Re Richmond in 2nd spot:

* WTF

* Only round 3

Jones - Led from front

Viney - Schooled by champions

Salem - Reliable and confident

Watts - Answered the call

Petracca - Damaging albeit slow

Gawn - Solid before injury

Tyson - Must improve disposal

Oliver - Learnt from best

Stretch - Commanding and driving

Kent - Erratic yet useful

Melksham - Solid defensive game

Hannan - Battled but beaten

Vince - Needed to lead

T.McDonald - Great defensive form

O.McDonald - Tired by end

Weideman - Needs a rest

Hunt - Exciting but erratic

Neal-Bullen - Having great 2017

Garlett - Solid and pressuring

Smith - Great first half

Jetta - Mr Super Reliable

Harmes - Was almost damaging 

12 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

Please I'm over the Oscar bashing

Sure he competes.. but when the pressure is on.. he is useless.. not ready needs a spell in the 2s.. I'd have Frost back in ASAP.

Hawkins monstered him. 

His kicking is below average.

makes horrible decisions.

5 minutes ago, praha said:

Jones - Led from front

Viney - Schooled by champions

Salem - Reliable and confident

Watts - Answered the call

Petracca - Damaging albeit slow

Gawn - Solid before injury

Tyson - Must improve disposal

Oliver - Learnt from best

Stretch - Commanding and driving

Kent - Erratic yet useful

Melksham - Solid defensive game

Hannan - Battled but beaten

Vince - Needed to lead

T.McDonald - Great defensive form

O.McDonald - Tired by end

Weideman - Needs a rest

Hunt - Exciting but erratic

Neal-Bullen - Having great 2017

Garlett - Solid and pressuring

Smith - Great first half

Jetta - Mr Super Reliable

Harmes - Was almost damaging 

That's pretty accurate! Although I reckon Tyson was more of went missing

Jones - Had A Crack!

Viney - Made to Tag

Salem - absolute class act

Watts - Career Defining Game

Petracca - Runout of steam

Gawn - Dominated before injured

Tyson - Nowhere when needed

Oliver - Will learn from

Stretch - Most underrated player

Kent - Came on late

Melksham - Getting better weekly

Hannan - Didn't present enough

Vince - Needs to attack

T.McDonald - Great defensive form

O.McDonald - Not a Fan

Weideman - Back to VFL

Hunt - Second Best On

Neal-Bullen - That kick backwards??

Garlett - Missed having Hogan

Smith - Better for it

Jetta - What a goal (2 in 2 games!)

Harmes - Couldnt break through

 

Edited April 8, 20178 yr by Mud Dogs Gonna Win

3 hours ago, mjcl9 said:

kent* missed two crucial goals

Kent played well in his first game and he wasn't alone in the missing goals department, always prefer him having a shot on the run though.

There were sometimes that they should have just thrown the ball on the boot sooner.

We played at a manic pace and it caught up in the 4th Q were still young but you can see what our game plan is and it will improve over the season.

Gawn going down did not help but it gave Watts a game he can be proud of , one or his best , i think Max was an angry man yesterday for some reason even before he had the little fun and games with Selwood ,he was making mistakes and giving away a few frees just out of being [censored] off it really affected his game,whatever it was and we couldn't get a goal and they couldn't miss !!! pulling them put their arse .

  

1 hour ago, old demon me!!! said:

Kent played well in his first game and he wasn't alone in the missing goals department, always prefer him having a shot on the run though.

There were sometimes that they should have just thrown the ball on the boot sooner.

We played at a manic pace and it caught up in the 4th Q were still young but you can see what our game plan is and it will improve over the season.

Gawn going down did not help but it gave Watts a game he can be proud of , one or his best , i think Max was an angry man yesterday for some reason even before he had the little fun and games with Selwood ,he was making mistakes and giving away a few frees just out of being [censored] off it really affected his game,whatever it was and we couldn't get a goal and they couldn't miss !!! pulling them put their arse .

  

I was concerned about big Max before the injury, too.  Stupid free kicks, errors, misplaced aggression.  Whatever was going on, I thought he needed a spell and the coach to get in his ear.  We didn't need him to go down with injury, just calm down and focus on doing his bit.

1 hour ago, old demon me!!! said:

Kent played well in his first game and he wasn't alone in the missing goals department, always prefer him having a shot on the run though.

 

Kent's 2 big weaknesses are that he goes missing and he is an average kick at goal...set shot & on the run.

For someone who is a good kick his goal kicking is very unreliable and he needs to fix it to be a better player.

1 hour ago, Mud Dogs Gonna Win said:

Jones - Had A Crack!

Viney - Made to Tag

Salem - absolute class act

Watts - Career Defining Game

Petracca - Runout of steam

Gawn - Dominated before injured

Tyson - Nowhere when needed

Oliver - Will learn from

Stretch - Most underrated player

Kent - Came on late

Melksham - Getting better weekly

Hannan - Didn't present enough

Vince - Needs to attack

T.McDonald - Great defensive form

O.McDonald - Not a Fan

Weideman - Back to VFL

Hunt - Second Best On

Neal-Bullen - That kick backwards??

Garlett - Missed having Hogan

Smith - Better for it

Jetta - What a goal (2 in 2 games!)

Harmes - Couldnt break through

 

Much better. Thought ANB was really good despite that 1 clanger

3 minutes ago, rjay said:

Kent's 2 big weaknesses are that he goes missing and he is an average kick at goal...set shot & on the run.

For someone who is a good kick his goal kicking is very unreliable and he needs to fix it to be a better player.

Any time he marks the footy I pray to the football gods that he just runs around and plays on.  His kicking for goal on the run is terrific.

2 hours ago, Mud Dogs Gonna Win said:

Sure he competes.. but when the pressure is on.. he is useless.. not ready needs a spell in the 2s.. I'd have Frost back in ASAP.

Hawkins monstered him. 

His kicking is below average.

makes horrible decisions.

Let's consider the size of Hawkins Vs OMac . Hawkins has monstered most defenders in recent years so be a bit fair on a developing player.

Oscar & Tom had the most 1%ers indicating that spoiling is one of his main functions at this time. Three years ago people were saying the same about TMac. By the time we get into the window of opportunity we will have 2 great defenders in the McDonalds plus a back up in Frost (who is no world beater at this point in time.)

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JoeBoy, you lost me with, well, your entire analysis. We kicked ourselves out of the contest but there was no amount of great work that enabled us to have shots on goal. The review you've put forward is the type of review I used to read when we had been flogged by 80+ points. Give yourself several uppercuts.

 

1 hour ago, chook fowler said:

Much better. Thought ANB was really good despite that 1 clanger

Couldn't agree more.. seems to be fitter and in tune with the pace of the game now 

59 minutes ago, dimmy said:

Let's consider the size of Hawkins Vs OMac . Hawkins has monstered most defenders in recent years so be a bit fair on a developing player.

Oscar & Tom had the most 1%ers indicating that spoiling is one of his main functions at this time. Three years ago people were saying the same about TMac. By the time we get into the window of opportunity we will have 2 great defenders in the McDonalds plus a back up in Frost (who is no world beater at this point in time.)

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Yeah in 3 years time maybe. 

I think he may stop 3-4 goals a game but is probably costing us 4-5 maybe more..

Bottom line is that if we kicked accurately we would have won!

The ups and down of players in their 1-3 year at the club is to be expected....

I would say that Watts playing with Heart was an understatement. There were moments in the 2nd and 3rd where he showed that at his best,  he has the disposal and class of a matchwinner and superstar that is above most players in the competition. This coming off his last quarter last year that swung the momentum and won us the game.

Edited April 9, 20178 yr by DominatrixTyson

Sounds as though there was a fair reason that Bernie wasn't on yesterday.

Had his foot stomped on early on and his toenail was completely ripped off. At one stage at the start of third quarter his sock was full of blood, and he's had a procedure to fix it.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-04-09/vince-nailed-after-having-foot-stomped-on

3 minutes ago, Luther said:

Sounds as though there was a fair reason that Bernie wasn't on yesterday.

Had his foot stomped on early on and his toenail was completely ripped off. At one stage at the start of third quarter his sock was full of blood, and he's had a procedure to fix it.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-04-09/vince-nailed-after-having-foot-stomped-on

doesn't say which foot, but as they hope he will play next week i'm assuming it is his left foot

2 hours ago, rjay said:

Kent's 2 big weaknesses are that he goes missing and he is an average kick at goal...set shot & on the run.

For someone who is a good kick his goal kicking is very unreliable and he needs to fix it to be a better player.

I reckon it's all in his head, too, because he is a neat kick when he's on. Needs to work out how to calm himself down I reckon. Definitely a player I want to see get to the next level though, because all the components are clearly there.

99% of footy game day is in the head i reckon

I'd hate to argue with one of the positive statements, but that was definitely not Jones' career best game! Thought he was a little sloppier than usual and on a good day those 3 behinds would have been at least 2 goals. But yes, he was good as usual.

Geelong - dodged a bullet.

 

32 minutes ago, Ron Burgundy said:

Geelong - dodged a bullet.

 

Copy that RB.

On 09/04/2017 at 8:01 AM, fr_ap said:

What hasn't been noticed by many was the work and time Geelong put into Oliver. 

Make no mistake - Blicavs played a hard hard tag - a good choice as Clarrie couldnt get his arms up into the clear as Blicavs was so tall. Then he used his running capacity to run off him, and kicked a few. 

Clarrie didnt have the tank to go with him and this was one match up we didnt fix the longer it went on. Cost us offensively and defensively and was a rare piece of good coaching by Scott. 

Other than that - Geelong have no system. None. Their entire game revolves around selwood or dangerfield winning the clearance and tumble punting it to hawkins and hoping for the best. Some of their supporters were incredibly smug in the last and a few were complaining about the vocal dees fans.

Well, they managed to beat a team that beat themselves. I can't remember a team so reliant on so few players, it's absurd!

You've got a very short memory. It's only a few years since we relied entirely on Nathan Jones. We didn't win as many games as Geelong, though.

10 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

You've got a very short memory. It's only a few years since we relied entirely on Nathan Jones. We didn't win as many games as Geelong, though.

That was when we relied on Jones to help us keep the losing margin to a respectable 60-70 points.