Autopsy 2024 Rd 9 Blues hold on in 1 point thriller

[Gethelred]

Alright, that's enough.

The next poster who thinks they should have a crack at an individual or a collective reaction to this game is going to find themselves threadbanned. Terms like 'bleaters' or 's**t posters' will see things escalated further.

Let's discuss our views on the match without getting the knives out, please.

 

[Michael Jezz]

Cincotta was great last night. I called him out as one dimensional. If he or cowan, boyd could add some run and carry, then we would have a premiership defence

 

[Coops93]

Pitto gets under his skin for some reason

I think Gawn likes to be the strongest guy in the ruck and doesn't like it when he isn't. He looks for frees a lot when he isn't getting his way - which admittedly isn't often, he's a gun, but it's not the first time I've seen him act like this when being beaten (or at least nullified)

 

[Michael Jezz]

Tbf Geelong were 5-4 at this stage in 2022


Richmond 2019 6-6

My point relates to basic skill errors that Richmond and Geelong, did not make to our extent. The errors we make kill you in the last 2 weeks of finals

 

[skadoosh]

The errors are not a one off and the best don't make them. We are good side but I am looking at this through a premiership lense

Where were we this time last year? Did we have any hope of making a prelim?

The night is young, anything can and will happen.

 

[Dramoth]

Shits me no end too. I just take it as a sign that we are pretty bloody good and a contender. They don’t want us to actually be good again.

They want us to go back to being their whipping boys so they can feel big and tough.

 

[Michael Jezz]

Where were we this time last year? Did we have any hope of making a prelim?

The night is young, anything can and will happen.

Possibly- Last year we were bottom 4, we finished 3rd. The difference between 3rd and a premiership are eradicating those errors

 

[InsufficientIntent]

Weird!

Ask anyone who actually knows a thing or 2 about high performance and I bet you get a different take.

What your post does highlight though is you know very little about high performance, sports science and player management.

I will just ask you this 1 question.

How many teams get players doing hamstrings? If the answer is more than 9 there’s a clue!


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I am in fact very much aware of high performance, sports science and player management. Very aware. I also know that Andrew Russell has mismanaged a number of players with soft tissue injuries. I know a lot of people in the industry who have the exact same views as I do. There appears to be a refusal to go down the eccentric stimulus route, siding with the (incorrect) view that hamstring strains occur quasi-isometrically. However all the current literature suggests strong eccentric strengthening programs to rehabilitate and ensure robust hamstring muscle tissue. Those that think otherwise need only to look at the litany of research indicating that eccentric stimulus is a no-brainer, and early exposure post-injury too.

All teams sustain hamstring injuries, but what's happening at Carlton is farcical. To have Cerra strain his hamstring having been cleared to play after rehabbing from another hamstring injury is just not good enough.

 

[BigFrizz36]

There's no resting in football.

Bye in 4 weeks

 

[Blue Pulse]

A common factor I’ve noticed in the last three matches is us being undone by individual stars. Cameron, Daicos, Petracca. Are our coaches failing to identify and lock down individual players, or are our players not exercising instructions properly? Are we identifying and locking down the wrong players? Too offensively focused? Or are they just too good? Thoughts?

Pretty tough to combat, sometimes when a star player is on he's on and it doesn't really matter who you put on him, they won't stop him. You need a combined effort to curb their influence.
It was why in the "bad ole days", they would deliberately target star players from the opposing side.
One of the marks Petracca took in the 2nd qtr with the one hand tap and mark technique, that was superb judgement to realise quickly that he would not reach the ball with both hands. Gov moved back off him as he felt it would go over the top of Petracca which it probably would have if he had gone both hands.

 

[Show_Me_The_Money]

Cannot overstate the job Cincotta did on IMO by far the most dangerous small forward in the comp last night.

 

[le dominateur]

Old Maxy Gawn was a bit fired up last night.

He’d be feeling shithouse today again.

For such a giant of a man he goes to ground very easily, looked almost in tears at the end of the game


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[teagueyubeauty]

Unacceptable! Last 3 games against Dees our winning margin has diminished exponentially… 4 pts, 2 pts, 1pt! Bloody do better!

Last 8 games between each other have averaged 7 point winning margin, astounding


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[Blueballs38]

watched the first half again, we are travelling well at this stage of the season.

 

[teagueyubeauty]

Yes a top 6 side, which is not the worst. The Voss era is successful. I am looking at this through a premiership lense, and have my doubts.

Same, if we were able to get somewhere near our best team on the park consistently I’d be quietly confident. But that’s a miracle at our club


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[BigFrizz36]

Genuine reply here and public service message. I’m relatively fit but ‘overstrained’ myself at the end of the semi final against Dees last year. Had a bit of a heart/ health scare because of it.

People, take care of yourselves and your health. Blues are one of my loves but my life is important.

Hoping that your sense if humour survived intact.

It's very lucky that your brother "grim" wasn't there that night.

 

[dumb]

weitering godlike. barely put a foot wrong all game, aside from being in the same pack as the kemp non-spoil.
great in a contest, but that blind turn and then hits someone with the pass :chefkiss:

 

[morningbrown]

One wish for the rest of the year is that Boyd and Boyd alone takes the kick outs. Newman and Gov are so unpredictable.

 

[The Sultan]

I had to chaperone Darcy, Eddie & Mick at Superbowl 50 pre-game media tailgate. He's quite possibly the most vacuous person I've met.

he comes across as someone who hasnt had an original thought, and goes with whatever is the most popular view on something

 

[TwiggleyFanClub]

Lately we feel like the 2022 version instead of a 2023 version that's continued to make progress.

 

[Ezayyak]

There are legitimately 6 sides at this point that are in the hunt, Geelong, GWS, Collingwood, Sydney, Melbourne and us.

This early in the season I'll be satisfied with any type of victory against any of the contenders. We are 2 and 2 from the last 4 weeks against four of those sides with Sydney to come this week.

Collingwood are 1-2, Melbourne are 1-2, GWS are 1-2, Geelong are 1-1 and Sydney are performing the best at 3-0. We've played more contenders than the rest.

We are doing ok.

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

Any thoughts on Bozo Taylor's comments about Brody Kemp deliberately driving his own head into the turf to receive a free kick last night?
Who would do such a stupid thing?

I did think conversation about Owies mid tackle dive last week against the Pies was warranted though.

 

[blues4flag]

Any thoughts on Bozo Taylor's comments about Brody Kemp deliberately driving his own head into the turf to receive a free kick last night?
Who would do such a stupid thing?

I did think conversation about Owies mid tackle dive last week against the Pies was warranted though.

Ridiculous, sensationalist journalism. Had his left knee taken out, his left arm pinned. No way to brace himself once JVR fell into his back.

 

[Michael Jezz]

Pittonet is a crucial advantage for us
We don't win last night without Pitto
Pitto is like a tactical missile to be deployed in certain circumstances

 

[ParapMarkets]

The whole coaching group need to have a really hard look at themselves.

They have over thought this game modes training stuff. We played for a quarter and a half trying to waste time.

It is the reason we always win by only a goal (Or lose by a goal). If we're 3+ goals up in the last quarter the directive is to slow the game down and waste time which is just so dangerous and has cost us the Adelaide game already.

We're lucky it hasn't cost us quite a few more including the final against Sydney. We should be coaching our players to be desperate right to the end. If we can "manage" the last 3 minutes of a game great but what we're doing is crazy.

I couldn’t agree more, others like sky horse tamer have made similar points in this thread. We are trying to “hold on” for far too long and because of this, we are the most susceptible of the top 6 or so teams to losing a game when 3-4 goals up.

You see it in every sport, with teams like Brady’s NE Patriots or peak Fergie ManU. The team that has outplayed them for the bulk of the game become too conservative too early and they smell blood. It’s a mindset change that can be difficult to undo.

We are clearly extremely well coached at closing out games in the last minute or so (whether we are up or down by less than a goal), but we change mode way too early in games.

 

[T2B_]

I saw it very much the same

Question I have is over last two weeks it was obvious early to most that the only chance the opposition had to win was for their Star player to step up. Last week N.Daicos and last night Petracca.

I'd like to know WHY we don't have someone sit on them?

Times like these I miss having someone like Ed Curnow. Was a reliable stopper, while capable of getting 20-30 himself.