Game Day Round 17, 2024: West Coast vs Melbourne

[Bender_]

I've always found it oddly disconcerting when the weather is drastically different at the game compared to what it's like when watching from home.

 

[KERRPOW]

Margin is a little superficial assessment.

I’m looking for effort, intensity, team work and skills.


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Its a shame we've had to revert back to bare minimum expectations for this group

 

[FKASC]

 

[Wellillbe]

Be watching to see what Simmo does with Reid today when the Dee's hard tag him.

(A) Just let him work through it cause his 19 years old and should be able to deal with it.

(B) Throw him forward where the ball will not come in due to him been forward and not in the guts

(C) let him loose across half back to use his pace and elite foot skills to create plays for us.

I'm going with (A)

 

[Hoskin300]

Shouldnt we just compare over timeframes mostly?

Since 2019 Freo have added

Jordan Clark
Jye Amiss
Matthew Johnson
Luke Jackson
Sam Sturt
Hayden Young
Caleb Serong
Michael Frederick
Heath Chapman
Josh Draper
Jeremy Sharp

Since 2019 we have added

Campbell Chesser
Brady Hough
Jack Williams
Reuben Ginbey
Harley Reid
Tyler Brockman
Jack Hutchison

I mean the time frame doesnt help...

We didn’t have high draft picks in 2018, 2019 and 2020? Why is it news to you that Freo added more talent in those years.

 

[ReidBetweenTheLines]

Unpopular opinion probably, but if losing this goal by 10 goals is the final nail in Simpson coffin that makes the board sack him, then I’d rather we lose by 10 goals than win today.

We need change. The excitement and hope from Reid early in the season has worn off. We aren’t playing finals and Melbourne will have an axe to grind today.

Dee’s by 63 points

 

[Bender_]

11,001. I just rocked up

 

[southcoast]

Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin

Age

47

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

8.8

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

, “It’s amazing what opportunities can do.”

I’ll just leave that here.


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[Hoskin300]

Be watching to see what Simmo does with Reid today when the Dee's hard tag him.

(A) Just let him work through it cause his 19 years old and should be able to deal with it.

(B) Throw him forward where the ball will not come in due to him been forward and not in the guts

(C) let him loose across half back to use his pace and elite foot skills to create plays for us.

I'm going with (A)

Option B is the one that triggers me the most. Stick your most damaging player the furthest from the ball and allow the tag to go to your other superstar mids.

 

[Hoskin300]

Simon Goodwin, “It’s amazing what opportunities can do.”

I’ll just leave that here.


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He sounded like he had been out on the town last night hahaha

 

[Bacchus]

We’re a tired old team with a sprinkling of young sacrifices

 

[southcoast]

He sounded like he had been out on the town last night hahaha

That he did.


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[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

We didn’t have high draft picks in 2018, 2019 and 2020? Why is it news to you that Freo added more talent in those years.

Freo traded away a ton of picks too though? They traded big for Luke Jackson just like we did Tim Kelly. They just did it better then we did.

 

[Shuestar13]

Unpopular opinion probably, but if losing this goal by 10 goals is the final nail in Simpson coffin that makes the board sack him, then I’d rather we lose by 10 goals than win today.

We need change. The excitement and hope from Reid early in the season has worn off. We aren’t playing finals and Melbourne will have an axe to grind today.

Dee’s by 63 points

I wouldn’t think that’s an unpopular opinion tbh.

We’ll see if the players want their Simmo or not

 

[Bender_]

Are they that worried about Melbourne losing that they're peddling who's out from the 2021 side?

No one cares.

 

[15yearmember]

The fundamental issue is Simmo has decided to give the same team a chance to prove the doubters wrong and prove he still has the group.

But in doing so he has missed yet another chance to expose some kids to development, this time development on the G.

We field an oldish team to what end exactly?

 

[mitchzz]

Are they that worried about Melbourne losing that they're peddling who's out from the 2021 side?

No one cares.

It was a very weird little package to show

 

[InTheWings]

Commentary team starting already, highlighting how many Melbourne players not in the team since 2021.

How about the commentary team go through all the West Coast players who weren't there in 2021???

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Jack Williams is the sub???
He's meant to be replacing Flynn?
Hutchinson 0 goals vs Williams 4 goals last week. Makes sense lol.

 

[RookiePick]

Are they that worried about Melbourne losing that they're peddling who's out from the 2021 side?

No one cares.

Setting the stage for Melbourne reborn post game

 

[Barrybran]

Sorry mate can't agree. Doubt anyone else would tbh. Other than a couple of the senior players that was one of the most insipid performances in the last 3 years. Hard to remember, there has been a few. Yes we were outworked , and terribly lazy.

I'm aware that I am in the minority but we fought through contests and Hawthorn had an answer for everything we did. We weren't lazy. Our opposition worked harder than we did.

 

[the harry]

Simon Goodwin, “It’s amazing what opportunities can do.”

I’ll just leave that here.


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Given the opportunity some idiots bet on the afl when a listed player....

 

[Dark Sharks]

Regardless of what happens at least we've got GOAT Matty Hill and Huddo on commentary.

That's the holy combo for the spud team. Surprising

 

[Hoskin300]

Freo traded away a ton of picks too though? They traded big for Luke Jackson just like we did Tim Kelly. They just did it better than we did.

What makes you say they did it better than we did?

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

What makes you say they did it better than we did?

My eyeballs mostly