Pies match thread

[Nico]

Crouch for Schmidt, what a blunder.

[Nico]

What a joke that Crouch played. I reckon it was only to get up his 200 games. His effort was laughable and was the BIGGEST passenger. To think he got a game before Dempster and LRT. What were they thinking. Talk about massive carry over brownie points.

[Nico]

I felt sorry for Barlow. The speed of AFL (cf Canberra) really seemed to catch up with him tonight. However, I still think he looks like he'll be a pretty good player.

He was spent half way throught he third Q. He did a lot of running to contests, something others didn't do. He could have gone back in the second Q and kicked for goal, when he ran on mistakedly thinking he should get it on quickly to someone at the goal front. Problem was they were all up field flooding.

Did I forget Goodes in my previous post, dreadful mistake. His game was simply outstanding and when he almost ran the field in the last Q it was his highlight for mine. Surely must be the sole captain next season.

[Nico]

Just home from the game and I cant believe anyone has mentioned our centre bounce work and clearances. As a critic of this aspect of our game I took special notice of what happened.

Our players let the opposition players get in front of them at almost every bounce except for Jude Bolton. All he did in the first half at every, I repeat every centre bounce was to try to block Swan and O"Bree. Not once did he make a beeline for the ball. Now he might be under instruction to do this but even when the ball came his way both of these beat him to the contest. He was moved to HF in the second half and only contested 1 centre bounce in the last Q, which he won but kicked around his body straight to a Pies player.

On the night he only passed accurately by foot once, and that was late in the game. He may have some stats but by gee he was very poor.

In the second Q when Collingwood got a 4 goal run on they won the centre bounces 4 times in a row for 4 goals and it was O'Bree every time. People rubbished Brennan but no back could have stopped a couple of those passes that hit on the chest on the lead because of nil midfield pressure.

I think this game proved the club must draw a line in the sand right now and say enough is enough with some players.

Everitt - yep might have got a pinched nerve in the back but his dinky 20 metre passes under no pressure to Pies players was a highlight. He is now an old man in footy terms and it is a waste of time him continuing.
J Bolton - see above. No good as a midfielder so why persist with him anywhere else.
Mathews - was 20 metres off Lockyer all night. Cant agree that he held him.
Mcveigh - proved he is just a footballer. Was poor all night and was repeatedly caught and failed to handball. His kicking on the few times he got it was just woeful.
Ablett - on Buckley in the first Q but oh how he has dropped away. Maybe he has always been so so, remember his back kick to Cousins in 2005 GF. His kicking is simply shoddy and just doesn't get it enough. Genuine passenger.
Buchanan - the great waster of the team. Apart from his stupid act, he is a very selfish footballer. Twice he turned it over for goals when he clearly had a chance to move the ball on. Continually tries to breakthorugh packs instead of creating and one of clangers was a stop and hand ball back without looking. Just horrible stuff. His kicking under no pressure was quite forgettable.

People have said Hall was one of our better players but he still drops many marks, and that one where there was a well weighted kick to him at the start of the last Q that he spilled 15 metres out was soul destroying for us at the game. The game was in the balance.
Bevan I thought played OK and was way better than a lot of the team.
Davis was on and off the ground and only once went to the midfield for a clearance. Should have been in there when it was obvious we were getting flogged.
Fozzie was well down on his usual MCG standard.

I thought Jolly (excellent game) Malceski, Richards, Kirk, C Bolton, O"Keefe (second half) and at times Schneider worked hard.

People are tough on Barlow. His only sin was playing reserves type footy by trying to break tackles instead of getting the ball off. He needs to learn the awareness to handball. If he had broken a couple of those tackles he would have been a hero. What I like about him is that he gets where the footy is at a lot.

Brennan can play and showed enough to say he is here to stay.

[WASwansFanatic]

He is a tosser.
What is really annoying me....is the fact that Collingwood who winge about everything and anything.....has the AFL in it's pockets....FFS how many games do they play at the MCG..........
hmmm.......I am really starting to HATE Demetriou and his regime.

[Swans500]

McGuire on MMM after the game was sickening. He had the premiership sewn up....Rocca unjustly dealt with and Amon out for 2 years!!!!
The gloating was horrific.

[Robbo]

Who was it that said Barlow was quick?

Except I think Laidlaw is on the injury list with a hammy. Problem not solved.

IN: Simpkin

[NMWBloods]

Out: Barlow.
In: Turtle...

It'd be @@@@** quicker than Barlow

I felt sorry for Barlow. The speed of AFL (cf Canberra) really seemed to catch up with him tonight. However, I still think he looks like he'll be a pretty good player.

[WASwansFanatic]

Ill give him a chance..once he drops 20 kilos....

[NMWBloods]

Amon is one of the few offensive midfielders we have. You're deluding yourself if you didn't think he would be a big loss.

Agreed. He makes mistakes, but he's one of the most creative midfielders we have.

[Swannette]

Except I think Laidlaw is on the injury list with a hammy. Problem not solved.

[ugg]

Wow 2 games and already Barlow has his critics. This board never ceases to amaze me.

[WASwansFanatic]

Out: Barlow.
In: Turtle...

It'd be @@@@** quicker than Barlow

[Robbo]

Amon is one of the few offensive midfielders we have. You're deluding yourself if you didn't think he would be a big loss.

IN: Laidlaw.

Problem solvered.

[ugg]

Amon is one of the few offensive midfielders we have. You're deluding yourself if you didn't think he would be a big loss.