Post Match. Pies down to Dogs. All comments.

[Haff]

[Culprit]

We finished without an injury, the Dogs picked up two. That's a positive. Another is getting another game into Sullivan, Harrison, Bytel, and Mcrae. I can never be disappointed when the team has a crack and injuries hurt every club some more than others. We are set to suffer a bit of pain against the Demons but hopefully, we don't give the Roos their first win. Then a bye and we head up to Gold Coast which is tough to beat up there. Worst case we are going to just miss the finals, best case we are just going to make them.

[Pies2016]

[neil]

Had the forwards kicked more accurately in the first quarter 7 goals not 5
Had the defence and midfield not kicked straight to doggies players in the second we would have won

The number of free kicks in front of goal they got was embarasing and one were questionable poor discipline by our players

Injuries meant some very average players were selected

[qldmagpie67]

Just watched the game again and seriously we lost it they didn’t win it

Firstly Q1 we should have kicked 9-3 at worst more likely 10-2
Poor goal kicking is poor football. None of the shots we missed were hard by AFL standards.
Momentum plays a huge part in games and we were up 19-0 when the momentum swung because if a stupid 50m penalty Sidey gave away. Firstly he was caught out by his opponent (McRae at that time) then run towards him realised he couldn’t get there in time then run backs to get to a free player. Stupid error for an experienced player. Momentum shifted from that point on in first term.
We had 12 scoring shots in Q1 and only 10 more the remaining 3 quarters.
You not going to be winning games getting 3 scoring chances per term.
Ok now for some harsh truths
Noble as good as he’s been this season showed last night why he didn’t play in the GF. He’s a confidence player. If he goes well early he’s fine but if he makes a error early (like kicking into Lobb coming out of defence of there 2nd goal) he thinks he has to make up for it it and then tries too hard to bring off s miracle play. He had some horrendous turnovers last night. He needs to understand his limitations and play within those.

Our field kicking is below AFL standard too often. Players can’t hit targets 20/25m away under no pressure. Moore Sidey Noble Markov all made unacceptable kicking errors coming out of defence last night that led to goals.

Johnson isn’t a AFL player. He lacks the desire and want to be at that level. He has skill for sure but doesn’t have the mindset to play at the level.

We made errors in how we structured up last night. Frampton should have always been FB. We tried robbing Peter to pay Paul. Obvious move was Howe forward Frampton back and use Johnson as back up ruck extra tall forward. We knew going in dogs would have JUH, Lobb, Darcy all camped forward snd our only true tall defender then would have been Moore. We also shouldn’t have played Markov forward. We needed closing speed for contests inside our defensive 50. Sidey was caught out in between his opponent and goal to often as he’s not a natural defender. He over read play. Markov has the speed to close down those gaps. Sidey would have been better served working in the forward line.

Our veterans didn’t step up and lead in Pendles absence when needed. Too often we had limited experience in the middle when Nick D was on the bench. What were we thinking in the 2nd term when we had a starting midfield at a centr bounce of Sullivan McCreery and McRae. We lost 4 straight clearances and that turned a 17 point lead into a 6 point deficit until we got back to our starting rotation. Why wouldn’t be have left Crisp or Lipinski there and only rested one of them at a time ? The coach doesn’t often make error but he did last night.

Yes we where inexperienced snd yes it was close until the last couple minutes but we made so many unforced errors in that final term it was only a matter of time before there repeated entries paid off.

Those 4 points we gave up last night could become costly at seasons end.

Let’s hope some of these injuries he’s quicker than advertised because we could find ourselves well outside the 8 if we continue to play like we did last night for the next month.

[piedys]

[Pies2016]

[piedys]

[Mr Miyagi]

I sent a 15 metre tape measure to AFL HQ. I recommend everyone do the same.

I don’t know who to tip last night, it was 50/50. Happy with the first quarter, annoyed with the missed opportunity to put the dogs down at that stage, but happy with the overall effort from most players. We just had too many missing, and the dogs got too many goals from free kicks and dubious throws and kicks that didn’t even go 10 metres. We looked better when Sidey went on the ball/wing — robbing Peter to pay Paul playing him back last night. Cameron was valiant but needed Cox backup and Frampton was needed down back. Too many outs - Pendles, De Goey, Elliot, Checkers, WHE, Cox, Mitchell…

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[Mr Miyagi]

Harrison is a good player, get more games into him. Good kick and importantly good decision maker.

[1eyedpie]

[Cam]

Josh Daicos retaliation tap changed the momentum of the game, it was dumb, and costly. We got things back under control then 3 quick frees to the dogs wrested the ascendancy from us in the last and the dogs went on with it.