Autopsy The good, the bad and the oh dear v St Kilda

[Nate7]

These early autopsy threads are ridiculous

It's a bit of a joke, but the awful results justify it.

Gameday threads starting at midnight rather than actual gametime is a joke.

 

[Spud11]

It's a bit of a joke, but the awful results justify it.

Gameday threads starting at midnight rather than actual gametime is a joke.

All we can do is joke

 

[Nylex]

Thought we had plenty of intensity and effort today.. def an improvement.
My big take on today, was the game was lost between the 20min mark of the first qtr and 15 min of the 2nd qtr when st.kilda kicked 6 goals straight. Thought Xerri’s tap work during this period was atrocious, grabbing the ball or clubbing it to no one… not attempting to create any cohesion with the smaller midfielders. We put Larkey in the middle as our ruckman and he got us back on track. We have multiple coaches and Damien Monkhorst who need to tell X to cut the crap out and start working towards helping his team mates

 

[Makeshift Park]

Posters who make premature autopsy threads are softer than Sleevo.

 

[DrZaius]

Saints fans genuinely have to be some of the weirdest campaigners in the league. Always amazes me how their fans can have such a big club mentality when they are one of the least successful professional sporting teams of all time.

As for the game itself thought we were better today despite the score - showed a bit more fight and heads didn't drop. Not happy, but happier.

 

[Spud11]

Saints fans genuinely have to be some of the weirdest campaigners in the league. Always amazes me how their fans can have such a big club mentality when they are one of the least successful professional sporting teams of all time.

As for the game itself thought we were better today despite the score - showed a bit more fight and heads didn't drop. Not happy, but happier.

I’ve also appreciated our players flying the flag re: Webster.

General play I was really happy with.
Stupid 50’s again though. Meh.
A good game.

 

[apollo_creed]

38 inside 50s is shocking.

Defence was fine today apart from some dumb decisions and mistakes (particularly early).

Midfield well beaten.

 

[ToxicMegaPunts]

Wardlaw = The Hulk
McKercher = The Flash
Sleevo = The Invisible Man

 

[Wild Bill]

We weren’t great but they are the worst team we have played this year.

This is a lot closer with out the bias umpiring. We easily go past them in 2 years.

 

[Nate1993]

Highlights:
Archer
Wardlaw
McKercher

Lowlights:
Larkey's ability to take a mark
Simpkins ability to hit a target
Corrs ability to give the opposition momentum

 

[Val Keating]

That last quarter was all effort. Hopefully they can get some belief from that. Have a real crack and get results.

 

[Chadwiko]

Post game thoughts

• Wardlaw's best game for the club? Not necessarily reflected in the stat sheet, but the intensity absolutely lifted his team mates. Love to see it.
• Pink as the sub? Ridiculous. Pink as a forward? ... weirdly worked well! Give him a full game up forward next week!
• Stephenson, I've defended him a lot in years past. But nah. It's over.
• McKercher a great kick and love his effort. But a few too many times he was very much exposed as too skinny in defense. We gotta play him on a wing or HBF at worst. If he's deep in a pocket 1 on 1, our defensive structure has failed.
• Corr was... okay today!
• Xerri tries his guts out and is useful around the ground, but his tap-work still kills our midfield at times.
• Powell pretty quiet game. 17 touches but I don't remember any particularly impactful ones.
• Larkey finished the game strongly but had some absolute atrociously weak efforts today. Needs to cut them out of his game and stop playing for frees.
• Drury has good intensity.
• Jackson Archer actually cares, which is nice.
• Comben started really strong in defense in his first game, but feel like he's fallen off a little in recent weeks.
• I'd much rather Hardeman and Archer, and no more Luke McDonald.

 

[Ashley B]

Another game another loss

 

[apollo_creed]

This site is going down the dunny Chief

The over the top Ads are killing us, every page has to be a new full ad?

You don’t want people here at all?

And we have no Half Forward Line

Chief does call himself the Mr.Beast of internet football forums.

 

[ChopChopDigDig]

Posters who make premature autopsy threads are softer than Sleevo.

I irrationally ****ing hate it. Just wait to the end of the game campaigners. If you want to vent during the game, do it in the game day thread.

 

[SheezNuts]

Last quarter in particular was an enjoyable watch, off the back of some amazing efforts from G. Wardlaw. Team lifting stuff. Was great to finally see some effort.

 

[ChopChopDigDig]

Arch should play every game this year from here on.

 

[Amicalola]

That game was a real mixed bag. I liked the effort. Wardlaw is my new favourite player (just kidding ily Eddie even if Clarko apparently doesn't). Pink in the forward line actually looked reasonable.

But **** we are so bad at basic football ability, and it's still the grown-ups who are the main problem. Larkey especially had a STINKER. And I am worried that Duursma is checked out - not that I blame him, this must be a traumatic experience as an 18-year-old forward used to dominating games. Comben/Archer both looked great but had injury scares that I'm not sure we got conclusions on. Those things all worry me greatly...

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

We can see that we have two actual defenders going forward that we can build the back six around:

(Dawson) (Logue) Archer
???? Comben (Goater)

We can see the nucleus of the midfield going forward and it doesn’t need to include some of the mids we have relied upon in the past:

Xerri Wardlaw (vc) Sheezel (c)
Scott McKercher (Ford)

You can’t really judge anything of the forwards with so little supply:

???? ????? ?????
Curtis Larkey ????

The rest are unproven, depth or dead-wood for mine which indicates how far we are from being competitive.

 

[dollarscost]

Paul Curtis needs to do more

As does sleevo

Curtis had the highest % of shots on goal for his team of any player in the comp before this week

 

[muttley45]

Tackles inside 50 : them 15, us zero, kind of illustrates how easy it is for opposition to exit our forward line, every friggin time

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

That game was a real mixed bag. I liked the effort. Wardlaw is my new favourite player (just kidding ily Eddie even if Clarko apparently doesn't). Pink in the forward line actually looked reasonable.

But * we are so bad at basic football ability, and it's still the grown-ups who are the main problem. Larkey especially had a STINKER. And I am worried that Duursma is checked out - not that I blame him, this must be a traumatic experience as an 18-year-old forward used to dominating games. Comben/Archer both looked great but had injury scares that I'm not sure we got conclusions on. Those things all worry me greatly...

Yep, get him in the twos. Get him to put on 5kgs of muscle by February and get him some confidence kicking bags for fun in the vfl.

 

[justroyal]

This game tells me one thing. One thing that we all kinda knew this whole time.

From round 2-to now, they have been playing like a bunch of soft, spoilt, lazy campaigners. There was actual visible effort across the board. Legitimate effort. Even from that dud Stephenson who had an abysmal game

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Tackles inside 50 : them 15, us zero, kind of illustrates how easy it is for opposition to exit our forward line, every friggin time

Well when you refuse to draft or play pressure forwards, that’s what happens.

We were better with Phoenix and Turner in the side last year.

 

[bhoysdontcry67]

Which ads? We had some interstitial ads - full page between page loads - that should not have been displaying but they have been removed. Are you still getting them?

I still am Cheif