The Collingwood-Geelong game and the Adelaide-Hawthorn game give the same questions.

Is Hawthorn better than people expected?

Is Adelaide worse than people expected?

Again, I suspect the latter.

I'm not particularly surprised at seeing three of the five most hyped sides going into this year (Adelaide, Collingwood and us, with the other two being Essendon and Brisbane) dropping games almost everyone thought they'd win.

Regardless, I get nothing but disgust at seeing Geelong and Hawthorn win unexpectedly.

No team has scored over 100 points yet

That 6-6-6 rule isnt going as planned

Geez Sydney are poor.

Tips are shocking this round. Sydney fallin off the cliff finally?  

Wow the dogs have started so well. Maybe there jumper has given them superpowers. To keep sydney goalless in that term was good. Should be interesting to see what plan Longmire has to get them back in it. 

WCE has the shortest pre-season out of anyone and yet still pantsing Brisbane at the Gabba who pantsed us in the JLT. Not sure how long this short pre-season excuse is going to work for us.

No surprise to see the Lions taking it up to the Eagles after what we saw in the JLT.

Oh oh , Thor has lost his hammer. 

Bears dominating meth coke

They are QUICK

One thing that looks to be emerging this year is that the teams that are zippier are able to transition far more effectively

1 minute ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

Bears dominating meth coke

They are QUICK

One thing that looks to be emerging this year is that the teams that are zippier are able to transition far more effectively

They were excellent against us at Casey.

WCE V LIONS is a carbon copy of our match.  Eagles start match as you’d expect, running all over Brisbane, then like flicking a switch, the eagles look tired and slow.  Very underdone.

Well, well, well. So far just about every underdog has won. Richmond was the exception, and they were challenged after the first quarter. I can see this season being a very interesting time for the so-called top sides.

Weagles absolutely smashed by Bears. 

Round 1 freak show continues 

Well at least we aren’t the only disappointment of round 1. 

Brisbane will make the 8. 

38 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

WCE V LIONS is a carbon copy of our match.  Eagles start match as you’d expect, running all over Brisbane, then like flicking a switch, the eagles look tired and slow.  Very underdone.

Yep, I went the early crow and thought Eagles were going to dominate after the first qtr, but as you said, after qtr time the Eagles looked really slow under done. With the Pies losing, Richmond anything but convincing, Eagles losing and us also losing, there's a clear correlation between shorter pre-seasons (and hence less prep) and round 1 performances. 

3 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Yep, I went the early crow and thought Eagles were going to dominate after the first qtr, but as you said, after qtr time the Eagles looked really slow under done. With the Pies losing, Richmond anything but convincing, Eagles losing and us also losing, there's a clear correlation between shorter pre-seasons (and hence less prep) and round 1 performances. 

Yep -  all top four teams have looked very ordinary. 

It'll be a matter of how quickly we can catch up with the pack and what damage is done before then.

I reckon we should all take a sample size of more than one match before we draw conclusions on certain clubs, us included.

If you'd done that after Round 1 last year you might have argued that Carlton were in for a good year (they'd won both JLT games and pushed Richmond, scoring 95 points against the reigning premier who scarcely conceded 100), or that Collingwood was in for another wasted season (after their terrible showing against Hawthorn), or that West Coast was what everyone thought they'd be, just a middle of the road side (after losing their first game to Sydney).

What a great win by brisbane. It is interesting to see the teams apart from Richmond that started pre season later have so far lost. Actually I correct myself because hawthorn won to. 

Anyway lets hope our weekend can get a little better by the giants beating essenscum today. 

In previous years underdone teams at the start of the could start with extra players in defence to control the game and stop quick scoring.  This is no longer the case.  But as the fitness builds i see the clubs with more talent moving to the top of the league. (Assuming individual players they perform as expected)  This used to happen in the 80s due to the limited preseasons compared to modern football.  They played into fitness. 

As for Brisbane you could see the signs lats year that they were improving, natural progression and whether they can sustain it.

 

46 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

What a great win by brisbane. It is interesting to see the teams apart from Richmond that started pre season later have so far lost. Actually I correct myself because hawthorn won to. 

Anyway lets hope our weekend can get a little better by the giants beating essenscum today. 

Brisbane were clearly improving last year and will be the team to watch rising through the ranks this year. They were impressive last night in every way. Hard tackling pressure, great skills, aggressive play, fast and hard running. They worked hard.

3 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

I reckon we should all take a sample size of more than one match before we draw conclusions on certain clubs, us included.

If you'd done that after Round 1 last year you might have argued that Carlton were in for a good year (they'd won both JLT games and pushed Richmond, scoring 95 points against the reigning premier who scarcely conceded 100), or that Collingwood was in for another wasted season (after their terrible showing against Hawthorn), or that West Coast was what everyone thought they'd be, just a middle of the road side (after losing their first game to Sydney).

Yep, agreed. the new rules are quite different to the look of the game and hinders our closing down of space, which we had only just learnt to do...  so the AFL continue shuffling the deck.

 

The comp is getting more even as the other also-rans start to mature...  so this will be a very even season,  as there is no standout power teams.

But pacy sides will be able to open up games by the look of things atmo.

Younger players will play earlier than the recent past... with the open spaced game.   So we might be able to play a chandler or other.

15 hours ago, Jaded said:

Well at least we aren’t the only disappointment of round 1. 

Brisbane will make the 8. 

Wow,  early  'Jd '.

GWS are showing their originalty before the game. Playing Hells Bells before the bounce...

I also have to say that over the entire round the umpiring has been really poor. I was reminded of that when I  just saw a blatantly  incorrect call for a throw against GWS. Even though the frees went our way against Port, there were far too many bad calls both eays and far too few for Gawn given the beating they gave him behind the ball.

Saints by 1 point over Gold Coast.  Would have loved the Suns to get up.   

Saints are going nowhere.