Review v gws @ metricon round 19

[handypoint]

You watched a GWS Bulldogs clash?

[Rhino-D]

@handypoint

Bit like the side today we played when they are motivated and running both ways.

makes you wonder why we don’t seem to value those traits.

or are we just unable to identify and recruit the talent?

[Finding_Nino]

Yep always cracking in hard we don’t have the toughness to compete with them

[Jaymin]

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@GuzzLG

Thanks for helping out the Sydney clubs Xavier

We still going with the mentality that Xavier wanted to play in Qld instead of Vic?

You still grasping on to the fantasy that being the ONLY vic club to hub in Qld, unsettling our players & then giving up our home ground advantage followed by sacrificing a prime time Friday night slot (at a minimum is we get to come back to Vic) in any way shape or form does anything but benefit the AFL & their agenda while damaging the club & its interests?

Dear god. The AFL are not out to get us.

They are out to preserve & promote their best interests which in this case are contrary to the interests of the EFC. Our aim is to win, we have the best chance of doing that forcing GWS to come to the Dome where they rarely play & rarely win. We also should be looking out for the players interests who would rightfully see that they are the only Vic side forced away from home & family.

The AFLs only concern at the moment is keeping the competition going.

Please explain to me exactly how EFC going to Qld is the only way that could have been facilitated? There is no reason why GWS couldn’t have come to Melb. Instead they will benefit from teams being forced to fly up to QLD to play them when they could just as easily have remained hubbed in Melb.

At the time the AFL believed they would be able to get the Sydney clubs families straight into QLD which was not the case in VIC.

So once again because you were incapable of understanding it the 1st few times - the AFL put the interests of Sydney clubs above the interests of EFC & its EFC players, families & members who have been penalised. Which part of X being employed for the single solitary reason of representing the EFC interests don’t you understand? How is allowing the EFC to be disadvantaged anything but the opposite of what X is there to achieve? It doesn’t matter what the AFL believed, the fact is that North were always going to leave QLD so there was zero need for that game to be played in Qld. It was only done to get EFC cornered where we had no choice but to remain there for GWS’s benefit & also to allow the AFL to stagger the fixture & have back to back to back games. Again this is not in any way in the EFC’s interests & not only has it cost us home ground advantage this week we miss out on a Friday night game on TV next. We only had 2 of these primetime home games this year.

All I am arguing is that the AFL do not have a vendetta against Essendon which is what some people are trying to suggest. If another Melbourne club had the 2 Sydney teams coming up, they would have been given the same orders from the AFL.

You think Collingwood, Geelong, Hawthorn, Carlton etc would have meekly surrendered home games with finals on the line? The point is & was that X once again simply tongues the AFL’s nuts. This club has no fight on or off the field. This was arguably one of if not the most important games the club has had in a decade - a genuine chance to put ourselves in the 8 with some breathing space. Instead we ship our players off interstate, lose any advantage we might have had.

As Chris Scott said during the week, the clubs have little to no say on where they play each week. You can be hysterical about it and cry conspiracy but at the end of the day the AFL made the decision in the best interest of keeping the comp afloat. That’s all.

If it was Collingwood, Geelong, Hawthorn or Carlton with the identical fixture they would be in QLD instead of us. We are just unlucky.

[Tezzalenco]

We might get a game at home. Throw a dog bone who knows​:laughing:

[Finding_Nino]

We play bruise free that’s why everyone knows if you put gws under enormous pressure they the crumble

They did that to us in the second half

[bomberboy05]

Our goal kicking is horrendous.

Whenever hooker or smith mark it I instantly mark it down as a behind

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Slappery

So many choices
We could ruck Ham

Of all the possible verbs to use in that sentence, that was among the least expected.

[RedandBlackPartisan]

TEAM defence does not exist in our game plan.

That’s all I’ve got to say. No point watching anymore games this season.

[bltn]

Someone posted a table last week which shows we are the most accurate side from set shots this year.

[Finding_Nino]

How many times did gws rebound the ball uncontested from a point kick out

Ffs even Carlton have some sort of defence in their game plan

[RedandBlackPartisan]

Oh, and transition from the def to fwd…huh? Defenders get the footy and look around all confuzzled as to where to kick it…um…what do I do with it now…

Others teams simply kick it through us and waltz it down the ground.

[Elsternwickbomber]

No too many sides win if they kick three goals in as many quarters.
Regret to say but agree with the AFL website, it’s just as well we won’t make finals. There is a lot of work to do before next season. We must work out how to score on a regular basis and that may mean giving games to those who are not ready…

[Tezzalenco]

Bring in Rance.

[Finding_Nino]

I have not seen one game this season where we locked the ball in our front half or force a team to bomb it half way

edit- the crows game but that’s due to them being crapolla

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Tagger34

Nino you wouldn’t be sold on Claudia Schiffer turning up to your doorstep saying let’s get it on. There would be some negative not to

Hardly surprising. Claudia could be the same age as his grandma.

[RedandBlackPartisan]

@Finding_Nino

I have not seen one game this season where we locked the ball in our front half or force a team to bomb it half way

We always bomb it to a contest…hasn’t changed for years.

[falcon1500]

Geez you blokes get carried away after a loss.
They had a bad day due to a lot of reasons.
Talk about being over critical.
There has been great improvement thi syear.
Give Thanks for truck and give the blokes a fair go
W ankers

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Irons

@SeventeenthFlag

When you see all these other VIC teams playing at home he clearly put $ over our chances to reset after 7 games interstate at that point.

I look further than that. I know Noosa is nice, but Campbell has asked his entire staff to relocate away from their families for 3 weeks or longer. That must hurt on some level. All after last year we failed to handle the hub life well.

And for what purpose? So the AFL season could keep going even though it would have kept going regardless.

And the AFL showed such gratitude for X’s devotion that they instructed the maggots to stitch us up yet again.

[Mackster]

We failed to put scoreboard pressure on in the first half when we were well on top of them.

1st Qtr
6:20 left - Walla - Set shot 43m, 8 deg - Miss

4:10 left - Wright - Set shot 38m, 29 deg Miss

0:32 left - Cutler - Set shot 40m, 30 deg - Miss

2nd Qtr
18:00 left - Snelling - Set shot 40m, 40 deg - passes off and turnover

14:09 left - Walla - Set shot 30m, 35 deg - passes off & turnover

10:50 left - Hooker - Set shot 43m, 15 deg - Miss

At half time we led by 16 points - kick those opportunities like good teams do and we’re about 50 points up going into half time.

But we gave them a sniff and that’s all it took and they pantsed us in the second half.

Yeah - they missed their share of shots too but that’s them.