Autopsy Round 3, 2024: Essendon v St.Kilda

[sauce_head]

No more Bonner. Ive seen enough. Sincs needs to get his arse into gear cause we need him. Owens needs to learn how to kick for goal.
We choked, plain and simple

Yep. That is it.

 

[gubby88]

From quarter time we were under pressure.
The dam wall broke and Ross had no answers

Ross had the answers but we couldn't put it through the sticks. Plus the players decision making was horrible

 

[Curunir]

Our own fault, we missed too many shots and didn't take advantage of our dominance when we were up and about.

I think subbing sharman off was the wrong decision, should've played deep in the forward line and just taken Bonner off.

We really played into their hand just bombing the ball in, particularly around the CHF position where they could can then rebound a lot quicker. Needed to kick it deeper if we were just going to start bombing it in.

You can definitely tell we have 7-8 players from our best 22 missing. We looked a young side and lacked composure in the last quarter. I have a feeling we may go slightly backwards this year but if we keep seeing progression from Nas, Windy, Owens, Pou etc it will still be a successful year imo

 

[Jade Buddha]

Lazy, incompetent rubbish. Hang your heads saints you were an embarrassment

 

[EddieMurphy]

Hastie with a traditional Saints debut in an absolute dumpster fire of a game.

 

[sauce_head]

All on the players, 2.6 from set shots.
Players lost that not the coach.

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True. But that really really sounds like a Ross Lyon era problem. I’m not sure why. Also, first to 70 wins is another Ross Lyon era “problem”.

 

[StFly]

We just didn't really want it, skill execution was so poor it was all just a battle and frankly they wanted it more and we just played for the easy ball more often than not. Then when you have a situation where you lose the 50/50's, ball pings to their side and luck isn't on your side with matters, it just ends up as hard.

Higgins did brilliantly, Owens tried, Seb arguably tried to hold the mid together, but we really lowered our colours, and to this mob. Hammer needed more presence to stamp he belongs, Sharman needed to bridge and kick truly as we know he could, but then he got dragged and subbed, but all up we just struggled, carried too many, fell at the last hurdle.

 

[Elvis Winmar]

Why did we look so tired in the last quarter?!!!! Nine day break!!

 

[Minga]

Saw that one coming a mile away once we took our foot off their throat. Onto the next - tough to win away games.

Still don’t rate bombers must add, credit to them, they’re competitive but we played shite. Sloppy game of footy with no structure largely due to several key player injuries and lack of composure. Regardless, was a game we should have walked away with. All it took was some ump calls and a clutch stringer goal and that’s the difference, even with our shite play.

Caps off a terrible week here on the BF board, a far cry from our game against the bombers last year which was absolute peak.

Disappointed but can’t win every week, whatever, I have no major concerns. We’ll be solid this season, not perfect, but solid and putting games into the youth. Whether or not we play finals is up to us.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Crap disposal efficiency
Crap centre clearances
Crap contested ball winning
Crap goal kicking

 

[NasiahToKing]

Bonner is a shocker.

 

[westernsainter]

On the one hand, any club missing seven of their best 22 will struggle. On the other hand, **** me we just threw that away. If we take our chances in the first half they don't get back into it.

Truly hate putting the boots into an individual player but 17 turnovers is actually outrageous. Especially when you only get six contested possessions and six intercepts as a defender. Need to get some blokes back from injury ASAP.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Maybe they’ll pull their heads out of their own arses now.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Ross had the answers but we couldn't put it through the sticks. Plus the players decision making was horrible

They got out of our forward line too easily. Most of the time it was chipping it out

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Too cute, too arrogant, too stupid.

 

[marcus1232]

Hastie with a traditional Saints debut in an absolute dumpster fire of a game.

I feel bad for the kid.
Sharman being subbed a genuine marking threat in that game was a horrible call as well.

 

[Saintbloke]

We would have won if King and Henry had been playing, but jeez some of the soft effort in the contest were appalling.

 

[Ads734]

Bonner can’t play footy for this club anymore

 

[luca77]

Bonner kicking to Mackay and Draper on repeat.
Marshall butchered the ball all day.
Sinclair, Hill way below par with their disposal.
Wilkie played a rare fumbly game from start to finish.

Then there's the goal kicking, and we had a couple of lucky ones with Mitch's helicopter and Butler's grubber.

Just didn't deserve the win in the end.

 

[EddieMurphy]

Nice for our guys to be part of Stringers last good game of his career as well.

 

[Murraj1966]

The forwards should be so embarrassed.

So many entries so many opportunities from easy angles and they flubbed it.

Genuniely so ****ing shit

 

[Munga]

Why did we look so tired in the last quarter?!!!! Nine day break!!

We were gassed already in the first quarter

 

[Jade Buddha]

I think it’s pretty clear why Bonner was let go.
Liked what I saw from Hastie.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

I feel bad for the kid.
Sharman being subbed a genuine marking threat in that game was a horrible call as well.

Bonner should have been subbed over Sharman

 

[marcus1232]

We would have won if King and Henry had been playing, but jeez some of the soft effort in the contest were appalling.

Yeah but we would of probably lost by more had Wright played.