Autopsy Round 23, 2022: St.Kilda v Sydney

[Dard Ball Get]

The umpires punish Sinclair and Wilkie for taking the piss when they couldn’t dissent

Meanwhile Reid and co talk shit til their hearts content.

 

[George]

The umpires punish Sinclair and Wilkie for taking the piss when they couldn’t dissent

Wilkie's eye-rolling compilation was the highlight of 2022 for me

 

[Plugger35]

We need more elite kicks that can pinpoint a target, now we just have Sinclair but we used to have Dal Santo, Goddard and Gwilt that could hit targets.

 

[Diehard Saint]

We need more elite kicks that can pinpoint a target, now we just have Sinclair but we used to have Dal Santo, Goddard and Gwilt that could hit targets.

Clark hit a few tonight. Needs a good run at it next season

 

[AirWinmar]

Umpire: “Are you Ben Long”
Longy : “Yeah mate”
Umpire: “I’m not your mate, your reported”

What a joke, reporting him for punching the ball.

Was barely a free kick ffs

 

[SAINTsincebirth]

Crazy how good Long looks when he's allowed to play footy and isn't just left to be a lock down small defender or small pressure forward.

He was drafted after dominating the VFL grand final for the Dogs as an attacking half back

My memory could be wrong but I thought he kicked 6 playing mid-field.

 

[AirWinmar]

Longy out of contract, where has the guy who played tonight been hiding.

He played some game tonight. 26 disposals at 96 de and 2 mark of the year contenders. When he's on he is absolutely awesome

 

[Plugger35]

Clark hit a few tonight. Needs a good run at it next season

Clark has the skills to set up play from half back like those guys did but Goddard could hit a target on the run from 50 metres away, he was a freak.

 

[sverik25]

Wilkie's eye-rolling compilation was the highlight of 2022 for me

I need to see this.

 

[SaintersUnite]

**** Hill off and give the dashing half back role to Long btw.


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[Sheepey]

I really wouldn't have noticed if Hill hadn't played today. Apart from the game against Hawthorn where he kicked 4, it's just another incredibly average and disappointing year for him. We haven't done well out of our big name signings it has to be said.

 

[Munga]

Ratts said we've "won" the clanger kicks in 19 of the 22 matches.

Do you see this merely as a kicking skill error?
Or do you see this as lacking selfless running, creation of space, isolating key match-ups etc.?

Interesting.

 

[SaintersUnite]

I can see next year going in one of two ways, we do a Fremantle and have a big improvement out of nowhere to push for top 4, or we become the new Essendon. No in between.


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[BrutThough]

I've bagged umpires when they've deserved it, and I've defended them likewise.

Tonight I thought the umpiring was fine, one of the better ones.

BUT, the report of Ben Long, I can't help feel a little disgusted. He has clearly been reported because of what the umpire fraternity think of him. He made a magnificent spoil. If you didn't think there was any umpire bias, here's your proof otherwise.

Long got the Sydney guy flush in the face. Might have got some of the ball as well but from the angle on the wing, he got a lot of face.

 

[Munga]

Long got the Sydney guy flush in the face. Might have got some of the ball as well but from the angle on the wing, he got a lot of face.

OK. I'll polish my rose coloured glasses and have another look

 

[BrutThough]

OK. I'll polish my rose coloured glasses and have another look

I haven't seen any decent footage of it but should probably get a fine for it.

 

[PostmanBish]

Want to see Long signed up. He's improved. I think he might be very good next year ...

... after he finishes serving 12 weeks for "being Ben Long".

 

[BrutThough]

Decent performance the summed up our year - we do a lot of things well but just don't have the class and polish to compete with the best.

- I'm happy Hanners got to finish on a high note. Every time he played for us, you could see why we brought him in and the skill that he has.

- Best game of Long's career.

- Sinclair deserves to be the first named half-back in the AA team. Put an exclamation mark on a brilliant season by showing that tagger you can't stop him twice. What a great way to respond to being shut down in our first meeting this year.

- King is going to be the best player in the comp in a few years time. He will be unstoppable. He will have games where he kicks terribly again but that doesn't mean he needs to go to the VFL or be tried in defence. After all the focus on his kicking last week, to come out and end the season with a great kicking night will do heaps for his confidence over the preseason.

- Clark really needs some luck with his body.

- NWM, Owens, Windy. They are going to be a special trio for us.

 

[AirWinmar]

And when they all do it, it's coached.

It reminds me a bit of the Lyon days, except we're extremely slower and shorter switching it, which is ineffective. Still haven't worked it out. Maybe it stretches the field more to open the corridoor a little? Someone must've done the maths on it.

I reckon he we do that to suck the zone up the ground and then try and get them out the back

 

[MF]

For all the talk of how bad we are, we just pushed a top 3 team all the way to the line, in a game they had to win to finish top 4 (was the difference between 3rd and 5th), and they have a grand total of ZERO missing from their best 22.

They were literally full strength.

We on the other hand had all of the following unavailable:

Gresham
Crouch
Ryder
Wood
Billings
D-Mac
Coffield
Clark (2nd half)
Webster
Sharman
Battle (last quarter)
Hayes

All 12 of whom were in our senior team the game prior to or while sustaining their current injuries!

Obviously we’ve got plenty to work on, but if we can work out how to put it all together we can play highly competitive footy.

Pushed us further than any other side has in about 2 months. Was great to see Hanners turning back the clock too.

As much as it can break your heart seeing a former champion of your club playing well for another team I think it broke my heart more seeing him struggle to get on the park consistently and play like the champion he is.

All the best for next year.

 

[austinnn]

Sadly I have had to leave the train. The person with the roast chicken is still on the Pakenham Via Pakenham train

Needs more Pakenham

 

[Atomboy]

It was a good idea but I think it was Paton was too s**t to take it and turned it over.

Paton and Hill were football poison today

 

[austinnn]

Good feeling we'll get things sorted over the pre-season, thinking a push towards top four next year and premiers in 2024, Ratts a St Kilda hero.

Dare to dream, brace for impact.

 

[austinnn]

We need to get that fast flow on gameplan that all the best teams have got where you give your forwards a one on one or get them out in open space.

We chip it around too much so the opposition flood our forward 50 or when we try and go fast we turn it over as we don't have the skills to hit targets.

By the time we get on it, it will have been effectively worked out and neutralised by an innovative coach and everyone will copy that guy while we plug ahead with the Windows95 version.

 

[Plugger35]

By the time we get on it, it will have been effectively worked out and neutralised by an innovative coach and everyone will copy that guy while we plug ahead with the Windows95 version.

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