Review Round 6, 2020 vs GWS

[Ant Bear]

Good win, and still plenty to work on.

The co-ordination up forward was constantly ****ed, players getting in each others way. Delivery was mind-numbingly dumb into a flooded forward line, but the unselfish blocking for a team-mate which has been a feature of our season was forgotten.

We weren't as sharp around the clearances as we would like, either. Wines was good in tight, but getting the ball to the outside runners was more laboured than planned. Amon and Farrell are such underrated weapons with space.

Defence was good, but they had lots of help. Only 30-odd inside 50s to defend, we played this game in our half. Our defenders look vulnerable against quick ball movement, but it only happened a few times. Again, the co-operation was dubious, often everyone up/nobody down, but we got away with it.

Special mention to the umpires, calling play on to suck SPP into conceding a 50 was a masterstroke. Mumfords reaction when finally penalised for a push in the ruck in the last said it all "It has been allowed 20 times today, why now?"

Ebert should be a fine, but Port tax will elevate it. Compared to Long from yesterday, the opponent had no ill effects and played it out, but you just know that Christian will drop it somewhere between the hangmans noose and the guillotine.

We were good in clearances, had an excellent defensive structure behind the ball and our pressure was back. And GWS aren't as good as they are made out to be.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Entries inside 50 were seriously poor, back to bombing it long to Charlie where he'd be jumping against 3+ almost every time.

 

[Smithy7]

Todd Marshall celebrates kicking a goal ...

 

[JUSTWORK]

What are the ground dimensions of Metricon compared to Adelaide Oval? Is Adelaide Oval narrower?

Adelaide Oval - 167 x 124

Metricon - 161 X 134

 

[x_les_x]

A lot of positives but Rozee really needs to lift

 

[wayb2912]

Good to win but a horrible game and if we were more composed going inside 50 we would of won by more

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[shewho]

Not a brilliant win but, by geez, that was a brilliant win.

 

[jac147]

Huge win considering GWS’s dominance over us recently, and a great response to last weeks loss. Not to mention that all the boys woke up super early this morning and only flew up for the game today.

Very good win.

Perhaps we should have won last year, but the previous losses were all bad

 

[philthy05]

Good to get the win.

GWS lost that game during the week. Do they normally go the epic freo Ross Lyons flood? That was the most extreme flooding I’ve seen all year. They must have worried about our scoring potential. Cameron is one of the worst coaches in the league next to the dogs coach.

we had the better of them for most of the game but our forward line weren’t prepared for the flood at all. Handled it poorly. Forwards got in each other’s way, Marshall was the first to move up the ground and I thought actually was pretty decent. Westhoff finally pushed up in the fourth.

the bigger concern wasn’t the forwards getting in each other’s way, it was that every single forward entry was being brought to ground and our smalls and mids did **** all.

how many times did we bring it down and gws won it? Like 97/100 times. Embarrassing. The villains of our forward line weren’t the talls, it was the ground ball players who made zero out of dozens of opportunities. Marshall butters and spp and others were chasing and putting pressure on as well. A lot of it was on our mids who pushed up and just sat there while their counterparts won the ground balls. ****ing dickheads. Anyway.

Farrell - bog. Lol at the people who wanted him out. He’s absolutely worth persisting with even if he has down games occasionally. Absolute weapon. 19d 1 goal 400 m gained 8 score involvements. Super.

Hartlett - very very good. Worked hard and pushed up the ground.

Jonas - generally good game. Beat his opponent time and time again. Ball use of just slowly hacking it so it hangs in the air forever was poor and should have pulled in more marks. Port desperately needs a rance style intercept marker to work with Jonas.

Boak - decent without being great

Amon - was bog early. Just become such a surprising tough nut to be honest. Runs so hard. He’s a huge reason of our success this year.

Spp - massive second half. Was horrid early, his first 3 touches killed the chain of possession. Ran hard and that big body at pace creates havoc. 24 pressure acts, 3 centre clearances off not many centre bounce attendances and 442 m gained.

Houston - very good. Much better balance with him and wines. Was in everything in the first 5mins. Tonnes of intercept possessions having him roaming midfield picking off oppo kicks off half back is awesome. He’s a much better defensive midfielder, teams just don’t get out the back of contests against him. Who was on cogs? Houston at stages I think but unsure if it was just him or others but he was blanketed. Had zero space and time. One of our best.

Wines - was critical of him at times but looking back his influence over cogs Greene and hopper was a key part of the win. 20d 9 contested 21 pressure acts 6 clearances. Was important, just know that he’s got better in him than this though. Much better midfield balance without rocky.

Dbj - better than last week. Pretty good. Much more like him. Didn’t have as much to do with how gws was structured.

Lycett - typical lycett. Worked hard and got 8 clearances. Had a hard day with umps allowing Mumford to get away with murder.

butters - 14d and a goal. Building so well. Worked hard.

dixon - tough day at the office. Had no space was surrounded by defenders and teammates. At times our forward fifty resembled that world war z movie where the zombies are trying to scale the wall.

burton - okay. Didn’t seem very busy. Didn’t seem to give much support to the team when balls came in, he was never there to come across and help so **** knows where he was, either pushed up the ground or just not working hard enough. Clean with the ball though and glad to have him back and no horror moments. People are hard on bonner, and rightly so but he gets to 10 times more contests than burton.

Rozee - a couple of great sidesteps but what was that kick? Totally off his game at the moment. He’s still young.

McKenzie - worked hard, got forward and tried honestly to compete and did well. He’s just going to be limited by that height sometimes and caught out.

Westhoff - horrid first 3/4s. Good 4th. Don’t play him deep port. Let him roam high and then push forward rather than start deep. Coaching misstep.

Ebert - why why why does Hinkley keep putting him into centre bounces. Has less clearances than Amon this season for ****s sake. Let him do the hff roving mid pressure acts thing or don’t play him. Down game for him today.

gray - influential in the middle more than numbers suggest. Great little body work. Is nearly done as a small forward, teams figured that out ages ago. Just use him as a mid rotation who rests forward and plays as a decoy.

Marshall - slow start but worked into the game especially as he pushed up the ground out of the flood. Tough game for talls.

clurey - so so. Should be establishing himself as a premier defender this year but has been just okay.

Motlop - so so. Got a goal, worked hard at times but with our amount of forward fifty entries would have liked to have seen more. Injured late with a head clash.

Sutcliffe - looked okay early but a bit of a stagnant player. Worked to space well and used it very safely but didn’t really look to open the game up, just the safe kornes kick.

 

[philthy05]

Reckon we still need to drop Wines.

we do that and hopper cogs Green kill us today.

 

[GremioPower]

Comms: How great is Mummy's physical game!!

He should have been called for free against all day long.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I think Robbie is still suffering a bit fitnesswise from that broken toe just before the restart. He'll find his way into form, but I'd get him on the ball more often.

 

[Powerade 08]

I think Robbie is still suffering a bit fitnesswise from that broken toe just before the restart. He'll find his way into form, but I'd get him on the ball more often.

I think he is suffering even more from the ball being delivered to his opponent instead of him.

 

[MrChow]

I think with Marshall keeping Haynes in check, it created a double key forward and defender setup all day. It was weird, in the sense that they kept getting in each others way, but also GWS really didn't take that many intercept marks. So although we looked a bit unco, it also did help us lock it in our half. Would have liked to have seen Marshall/Dixon, lead up a bit more though too, just to change it up.

 

[bomberclifford]

The haters looking beyond silly now. Just admit you were wrong.

Ken will lead you to a flag this year. I know a premiership team when I see one.

If you apologize now, you will look far less silly than the other "SAcK KeNnETh" nuffies when Ken holds the cup aloft at the end of the year. They are toxic morons who cannot be reasoned with and are consumed by their own prejudice and bias.

#SAcK_KeNnETh

 

[Canoogs]

Review this one

Yeah, but... We really need to just make sure there are more holding the balls paid and stuff. Because otherwise our game would be ugly or something.

 

[Dalfino]

So glad we beat that mob. Got sick of the commentators circlejerking over the "physicality" of dog players like Greene and Mumford whilst completely ignoring Marshall's head getting shoved into the dirt and the hit on Ebert after his mark in the fourth where the Giants player elected to jump off of the ground and bump. But of course all the talk was about Ebert's bump in the first hey? Joke umpiring and joke commentary but glad to be the ones laughing at the end of the day - plenty of little positives around the place and nice to bounce back and give the flat-track bullies tag a shake.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Should have mentioned Robbie Gray in the centre was a catalyst too. So composed and damaging.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Adelaide Oval - 167 x 124

Metricon - 161 X 134

Dermott Brereton would probably say Farrell wouldn't have kicked that goal at Adelaide Oval because the 50m line is further out there than at Metricon.

 

[TeeKray]

Thought the first three quarters were a dour grind. We were well in the contest but just kept bombing the ball forward and watching GWS walk the ball out with ease in various different ways. For most of the third quarter, GWS were annihilating us - but they couldn't put it on the scoreboard, which kept us in the match. Dixon's goal after the three quarter time siren was really important in setting the platform for what happened after the break.

The last quarter was incredible. It was 2014 like in that some invisible switch seemed to flick and we went from fumbly and hesitant to running all over the top of them in waves.

Farrell was fantastic. Best game for the club.

SPP a monster all day. Needs to play like that every week.

Houston back in the middle worked a treat. Just feel so comfortable with the ball in his hands, both by hand and foot.

Jonas was great in defence. Quietly putting together an AA standard season.

Hartlett also huge in defence.

Great win.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Mumford is umpired differently in that his attack on the man is deemed as clumsy and acceptable, but for every other ruckman it's a free against

 

[Buget]

not the “top contender” killing game supporters wanted, but a character building game. Very frustrating game to watch.

Good to see some others stand up when the likes of Boak, Grey and Westhoff were not that great or well held. it will be interesting to see what happens at selection this week, Farrell was up there for BOG.

Good win in a “home” game. 5-1, with Carlton at the Gabba next week then hopefully a string of AO games. Good setup for the rest of the season.

 

[Jack Grange]

Remember when this board wanted SPP traded?

However I think or it appears SPP has a much better attitude when compared to last yr.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Good win against GWS and the umps, in reverse of that order

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Wish McKenzie goaled from outside 50 (after Farrell's 50+ goal) would've been so demoralising for GWS