Gawndy the Great

I have already lost my voice because of them. It’s unbelievably poor tonight.

Must have missed it. Don’t have the benefit of replay tonight.

Our poor stoppage work was obvious in the Carlton game. They try to gloss over it but I didn’t buy the BS. Doggies are not playing that good. They were bought into the game by the umps and have ridden the momentum. Hopefully our fitness brings us back into the game because we are looking 2nd rate.

They are moving outside the 5m circle.

Clearances [censored]

I’m sitting in the nosebleed and could see he played for that. Time to bring in VAU 😠

That’s a big if. We got absolutely toweled against The blues and they are nowhere near as talented in the middle as the Dogs. It’s too early to make any assessment on trends or read too much into the Carlton game but I’d hate to see the cockiness of 2018 seep back into the side. A little is ok, but expecting anything less than a brutal contest wouldn’t work out too favourable. Hopefully the attitude is where it needs to be.

@Mods. Pretty please.

Was watching the game at TGIs without sound but assume the commentators were saying that the umpiring was well below standard. I get they want to keep the game moving but so many non decisions against us - head high contact, marking interference etc. Putting that aside, Carlton did a great job in nullifying our ball movement. Reminded me of our game vs the Hawks. would have won the game if they weren’t so defensively orientated.

Yeah maybe- but not at the reported 650k pa

I dont think he is. Everyone has a stellar game here and there and Brayshaw definately had a strong GF and final series, otherwise his 2021 was meeting expectations.

I agree that this is quite disappointing. HD is now the staple format of sports. Most of the finals (GF for sure) would have been recorded in 4K too, but that footage will never see the light of day. I just don't get how FoxFooty and Ch 7 get away with this type of crap year after year. Perhaps they are asking for a premium for this level of quality footage, and hence, not profitable for the manufacturer to bother with. Anyway, in answer to your question, Kayo would be the closest thing you'd get to HD access to the games from last year. But its a cheap man's version of HD (720p i think) at a pretty crappy frame rate as well.

3 of the top 5. Has that ever happened in a list of anyones doing?

Check the thread title.

That is the last 5 games of 2021. His last 5 games includes the 2 praccy matches this year. It makes quite a difference to your analysis. The stat analysis does not always tell the story, but it makes the ability to take out the subjective aspect of any analysis as the non-tangibles can always be adjusted to suit ones own narrative. Honestly, i dont understand why people get their knickers in a knot over pointless opinions and feel like they have to judge the quality of ones post. He has had a bad-run of form (according to me), he has upside (i think everyone would agree), time to move on.

Go re-watch the games and look up the stats yourself.. You will see in his last 5 performances, he had one OK game (mind you against an opponent where everybody had a great game). Compare this with the first half of the season where he couldn't put a foot wrong and you will see i am not being unreasonable in my assessment of his recent form.

Yes he is young and y Pull your finger out DD, i have not written anybody off. He has had a recent streak of poor games and I simply agreed with the post that called it out. You maybe prepared to accept mediocrity, but i am done with that. If you have a poor game, ok, $h** happens but if you string a few poor games together, then its fair game.

I reckon they will save that for a special edition 2021 season blue ray/dvd.

100% on the money. He was ordinary against the Roos as well as most of the games late last year. It may be a role but he needs to lift and impact the scoreboard. In all fairness though, Spargo and ANB were very average too.

I think Tommo is the perfect match-up on the bigger bodied tall forwards. He effectively rendered McKay useless yesterday and has done the same on Hawkins before. A number of the top 4-6 teams have these types of forwards (McStay, Lynch, 2m Peter etc). Whilst Petty can certainly do the job, id honestly have Tommo as the lockdown defender. Nevertheless between May, Tommo, Petty and Lever we have options - just not sure we can play them all in the same team as our vulnerability seems to be against those teams with a smaller more mobile forward line. This is why i think Rivers over Smith and although Hunt was terrible last night, he has the right physicality to match the pace of small dynamic opposition forwards.

The 50% scoring from inside 50 is due largely to an unaccountable midfield. We got absolutely pants in the middle and Carlton were able to highly capitalise from their clearances. I think the arrogance/selfishness of Trac and Oliver were on display last night and Cripps gave them both a good reality check. Not a bad time for a reminder of what team football is about. Having our starting back 6 would have definitely helped reduce that conversion to maybe 30-40% but even that would be too high.

I reckon Tommo was good. Shut out McKay in the first half. We didn’t account for McGovern as intercept defender. Carlton played that card so let’s see how other teams address that. Kozzy was outclassed by Saad ‘the elite’ he tried but his form and impact on the game wasn’t really there. Am expecting a big year from him, but not sure after his first 2 games. When did he actually kick his last goal? LJ has also been quite disappointing so far as well. Let’s hope we don’t dish this stuff up again.

What did stink was getting touched up in the middle. Praccy match or not, that was brutal.

I think 4 or 5 goals from them too.. perspective.

Farcical now.