do you get?

 

[TheGrizz]

Absolute debacle of a second quarter.

We actually had more scoring shots than they did (7-6), only we kicked 2.5 to their 6.0.

We are leading i50, clearances, scoring shots, contested possession and disposals but still are losing because we are so ****ing wasteful in front of goal. Wright being the chief culprit.

We are going at 44.3% for the year and we have showed no signs of improvement.

 

[Lore]

Hey Lore is there anyway on the AFL app to see the distance tracker for all players or is it only the top half a dozen available?

Not to my knowledge, but if you figure it out let me know

 

[carloss]

Jones - 2 possessions
Perkins - 4 possessions

 

[Mootsy]

Absolute debacle of a second quarter.

We actually had more scoring shots than they did (7-6), only we kicked 2.5 to their 6.0.

We are leading i50, clearances, scoring shots, contested possession and disposals but still are losing because we are so ******* wasteful in front of goal. Wright being the chief culprit.

We are going at 44.3% for the year and we have showed no signs of improvement.

Because we haven't included any specialist small forwards into the side. They probably need to give Wanganeen some games and maybe Waterman or Smith back in up forward.

 

[Thebisc]

If you base your gameplan on a midfield spread of goalkickers with a midfield that can't score, what do you get?

Nothing wrong with 17 shots at half time but we just miss too many gettable goals. Mids, forwards, utility types…they all just miss and destroy the most basic fundamental of the game.

 

[Kyptastic]

Would also be good if we could generate some shots from inside 30. Most of our attempts are seemingly from outside 40m.

 

[TheGrizz]

Because we haven't included any specialist small forwards into the side. They probably need to give Wanganeen some games and maybe Waterman or Smith back in up forward.

Sorry, but can't buy that.

We have missed some very gettable shots tonight. All 4 of Wrights misses you would have penciled him down for, Caldwell burning a teammate from 50 when we could have walked it in to goal at the end of the 2nd quarter, Martin missed a gettable snap with 30 seconds left.

That's 5 easy shots missed, got nothing to do with a lack of small forwards.

 

[MiguelM]

Because we haven't included any specialist small forwards into the side. They probably need to give Wanganeen some games and maybe Waterman or Smith back in up forward.

Agree with Wanganeen.

Not sold on Waterman & Smith struggling.

 

[TheGrizz]

Jones - 2 possessions
Perkins - 4 possessions

Jones is doing a mountain of work off ball for Wright at the moment.