They have a pretty handy draw playing North Melbourne, West Coast, Adelaide & Gold Coast.
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Which team was the most disappointing round1?
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They have a pretty handy draw playing North Melbourne, West Coast, Adelaide & Gold Coast.
I'm nominating my club. We were 4 goals up at half time, against a side that ended up with basically no bench in 35 plus weather due to in-game injuries, and still lost. We went missing in the second half. But few, including most Crows supporters, were expecting us to do great things this year.
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To be fair, could be a factor in failure to click
Also it is always hard first round to reference form. Port Adelaide may well turn out to be a contender this year.
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Yeah it's looking like Freo are almost the lone wolf left playing the defensive possession style game
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I know no one expects much of us this year anyway, but we're getting off lightly ITT after what we served up today.
Has to be Brisbane, considering their additions over the off season. Yeah Port are still a decent team but the way Brisbane just rolled over was quite embarrassing
I had them flag favourites but not sure right now.
I had them flag favourites but not sure right now.
Mop
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Freo, West Coast, Adelaide and both Richmond and Carlton are contenders.
buuut surely Geelong and Brisbane share the spoils here.
Brisbane recruited top talent very heavily and got pantsed. The reigning premiers being in the box seat only to ship eight unanswered goals in the last quarter.
buuut surely Geelong and Brisbane share the spoils here.
Brisbane recruited top talent very heavily and got pantsed. The reigning premiers being in the box seat only to ship eight unanswered goals in the last quarter.
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7 of the 8 losing clubs were disappointing this week. Geelong the exception because a round 1 loss doesn’t mean anything just after a premiership and the game was close anyhow. A bit biased but Hawthorn is the only club I wouldn’t want to be supporting if their today continues for the rest of the year.
Brisbane for sure, a forgetful start to the season for them. Adelaide's 2nd half meltdown, got destroyed by Toby Greene and the Giants, it was just a horrible second half effort by Adelaide but hopefully they just put it behind themselves ASAP. All the other games went as expected.
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.. what?
Geelong are the most disappointing (with brisbane). They conceded 8 on the trot to give up a 20 odd point lead.
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If anyone in that side deserves some success, it's Miller. And probably Swallow given he's been there from the start. But Miller would walk into 17 other clubs.
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One game closer to Harley Reid.
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Fremantle were an Abomination this round.
Only reason why Freo lost to the saints is because they thought they could rock up and get the win.
Also helps having Ross Lyon as a coach.
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So how will you go against a team having Clarko as a coach?
Mate we lost by 22 points after losing more than half our backline prior/during the match, to the Prelim Finalists who lost by a point to the eventual Grand Finalists.
We were missing Duncan, Kolo, J. Henry, Menegola, Bowes. We had Hawkins who was way underdone, Stewart who was injured in the first quarter, SDK who was injured not long after, and Stengle who was on 1 leg after being poleaxed by Howe. We still led for most of the match.
You guys on the other hand, lost by 9 goals after adding the best young kid in the country in Ashcroft, a beast inside mid in Dunkley, a gun forward in Gunston and speed off half back in McKenna. Your vaunted midfield of Neale, Dunkley, Bailey, Berry, McLuggage, got absolutely destroyed by 3 kids in JHF, Rozee and Butters. I don't think you want to be pointing fingers after a display like that.
A Geelong fan started the thread though so it’s clearly you.
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I don't know about most disappointing, but I think the Crows would be the most disappointed. Comfortable lead against GWS and just seemed to put the cue in the rack early against a team with no interchange to speak of and let them back into the game.
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Out of few games I saw…
Crows were a rabble in the second half. Playing against basically Toby Greene.
Stevie needs to be copping a blowtorch. Constant excuses and setting low bars to drag his big contract out. Heart isn’t in it. Compare to the energy of Kingsley firing his troops up on the bench. Bring in Scott Burns.
Also Rankine dancing after kicking a goal in the second quarter was staggering. The rot started then.
Crows were a rabble in the second half. Playing against basically Toby Greene.
Stevie needs to be copping a blowtorch. Constant excuses and setting low bars to drag his big contract out. Heart isn’t in it. Compare to the energy of Kingsley firing his troops up on the bench. Bring in Scott Burns.
Also Rankine dancing after kicking a goal in the second quarter was staggering. The rot started then.
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Freo for me. Losing at home to that Saints lineup is the biggest upset of the week, not a good look to start a supposed window season, although far from alarm bells.
I'm not reading much into that away Lions loss just yet. Some casuals down south might've been overhyping them a bit or something or prepping their Hinkley headlines and therefore are overreacting and correcting right now. Bad day at the office when the game was on but unfazed me, they'll bounce back as they do.
i.e. R1 is always too early, and there wasn't really a result of significant ramifications to the overall season forecast just yet. A lot of the sides were tactically slanted towards their particular opponent, lot of sides gelling the youth, trades, returns from lti and line-up switches. A few of the games like the Kangas & Giants were played in unusually warm conditions (enabling unusual momentum swings) which took a toll (and might roll over into next week). Few new coaches. It was a fun R1, but lets not analyse it to death.
EDIT: I was wrong about Freo playing at home, no games in WA this week
I'm not reading much into that away Lions loss just yet. Some casuals down south might've been overhyping them a bit or something or prepping their Hinkley headlines and therefore are overreacting and correcting right now. Bad day at the office when the game was on but unfazed me, they'll bounce back as they do.
i.e. R1 is always too early, and there wasn't really a result of significant ramifications to the overall season forecast just yet. A lot of the sides were tactically slanted towards their particular opponent, lot of sides gelling the youth, trades, returns from lti and line-up switches. A few of the games like the Kangas & Giants were played in unusually warm conditions (enabling unusual momentum swings) which took a toll (and might roll over into next week). Few new coaches. It was a fun R1, but lets not analyse it to death.
EDIT: I was wrong about Freo playing at home, no games in WA this week
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The Crows by a mile. that was a disgrace what we dished up. 5 goals up and lose like that was embarrassing. poor kicking is poor footy. very mentally weak side. looking at our fixture i expect us to be 0-5. i have to change my predictions on us... i though we would be up and around that 10 win mark--10th/11th but no, we still a bottom 5 side. Nicks in big trouble at the end of the year. nothing has changed
CakeEater
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Bulldogs.
Your list is very mature and coach is the same so clearly you have to be have a serious tilt at the premiership and you playing the team you lead in grand final by 19 points two years back.
That team beat you then and they put you away just as easy two years later so looks like you further away from the flag with list older profile and the same coach for players to listen to. That is not a fun position to be in after round one mentally.
Your list is very mature and coach is the same so clearly you have to be have a serious tilt at the premiership and you playing the team you lead in grand final by 19 points two years back.
That team beat you then and they put you away just as easy two years later so looks like you further away from the flag with list older profile and the same coach for players to listen to. That is not a fun position to be in after round one mentally.
