Review Round 21 - Freo Edged by the Dons.

[Johnny Dalmas]

Carlton. Port. Hawks. Essendon.

FFS.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Hahahha I just remembered that point Sharp kicked for them

Jeremy Sharp has now kicked a behind to win (vs Swans), a behind to draw, and a behind to lose.

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

Thread title is a banger

We lost the battle of the pretenders. Sad times.

Went up by 25 and put the cue in the rack thinking it was job done. But it wasn't.

Feels like we lose every centre bounce in those big moments. And convincingly. Like the opposition walk it right out the front straight inside 50. Needs to change.

 

[Cobbler]

What did we take Erasmus off? We were being beaten in the centre already.

Because he gave us nothing. Couldn’t make a decision when waltzing through the middle. Just bounce it or kick it?

They scored directly from that turnover.

 

[DragoDelph]

Thread title is a banger

We lost the battle of the pretenders. Sad times.

Went up by 25 and put the cue in the rack thinking it was job done. But it wasn't.

Feels like we lose every centre bounce in those big moments. And convincingly. Like the opposition walk it right out the front straight inside 50. Needs to change.

I had three prepped.

Win, Lose or Draw.

And an umbrella ready for the shit storm either way.

 

[apuchar]

What did we take Erasmus off? We were being beaten in the centre already.

No idea why. Hopefully, for the credibility of our coaches, he was totally gassed.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Well **** me that hurts. Our lack of composure in tight games late I guess makes sense given the age profile but **** me they need to do get comfortable in those spots even beyond the midfielders not turning up - what was that last few minutes from Clark for instance.

 

[Footskill]

We got edged alright, but bit prematurely

 

[Yeti]

Sturt looking like he belongs now.

Hopefully he can finish the year strong and get a full pre-season in. Forward line is looking dangerous, just need to upgrade Emmett / Walters.

 

[CapitalA]

What a *ing putrid display in the middle. What the * was our midfield mix in there.

I may owe Fyfe an apology, but Erasmus wasn't far off it we only lost by 1 point.

 

[DragoDelph]

Just got no support from the fringes.

Leave some of them in Melbourne.

 

[mike91]

Midfield pantsed and they're our leaders! Would prefer JOM in there than Aish when we're getting smashed

 

[apuchar]

Because he gave us nothing. Couldn’t make a decision when waltzing through the middle. Just bounce it or kick it?

They scored directly from that turnover.

One error, he made. Every other possession was very well constructed and to the teams advantage. How typical that people would drag up his one mistake. Clarke made a lot more errors than Erasmus. As did most of our players. Sharp was very ordinary, as well. Didn't see Jaeger or Freddie or Emmett.

 

[thistimeforsure]

Darcy has got me thinking of the Freo player who’ve got me to ‘hate them’ levels

Stuart Anderson
Chris Bond
Zak Clarke
Chris Groom
Jack Hannath

Jack Hannath

Age

33

Ht

200cm

Wt

101kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.4

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.9

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.6

3star

Shane Kersten

Shane Kersten

Age

31

Ht

191cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.4

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

3.7

3star

M

4.3

4star

T

1.9

4star

MG

188.8

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

7.0

3star

HB

1.0

2star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.6

4star

Brandon Matera

3

Brandon Matera

Age

32

Ht

175cm

Wt

76kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.4

4star

K

9.9

4star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.7

4star

T

2.3

4star

G

1.3

5star

D

6.3

1star

K

5.0

2star

HB

1.3

1star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.5

3star

G

0.8

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.4

5star

Daniel Parker
Tom Sheridan
Rory Lobb

7

Rory Lobb

Age

31

Ht

207cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.0

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.4

4star

G

0.9

4star

D

11.3

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

3.3

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

1.4

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

7.0

2star

K

4.0

2star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.6

3star

Sean Darcy

4

Sean Darcy

Age

26

Ht

203cm

Wt

111kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

3.4

1star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

2.4

4star

HO

28.8

5star

D

6.8

1star

K

2.0

1star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.8

4star

HO

20.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

6.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

32.0

5star

That’s about it

 

[apuchar]

Midfield pantsed and they're our leaders! Would prefer JOM in there than Aish when we're getting smashed

He was. Then Aish went in afterwards.Switta went in when Neil was subbed.

 

[DragoDelph]

Clark in those closing few minutes.

For all his good this year, close to sending him back to the cats.

Jesus.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

So the season is over unless we can win the next 3 in a row.

5th-8th finish = no flag

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

Poetic really, best clearance team in the comp can barely win a clearance all day making Essendon look like a top 4 side. The last 30 seconds, all you have to do is not let them win it clear easily, hold it up at the very least, nah let them run out easily.

What an epic choke!

59 vs 44 inside fifty entries, 25 shots vs 19.

it was only accuracy that even kept us in the game, got smashed in the middle which gave them territory all day , the rest predictable.

Sharpys point comes back to haunt him.

I don't think that's true. Your midfield was much better, smashed us in the clearances. Your accuracy was also a product of the quality delivery into your fwd 50. I think we made our like bandits here. I'm hoping you guys can course correct, would like to see you win the flag.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

I'm honestly trying to reconcile how we could miss finals with how we've looked for so much if the year. Talent all over the ground, I don't think I'm bias saying that, midfield that is close to breaking records on clearance, incredible key forwards. Is it all the small moments we've fluffed? Am I that bias on our talent?

I can honestly say I've had more fun watching us this year than even 2022 with some of passages being breath taking. It feels very weird

 

[DragoDelph]

I don't think that's true. Your midfield was much better, smashed us in the clearances. Your accuracy was also a product of the quality delivery into your fwd 50. I think we made our like bandits here. I'm hoping you guys can course correct, would like to see you win the flag.

Bombers ids recaptured the early season form. Hoping they can keep it up now.

Roberts looks the goods

 

[wakojako]

Okay so venting aside, some positives from the game:

• Ignoring the last ten minutes, Young was elite this game. How good was that running goal from the centre bounce! So excited to see his growth.
• Treacy and Amiss with 3 goals and 4 goals respectively will carry us to premiership success
• Sturt has now kicked 17 goals in 8 games at 71% accuracy. His growth has really improved our forwardline.

 

[DragoDelph]

I'm honestly trying to reconcile how we could miss finals with how we've looked for so much if the year. Talent all over the ground, I don't think I'm bias saying that, midfield that is close to breaking records on clearance, incredible key forwards. Is it all the small moments we've fluffed? Am I that bias on our talent?

I can honestly say I've had more fun watching us this year than even 2022 with some of passages being breath taking. It feels very weird

That last 5%

and consistency in-game.

 

[Joao]

So the season is over unless we can win the next 3 in a row.

5th-8th finish = no flag

There is no chance we were ever getting through a winning finals campaign without playing in a close game and we are terrible at close games. We are also terrible at holding leads on the road.

Our football in isolation is good enough, but there's more to it than that and we fail at pretty much all those things.

I'm honestly trying to reconcile how we could miss finals with how we've looked for so much if the year. Talent all over the ground, I don't think I'm bias saying that, midfield that is close to breaking records on clearance, incredible key forwards. Is it all the small moments we've fluffed? Am I that bias on our talent?

I can honestly say I've had more fun watching us this year than even 2022 with some of passages being breath taking. It feels very weird

It's 100% all the small things. Because they aren't talent, they are experience.

 

[s_wd6]

The most infuritating thing is that we were dominating clearances in the second half. Then when it matterd most we gave up like 5 centre bounces in a row or something like that.

Really dissappointing that the fault is basically entirely on our leadership group. Serong, Brayshaw, Switta, JOM, Young all in the middle and all completely crumbled. Incredibly poor leadership.

 

[Cobbler]

One error, he made. Every other possession was very well constructed and to the teams advantage. How typical that people would drag up his one mistake. Clarke made a lot more errors than Erasmus. As did most of our players. Sharp was very ordinary, as well. Didn't see Jaeger or Freddie or Emmett.

Look I’d love to give the kid a go, but it was a no pressure couldn’t make a decision error. Could even of handballed it to the player riding shotgun. It’s inexcusable.

He wasn’t doing anything that warranted remaining on the field either. He was given a game and was miles of grabbing his opportunity.

I feel for him. I’d love him to just be given a block of games. But he’s out next week.