Tiggers Troubled - review round 11 of 2024

[GrenvoldsGang]

The force is strong in that one.

[Kingbomber11]

Does that win equal the amount of wins that mckay has had in his career with north?

[Finding_Nino]

Gueflis brain fart is almost drop worthy

[Captain_Jack]

Stringer chaired off for his 200th game, by the 3 mates he mentioned in the article a couple of days ago, Laverde, Hind and Merrett.

[jack_mack50]

@handypoint

Witts is going to absolutely destory goldstein next week.

Thought Nank was good

I’d hope he isn’t playing. Liability having him, and Davey taking spots in the team.

[JJohnson]

I’m going to put this simply for those that don’t get it and seem to be too far ahead of yourself.

We are not that good. I think we all agree we’re not a top 2 or 4 team, but it’s debatable whether we are even a top 8 team. We nearly got beat by 2 players today, and arguably would have if Bolton didn’t get concussed.

I keep saying this but we have a ■■■■ bottom end and we need to move past them asap.

Note that this is me taking stock of where we are, not just tonight.

Laverde
Kelly
Hind
Heppell
Menzie
Guelfi

There’ll be people who pull me up on each of them, but here goes.

Laverde did a couple of gutsy things, he always does, but he is a limited player. People love him as “heart and soul”, but he is no good. We need to move on. Reid comes in ASAP and we make the mix work. Baldwin should play as soon as fit if not.

Kelly… Not sure I need to go there.

Hind played an absolute blinder today, just like Guelfi has the last two, but they are both fundamentally limited players and exactly the sort of player that you upgrade if you want to push for a flag. Play Jayden asap and give Tex a go as soon as he gives us half a reason.

Heppell has far outperformed my expectations, I’ll admit, but he is not improving from here and has been just ok, again he’s someone we should be replacing with a Roberts or Baldwin to really find out what they can do (pending mix).

Menzie is out of the side but he illustrates my point - only dropped because he was injured! In fairness, at least there’s some upside there in theory, and he didn’t have much competition.

Not developing Bryan is really hurting us too in the long run.

In summary I think you can sometimes look a mile off when you’re really close, and you can sometimes look real close when you’re a mile off. I think we’re the latter and would still be going the hard rebuild if I had the keys.

[efc1robbo]

That girl is gorgeous

[Blummers32]

@handypoint

Harrison Jones will be back next week.

Good time to appreciate how important he is for our structure

Yep. Was about to say, think the forward line works better with him in it.
He drags his defender out of the 50 with his running and also applies very good tackling pressure when he is in the forward 50.

Him in the forward line with two wingers capable of running pocket to pocket really helps our defensive structure and our ability to transfer the ball consistently.

[handypoint]

@astro_bomber

Genuine question, do we have some kind of agreement with the AFL to make games more entertaining and close in exchange of not screwing us over?

Checks notes.

2MP 4 weeks for taking a mark
Jones 1 week for a red hot tackle.

Nah

[Houli_Dooli]

guelfi just had to hold onto the ball a bit longer.

[Crazy_Bomber]

@ruxpin

I’m going to look at this last two weeks with a different lens for once. They are very typical games that we would have traditionally lost and imploded, but we hung on and pushed on even when we played abysmally.

It may not look or feel like it, but this is progress and what a building team looks like.

We’ve literally been winning ugly for years but it’s forgiven under the guise of “past Essendon teams would have lost”.

We actually win these ugly games regulary every 2 years when we make finals. We won something like 5 ugly games in a row ugly a few years back when we kepy coming from behind.

Actually winning impressively to me woul show we are actually building.

[jack_mack50]

At least we didn’t do a Klan

[handypoint]

@Houli_Dooli

guelfi just had to hold onto the ball a bit longer.

That was some terrible decision making

[Houli_Dooli]

Mids a little thin now.

Tsatas in for Cox.

Then maybe Roberts or likely Shiel sub next week.

i guess Jones for Caddy too??

[chris_64]

@Rustydon

My god did we carry some players tonight. Our effort and intensity was ordinary at best, Richmond won so many contests and killed us in the centre. Goody needs a rest, Nank murdered him.

I think our percentage tells the story, we are not finals material and will not win won this year……effort is unconditional and in the last 2 weeks we have proven we still think we can choose when to apply it.

Honestly though we are sitting way higher than I expected and I still think we are 2 years away from winning a final, so my expectations are still low and I still can’t trust this team. I trust that Brad will get us there.

OK, off to the bin with you. The one with the lid on.

[efc1robbo]

Caddy didn’t look out of place at all imo

Made a couple of little errors( to be expected), but hit the contest hard. Good at ground level.

[handypoint]

@Houli_Dooli

Mids a little thin now.

Tsatas in for Cox.

Then maybe Roberts or likely Shiel sub next week.

Shiel? He just had an illness didn’t he?

[tinhillterror]

4 points
+%
Back to back against RFC
Haven’t lost for 50 days

[Finding_Nino]

I dont buy the excuses the the meida give richmond they still have half a dozen of thier premirship players in their team

[Elsternwickbomber]

We won! That’s good but it was a lot closer than it should have been. For my money the best were Ridley, Redman, Durham and, dare I say it, Hind.