Review SHOWDOWN 55

[Coobk001]

When the B's basically demonstrated the exact same result in the first game we should've known the warning signs were there already. 8.14 and 49 to 43 inside 50's.

Even Nick's in his presser said they knew they wouldn't win the Inside 50's, so they set up to make it a bit of a scrap, but also had a plan for how they would beat us. They executed the plan to perfection. It was a coaching masterclass and Hinkley was dismantled. AGAIN.

 

[Ah12]

the forward press is laughable. How we continue to go down that path when its been exposed for the best part of 7 years.

How many games do we need to watch where teams just walk it up the field for open goals?

Out coaching staff have no solutions, they cant adapt on the fly or even change game plan mid season.

They appear to want to clog up the forward line doing this hence why we cant score or when we do its always under pressure.

Ask yourself which top team is using this game style in 2024? The answer is none. They all leave space inside their 50.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

This campaigner is going to vanish like a fart in the night after leaving Port. He'll say 'retirement' when in reality no other team will touch him

 

[StopAndDrain]

Yeah that was pretty much a disgraceful performance , another wasted year of being also rans, without being able to improve the list because of a lack of draft capital. This team has entered St Kilda land

 

[yepits2020]

Surely, the idea of helping opposition teams flood our forward line is over.

 

[MrMeaner]

Surely, the idea of helping opposition teams flood our forward line is over.

Next time it'll work for sure.

Basically, we have become a desperate as someone waiting for a lotto win.

 

[Pat07350]

The question is. Why has our goal kicking deteriorated so much this year. Some very simple shots. What’s changed. It maybe an easy default position but I think our conditioning regime may have a part to play. It does not take much of a drop off to effect the strength in your legs particularly when fatigued.
I noticed a lot of kicks were sky balls ( no punch) and in last quarter even BT made a comment about a tired kick. Boak kicking in particular. Now, granted he is 35 so that’s partly responsible but he was not always a terrible kick. In fact in the burgess years he was quite good. Now he can’t even wheel on to his right foot and kick straight and strong from 50m.

The other issue is. This club seems very comfortable to coast when they achieve limited success. It takes a rocket to get them going. Take last year. The threat of regime change brought on by Treaders comments seemed to joilt them into reality.

 

[Capital Power]

Just wondering what the take of the handful of Hinkley defenders on here is. Naturally we haven't had a peep out of them. Would genuinely like to know what positives remain.

 

[Chrizzt]

The question is. Why has our goal kicking deteriorated so much this year. Some very simple shots. What’s changed. It maybe an easy default position but I think our conditioning regime may have a part to play. It does not take much of a drop off to effect the strength in your legs particularly when fatigued.
I noticed a lot of kicks were sky balls ( no punch) and in last quarter even BT made a comment about a tired kick. Boak kicking in particular. Now, granted he is 35 so that’s partly responsible but he was not always a terrible kick. In fact in the burgess years he was quite good. Now he can’t even wheel on to his right foot and kick straight and strong from 50m.

The other issue is. This club seems very comfortable to coast when they achieve limited success. It takes a rocket to get them going. Take last year. The threat of regime change brought on by Treaders comments seemed to joilt them into reality.

I'd say about 20% is gamestyle - there are some tough shots from pockets, and forced snaps under high pressure

Another 20% is personnel - Rioli is the only natural small forward we have, DBJ and the Cheese have zero ability to create goals in contested play

And 60% is mental. Almost the entire squad's mental resilience has the equivalent fortitude of soggy paper towel.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Yeah that was pretty much a disgraceful performance , another wasted year of being also rans, without being able to improve the list because of a lack of draft capital. This team has entered St Kilda land

Why you talking shit for ..

 

[Capital Power]

Here are the votes:

Erin Phillips (Channel 7)

3: Jake Soligo

2: Zak Butters

1: Jordan Dawson

Tim Ginever (5AA)

3: Jake Soligo

2: Josh Worrell

1: Jason Horne-Francis

Bernie Vince (Triple M)

3: Jake Soligo

2: Mark Keane

1: Zak Butters

Matt Turner (The Advertiser)

3: Jake Soligo

2: Matt Crouch

1: Zak Butters

Joel Selwood (Channel 7)

3: Jake Soligo

2: Zak Butters

1: Jordan Dawson

TOTAL:

15: Jake Soligo

6: Zak Butters

2: Jordan Dawson, Matt Crouch, Mark Keane, Josh Worrell

1: Jason Horne-Francis

TBH I'm surprised any of ours got any votes at all. Just evidence that the "experts" pick their best by looking at the stats.

Butters was pretty much a lone hand, yes, and JHF was the only other not playing like the tin man, but I'd argue that neither made a lot of difference. On the flip side it seemed every one of the Crows' no-names played their role, mainly because we rolled over before a ball had been bounced.

 

[Lefti93]

the forward press is laughable. How we continue to go down that path when its been exposed for the best part of 7 years.

How many games do we need to watch where teams just walk it up the field for open goals?

Out coaching staff have no solutions, they cant adapt on the fly or even change game plan mid season.

They appear to want to clog up the forward line doing this hence why we cant score or when we do its always under pressure.

Ask yourself which top team is using this game style in 2024? The answer is none. They all leave space inside their 50.

We've known it for years, it works against the less skilled teams. Good teams work it out and know how to play against it. Hence the term, flat track bullies.

 

[Rash]

TBH I'm surprised any of ours got any votes at all. Just evidence that the "experts" pick their best by looking at the stats.

Butters was pretty much a lone hand, yes, and JHF was the only other not playing like the tin man, but I'd argue that neither made a lot of difference. On the flip side it seemed every one of the Crows' no-names played their role, mainly because we rolled over before a ball had been bounced.

Yeah I agree, you probs noticed butters and JHF taking the game on and not making decisions quick, this was because the front half of the ground was so stagnant, butters and JHF started the late surge at the start of the 4th qtr. without them we lose by even more

 

[Fizzler]

Look, I'm just saying:
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You might be mostly joking here but…

(Purely purchased of Kayo, hence the date of April 11. Just didn’t want to give out club another cent.)

 

[chiwigi]

Didn't watch, not going to watch.

I will go to every home game, that's it until Hinkley is gone.

According to my bond as a fan, no more, no less.

 

[SureBuddy]

So many things to say, but really just can't be bother going into any detail.

• Players have lost all confidence and playing like an U12's team
• Gameplan is utterly disgusting
• Every opposition team has found out the way to play against our horrendous gameplan and we can't change anything on the fly
• All 3 key forwards were a disgrace
• Rozee playing was a disgrace
• Hinkley is a ****wit
• That is quite possibly the worst game I have seen us play in the past 12 years
• Crows were horrendous, we just were embarrassingly worse

 

[Poo Eckert]

Our missed shots is an illusion, most of our shots were under intense pressure, we can’t have shots with minimal pressure. Our forward entries were slow, contested and in a flooded zone.

As per every game we play.

As always we suck into the contest, don’t win the ball, opposition gets it out to the outliers and then run over the back of our zone to 1-1 defenders in a paddock.

 

[Poo Eckert]

We’ll bottom out in time for the TAS team draft concessions

That sounds familiar.

We have enough talent, just better instructions.

 

[Memphis]

Didn't watch, not going to watch.

I will go to every home game, that's it until Hinkley is gone.

According to my bond as a fan, no more, no less.

Just reading all the comments on here you don't need to watch the game it was atrocious.

 

[Izzy01]

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Yet here we are 6-7 years later delivering the same shit.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Worth looking at for the comments (many of which are from posters here I'm sure )

 

[PortWTF]

Last week I said that this year has a bit of the 11-4 vibe. Halfway through that year we were still winning but you could tell it was purely on talent and the team and gameplan were completely dysfunctional. With just a couple of injuries it all fell apart quickly and we finished 12-10. That's what this year looks like to me. It's just happened a lot sooner.

Next week we will probably lead the clearances and inside 50s, but lose by 8-10 goals. The talent is there, but the coaching is pus.

 

[Stryke]

Knew it was over after Fogarty kicked the second goal (the second in two minutes where Lachie Jones was too short to defend lol) Then they added a third and that was it. Unfortunately I made it a special night for my kids to watch the footy so I couldn't turn it off that early.

Stuck out to the Mac and Cheese miss where I said he may as well just hand the ball back to the Crows. he is a truly awful footballer I actually feel sorry for him as he is clearly not AFL standard in any way.

Our forward line is absolutely pitiful. We just stand around while the opposition flood back and wait for us to turn it over, kick a point from an angle/rushed kicked or bomb it to Charlie/Todd/George who all compete for it and try and spoil each other. The worst part of it being we almost never have a crumber there (or at the feet of any contests) which is actually insanely bad football.

How we never have any sort of open forward line compared to how easily we get outrun going the other way demands an actual explanation from the coaches imo. If not to us then at least to the board. The gameplan is broken from the ground up.

JHF is incredible even though he only had 14 touches at least he is a courageous footballer. Takes balls to kick the goals under pressure an no-one else has them. Butters good but has to do too much. Thought Esava was ok given how often he is dealing with fast break. Sweet battled to a draw with ROB. Rioli tried to ignite some things.

The bad is almost everyone else - Dixon absolutely thrashed by someone who has only been playing a few years (Keane was looking like getting the medal early on), Marshall is officially a spud, Boak is fumbly and cooked. We fumbled all night and missed so many quick handballs.

Won't even touch on Rozee playing.

Sack Hinkley.

 

[Port 2004]

This campaigner is going to vanish like a fart in the night after leaving Port. He'll say 'retirement' when in reality no other team will touch him

And it will smell worst than Bolivar.

 

[Port 2004]

We’ll bottom out in time for the TAS team draft concessions

The thing is we won’t bottom out because we have the talent and it is a relatively young list. The problem is in the coaching game planet . Not talent based.