What is it about freos game style that has us shaking in our boots?

Cannot believe the chicken littles, sky is falling and the constant disparagement.

Young ones will be inconsistent, it is the next few games that will define our season.

So we lose one, it is not the finish of us as a competitive team.

Keep building Dees.

 

1 minute ago, Oxdee said:

What is it about freos game style that has us shaking in our boots?

The speed they have around the ground. Made us look like statues.

Was a tough game to sit through from the stands. What stood out were how big the dockers talls were - Constantly out marked around the ground.

The dockers had pace and skill on the counter too. 

Going to have to reset before a go one against GWS next week 

1 minute ago, kev martin said:

Cannot believe the chicken littles, sky is falling and the constant disparagement.

Young ones will be inconsistent, it is the next few games that will define our season.

So we lose one, it is not the finish of us as a competitive team.

Keep building Dees.

 

I don’t think it was the young ones that were the worry in that game. 

3 minutes ago, Oxdee said:

What is it about freos game style that has us shaking in our boots?

Fast ball movement, leg speed and kicking skills. Has been our Achilles for a few years. We love contested sides. 

33 minutes ago, MurDoc516 said:

Well I tell you who wasn't at fault today, the list management and coaching team! No sir, no way they could be of any blame.

We don’t want to get another rant from binman by blaming the coaches. It must be freos fault for being a better footy team than us. 

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by sydneydee

Top eight at stake and we produce that rubbish!

Goodwin's obsession with Petty has absolutely cost us this season.

You can't play a man down in the bulk of matches (bar about two 'ok' games in total) since Rnd 5 and expect to win against the better clubs.

And then attempt to play him in the ruck against two monsters (twice in the same season... ah hello!) and have a positive outcome.  He just isn't a ruck and he has no form or ability at ground level rucking either.

Then when he fails you send your best KF to then go into the ruck to try to turn things around.  Robbing us of any structure or contested marking ability inside 50 or even just getting the ball to ground for the smalls.

You can't make this stuff up.

2024 has become a complete joke of a season and seen us regress about 5 years watching so many ordinary to good teams now over take us.

Does anyone really want to see us in finals this year after the last 2 months?

play the kids

work on game plan 

pick 7 is better than 13

17 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

Was Lever Fremantle's biggest asset?

Was Fritsch told "always jog, never run?"

Was Pickett there as an official observer?

Is Sparrow the slowest midfielder in the AFL?

Does Goodwin actually think Petty is an adequate ruckman?

Is Oliver still worth his enormous contract?

And is anyone taking responsibility for the fact that the cupboard at Casey is bare?

Shame we can't pay on effort in games like this .

hate to say it but billings was decent (if you ignore that first kick for goal)

3 minutes ago, kev martin said:

Cannot believe the chicken littles, sky is falling and the constant disparagement.

Young ones will be inconsistent, it is the next few games that will define our season.

So we lose one, it is not the finish of us as a competitive team.

Keep building Dees.

 

Not sure if serious

Did you watch the game? It's round 19, not 3

2 minutes ago, SPC said:

Fast ball movement, leg speed and kicking skills. Has been our Achilles for a few years. We love contested sides. 

They've had it over us for the past 5 years, ruck structures aside we fall for the same 5h it every time we play against them.

We can say that we're our best two players short but it's a bit of a moot point where Gawn is concerned. We went into this year knowing full well this could happen and we needed to have plans in place to nullify the loss of Gawn and make sure we could at least compete in that area. I don't blame the FD entirely for this as they took a risk on Fullerton but that's what it was, a risk. They do need to take some responsibility there.

Midfield depth was always going to be an issue right from the start of the season. Anyone who thought our depth was sufficient is kidding themselves. Again though, not totally anyone's fault, we did try to get Reid but it was an issue. Sometimes you're just in a rock and a hard place and thats where our list is.

Still a bit to play for but I will be looking forward to re-tooling this list end of season.

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by layzie

10 minutes ago, Heart Beats True said:

The speed they have around the ground. Made us look like statues.

I guess this was similar to when we play pies.: speed and fast transition kills us

I didn’t expect to make finals before todays game and think we need to finish outside the 8 for our own good going forward. Best available mid with our first pick needs to happen. 

For the love of god though please make some coaching changes at year’s end to help rejuvenate things.  

 

Embarrassing performance. 

 

Put simply, matches against Freo reinforce that we must increase the power and depth in our midfield over the pre-season. Yes Gawn and Petracca will make a difference, as will Oliver with a healthy, uninterrupted pre-season under his belt, but right now we just don't have the personnel to match it with Freo's onballers, and it shows in a big way. 

An embarrassing performance. 

We constantly allowed them to handball to back of stoppage uncontested, and do as they pleased.

The scoreline flattered us.

A lack of spread on defensive transition. It seemed all too hard.

I'll hold fire on a couple of players, but gee whiz, it was tough to watch.

Let's just say, given contest numbers went up in the second half, I'd point to psychological weakness in the first half.

And you can't lose clearance by 31(!) and expect to be in the game. There's slingshot and then there's uncompetitive at the contest, and we were that for most of the day.

Although there were some terrible moments forward of centre and in the back half from our defenders, the mids are responsible for today's capitulation. 

No ruck, no Melbourne. This was lost before we started the game.

2 minutes ago, Beetle said:

I didn’t expect to make finals before todays game and think we need to finish outside the 8 for our own good going forward. Best available mid with our first pick needs to happen. 

For the love of god though please make some coaching changes at year’s end to help rejuvenate things.  

 

I agree we ain’t winning this year with no trac, Gus and 50%Oliver.

Get Houston, strong pre season fo all. Reload for 2025

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by Gawndy the Great

How did we let Grundy go for a pack of twisties??! Crazy

42-point turnaround, baby! 

Look, poor outcome. But those potting the boys, these are the same guys who did well against the bombers last week. But today, were too patchy, gave them far too much room and the mids didn’t do enough unfortunately and put too much pressure on the backline. That said, why did they have so many unmarked guys i50? What are the stats on marks inside 50? Would be woeful. 

Anyway, the last few weeks tells me that the bombers are indeed frauds, we are better than them, but nowhere near the dockers sadly. Their bunnies of late. If we scrape into the finals I would not be keen on playing them again.

We need Max back and sorely miss Trac. Not that it would have changed the result as our Alice game proved.

Anyway, gotta focus on beating the Giants. Need to win 4/5. 

i was quietly confident going in tonight, but now it's just disappointment

14 minutes ago, Oxdee said:

What is it about freos game style that has us shaking in our boots?

Speed off half back and half forward, midfield gut run. Mobile tall forwards. Pressure.

Its just about the perfect combination to mess with us.

Now, if we control the middle we could deal with a lot of the rest but when our mids don’t run and don’t win the contest we are stuffed.