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POSTGAME: QF vs Sydney

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3 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Did anyone see the Spargo incident? Where his throat was crushed?

He laid a tackle 10 mins in the 2nd got a free kick and went straight for his throughly in pain. Essentially 2 men down at this stage 

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    Sydney has always beaten us at post clearance possessions, especially at the G where there is room to take those possessions them move into space.  It was far more obvious in the days we played 'bees to the honey pot' with numbers.  Now we hold our positions better.  But we still fall for it.  In the words of recent jargon:  'we are being beaten by what we know'.

    But it is more than that.  We back in our system.  For good reason; it has worked well for us in the past and against lesser teams and lesser coaches.  With a few exceptions I don't see many tactics to 'take away the opps strengths' until we have to make some moves, in game. 

    Sydney however went in with a plan to take out our play makers:  tagged Salem, sat a player on Langdon, put Mills on Oliver at stoppages and not sure what they did to Lever after quarter time to take him out of the game.  Right there is the disruption of our defensive wall and disruption of our ball movement coming from our defensive half.   The resulting pressure on the ball carrier forced us to over hand ball or pass into congestion resulting in turnovers.  What was it 11 goals from turnovers (not sure how many we scored that way).  Last time it was 7 goals from turnovers to our zip!  That is their MO against us.  Again I'm not sure why we were 'beaten by what we know'. 

    If we play them in the GF we need to be a lot smarter.  We can't just 'back in our system'; Sydney have shown multiple times they can dismantle it. 

    And if we play Geelong in a PF we can't just back in our system as they have also learnt to dismantled it. 

    Longmire and Scott are the two canniest coaches in the league.  But, lets not be beaten by what we know.

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    1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    Sydney has always beaten us at post clearance possessions, especially at the G where there is room to take those possessions them move into space.  It was far more obvious in the days we played 'bees to the honey pot' with numbers.  Now we hold our positions better.  But we still fall for it.  In the words of recent jargon:  'we are being beaten by what we know'.

    But it is more than that.  We back in our system.  For good reason; it has worked well for us in the past and against lesser teams and lesser coaches.  With a few exceptions I don't see many tactics to 'take away the opps strengths' until we have to make some moves, in game. 

    Sydney however went in with a plan to take out our play makers:  tagged Salem, sat a player on Langdon, put Mills on Oliver at stoppages and not sure what they did to Lever after quarter time to take him out of the game.  Right there is the disruption of our defensive wall and disruption of our ball movement coming from our defensive half.   The resulting pressure on the ball carrier forced us to over hand ball or pass into congestion resulting in turnovers.  What was it 11 goals from turnovers (not sure how many we scored that way).  Last time it was 7 goals from turnovers to our zip!  That is their MO against us.  Again I'm not sure why we were 'beaten by what we know'. 

    If we play them in the GF we need to be a lot smarter.  We can't just 'back in our system'; Sydney have shown multiple times they can dismantle it. 

    And if we play Geelong in a PF we can't just back in our system as they have also learnt to dismantled it. 

    Longmire and Scott are the two canniest coaches in the league.  But, lets not be beaten by what we know.

    I went into this game thinking the goals from turnovers was going to be crucial and we needed to fare well in that stat. This time round we got not only beaten in it but completely rinsed.

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    8 hours ago, bandicoot said:

    He laid a tackle 10 mins in the 2nd got a free kick and went straight for his throughly in pain. Essentially 2 men down at this stage 

    Thx for that. 12:57 to go in the 2nd.

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     noah from brighton love the podcast guys.

    i feel my mfcc is coming back andy. 

    i was 50/50 confident that we could beat the swans as i feel they are the true underdog to win the flag this year.

    question: melbournes inability to handle the ongoing pressure from the swans was highly evident during this game. i have noticed in the big games we lost to the magpies and bulldogs in the back end of the year has shown melbourne other teams major weakness. I wanted George’s opinion whether   melbourne has the mongrel bastard to handle the pressure and place the pressure on brisbane and further finals teams over the next couple of weeks.

     

    noah from brighton 

     

     

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    Not sure if this has been posted but Gary Ayres Award (Best Finals Player) voting from the Game

    10 - Steven May

    8 - Luke Parker

    3 - James Rowbotton

    3- Jake Lloyd

    3- Clayton Oliver

    3- Callum Mills

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    Force turnovers, minimise our own turnovers. Sounds simple but that's what it comes down to. 

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    On 9/4/2022 at 9:55 AM, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Why isn’t this being talked about!? Rhetorical question. 🙄 

    Yeah, this clip is obvs comical, but it makes me so angry. 
    Hashtag Franklin sux. 
     

    IMG_2706.MOV 4.5 MB · 16 downloads  

     

    Can you please send me this...it won't open anymore

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    22 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Can you please send me this...it won't open anymore

    Just PMd you. 🙂

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