Official EFC v Dockers Review thread

[RTBC]

Cant wait for Worsfolfds presser will be like a dear in the headlights and syaing how everything is ok when really should be fuming

Indeed, I blame the happy clappers! Those joyful pric ks

[aboods]

People on here are underrating dockers too.

Fyfe back to form, Sandi and Mundy still playing well. Mids have Walters, Hillx2, Neal, Pearce makes a decent core mid
Group. Blakey has developed well and they have added Wilson, McCarthy.

They are not as bad as people are making out. Player port, in port last week.

Exactly!! Everyone expected Freo to be ■■■■ because of last week. They got cleaned up away by the competition’s best down hill skiers.

Freo are much better than a bottom 6 side. People will be reassessing this loss in a month and realising it wasn’t so bad

[edarotag]

There is something rotten at this club. We have too many guys who are happy just being an AFL football, and there is a soft underbelly that shows no sign of abating.

We need a harder edge, and to be ruthless. And more than just onfield. List management in particular. I don’t like to single one bloke out especially that he didn’t play tonight, but I’m gonna. Which other club would keep Myers for so long? And whats more, we promote him to the leadership group.

We as a supporter base continue to blow smoke up the backsides of these guys at the slightest hint of ability. Tippa. Daniher. And it goes to their heads it seems.

And mentally we are soft. We had a CEO who had to apologise for saying that it was “not good enough” after we lost at home to the eventual wooden spooners.

I have little confidence that we are anything but a decent side when the game is played on our terms, but at the slightest hint of having to dig deep we far too often go to water.

Freo at home you know we are going to have to grind it out. But thats not the way we want to play, and it continues to hurt us. A lot to take away from a round 2 loss I grant you but I’ve seen how this movie ends before

[Bombers2013]

Bottom line is we are a middle of the road team. Not good enough. Cannot possibly finish higher than 7th, most likely 8th and out round 1 of the finals.

[scotty21]

No amount of nuggs and wagyu beef cures my rage

[Sammy_Hagar]

Love Tippa but someone needed to tell him there was a game of footy on out there tonight.
Was like he was going for a Sunday arvo stroll through the park even though it’s Saturday night.
Stringer looked lost out there also.

Devon Smith as we all know is a gun.

[Crazy_Bomber]

Every year the club dishes up the same mentally weak sh*t for the Perth fans. Every, single, year.

I hate to say it but it’s going to be another year of exciting wins and shithouse losses, and I thought we’d got past that.

[Pamboo]

Standard game… bonkers… really dissapointed with our supporters bagging the team all night though… mind you deserved

[frosty]

I think it depends. But all night it was “hacked kick forward to 1 on 3”. Hooker provided contests and caused goals in that situation and kept us in the game. Which is the point of the structure.

But you expect that at some stage we’d get some quality use forward.

It never came. And so the key forwards didn’t kick the goals.

Hooker was mostly decent. Stewart was ok. Joe had a shocker.

Joe plays even half decent we still might have won.

[dougkpga]

I miss Marty Gleeson…

[Maxx]

Simple loss. Coaching mistake playing that many talls, especially the way they were played. Slippery footy doesn’t suit us and we paid the price. However we didn’t have many strong candidates to come in and suit the climate. Would of looked better with Bags, Myers and Fantasia. In the end we didn’t run hard enough and take advantage of their poor skill.

[darkknightpheonix]

Cant wait for Worsfolfds presser will be like a dear in the headlights and syaing how everything is ok when really should be fuming

ditto the posts on the club facebook page about how
“this will be a good lesson”
“we need to get more consistent”
“plently of positives, just have to learn to be more consistent”
“consistency is the key, we just have to take that out of the game and learn from it, it’s a good lesson”
“lesson, consistency”

Was a common pr spin on facebook at least last season, lets see how many articles or posts happen about it this week.

[frosty]

Cant wait for Worsfolfds presser will be like a dear in the headlights and syaing how everything is ok when really should be fuming

Indeed, I blame the happy clappers! Those joyful pric ks

I need happy clappers. After a loss like that I need some positivity

[dougkpga]

And Fanta

[Finding_Nino]

Signs were bad when players were taking photos at the pool in thier hotel,going on wine tours

[Ants]

…
Our ball handling cost us hugely all night, at least three missed defensive marks that you’d expect to be swallowed up lead to direct goals (Hurley, Heppell, and I’ll count the opener where Dea spoiled Hartley to get to three), and when the game was in the balance we had a team-wide attack of the fumbles. Poor and should be better, but again, pressure plays a part and Freo did what they had to.
…

That wasn’t Dea, it was Brown.

See this where I disagree - we should get more out of these guys when we’re struggling in the middle. Dont people always crap on about needing tall kpf to kick to when the pressure is high. Otherwise lets not bother with the kpf and just play like richmond.

people crap on about that’s why hooker is down there, so they can bomb it long to him.

yet again when it doesn’t work, they have no other way of being able to play. again such an obtuse way to play a game, cos once that avenue is curtailed, they have nothing.

Hooker and Stewart were fine. But our midfield couldn’t or wouldn’t kick it to them on the full, we left them outnumbered and Daniher was useless. The idea of kicking to Hooker is he won’t be outmarked. He mostly wasn’t. But he also can’t mark it when it’s away, and he can’t beat a nimble guy when it’s at his feet. We needed a crumber. Fantasia is out, Walls did rubbish, and Begley was hit and miss. If it was going to be kicked to Hookers feet Woodgate needed someone to feed off Hookers crumbs and to often there was only a Freo player.

[RTBC]

Myers being blamed for the loss!!! Outstanding blitz, truly outstanding!

[Bombers2013]

Too many tall’s and they took Lewie as an emergency - work that one out!

[dougkpga]

And Marty

[Brasha]

Sandpaper anyone?