Autopsy Round 2, 2025 vs North @ Marvel Stadium

[Toump Ass]

Read a stat that Lindsay had six tackles, which was the same as viney, Oliver, petracca combined.

Embarrassing stuff from our billion dollar midfield

 

[PerfectFooty]

I did not see really anything vastly different other than the defence is way more lost at sea when that eventual turn over comes

 

[PerfectFooty]

Okay i've joked and memed now it's time for a serious collection of thoughts

• But first yeah, is this anything different. Maybe we chip around on half back a couple more possessions than normal but we still hold up play when we have the ball, let the opposition guard the field and then resort to sending a long one down the line. Although now i guess the defenders are more rolled up so when we hand the opposition the ball back they can get out the back easier which as i said in preseason, will work wonders against a team like Collingwood who gun it off turn over
• Skill errors under the roof where poor and inexcusable. Really easy kicks that where missed, some of which should be the most basic of kicks at VFL level.
• But that relates to this next point, the regression of this side i feel like is measured by the amount of panic kicks or bombs we just throw on the boot under pressure. We always did it, we do it so much more now. I've seen far to many mid now, under pressure or thinking that they are just mung one out of the defensive goal square to no one
• Belted around the ball, Xerri is a gun and LDU lead that midfield. Old reliable got cleaned up and i wonder what goodwin will do with that. Probably nothing though. Would be nice though if we had someone capable of running with a player like LDU. You know a player that could play some sort of role that would sacrifice their game a bit for the betterment of the team by trying to clamp down on the oppositions best mid... If only there was a role in the modern game where you run with your opponent, a run with role one could say
• Speaking of old reliable, so much of that setup was focused on gawn thanks to simon running his mouth in his presser. But Petracca was quite off, and today certainly looked like a player that's been out of it.
• Chandler was the only one really having a dip, He's a whipping boy like a couple of others. I've always liked Chins work rate though even when he is struggling to get the ball. He worked his ass of running both ways and he's the only player on the ground that i can say put everything in to that match that he had
• Sparrow i'm not going to highlight him to much because people are gonna rag on me for hating on him (I don't hate him). But man, one truly terrible fumble in that third quarter because he didn't want to stretch out for it and honestly looked worried about any contact. I don't know it showed that bad on TV, but it looked bad at ground level at the 50 arc where it occurred
• Taj, i memed on him before. But i'm not seeing any jumps in improvement to suggest he'll be anything more than VFL standard. But then again all his attack and flare he had early has seemingly been coached out of him replaced by running patterns and structures. I don't know where his career is at, i mean yeah he was a late F/S pick, but it looks to be fizzling. Please prove me wrong though. I just worry once that raw aggression is coached to be part of the system, that Kynan will unfortunately follow suit
• Zero awareness today, it was like we didn't expect north to be AFL level and could just easily meander around opponents or VERY casually wheel around off the mark. Tmac was guilty of the latter like he never expected anyone to come at him. Petty was just stupid in the last, like he never expected the bloke he fended on the ground to get back up after him. Did you not suspect he was going to come at you even more. We did not respect our opposition, they knew that and where out to send a message
• Slow in patches, panicked and rushed under pressure. Credit to north or well anyone that can do that, because we will always mentally shit ourselves when someone comes at us. It happened today, and we folded the more it grew
• Fritsch has been invisible two games in, bar one goal today, he looks a shell of his former self
• Bowey and Salem featuring high up on the stat sheets padding out meaningless kicks for someone of their 'elite' kicking standards. Oh and Bowey, as much as i bitch going down the line, you don't kick to two north players on their own in the middle of the ground of half back under no pressure, it's like you got told to take a corridor kick on at half time, and thought well **** i have to go for one despite not looking and then trying to invent play out of thin air that was never going to happen. Ball butcher
• Jeffo, sorry your day ended early. But i was pleased you backed into one pack under a high one, and then i know it cost you the day, but keeping your eye on it and committing was good. Extremely small sample size i know, would have been keen to see him finish the game. Although he would have been grounded with the rest of our forwards. I just liked these two commitments to following the ball by eye all the way

Finally (i made this point earlier but it turned into such a rant i wanted it separate) Bashing my head against a brick wall, but i sat right near the behind post at our kicking end in the third. Not only are the long high balls ****ing infuriating. When we do have the ball and are looking, our forwards are playing ring o rosie at full forward wrestling defenders and standing as still as ****. I've said it so many ****ing times, JVR works when he moves and launches at the ball, or leads at a kick. Instead he's in a ****ing pack with Fritsch and Turner playing arm slaps until it's tangled up with a defender. Our players can ****ing see it isn't working, our coaches surely can too. Yet we keep defaulting into this shitty behaviour, we don't even lead to draw players out with us and clear space so one of those one on ones could maybe just maybe work. Our forward line doesn't work as a cohesive team and THAT'S when the mids are actually looking, don't even get me started when it's a normal high kick in. We have good forwards, and we probably have spud ones, but even the spud ones would be doing something if they actually ****ing moved instead of clogging space. Even at shit local level if it's one thing a defender loves, it's a forward who doesn't move. Because it's so predictable and easy to kill at any level, at AFL it allows a defender who works harder off his man to come across and intercept. We are consistently giving the opposition a free win, and i am so ****ing over it. It's not even a chicken or egg situation of who to blame first, the mids 60% of the time don't look and the 40% of the time they do the forwards are standing still. We will not achieve anything this year or in future by developing players to play into the hands of the opposition. I've ranted longer on this point than i normally would have done, but we have been doing this shit for years and i'd say it's at breaking point but it was there last year

 

[Topkent]

Oliver had 36 disposals
Salem 24
Sparrow 25
Bowey 19 kicks
Viney 27

Goodwin's wet dream set up for the game.

If those guys dominate our disposals going forward we will lose more than we win


Our key forwards and Fritsch took 1 contested mark for the game and were 4 of the 5 lowest disposal getters on the ground.

Absolutely insanely stupid.

 

[Ando727]

So, to run with the "love" analogy: It seems that after our near messy divorce last year, we went and got some marriage counselling and ended up at a couples retreat where we agreed to give the marriage another go. Feelings were shared, mistakes admitted, but we really wanted this thing to work, so we decided to lean into the "love".

"Rediscover the love" was the mandate. All was going fine as long as we were still on our love retreat and out of the real world, but eventually we had to return to the real world: Round 1. We almost made it through, but things fell apart at the end of the night. It exposed some cracks and showed that it wasn't going to be as easy as the love retreat suggested. But it wasn't a total loss, there was still hope, "we still love each other, right?".

But things got harder in Round 2. A bit more reality at the family picnic and suddenly s**t got real. We are certainly not as rosy as the retreat told us we are, and the troubles Round 1 hinted at became more apparent. We have fundamental problems in the relationship and they all came out when our drunk Uncle North Melbourne got a few beers into him and started throwing some truth bombs our way.

Now we're back at marriage counselling wondering what happened to our honeymoon period at the retreat. Tough questions being asked again: "Do we still feel the love? Do we still want it to work? Or were we kidding ourselves and we're heading to Splitsville and talking about dividing up the fine China?"

We have another date night in Round 3. Will it bring us back together, or will it all blow up in our face and we start talking about seeing other people...?



(ok tortured analogy, but once I started it, I had to see it through...)

 

[Jamurp]

Wish the fans were screaming at Goody tbh

He’d just say that’s ‘outside noise’ or some bullshit.

 

[Jamurp]

Worst thing is I don’t care, watched almost 3 quarters and left and went to watch a French film at the cinema and and that was enjoyable.

**** this club and it’s coach for sucking the life out of the joy out of watching us play over the last 3 years.

Even when we were winning it wasn’t fun to watch.

Take me back to 2018 and Tommy Bugg.

 

[Topkent]

Lol watched the highlights, the bang bang bang from north was cigar worthy. Wish they panned up to Goody's anxiety ridden head just to top it off

 

[Demon Attack]

They need to watch how the Crows forwards play. Never get in each other's way and are always moving.

Rebuild time can't wait. Let's get a bunch of second rounders for Tracc, Koz and Clarry and package them up into one top ten pick! Lindsay is excellent so I'm not worried about that trade but Bombers must be high fiving.

I thought they had one last finals run in them, I was wrong.

 

[ptrg]

Read a stat that Lindsay had six tackles, which was the same as viney, Oliver, petracca combined.

Embarrassing stuff from our billion dollar midfield

18 of our players had either 0, 1 or 2 tackles.
That's insane in a modern, full length game of AFL

 

[mrmonkey]

Bombers lost by 60 as well but at least they put 100 on the board, just nothing enjoyable about yesterday.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

It's really a shame Chandler's game will be lost in the rest of this, he was ****ing unbelievable.

Glad I never jumped off and have always been a fan.

 

[Topkent]

It's a really shame Chandler's game will be lost in the rest of this, he was ****ing unbelievable.

Glad I never jumped off and have always been a fan.

Saw he had 25 and 3, better than Oliver now. Saw the bit of play where he was being tackled, physically ripped himself free and moved it on only for Sparrow to get run down

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Saw he had 25 and 3, better than Oliver now. Saw the bit of play where he was being tackled, physically ripped himself free and moved it on only for Sparrow to get run down

Stats don't even do him justice honestly, played out of his mind.

 

[Topkent]

Stats don't even do him justice honestly, played out of his mind.

We never get to see guys step up like because overpaid dip shits like Oliver and Viney stand in the middle of the ground getting 30 touches and doing **** all else

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

We never get to see guys step up like because overpaid dip shits like Oliver and Viney stand in the middle of the ground getting 30 touches and doing **** all else

Don't worry, Goody said the midfield mix will continue to evolve as the year goes on in his presser after the game. I'm not concerned.

 

[Topkent]

Don't worry, Goody said the midfield mix will continue to evolve as the year goes on in his presser after the game. I'm not concerned.

Guessing he played genuine midfield?

 

[Grimey Sylvia]

So, to run with the "love" analogy: It seems that after our near messy divorce last year, we went and got some marriage counselling and ended up at a couples retreat where we agreed to give the marriage another go. Feelings were shared, mistakes admitted, but we really wanted this thing to work, so we decided to lean into the "love".

"Rediscover the love" was the mandate. All was going fine as long as we were still on our love retreat and out of the real world, but eventually we had to return to the real world: Round 1. We almost made it through, but things fell apart at the end of the night. It exposed some cracks and showed that it wasn't going to be as easy as the love retreat suggested. But it wasn't a total loss, there was still hope, "we still love each other, right?".

But things got harder in Round 2. A bit more reality at the family picnic and suddenly s**t got real. We are certainly not as rosy as the retreat told us we are, and the troubles Round 1 hinted at became more apparent. We have fundamental problems in the relationship and they all came out when our drunk Uncle North Melbourne got a few beers into him and started throwing some truth bombs our way.

Now we're back at marriage counselling wondering what happened to our honeymoon period at the retreat. Tough questions being asked again: "Do we still feel the love? Do we still want it to work? Or were we kidding ourselves and we're heading to Splitsville and talking about dividing up the fine China?"

We have another date night in Round 3. Will it bring us back together, or will it all blow up in our face and we start talking about seeing other people...?



(ok tortured analogy, but once I started it, I had to see it through...)

Or its just another episode of MAFS with players saying 'leave' and that bitch goodie saying 'stay'...

 

[schmuttt]

Hopefully the lack of effort defensively was a protest game, but I thought the same last year w few times and we were just shit.

 

[Demon Attack]

Guessing he played genuine midfield?

Wing and a bit of inside midfield

 

[Jamurp]

I liked when Van Rooyen got a half decent pass inside 50 and dropped the chest mark, absolute bin stuff.

 

[Topkent]

Lol we got close to GWS due to 4 stoppage goals last week got blown away because of stoppages goals this week. That's all we have.

 

[melbun]

Shirley, after the Max stuff, Goodwin's position is untenable.

That is the end of any player confiding anything in Goodwin.

 

[Bluelegs]

Oliver had 36 disposals
Salem 24
Sparrow 25
Bowey 19 kicks
Viney 27

Goodwin's wet dream set up for the game.

If those guys dominate our disposals going forward we will lose more than we win


Our key forwards and Fritsch took 1 contested mark for the game and were 4 of the 5 lowest disposal getters on the ground.

Absolutely insanely stupid.

Was the contested mark the one where they all contested each other?

 

[Crusty Demon]

Shirley, after the Max stuff, Goodwin's position is untenable.

That is the end of any player confiding anything in Goodwin.

He must have had permission from Max to say something. Bizarre if he didn't. Those two are pretty close, so I'd assume they are good. Just sounds like a diversion tactic tbh. If Max was going through a heap of s* personally, then Campbell should have been replacing him in the side.