Autopsy The Bont, The Bye & The Bathwater - Dogs By Plenty

[BlueE]

He only played against Perth, now if you want to start talking witch's hats!

Which I think they were losing until late in 2nd?

It's not just that game it's been all season and I don't understand why, unless it's playing favourites.

 

[doppo]

Suns have not won a game outside of their stadium this year and are also coming off a bye so not much momentum there.

This is actually what I'm worried about. They're going to get the monkey off the back at some point.
But next weeks opposition is besides the point really, if we don't come out breathing fire and win at home we absolutely deserve what we get

 

[Dockernut]

This is actually what I'm worried about. They're going to get the monkey off the back at some point.
But next weeks opposition is besides the point really, if we don't come out breathing fire and win at home we absolutely deserve what we get

Watch them beat us coz, you know, Dockers.

 

[Andy Brennan]

Hopefully that was a mulligan..,

In addition to the Sydney and west coast Mulligans?

 

[errant bounce]

Frederick had 6 touches as wel, with 1 goal.
Sharp had 4. Aish 8. JOM 10. Fyfe 14. Switkowski 14. Fyfe 14.
Dirty dirty day for anyone in white and purple today

Feels so weird Aish and O'Meara are Fremantle players.

 

[The Feeder Club]

This place is very predictable sometimes

Do tell

 

[Wray27]

My take;

1 General mental maliase through the team.
2. Midfield horribly spanked as per 2023.
3. Defence under siege due to midfield and shat the bed accordingly.
4. I thought our forward line looked dangerous when the ball went in there but due to all of the above it didn’t matter.

Spot on.
I’d just add that coaches boxes didn’t try anything to fix the obvious issues.

 

[rgauci]

Feels so weird Aish and O'Meara are Fremantle players.

Aish was a wet lettuce leaf. Even Sturt was putting his body on the line far more than Aish. He was useless. Same with JOM. Plenty others too.

 

[#1JohnHuttonFan]

Maybe the boys party and let loose a little too much over the bye?


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[Righteo]

This place is very predictable sometimes

More or less predictable than the Dockerys utterly shitting the bed in a game we expected them to win?

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Do tell

Win big because the other team doesn't turn up: GF here we come

Lose big because we don't turn up: Burn the place to the ground.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

More or less predictable than the Dockerys utterly shitting the bed in a game we expected them to win?

Sure, but my comments are for both this game and last game.

 

[sdfc]

Win big because the other team doesn't turn up: GF here we come

Lose big because we don't turn up: Burn the place to the ground.

All we ask is for some consistency. And not the bad kind.

 

[FreoGirl]

In addition to the Sydney and west coast Mulligans?

I think it's unfair to include the Sydney game in any conversation without having immense empathy

did you really believe we were going to have a season where we went through undefeated?

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

All we ask is for some consistency. And not the bad kind.

Yeah, today was dogshit and worse because it was predictable, it's still far from the end of the world.

 

[The Feeder Club]

Win big because the other team doesn't turn up: GF here we come

Lose big because we don't turn up: Burn the place to the ground.

True
Though you must admit today was ratshit
Finals still look doable to me. But if we lose to gold coas at home, check in on that statement. I might be in the burning to the ground camp

 

[Midnite65]

Have you forgotten who you support?

Spot on.
I’d just add that coaches boxes didn’t try anything to fix the obvious issues.

Like actually put someone like O'Meara, Banfield or Aish to actually tag Bont instead of letting him half fit waltz around all game. There was a stat during the week that the Bont in the 4 of the last 5 times we have played them has been best on or second best on every game and yet we are too arrogant to try and tag him.

 

[Yeti]

What's with our players continually pushing opposition players instead of trying to tackle them?

 

[Andy Brennan]

I think it's unfair to include the Sydney game in any conversation without having immense empathy

did you really believe we were going to have a season where we went through undefeated?

It's the nature of the losses that hurt. Good teams don't capitulate like us

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

True
Though you must admit today was ratshit
Finals still look doable to me. But if we lose to gold coas at home, check in on that statement. I might be in the burning to the ground camp

True.

If nothing else, staggering how bad we are when we are off. I also won't be making excuses if they are off this bad again this year. Once is a mulligan, twice, raised eyebrows, three times in a year and it's a coaching and leadership problem

 

[Footskill]

Like actually put someone like O'Meara, Banfield or Aish to actually tag Bont instead of letting him half fit waltz around all game. There was a stat during the week that the Bont in the 4 of the last 5 times we have played them has been best on or second best on every game and yet we are too arrogant to try and tag him.

Watch JL press conference, they did put a tag on da Bont.

 

[FreoGirl]

It's the nature of the losses that hurt. Good teams don't capitulate like us

We will be a good team. Hopefully we push to not get such a ridiculous set of fixtures next year. Can't wait to finally have another game at Optus. It feels like we have hardly been there this year.

 

[FreoGirl]

What's with our players continually pushing opposition players instead of trying to tackle them?

I think they are confused about the whole tackling thing - some HTBs were really weird today

 

[FD2646]

What's up with Brayshaw?

2022 he was the AFLPA MVP.
2023 he was supposedly carrying a knee niggle.

He hasn't gotten back to that level consistently since.

Was hoping someone mentioned this. The bloke is a shadow of himself.

 

[E Shed]

Not wildly surprising given we’ve lost off the bye 3 years straight. As have 2/3 of the other teams.

I tried to make the point after the Dees game that the style we played is what we train but aren’t good enough yet to consistently play it under pressure and that that game was an anomaly in terms of the complete absence of pressure from Melbourne.
We saw bits of it today and I was impressed by how close we got in the last after giving them an 8 goal start.

Rodger Federer over his career won 53% of points played. Yet there seems to be a perception from some that every loss is a catastrophe.

People are talking like our midfield group are uncompetitive yet we went into the game with the best clearance record in the competition.

They got a lesson from another seriously good midfield group led by the best player in the competition who put on a clinic. Last time we played Fyfe did it, Bont was quiet & we won. Today they wanted it more & our lot were still on holiday. It happens.

For me the biggest problem we have is Amiss’s kicking and JT went backwards. I am one who thinks Amiss needs to rebuild his whole routine but you can’t do that mid-season. It’s like a golfer’s swing. You have to take time off & start again.

Sturt was a big positive. Looks at home again. I’ll take 3 goals every week and his pressure was excellent.

Bring Chapman & Cox back & we have a great defense. Not sure why Worner got a gig today.

Would like to see Voss or Simpson in for Walters.

I do think Brodie deserves opportunity and some change is needed after that effort.

It’s never as good or as bad as you think.