Review thread vs GEEEEELONG 2024

[Finding_Nino]

Game of the round feel to it

[j_w]

@Finding_Nino

Could be a ■■■■ fest Friday night both teams lost and will be desperate for a win

@billybomber

It’s going to be great Nino

@Finding_Nino

Game of the round feel to it

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Finding_Nino]

The last game was a draw might be in for another classic

[in_and_under]

Hardly undermanned - they had 3 of their best 22 out - they weren’t far off their best team, bruhn, hawkins and Guthrie the only ones not fit.

You know the same team that was 7-0 at the start of this year

Chris scott said himself his been debating playing him for while

[Blummers32]

@billybomber

Collingwood fans are bagging their team too. Even their all australian premiership captain.

The Chris Scott thread on the Geelong Bigfooty forum is a good read.
Especially the time he had a contract extension in 2021.

And that is for a supporter base of one of the two consistently best run clubs in the last twenty five years.

[ivan]

@BakerWasAStar

(a) Geelong has been stymied in recent times because all times know not to allow them a spare in defence (normally Tom Stewart, but not always). Yet, that’s what we did last night by continually sending a HF to a stoppage between wing and HF. The Cast defender stayed back of course and our many clearances were then easily picked off. What was the point of playing two ruckmen, for ruck & stoppage clearance dominance, but then still push up a HF for an extra at the stoppage? It makes no sense. This is on the coach

I wonder if we’ll ever learn our lesson on this. It just doesn’t work against good teams who can firstly, make it difficult for extra number at the contest to impact because their pressure on the ball carrier is top notch, and secondly hurt you with pin point kicking after initially exploiting the overlap they can generate off their sister man in an uncontested defence.

Sending a spare to contested/congested areas just doesn’t work.

[billybomber]

lol I remember they had a supporter forum with him and they all wanted to know why he had no plan B!

[premature_rookie_ele]

@Drapersmullet

kick it to a contest 20m out where we have no one at ALL at the drop of the ball and it rebounds out

And a chain of opposition players all the way in to their attacking half. Beggars belief sometimes.

[dingus]

@Stallion

Reviewing last nights game and it was a carbon copy to 90% of our MCG games the last 20 years, genuine ground hog day.

Inability to generate score, inability to stop momentum, inability to defend, defenders butchering the ball out of the backline, no presence at all up forward.

Its the same fkn story.

I could have mistaken last night for 2017 or 18 v Carlton, any dreamtime game v Richmond, any game especially away v Collingwood etc.

Yep.

So many times standing in the rain seeing hated foes grind us out of it until we give up.

Of course, last night we were beaten by two hated foes.

[dingus]

@Mendozaaaa

@Wanderlust

Basically saying they dropped their bundle after the decisions in the third quarter.

Mentally weak. Looks like the streak will hit 25 years before we know it.

*Client services prepares DVD

[dingus]

@Finding_Nino

We will beat Melbourne

Max Gawn is going to destroy us like that small, white girl on the couch.

[Finding_Nino]

Not with Goldy

[ivan]

Reckon it’s only the second time this year we’ve rolled over and given up.

Disappointing.

The response next week will be telling.

Though to be honest I wasn’t terribly impressed with some of our first quarter tackling efforts, lots of broken arm tackles.

2nd quarter we imposed our structure on them but didn’t really have the ferocity we needed at the contest to force our way to good looks with all our field position dominance.

We really lack for an imposing contested marking player up forward and silky speedy crumber.

We’re not helped by a forward line set up that seems devoid of movement and blocking off the ball.

[mb06]

I’ve just watched the 3rd quarter. Missed the game entirely and haven’t seen anything else. No need to discuss the umpiring further other than to say I somewhat expected that a few decisions would have been borderline. How wrong could I be. Every single one was a critical error of the highest order. The AFL must make a statement confirming that (not that it changes anything). Absolutely disgusting.

My overwhelming impression though was that we were really competitive and moved the ball well through that period but just lacked a killer touch. (Dropped marks to Jake and Duz, howler going inside 50 by Marto)

I’ve seen alot of verbals about dropping 2MP and Goldstein. Really??. Goldy spoon fed the ball beautifully to our mids repeatedly and Peter tried his guts out with some fairly poor entries not helping him at all. I get people are frustrated, but from that small sample in a period where we were ‘unfortunate’ those 2 guys deserve no blame at all.

I would have loved to have seen Scott send Zach to the umpires at 3/4 time. It’s exactly what Sheedy would have done. Probably wouldn’t have achieved much but the message would have been loud and clear (something we’ve been missing for 23 years)

[billybomber]

I remember Lloyd didn’t say anything but walked up to the umpires and showed them the holding the ball umpire signal. Crowd went nuts.

[Realitycheck]

@mb06

I would have loved to have seen Scott send Zach to the umpires at 3/4 time. It’s exactly what Sheedy would have done. Probably wouldn’t have achieved much but the message would have been loud and clear

Yes I wish

[robthommo]

Thought I might have moved on from last night. Called into my local milkbar on Moreland Road and vented to no end about last nights umpire clusterFLICK and even had sympathy from the woods supporting co-owner.

[Rom]

The boys need to spend double time with the club shrink this week, such a weak willed group of players.

[fademan]

@Wanderlust

I was there, sitting in the rain. The chopped arms, that was horrid, but after that one, the rest had a very familiar “here we go again” vibe.

[M10G10]

Well Corbin, I wasn’t tearing my hair out, but i did give the people around me a very good opportunity to text the anti social behaviour number.
Apologies to all in the top deck of the ponsford last night