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That was very disappointing. I'm not sure if it was that East Freo were so good or we were so poor. Probably a combination of both. I haven't seen a Subi side so devoid of confidence and so badly skilled in a long time. Sokol dropping sodas in the forward 50 and Savigni and Lockyer doing likewise inside D50 resulting in goals can only be a mind set thing.  

The "brains trust" decided to isolate Sokal during the third quarter by moving the other forwards up the ground...good idea as he's very strong and a terrific grab by why did it take so long to figure out our forward structure wasn't working? 

Teakle really showed today the benefit of having a genuine ruckman as he gave East Freo mids silver service and followed up with 3 goals just to rub it in and go close to BOG. We were smashed at the clearances putting the backs under immense pressure.

Up forward we have 3 smalls in Alone, Golding and Robbins who didn't kick a goal between them.  That's fine, but they need to also display defensive forward pressure and that didn't happen with only 4 tackles each. As for Snadden, I think I could beat him in a one on one and I'm in my sixties...soft as butter.

Enough of the rant as I thought the Hickmott's had a crack, Clark worked hard and Evitt didn't look out of place in the seniors. Schofield, Hayden and Kentfield all got through the ressies so can't be far away and Braut was the runner so he must be close as well coz by Christ, we need them.  Locks looked like he did a hammy which isn't great....all in all a pretty ordinary day.

A good rant BC. I reckon we can move the pieces around a bit, Borchett down back, Clark into the ruck,  Golding into the middle and so on, but we're still going to be out run and maybe out skilled. 

I thought we tried a lot of things, gave it our best, were in touch at 3/4 time, but they were just out of our league. it was actuality good to see 24 goals scored in a hard fought match.

How were the umpires Lads ?

Johnny Leonard wrote:

A good rant BC. I reckon we can move the pieces around a bit, Borchett down back, Clark into the ruck,  Golding into the middle and so on, but we're still going to be out run and maybe out skilled. 

I thought we tried a lot of things, gave it our best, were in touch at 3/4 time, but they were just out of our league. it was actuality good to see 24 goals scored in a hard fought match.

Yes Johnny against old easts for sure, we will never beat them this season, not when it counts anyway, but vs other sides we have to throw things around imo. Eaton has a huge leap but he’s no ruckman he has no rucking iq  
Clark looked good there for the couple of minutes he was there. Like I said he’s strong af and knows how to use it. Maybe he can turn into a bit of a Dela. Clark might not win alot of centre bounces but he would be hard to keep up with around the ground and would be damaging. Eaton would make a good key defender I recon especially now with Lockyer looking to be out of action again. We have no height down there, or anywhere else tbh. Also Farone down back needs a stint in the ressies imo. He spends too much time arguing with the maggots
 

Whinnen wrote:

How were the umpires Lads ?

Didn’t really notice them Leedy, if we won the count it didn’t help us much mate 

Agree with your comment re Eaton DG. He needs to play down back and maybe promote Bryce McDonald up from the ressies at 202cms and 90kg he can at least compete with the big boys. Also Kentfield needs to come in for Borchet, Hayden for Farone and Schofield for Snadden.

Like you said BC a good ruckman can’t be understated. Been like that forever. I would have liked to see how Clark would have gone against Teakle. I doubt Teakle would have been able to out muscle him and take clean possession and goal like he did a couple of times against Eaton and Borchet. Obviously he would probably not win a lot of centre bounce taps but at least we could play knowing that. Around the ground he would be too mobile for most rucks. With Eaton the mids don’t know what they are getting, sometimes he wins it and taps it to nowhere and other times he loses. Hopefully we are on the hunt for a good ruck for next year. Agreed with your other changes

TBH with those 2 late goals in the 3rd quarter, bringing the margin to 18 points, I was expecting Subi to come home with the fresher legs after their 2 week break compared to EF 6 day break. Instead it was EF with the fresher legs kicking 7 in the last to run away from Subi.

Considering McGuire was EF premiership ruckman ans is no out n out ruckman, with Dixon as his chop out, and he is no out n out ruckman.....not sure having a specialist ruckman is the be all and end all. Teakle was fantastic yesterday for sure....but Clarke and the two Peel rucks, picked up big numbers in regards to tap outs v EF last year, yet EF won v both sides because they were better organised in the midfield set up.



 

Yes Freeze we have won flags too without a recognised ruck but it’s a bit easier to win them without one when you have a fast RR midfield

Firstly well done to EF and Bill, they were dominant for most of the game and they are a fair way off being at full strength, as are we with 4 key mids missing in Schoey, Braut, Kentfield and Hayden missing. The lack of a specialist ruckman was clearly shown yesterday with Teakles absolute dominance at the stoppages and around the ground. I thought I had seen the WAFL's best ruck in Eastland the previous game, but Teakle is next level and as others have said, how good it would have been to have seen Teakle v a fit Zac Clarke, but I'm dreamin'. Cant question Eatons commitment but his footy IQ is not quite there and Borch is a shadow of past seasons and is totally out of his depth in the ruck, need to give the big ressies lad an opportunity to dee what he can give even the young bloke Duff looks to be a goer and played well in the scratchy v SD. Our backs were under siege for most of the game with EF super fast slick ball movement, they were able to walk through our weak tackling efforts and deliver with little pressure. We are tragically slow across the ground and our ball movement is erratic at best. So frustrating to see Gus continually long bomb it to a contest when kicking in from a behind, then watch EF kick ins look for the short 20-30m pass and set up the overlap and loose man. May have a fair bit to do with lack of work ethic by some of the mids to spread and create options, that can certainly be said about the forwards compared to EF who had all 6 forwards continually on the move when their backs and mids had the footy. Either Wardman has no clue or the players aren't listening. As i've said several times, we took Peel apart with short fast ball movement, keeping the ball away from their talls, we did that very occassionaly v Ef and looked much better but did not persist and dropped back into the useless long bomb game which is just lazy footy. SF next week who are going along nicely so unless we change things up we will be looking at 2 and 4 and losing contact with the 5. 4 games in a row at Leedo and we must win a minimum of 2 of those, cant see us getting within 10 goals of EP but must look to win v SF and SD to have any hope of staying in touch.