Autopsy Round 6, 2024: Positives and Negatives vs Fremantle

[ArdentEagle]

How long was Sheed out for again???

Look, I've never been a huge Sheed lover (Goal aside) but it was his first hit out back. He got thrown into a pretty hot game in the 4th. Was caught flat footed at his first contest and then missed a tackle not long after from memory.

As the quarter worn on, he picked up the speed a bit more. He also his a lovely/creative left food pass from close to our D50 out to the wing past 3 defenders.


I'm not going to judge him in our revamped side yet. He has a role with the left foot and vision.
He needs to pick up the pace for sure...Let's hope the urgency rubs off too.

 

[Priddis Is Done]

Rewatching the 1st half.

Rotham was huge. Hope he goes on with it and makes it. He offers something very unique.

Impressed with Witherden 2 x weeks in a row. He has a yard of pace. How, I have no idea, but he does.

Flogmantle have based their gameplan on a 5 year outdated one. Dumb village hicks. It's the chaos ball that's ruling now.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Imagine waking up every morning a Freo fan?

 

[BartBart]

Rewatching the 1st half.

Rotham was huge. Hope he goes on with it and makes it. He offers something very unique.

Impressed with Witherden 2 x weeks in a row. He has a yard of pace. How, I have no idea, but he does.

Flogmantle have based their gameplan on a 5 year outdated one. Dumb village hicks. It's the chaos ball that's ruling now.

The amount of times a Freo player had the ball stoppage back side of the square and they looked sideways/slightly back.

They really didn't want to go forward quickly.

 

[Bender_]

Rotham was huge. Hope he goes on with it and makes it. He offers something very unique.

Rotham's first couple of seasons were quite decent. He's got some great tools; speed, height and a very good kick. I genuinely feel like he's a victim of our stop-and-chip-it-sideways-or-even-better-backwards gameplan and trying to play him as a 3rd tall. With a licence to move the ball fast and at an angle he looks like a much better player.

 

[WCEswift]

Witherdens desperation is what stood out to me, i loved it

 

[ArdentEagle]

Rewatching the 1st half.

Rotham was huge. Hope he goes on with it and makes it. He offers something very unique.

Impressed with Witherden 2 x weeks in a row. He has a yard of pace. How, I have no idea, but he does.

Flogmantle have based their gameplan on a 5 year outdated one. Dumb village hicks. It's the chaos ball that's ruling now.

Well said mate...Since coming back Rotham has been damn good as has Witho.

The extra pressure up the field is helping Witho immensely. He can rely on his ability to read the play and pick up oppo scrubber kicks and opposed to having to rely on speed to make up ground with clean entries.

Keep it up Lads!!!

 

[southcoast]

Positives
1. Our often maligned players stood up pretty well - think Darling, Rotham, Witherden, Cole, Duggan etc.
2. Cannot think of an obvious passenger/s.
3. Two in a row.
4. Big crowd - again.
5. Game plan - much easier on the eye.

Negatives.
1. Just looked in a dictionary to find meaning of ‘inconsistent’ - referred me to AFL HTB decisions. Some real doozies last night and all season.
2. Oppos fourth quarter goals.


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[Crimson King]

I love our forward line atm. It's open and with our mids coming put front of the center bouncedowns, our guys are getting a good look at it. It's all coming together. Matthew Knights is doing a good job as the forwards coach as is Shuey with the mids. Lovin it!

Schofield also deserves alot of credit for the midfield group (along with Shuey too ofcourse).

Our midfield structure/tactics look alot better and our mids actually now seem to know how to position themselves in a contest to win the ball.

 

[KERRPOW]

Tb banned for a week

We have to challenge.

Has TB copped a suspension before?

Hes a good guy.

 

[Cuzz09]

Reid vs. Daicos would go something like this.

haha that's gold

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[southcoast]

We have to challenge.

Has TB copped a suspension before?

Hes a good guy.

Good guy defence is ‘old news’

I’d go with ‘sore back’ defence - have to keep VFL pivoting.


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[Alesana]

 

[NeedForTheReids]

We have to challenge.

Has TB copped a suspension before?

Hes a good guy.

Don’t believe he has

Seen footage of him in the community doings gods work good bloke he is have to challenge it

 

[wce4premiership]

Just watched the replay again and the game is an interesting one, Yeo and Barrass are probably one of the only players to feature strongly throughout.

Early days it's Reid, Barrass, Yeo and Waterman.

Later on it's Kelly, Barrass, Yeo, Darling and Maric.

Then towards the end you have players like Hough, Cole, Duggan, Hunt etc shining through.

Really well balanced team game I think, Yeo or Barrass probably best on, Reid shone brightest but for shorter periods.

Great to see Hunt, Petruccelle, Cripps, Darling, Cole, Hough and even guys like Rotham and Witherden do really good things throughout the game. Pretty happy with Maric, Cripps etc up forward.

Waterman was supreme, either on the lead or winning HTB kicks, even as a relief kick in the backline. Played his best in the first half when the game was on the line.

Darling could have had 5 goals on another day, got hands to some good kicks in contested marking situations and was so close to holding them, did great setup work for others.

 

[mattyc75]

Sheed is extremely underrated hereabouts. With Yeo, Reid, Kelly and Ginbey at the contest, Sheed's outside run, beautiful disposal and goal kicking can be fully exploited (provided he gets fit).

Sheed is a momentum killer, takes ages to make decisions. Takes his full allotted time after every free kick or mark,doesn't chase at all
He shouldve been running around like a madman , exploiting his freshness but no, didn't look interested
Hope he's not a permanent fixture in the team for the rest of the year
Hopefully Liam ryan is in this week for sheed

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[WCEswift]

Ive found a direct learning point from last week in use to this weeks game, the center clearance of reid to yeo to maric at the end of the 3rd, Baz Williams last week let Maric run at Reid, In the freo game he put a block of Fyfe to let reid take on serong and young

 

[Mulldogg]

Positive - Schoey’s quote in the first interview with Tom Cole

28

Tom Cole

Age

26

Ht

188cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.9

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

3.7

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

110.3

2star

D

10.5

3star

K

6.3

3star

HB

4.3

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

110.3

2star

D

9.8

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

1.8

4star

“I called it upstairs with Pav, he was hating it; good backline, West Coast win”

 

[maverick001]

I don't think he should get that much leeway, he's played the exact same way in the WAFL from what I've seen.
He's not a guy I really want around the young blokes, his attitude at times last year was abysmal for a senior player

Go easy, it's his first game back

 

[maverick001]

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Yeoey, legend. The thing about his clearances too, he does the whole clearance himself. Libba gets on inside, feeds a handball out to Bont etc, ball is cleared. Yeo wins on inside, breaks to outside, kicks. Nobody else required

 

[maverick001]

Don’t believe he has

Seen footage of him in the community doings gods work good bloke he is have to challenge it

But the good bloke rule only applies if he's played 200 games. And there's a full moon & the wind is blowing from the west.

 

[Priddis Is Done]

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Rewatching the 1st half.

Rotham was huge. Hope he goes on with it and makes it. He offers something very unique.

Impressed with Witherden 2 x weeks in a row. He has a yard of pace. How, I have no idea, but he does.

Flogmantle have based their gameplan on a 5 year outdated one. Dumb village hicks. It's the chaos ball that's ruling now.

Witherden has a yard of pace

Give me strength he is the slowest plodder in our whole squad

 

[Priddis Is Done]

Witherden has a yard of pace

Give me strength he is the slowest plodder in our whole squad

He looked it on sat night.

 

[Obeanie1]

We're playing better but Matt Rowell is gonna pull our pants down like he always does

Feel that oppo teams are going into games remembering our centre square set up of the last couple of years a young BW. Kelly getting tagged a Gaff and Sheed or West. With kids playing on the wings.

No big bodied mids.

Last two games.

BBBW, AA Yeo, Ried and Kelly.

Wingers Duggan and Ginbey.

Add to that our flankers are much faster and closing down play and pressuring it's a while new world.

We will surprise a few with how much we have changed in the middle.

Two 20 goal turn around's from the previous matches v Swans and Freo.