The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[Maldonboy38 6,400]

The Good

Contested ball

Stoppages

Intensity

Jordie, Magner and Jones in tight

Jones' and Bartram's goals

Tom McDonald matched, and often beat, Reiwoldt

Morton

The Bad

Trengove's pace

Watts lack of physicality

Missed easy goals

Dunn centring the ball that led to Saints goal. Neeld would be furious.

St. Kilda subbing that new bloke off. Marking and Kicking was superb. Worst sub ever and the excuse of "he had a twinge" was spin.

The Ugly

The missed holding-the-man free kick to Morton.

The worst goal video review that we will ever see.

Unpressured turnovers (again)

Edited April 28, 2012 by Maldonboy38

[jabberwocky 2,301]

Dunn centring the ball that led to Saints goal. Neeld would be furious.

What are the odds that Dunn will be at Casey next week..

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

What are the odds that Dunn will be at Casey next week..

1.04 same as Black Caviar

[Lil_red_fire_engine 11,166]

You can add Moloney to the uglies tonight. He made some howlers.

[Jaded No More 68,906]

The Good

More consistent effort

Won the possession count

Jordie McKenzie

Nathan Jones

Tommy Mac

Rohan Bail

Grimesy finding touch

Morton and Bate improving

Actually won some clearances!

The Bad

Trengove struggling

Tappy and Sylvia too unfit

Subbing Dunn off

The Ugly

Umpiring. W T F?!?!

Aaron Davey

Losing. Again.

[Grapeviney 9,717]

Missed easy goals

Moloney's in the third was a shocker, and Howe should have converted in the second from straight in front.

Conversely, we managed to kick the difficult ones.

You've got to take your chances when they come

[Mac7 309]

I thought Davey's forward pressure was really good. A couple of times he hasselled saints players into fumbles that resulted in Melbourne goals.

[stuie 7,374]

You can add Moloney to the uglies tonight. He made some howlers.

Really? To me he was about the only player who ran the ball out of the middle and wasn't kicking snaps out of clearances, even managed to handball a couple of times! Not out best player tonight, but hardly in the "uglies" catergory i thought

[Retrospective 104]

Bate, Jones, Bail, Magner really showing that there could be light at the end of the tunnel.

[stranga 328]

The Good

Contested ball

Stoppages

Intensity

Jordie, Magner and Jones in tight

Jones' and Bartram's goals

Tom McDonald matched, and often beat, Reiwoldt

Morton

The Bad

Trengove's pace

Watts lack of physicality

Missed easy goals

Dunn centring the ball that led to Saints goal. Neeld would be furious.

St. Kilda subbing that new bloke off. Marking and Kicking was superb. Worst sub ever and the excuse of "he had a twinge" was spin.

The Ugly

The missed holding-the-man free kick to Morton.

The worst goal video review that we will ever see.

Unpressured turnovers (again)

Fairly spot on although it's time to put Watts and Trengove into The Ugly for mine.

[sylvinator 96]

The Good

- We still have Frawley, Clarke, Sylvia and Jurrah to come into this team who are in our best 10 players. Sylvia counts because he was a sub coming back from 6 weeks off footy

- We know that Watts, Trengove and Tappy are quality youngsters. They struggled last night, but we know they're going to be fine players for our club.

- We still have Gysberts, Blease and Strauss (not to mention Cook, Jack Viney, pick 5ish and pick 12ish next year) to add to the mix. Plenty of potential there.

The 21+1 that played last night played with great effort and desire, but I think the above proves that we are very very very far away from our best mix of players.

Does that give us hope?

[deeflog 679]

The Good

- We still have Frawley, Clarke, Sylvia and Jurrah to come into this team who are in our best 10 players. Sylvia counts because he was a sub coming back from 6 weeks off footy

- We know that Watts, Trengove and Tappy are quality youngsters. They struggled last night, but we know they're going to be fine players for our club.

- We still have Gysberts, Blease and Strauss (not to mention Cook, Jack Viney, pick 5ish and pick 12ish next year) to add to the mix. Plenty of potential there.

The 21+1 that played last night played with great effort and desire, but I think the above proves that we are very very very far away from our best mix of players.

Does that give us hope?

do we?

watts is really lacking the appetite for the contest at the moment, does not look interested

trengove is struggling with the C next to hiss name, not sure if he is putting too much pressure on himself or if he has a niggling injury

tapscott desperately needs to finish a full pre season and get some continuity in his footy

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

The good

Mckenzie And bails smothers

Dunns set shot

Cale Morton playing on and backin himself on the kick out n the last qtr

Bartrams goal

The bad

Aron DaveY's attack on the ball

The weather

The ugly

Jack grimes disposal

Edited April 29, 2012 by Mad_Melbourne

[sylvinator 96]

do we?

Yes, we do.

Watts was one of our best performers first 3 weeks when it was too tough for everyone around him. Wet and greasy night was not going to be the night for 196cm forwards- just ask nick Reiwoldt. Watts has steadily improved, can't wait till he's 100kg and 23 years old.

Tapscott is quality. He has been put into the side without a pre-season. He'll be on the back foot the whole year bc of that, but we know he's capable of being a strong bodied and skillful player.

Trengove is the player to worry about the least. he seems to be carrying an injury and is underperforming, but he's 20 years old. Dustin Martin has struggled big time this year, doesn't mean you question his ability. Trengove will be a great player, no doubt

[Cheesecake 92]

The Good::

The players who excited us last year with talent or promise, yet had dissappeared early this season, are starting to show something again.

- Bail's run and spread and fearless attack on the contest

- McKenzie doggard determination to negate the oppositions stars and win or draw contested situations

- The Jamar-Moloney combination has shown signs of a resurrection

- Garland's poor form is showing signs of abating

- I think we've seen a flicker of what Davey used to have (some might disagree)

(not including Jones and Howe here, as they hadn't disapeared)

The Bad::

Disposal from the half back line continues to be our undoing.

- Grimes returns with 27 touches (yay) of which about 20 were delivered straight back to the opposition (boo)

- Joel Mac continues to struggle to hit the side of a barn under no pressure at all

- Tom Mc struggled, especially early

- Even Tapscott, who is a renowned good kick, was off in a big way

The Ugly::

Watts showed no signs of making any impact in the conditions. Needs to put the same endeavour that he puts into running, into competing when the ball is up for grabs. Added nothing this game, and should have been wearing the red vest. (I'm a fan though, and reckon he will hit back next week.)

Edited April 29, 2012 by Cheesecake