Autopsy Round 21: Roast & Toast vs Cats & Changes for Freo

[OhhDeledio]

 

[bananatigz]

Comes down to a few things for me

- Rance got killed by Taylor, and sure that doesn't happen often, but the switch should have been made at halftime at the absolute latest
- Bar the third quarter we were smashed around the stoppages which really hurts us going forward if we can't get it moving quickly. Also no surprise we started getting free kicks in the third when we were first to the ball
- Missed 4 or 5 absolute sitters. Hurt us numerous times this year and could be the difference in a final

Kudos to Geelong, better for longer.

 

[Grockadoc]

**** the umpires. That is all. I seriously hope Dimma sprays them and asks for a please explain. How a team can get away with so many drops and throws astounds me.

We DESPERATELY need a second tall. Once Caddy went down it shot our forward structure.

How did it take so long to realise the handball game wasn't working. Introduce a policy. If you handball to a stationary target, you get fined 10% of your match fee.

Our transition from the backline was absolutely horrible. Couldn't hit a target in the second and 4th quarters.

 

[Caveman68]

For a top 4 side we have some big issues. Once again the serial offenders didn't show up when the whips were cracking. You know who they are.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Sure the umps gave them a 4 goal head start...but when we got on a roll...we stuffed it up

2 easy misses to Houli...same Jack

Booting out of defence in sheer hope

This ain't finals footy

 

[Swanny69]

Big opportunity today but played poorly.. not helped by the umpring and general luck of the bounce not being with us... normally 14 pt loss at Simmonds would be creditable.. but today feels like a kick in the guys.. usual suspects missing easy set shots that would have created critical scoreboard pressure..

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Would prefer that happen now than come finals time anyway. Lets face it, Cats were never going to let a game down after losing so poorly last week. We should win our next two

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Played shit. Got ahead of ourselves with all of Geelong's outs.

 

[tigerfan1961]

Never got our free flowing game going. Hopefully can learn from that for the finals.

It's because of where the game was played, nothing surer

 

[Cotcho]

As far as rants go this is just odd, there were plenty of tickets to buy.

We were shithouse today

Plenty of tickets...ok

 

[bananatigz]

I'll reiterate the point about the umpiring. It was bad, no doubt, but when we were first to the ball in the third quarter we started getting them too. If you crash in and put your head over the ball you are going to get more free kicks, geelong smashed us in that area for three quarters.

 

[OhhDeledio]

prestia and lambert tried hard but not many deserve there match fees today

Vlastuin to

 

[U2tigers]

Vlastuin - lucky he was there.
Grimes - hard day to be a defender
Prestia -good
Martin - not his best but still good
Bellis

Cellis and Houli ( disposal was shite) were bad today.

edit - sorry forgot to give Lambert a toast.

 

[che88]

Anyone who says a Levi wouldnt help us today your kidding yourself. Henderson killed us, no bail out kick soldo rubbish.

 

[Vitalogy]

Butler and Castagna a combined total 7 disposals, 1 goal. Also can't keep playing Soldo he gives us nothing down the line.

 

[HumanMeatball]

Caddy didn't even have ice on his hamstring. Could still be fine to play. Geelong in geelong was never going to suit how we play. Should still make top 4. Prestia our best

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

prestia has been great since the freshen up 29 disposals 5 clearances 9tackles 6 score involvements

 

[TigerImposter]

I will never pencil in a win against Geelong again. Made fools of me yet again. Consolation for the day Hey Doc won the big race at HQ today.

 

[Loyal tiger]

Richmond you cruel mistress... after expecting a nothing season, we find ourselves looking at a top two spot on the ladder... yet when the big 8 point games come along.... sigh....

Take away that second quarter and we would have won. Poor kicking from half back, sh!t my pant hospital handballs turned the ball over far too much...

Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the piss poor umpiring, we need to keep running and today we looked a little tired at times and subsequently showed in our ball movement.

On to next week, where just our luck, Freo will be looking to bounce back after the shelacking by the Swans, so they'll be up and about.... great....

I'd rather stumble now than in three weeks time during finals....

 

[TigerRoar]

Not the worst loss. Still in a good position for the top 4. Move on to freo next week. We won't need to play on that dung heap rest of the year

 

[rideclutch]

Disappointing that we played so patchy, but a good experience for the kids.

Thought Floss and Grimes were excellent today, really showed their worth when others around were struggling. Rare poor one from Alex.

Credit to Geelong, thought they picked their way through our zone effectively and just overall used the footy better, we were overusing it and wasteful.

 

[TiggerMan22]

Houli, Butler, Castagna, McIntosh all poor

 

[Forensi Tiger]

Yes time to drop our worst 2 or 3 and replace them with a different 2 or 3 that have let us down before as well

 

[jc12]

We are losing this game largely due to where it's being played.
There's a good reason Sydney beat them down there, the narrow ground suits contested footy and hurts teams with speed and good spread from the contest. It's why they lost to Freo in that final, contested ball wins down there and I don't rate us in that regard.
Have not watched the game at all as I knew what would happen, although it sounds like the game has been umpired like we were playing Eagles in Perth??
Just my opinion but I reckon we'd kill them at the G where we can use fast ball movement to hurt them

we dont even use the boundary that much though, though i knew we would lose all along, geelong has the wood over us doesnt matter where its played

 

[living_in_syd]

not too worried about this one man down with caddy out and AFL obviously had an agenda and instructed umps to get geelol the win and we still only lost by 14. umpiring was literally the worst it has ever been in the leagues history

delist: cellis houli out: broad

in: markov miles graham

Markov shits himself more than broad