AFL Autopsy RND3: Beaten by the Saints

[Harlequin]

 

[BomberFan355]

Off to the Norf board!

 

[TheUnicorn]

On the bright side I got to see The Unicorn in the flesh tonight

 

[Lore]

 

[Snake Charmer]

Scoops will be happy

 

[Beerfish]

So I expect the DVD will be out in time for Mother's Day?

 

[Tassieboy]

Interesting game. Horrid start and final quarter. The Heppell thing is getting more farcical by the week.

As we all know, not having much in the way of tall personnel is a large handicap. There were some decent bits considering where we are at.

 

[sameolds33]

feel like we lost that more than they won it.

 

[Happyskeret]

 

[rumply]

Shit happens when you start games with your head up your ass.

 

[Pweter]

Got what we deserved. That first quarter was putrid.

 

[IggypopsTshirt]

The positive is that Essington of old turn their toes up in the first and show no fight all night.
New Essington makes the same horrific selection mistakes, is putrid but not for as long and still can’t find a reliable forward target.
Jones is a worry.
Weideman is a worry.
Team selection is a worry.
Team defence is a worry.
Work rate is a worry.
Hobbs not being able to find a spot in THAT side is a worry.
Heppell is done.

 

[Tassieboy]

Oh and Harrison Jones might not make it; Langford is a forward; and Stringer is not close to being match fit.

 

[frodos gardener]

Just a really patchy effort across the game today. Saints were more consistent and killed us in the air. They wanted it more and deserved to win.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Saints would have beaten most teams tonight, too much to lose.

 

[scythe]

Pathetic. That game was there to be won.

What is it with us and pissing off home as soon as we get a sniff? Is it arrogance, do we start overthinking it, or what? Does my head in.

 

[Thebisc]

We were outplayed most of the night and only list by 3 goals. I’ll somewhat take some positives out of that.
Red man played his worst game in 2 years, never recovered from his disaster of a first 10 minutes.
Heppell…ummm how do we get out of this situation?? Surely BScott is the one to do it.
Nothing else was overly shocking

 

[ant555]

At the end of the day you can not keep kicking the footy to the opposition. Not sure of the exact figure in the end but it was at least 6 goals from basic turnovers.

 

[yodellinhank]

s**t happens when you start games with your head up your ass.

They lined us up. Langford even said so.

 

[mike14]

Not too often you can have a start like we did, make as many mistakes as we did, as win the game.
Did well enough to stop it getting out of hand but just too many poor kicks where it looked like we were aiming for the opposition, and some pretty ordinary defensive efforts.

Some weird selections. Weed and Stringer made us very slow and cumbersome up front, and Heppell makes us slow by foot everywhere.

Until Caldwell's 2 freak goals our small forwards were far too wayward when taking shots.

There were some good signs in amongst it all, but there's still a very long way to go

 

[Mikevk123]

Boys played well imo. Just weren’t quite to the saints level. Massimo was excellent and showed he’s very capable at AFL level. Ridley was great. Caldwell, Merrett, McGrath, Shiel and Martin were all very good.

Our lack of talls was obvious tonight. Really missed BZT and Wright tonight. Heppell looks beyond cooked and cost us early. Stringer and Weideman didn’t do much, should have played Voss.

 

[MiguelM]

Too many turnovers & stupid free kicks. woeful first quarter lost it for us.

Redman's worst game ever.

Wasn't too wet so should have played Phillips. Playing Weiderman in the ruck robbed forward line.

Kelly was superb tonight.

 

[citizen-erased]

Flip to the showdown
This fight from the crows...we need more of it

 

[Schnitzengruben]

We just loved feeding Cal Wilkie the ball. I suspect when we play Poort, we'll give Aliir the game of his life too.

I thought we played well for half of the game but our lack of top end talent and carrying a few plodders made up a lot of the difference.

 

[Stopher]

Catch-up footy all night is mentally exhausting. Kicking a goal to go ahead would've been enormous. Oh well.