Binns: 42 possessions, 11 marks, 5 tackles, 5 clearances, but in the last couple of moment he had a couple of serious mistakes. Still, he got leather poisoning.
Casey wanted it more, especially at the end. We have too many who are not hard nuts. Many of them were disappointing tonight.
[1] We really missed Cerra when he went off, he had 21 possessions in just over 2 quarters and really foiled many of their attempted centre breaks. We need to get him right and in form for the finals. After the season maybe we should see some sort of hamstring specialist, as he's getting too many of these.
[2] Alex Cincotta! He was brilliant tonight, slaughtering Pickett again and doing some marvellous defensive things.
[3] Our defence was so much better this week than last week, even with a few blemishes in the last quarter. McGovern had a difference because he attacked the ball. Kemp did well until he had a brain fade and didn't punch. Weitering was probably BOG, he was that dominant. Cripps and Walsh were very good, but they never dominated like Weitering did.
[4] Free Kicks: My God, we were crucified. I don't want to go through all of them, but there were so many after half time! Without them, Melbourne wouldn't have got close. But that big tackle on Petracca near siren time: absolute Gold!
[5] Ollie Hollands played his best game for the year (by a huge margin), but he needs to learn to be more aware of players moving in on him. Three HTBs is not good enough. His efforts in the first half, on the other hand, were excellent.
Wonder how Will Hayward will be treated by our blokes......
Probably not well. ON BF they're saying he will stay in Sydney or go to SA. We've put forward a decent deal, but ... Now this is BF, so the salt is in considerable supply, but it bodes poorly. To be honest, if he doesn't get a kick, I'll be happy.
More experience this week, but we are a very tall side. Not sure all the talls will be on the ground at once. That Phillips is Emergency tells a lot about how he is going. Not providing the drive we'd hoped for.
Our forward line looks unbalanced, but our midfield looks much better than it was a couple of weeks back. I can't see Fantasia as rover. He badly needs to get some ball though.
Rating: C+ We lost by a goal to last year’s premiers and probably should have won. Granted that we were nowhere near our best, but we led for most of the game. We weren’t dreadful. Still it was disappointing.
Votes: [2] Sam Walsh [2] Nic Newman [2] Harry McKay [2] Jacon Weitering [2] Blake Acres [1.5] George Hewett [1.5] Marc Pittonet [1] Tom de Koning [1] Alex Cincotta [0.5] Matthew Owies [0.5] Patrick Cripps
Explanations: [2] Sam Walsh: 33 possessions and 8 clearances suggested Walsh was pretty good. Pity about the last 90 seconds. [2] Nic Newman: 32 possessions and 6 tackles, and more metres gained than anyone else, but he was a little fumbly and not at his best. [2] Harry McKay: Dominated and kicked 4. Pity his last attempted pass was to nobody. [2] Jacon Weitering: Close to BOG. Slaughtered his opponent. [2] Blake Acres: 32 possessions and a magnificent last quarter, but was fumbly before that. [1.5] George Hewett: A solid job in the middle. 30 possessions, 5 tackles and 6 clearances. [1.5] Marc Pittonet: Brilliant early and was the best ruck on the park. [1] Tom de Koning: Tom’s game as a forward was actually pretty good. He was the worst ruck on the ground by some margin, but he did get a fair bit of ball. Too many fumbles up the ground. This vote is just for his forward play. [1] Alex Cincotta: Did a job and did it brilliantly. [0.5] Matthew Owies: 3 goals was great. [0.5] Patrick Cripps: Tactics holding Cripps out of it were questionable, but Cripps was really good early and tried his guts out all night.
Honourable Mentions: Elijah Hollands: Not a bad job. Adam Cerra: Solid in the middle, but lacked the flair he often has.
Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos: [1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less. [2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps) [3] Three players at least must get a mention. [4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.
AFL 2024 Rd 7: Carlton vs Geelong I am really disappointed to have lost this one. We did so much right, yet our mistakes cost us the game. Geelong were very much up against us, but we should have been too.
Trends: [1] There were 15 voters this round, which is not that bad considering we lost. I'd love it if more people gave their opinions, but I'll take what I can get. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Believe me, it is appreciated.
[2] The rating was a 8.16, which is just higher than a C. Pity we couldn't reproduce last week's effort, but we may have been a little harsh, considering who was available.
[3]12 players managed a mention this week, which is just two less than last week. Again, it suggests that a lot of players made a contribution. It was the mistakes that killed us.
[4] The average vote this week was 24, which equals our yearly low. It does tell how we feel our players fared.
[5]6 players managed 100 votes or more this week. This is very good, but it does suggest that more could have been done by the others.
[6] Patrick Cripps managed 315 votes to be BOG this week. Behind him things were quite close between Walsh, Weitering and Pittonet.
[7]Two player managed votes from everyone this week. Pittonet missed from one voter, as did Weitering.
[8] Elijah Hollands was probably the youngster who stood out, followed by Jordan Boyd.
[9] Our midfield totally dominated the voting. Only one forward (H) and one defender (Weitering) really stood out.
Votes: Cripps, Patrick 315 Walsh, Sam 196 Weitering, Jacob 185 Pittonet, Marc 174 Acres, Blake 109 McKay, Harrison 103 Kennedy, Matthew 63 Hewett, George 38 Hollands, Elijah 19 Curnow, Charles 8 Boyd, Jordan 8 Newman, Nicholas 5
Progressive Voting: Patrick Cripps 1819 Harry McKay 1015 Sam Walsh 980 Tom de Koning 784 George Hewett 678 Jacob Weitering 599 Charlie Curnow 522 Mitch McGovern 434 Blake Acres 359 Marc Pittonet 336 Adam Saad 310 Matthew Kennedy 234 Adam Cerra 231 Brodie Kemp 206 Matthew Cottrell 144 Jordan Boyd 126 Nic Newman 113 Zac Williams 85 Elijah Hollands 78 Lachie Fogarty 68 Jack Carroll 64 Lewis Young 55 Olliver Hollands 22 Matthew Owies 16 David Cuningham 13 Orazio Fantasia 13
This week's line-up: B: [17] Brodie Kemp, [23] Jacob Weitering, [2] Lachlan Cowan HB: [39] Alex Cincotta, [11] Mitch McGovern, [24] Nic Newman C: [4] Oliver Hollands, [9] Patrick Cripps, [13] Blake Acres HF: [21] Jack Martin, [10] Harry McKay, [20] Elijah Hollands F: [44] Matthew Owies, [30] Charlie Curnow, [12] Tom De Koning R: [27] Marc Pittonet, [18] Sam Walsh, [7] Matthew Kennedy Int: [37] Jordan Boyd, [5] Adam Cerra, [46] Matthew Cottrell, [29] George Hewett, [19] Corey Durdin
Em: [28] David Cuningham, [33] Lewis Young, [14] Orazio Fantasia
My thoughts: [1] Ollie Hollands is very lucky to be there. Extremely lucky. I would have preferred Binns: he is getting 25 - 30 possessions each week. [2] Cuningham is a little unlucky to be dropped, considering that it was his first game back. Also, his disposal and decision making was a step from what some of the others were doing. [3] Young wasn't our worst last week, but what killed him was his lack of attack on the ball on the ground. In the air he wasn't that bad, but on the ground he let Collingwood players in a number of times because they wanted the ball more. There has been a lot of comment about Young, some of it he deserves, some he does not. He has his strengths, and they are in the air. Also, he didn't turn the ball over that much. But his ground player cost us last week. [4] Fantasia shouldn't get back into the team until he starts kicking goals, and not just one per game. He might be working hard defensively, but that's not why he is in the team. Getting less than 8 possessions and no goals just isn't something we can maintain. [5] Our defence looks quite flexible, which isn't always the case. McGovern and Kemp are good 'ins', as they can attack as well as defend. Cincotta really did a job well last week, even though he didn't get a lot of ball. I'd like to see him confident enough to run off guys as well as shutting them down. [6] Martin is a big 'in' as well. He can do things the other small forwards can't.
An improvement over last week. Some positives: [1] Binns played mainly midfield rather than wing and managed 26 disposals and 8 tackles. 2 goals didn't hurt either. He's not a clearance king yet, but he is developing. [2] Brodie Kemp had 13 marks and 8 tackles. If he needed to show something, he did. However, I still think he wasn't that tight. [3] Dom Akuei had a career high 18 disposals and actually wasn't that bad. [4] Our rucks were much better this week, getting their hands on the ball first. If we had someone who could clear the ball consistently ... [5] Billy Wilson also had a good game and 27 possessions. His opponents got a bit of the pill, but it was a promising effort. Billy is a guy who could be useful as he has real pace.