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Much has been made of just how insipid West Coast have been this season. They’ve been a downright disaster and with one win and…
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Yeo’s performance was clearly more instrumental to the result than Fyfe’s, hence his awarding of best on ground. I’ll agree Fyfe was our best, but our midfield had their colours badly lowered.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
When its not against Freo, sure…..
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Macca, the best thing for the Blues right now is to keep going under the radar with the media – just bank wins. The minute the hype train gets too loud is when it might derail..
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Editors at the West Australian get a stiffy every time he gets the ball!
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Coaching is absolutely part of it – the go slow cautious ball movement is beyond frustrating, it’s draining as a fan to watch them chip it round the back whilst the opposition sets up in position.
The lack of dare from the back half is astounding considering Jordan Clark and Hayden Young could be absolute weapons off half back if they were given a licence to actually attack by the coach.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
That requires the coach to show a shred of creativity and tactical nous. J-Lo’s gameplan seems to consist of defend, slow ball movement, and when in trouble slow it down even more…..
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
That’s ok when the midfield is on top – but when it’s getting soundly beaten like it did for the 2nd and 3rd quarters on Saturday, having our most damaging player nowhere near the ball is an issue – either inject him into the ruck and move Darcy forward, or put Jackson on the ball for a 10-15 minute period and see if he can create something. He’s a freak, but needs to be involved.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
That ‘weak’ team are ahead of us on the ladder…
All of the players I mentioned shouldn’t be on AFL lists. Our bottom 6 is as bad as anyones in the competition.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
No issue with Darcy back in the ruck – but what does Jackson do? Given he’s our most damaging player, I’m not sure hiding him in the forward line is the answer, when the forward line isn’t getting any of the ball – play him on the ball perhaps.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Then for goodness sake get them in! What is the point in a WAFL player like Banfield consistently playing over them?
Even if they aren’t quite ready, we may as well get them involved. I saw Simpson kick two goals for Peel – he at least knows where the sticks are unlike Banfield.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Yeah, I’m not sure what the answer is? Jackson is a gun in the middle, but Darcy is the better ruckman.
Play Jackson as an on baller?
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Ahh I can’t relate. I had a 7 hour delay at Auckland airport and was forced to sit through that embarrassment live – if my flight had left on time I would’ve missed the first half..
Shocking weekend!
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
To be honest I’d have actually given the glendinning to Reid.
Not because it would’ve hyped up the west even more, but because he was genuinely the most influential player on the ground.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Don, Fyfe was decent but beaten by Yeo. Darcy looked ok but definitely underdone and him coming back saw Jackson (who has been our best player this year) completely irrelevant in terms of performance.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
I’ve always been convinced he’s a closet West Coast fan. He hypes us up too much…
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Lack of X-Factor – it’s a vanilla midfield under a very vanilla coach.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Then why aren’t the playing Don? Eagles have started Reid immediately and he’s paying off! If Simpson is as good as everyone is saying he should be starting every week!
Why are Banfield, Sturt and Emmett getting games ahead of them, Why is a plodder like JOM still running around our midfield instead of Brodie?
It’s the coach mate – you must be seeing it now?
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Ok you are waffling now – McDonald is better as a forward than Jackson or Treacy (not as good around the ground), and Martin would walk into the Freo side and be a significant upgrade either at half back or half forward over someone like Banfield, Walker, Hughes, Erasmus, Sturt, Switkowski, Worner, Wagner or Emmett.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Don, as much as this is an improved Eagles side – it’s still an Eagles side that two weeks ago were in discussion for a priority pick. They are still not a very good team and it was a game Fremantle should’ve won.
If they’d been beaten in a close one then perhaps it isn’t as bad – but they were absolutely belted off the park, a few late goals in the 4th actually flattered the result a bit – Freo were miles off. It’s cause for significant concern and the lack of ability to score goals needs to be addressed.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Oh they aren’t easy to find. I think Liam Baker is the one on their radar clearly – possibly not in the same realm as those others but would be a good addition.
I’m sure West Coast are also keen so it’ll be a two team race.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
He is – and any side would kill to have him, but was more referring to goal scoring midfielders rather than key forwards.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
I got 2 mate, so well done!
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
I’m starting to think that this is the case – I do think they are short term on cattle up front, but that was unacceptable from all angles on Saturday.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
The most damaging players in the comp right now are ones with goal sense – Heeney, Greene, Reid (can’t believe I’m already putting him in this group but here we are).
Freo lack that sort of damaging player – Brayshaw, Serong and Young are all going to be very good players, exceptional ones – but none of them have goal sense. They are accumulators but accumulators can only get you so far – Freo lack a line breaking forward mid type player and it’s glaringly obvious.
To me it feels like Longmuir spends too much time looking at stats and AFL fantasy scores and not enough time actually focussing on scoring goals.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos
Don, I literally watched the replay today (was a horror watch), and for the first 3 quarters Freo moved the ball at a snails pace out of the backline. Some credit goes to WCE but there was an obvious decision for negative ball movement when we were behind.
Now, either Longmuir is telling them to do this, or the players are ignoring him – either way it’s an extremely poor look on the coach.
Six Points: Greene lucky to only get a week, 2024's two best wins, and the moment that sums up woeful Roos