WB Game Day V Geelong R20 2022

[kruder]

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Daniels decision making has left him this year. I was thinking it was his kicking but how many times does he take the second option have to go on the left and turn it over? We just have had too many players have an average year this year.

Yeah agree Smith was really poor tonight, didn't want to run that's unlike him.

[kruder]

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What's the answer to stopping a run on everyone? One things for sure this group hasn't worked it out yet.

Any thoughts?

[Grantysghost]

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What's the answer to stopping a run on everyone? One things for sure this group hasn't worked it out yet.

Any thoughts?

Just get it and keep it for a while.

Play like there's 5 minutes to go in the GF and you're up by 19 points.

The Swans used to be masters at it under Roos.

[GVGjr]

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I hate saying it but this cats side is a good one and never lost their nerve. Well coached and disciplined.

Thought Bevo was the main reason we got the better of them in the first half but once they reset they were hard to stop.

[angelopetraglia]

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I hate saying it but this cats side is a good one and never lost their nerve. Well coached and disciplined.

Thought Bevo was the main reason we got the better of them in the first half but once they reset they were hard to stop.

Agree 100%. There are no surprises in their system. They just execute it so well. We just lose to them the same way every time. I’m sure Bevo puts work into it, but we just have no answers. They always end up getting the game on their terms at some point and when they do they score at will.

[Grantysghost]

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I hate saying it but this cats side is a good one and never lost their nerve. Well coached and disciplined.

Thought Bevo was the main reason we got the better of them in the first half but once they reset they were hard to stop.

They've done well to add some talented kids.

Close, Holmes, Stengle, De Koning, Atkins, Miers all making decent contributions.
What we'd give for De Koning.
Stengle is a great story, he was really on his last chance.

Edit : Atkins is 26 older than I thought

[Eastdog]

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Disappointing night in the end. We started so strong in that 1st quarter. Marra was looking lively again.

The 2nd quarter they came into it but to our credit kept the intensity up.

We really lost it in the 3rd quarter just could not stem their surge. The final term was a fizzer.

Need to regroup now against Freo at Marvel next Saturday. Must win keep the top 8 hopes going. Saints I reckon now have a much more tougher draw.

[Boots]

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The worst thing about this loss tonight is that all we had to do to win it was exactly the same thing that we did last week. We were butchered by the same problem that that setup solved: rapid forward exits from center stoppages. It looked like we were going to pull it off in the first quarter. The same manic intensity across our midfield and defensive 50 was there. Then it just... disappeared.

This doesn't feel like a coaching error or a game plan error. It just feels like they gave up. Or weren't good enough.

[SonofScray]

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Just got home from Sleepy Hollow. Feeling a bit salty about it all. What a terrible vibe at that ground. Boring, strange mob down there.

The loss, the rhythms of the game, the way the scoreboard ground to a halt, then teetered for a while before they piled it on, it all felt very familiar. When we get the jump on teams, they adjust and we don’t see, to be able to respond in turn. Why do we get these wild swings in momentum?

A couple of really bad errors when the going was OK, two that stood out were a fumble from Westy and the other a bad decision from Hannan not to draw the defender and get an overlap for the easy goal. Those chances went begging as the tide was turning. Stung a bit.

I know it’s not kosher to wish injury upon folk, but tell you what, if I was the sort of person to think that way, it’d be for Jeremy Cameron, just a shit-pig of a human. In a side full of massive tools, he is a the master flog.

[Bulldog4life]

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But he looked all at sea in the 2's and they still picked him

Played well in his last VFL game.

[Bulldog4life]

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We should burn Kardinia Park to the ground.

Yep all the bloody money they are spending on the ground why not widen the bloody ground.

[kruder]

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I had forgotten but can you believe we beat the cats twice in 2003? I think its time to get Peter Rohde back to the club that's how desperate I am to beat this mob.

[Boots]

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The loss, the rhythms of the game, the way the scoreboard ground to a halt, then teetered for a while before they piled it on, it all felt very familiar. When we get the jump on teams, they adjust and we don’t see, to be able to respond in turn. Why do we get these wild swings in momentum?

When I used to coach (a different sport), I used to focus on telling my students one thing during the break - they could only focus on one thing, you couldn't overload them.

If they were losing, you'd tell them how to close the most significant gap. It was easy - find the one thing that they were giving away and tell them how to stop doing it.

If they were winning it was much harder, because you needed to anticipate what the opposing coach would tell their student, and if they were any good they'd be telling their student how to close their one major gap.

So you would look over the things your student was doing well, and then try and sort them into "things your student is executing well," "weaknesses your opponent has" and "things your student is executing well and that their opponent is also executing the counter poorly" and then over the top of that you need to think about your opponent, their coach, and their relationship.

In short, I always found it much harder to coach from in front than from behind. I wonder if Bevo has a similar problem.

[Mitcha]

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Yep all the bloody money they are spending on the ground why not widen the bloody ground.

Why would they change their point of difference advantage? They can stick sheep shagger stadium up their Jaxie.

[Bulldog4life]

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They've done well to add some talented kids.

Close, Holmes, Stengle, De Koning, Atkins, Miers all making decent contributions.
What we'd give for De Koning.
Stengle is a great story, he was really on his last chance.

Edit : Atkins is 26 older than I thought

I've seen what you have done there. Meet me at that Yarraville nets.