Autopsy Cats lose to Saints by 7 points - should have been more

[dazbroncos]

Saints too good at Marvel

Seen the headline before.

WE werent good enoough and a lack of effort and pressure killed this one.

41 points down on more than 1 occasion proved too much to overcome.

Some good signs from Clohesy, Clark, Neale, COS, Humphries J Henry

Holmes. Depmsey, Miers, Jezza, PFD, OH, CLose, Stengle and pretty much the rest give SFA in the first 1/2 and you cant do that in this league and expect to win.

Stewy injury hurts too.

On to next week and im off to bed.

Go Catters

 

[HaroLad]

Almost worse when you come back and fall just short

lol

 

[STPer18]

Heavy training block strikes again.

 

[_cam]

a week truly is along time in football

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

Didn’t deserve to win but probably should have in the end.
The saints were good and we were horrid for 90%

 

[My Tilly]

O'Sullivan . . . . is anyone else as impressed as I am?
I thought he was so good. Began to dominate the air and even had a go at goal in the dying stages. Looks the complete footballer.

I mean he looks every bit as good as what De Koning was in 2022 and that's just three games into a career.

 

[Generalissimo]

We'll beat Brisbane next week and all will be forgotten.

 

[thegerman]

Imagine if we had a number of losses against the same side at the same ground that we could plan ahead……..


Against this team we are poorly prepared and coached. Every. Single. Time.


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[frggr]

Pretty sure I said it'd be a repeat of the 2022 game.

Had given up hope of winning half way through the 3rd, so not too disappointed with the loss.

O'Sullivan was great, Clohesy was great, Clark was really solid, Humphries and Knevitt were great. Holmes was held well for most of the game.

Everyone else was a bit ho hum I thought.

Missing Smith and losing Stewart killed it.

Wish McRae had come to us!

Mason Wood, Jack Higgins and some other spuds absolutely carved us up

 

[Lingsface]

Damn that was a hard watch, COS and Clohesy were the only things that made it ok to watch, good effort by those boys! Please take an example of the oppositions pressure from tonight, if we had that with our talent it would be amazing. Jeremy Cameron tonight I hated the way he played or was told to play, we just needed him in the 50.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Rowan Marshall on = we suck

Rowan Marshall off = they suck

I don't know if I've seen a more binary outcome in football.

 

[Interdimensional Bigfoot]

It's like we need midfielders or something.

 

[VerC]

Proud of the little comeback.
Clark, Knevitt, Neale, Clohesy, Humpries, O'Sullivan all gained valuable experience and were solid.
Clark and Knevitt shouldn't share a centre bounce together, at least for now.
Can't blame Mullin but playing him is like playing one man down.

 

[Generalissimo]

O'Sullivan . . . . is anyone else as impressed as I am?
I thought he was so good. Began to dominate the air and even had a go at goal in the dying stages. Looks the complete footballer.

He reminds me a lot of a ruckman-sized Tom Harley.

 

[Kyuss]

Could've pinched it but lacked composure. Pathetic first half cost us.

But was good hit out for some of the younger guys.

Clohesy deserves a full game.

 

[Strange Cat]

Kids were fantastic which is what you want to see , the first half killed the game with saints playing well.

On to next week

 

[bombersboy]

I think SDK would have taken that mark in the square towards the end if Ollie Henry had not spoilt him.

 

[The Unforgiven]

Saints almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The scoreline flattered us in the end.

We just don't match up well against the Saints, and especially struggle against them at Marvel.

The young fellas showed promise, so there were definitely some positives to take from this match.

On to next week against Brisbane.

 

[kickazz]

13 goals 13 behinds disappointing.

Missed the first half, a look at the stats show that our weak ruck/midfield got spanked a bit.

The parts I watched we looked ok though and the kids had a dip.

Closey and COS v good. Clark looks really slow though. MOC needs to learn to use the ball better.

Saints at Marvel is always a write off. On to next week against the Bears

 

[My Tilly]

He reminds me a lot of a ruckman-sized Tom Harley.

I think he has more of Harry Taylor/Mark Blicavs (the size and endurance) in him

 

[catters05]

Won’t be winning a flag with that lack of composure going inside 50 in that last 5 minutes, lower eyes and we probably win by a couple,of goals at least.

 

[And_ROOS]

Horrendous.

End the Mullin "experiment" thanks. Offers almost literally nothing.

Stewart and Mullin out, Mannagh and Smith in.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

That was horrible where was that effort in the first half. With good effort we win easily.

Positive was the kids. Clark played his best game in a cats jumper and will be a 200 gamer. Clohesy took his chance and him and osullivan were very very good. Knevitt has work to do but some of his defensive efforts were outstanding.
Midfield is still clearly too thin. Needs a metres gained player like mannagh back asap as we struggled to take territory. When we got the territory we looked good.

Neale is still 'almost'. Drops sitters he shouldn't drop then does the hard stuff better and looks a million dollars. A lot of this season will rest on whether we can get a sports psych to get him and sdk the confidence that they can do it.

 

[catstorm]

Why did it take us three qrts to decide to have a real crack.

This is a trademark of ours, play shit for most of the match only to fall just short.

Always against spud teams we should beat with ease.

 

[STPer18]

O'Sullivan . . . . is anyone else as impressed as I am?
I thought he was so good. Began to dominate the air and even had a go at goal in the dying stages. Looks the complete footballer.

I mean he looks every bit as good as what De Koning was in 2022 and that's just three games into his career.

For how little AFL they've played all of O'Sullivan, Clohesy and Clark did well when for 3/4 of the game most of our blokes were getting thrashed.