Autopsy The not even The Bont, Libbas and Jones' heroics can drag us over the line against the cats thread

[Oliver G]

Our field kicking and forward set up in the last 15 minutes was horrible. We were dominating and just constantly bombing it forward.

Vandermeer was our deepest forward at one point. With the game on the line, just leave one of Naughton and JUH inside 50.

 

[SackofTaters]

They have Scott, we have Bevo...

 

[GetDimmaBack]

You're right, we shouldn't be judging our performances relative to the quality we have on our list, we should be judging it relative to last year's failure. What matters is incremental improvement on a terrible year.

Beveridge deserves credit. Last year we lost to Geelong by 22 points. This time we only lost by 4 points. There is clearly a difference, and clearly it has nothing to do with Geelong coming off a 5 day break.

Good one, Joel

 

[TiAn_]

Bont, Libba, Treloar & Sanders:

3 goals, 130 disposals, 64 CPs, 37 clearances. Literally couldn’t have done more.

Lose.

FMD.

Ball movement is still average at best, defending transition at times laughable and too many stoppages with easy ball out the front for the opposition.

 

[lachy]

Grade A

You mean Grade A Anterous

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[MaxiBont]

You're right, we shouldn't be judging our performances relative to the quality we have on our list, we should be judging it relative to last year's failure. What matters is incremental improvement on a terrible year.

Beveridge deserves credit. Last year we lost to Geelong by 22 points. This time we only lost by 4 points. There is clearly a difference, and clearly it has nothing to do with Geelong coming off a 5 day break.

You can chose to be down on that performance all you want.

What I saw was us fighting back hard, playing hard and almost beating a team that was 3-0 to start the season.

We’ve been pumped by Geelong for far too long in terms of skill and pressure, tonight was such an improvement. I’m choosing to be positive but if you want to be negative that’s more than fair after a loss

 

[weltschmerz]

There were at least three points where i figured it was game over and instead of putting the heads down the boys fought back. I'm happy with that, compared to all the times they've let the oppo get a run on.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Considering Naughton gets owned by SDK and Geelong I don’t know why he wasn’t pushing up higher more of the night.

 

[Leon]

Shattering.

Christ I ****ing hate Geelong so much. Sick to ****ing death of them.

I think there’s a lot to be proud of tonight, they gave everything and threw everything they had.

Furious about that overturned mark to Stengle. Disgraceful.

Sucks to lose a close one - but think we’ve come a long way since Round One.

Very winnable games in the next month - let’s take the positives from tonight and keep rolling.

 

[Deadly Darcy]

The Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

lube up and……….awwwwwwww yeah …. Round.

He’ll sleep well tonight

 

[LakeShoehorn]

We kicked 14.7 you can hardly blame goal-kicking....

Vandermeer's howler was probably the only one that should have been a certainty. And if course they took it down and kicked one straight away.

Missing a sitter is one thing.
His crap pressure is the real problem. He does not scare any opposition players with his pressure. They just step around him or shrug him off with ease.
He is not even 1/4th the player McCreary or Neale-Bullen are.

 

[blurst]

I really don’t see how losing to such a quality side by such a small margin could justify such titanic melts

 

[Charlie Bucket]

I really don’t see how losing to such a quality side by such a small margin could justify such titanic melts

You must be new here?

 

[adogsfan5]

Spanghers forward line game plan:

-Clog the forward line as much as possible.
-Fly backwards or sideways for a mark.
-Have multiple players fly for the same footy.

 

[go the dogs]

If Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

was our coach we would be flag favourites

 

[Oliver G]

They also missed a bunch of shots.

WB
28 shots, 14 goals, 7 kicked behinds, 7 no scores

GEEL
25 shots, 14 goals, 8 kicked behinds, 3 no scores

xScore will be interesting, but regardless 7 no scores is very high.

 

[The Inbetweener]

They also missed a bunch of shots.

Exactly. It’s our general disposal from senior players. Treloar is a good example, get plenty of it but makes some poor decisions. His kick to Jamarra near the boundary with 5 minutes to go when we were out was horrible.

 

[ttomred17]

Didn’t watch the game but looks like a standard dogs v cats game. How many intercept marks did Stewart take?

You didn’t watch the game but posted on a forum about the game within 15 minutes of the final siren? Nice man

 

[Dogsman16]

I really don’t see how losing to such a quality side by such a small margin could justify such titanic melts

We want to be a top 4 side, those are the type of games we need to win.

None of us here are satisfied with mid table finishes. Gets us nowhere

 

[SackofTaters]

I didn't realise how good a ruckman Rhys Stanley

1

Rhys Stanley

Age

33

Ht

200cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.4

4star

CL

3.4

5star

HO

27.6

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

4.5

3star

CL

5.0

5star

HO

21.5

5star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

6.4

4star

CL

3.0

5star

HO

33.0

5star

was until he dominated English..

Seriously, he is not $1Mil per year..

 

[Deadly Darcy]

Bont, Libba, Treloar & Sanders:

3 goals, 130 disposals, 64 CPs, 37 clearances. Literally couldn’t have done more.

Lose.

FMD.

Ball movement is still average at best, defending transition at times laughable and too many stoppages with easy ball out the front for the opposition.

And that’s why Chris says we have great mids but he knows how to beat them.

Yes Chris. Yes you do

 

[Oliver G]

Expected Score / Actual Score
WB: 89
GE: 77

Expected Margin: +12

 

[ExRoyboy]

The boys gave it a real crack, cannot fault the effort at all. Great games from Bont and Libba. Unfortunately we lacked some composure kicking the ball forward and the Cats set up really well defensively. The ball just always seemed to fall their way.

Can I say in regards to the Stengle goal review, the AFL are kidding themselves if they think they have the technology right to make these sorts of decisions. It’s a two dimensional view looking across from a goal post through another post. Whether his hands are on the ball to control it at the point when it crossed the back of the goal line is impossible to tell from that angle. Yes the ball is in between his hands but has he closed his hands around the ball and fully controlled it? That is impossible to tell and the person in the best position to know is the umpire standing right underneath because he actually has the best view, not the camera on the opposite post.

It’s bullshit and I see it happen every week. It’s not correct use of technology because you need to see it from lots of angles.

You only have to watch the NBA and how they review out of bounds decisions when it’s a coaches challenge to know that looking at it from one angle like that can give a totally wrong impression because of depth perception. You need to see it from above and behind as well. It’s a joke, an absolute fxxking joke

 

[grassman75]

****

Imagine the Arc was around in 97 and 2009….

 

[0utsider]

This game couldn’t be more of an indictment of Bevo. Almost dragged over the line by pure top end talent but ultimately beaten by top end coaching.

Geelong don’t have anywhere near the level of top end talent we have but their floor is lower because somehow their players aren’t constantly showing us their enormous flaws. That’s coaching.