Round 1 vs Fremantle

[Chuck Wepner]

The Crows have a bit of work to do.
Too many handballs, especially to players already covered by opponents.
Too many kicks straight to opposition players standing there on their own - a kick to a contest would be better than that.
One ruckman??? It might have made sense if the one had been a Sandilands....

Both Fremantle and Port played a more direct style and both won.
[Though Port did their usual "take it easy and go defensive" once well in front, and nearly came unstuck as usual as a result.]

Do you think ? how insightful... of course don't give any credit to Port's opponent - they didn't lift or change their gameplan at all... psber with your revolutionary thought processes I'm amazed youre not coaching an AFL side now.. or perhaps you are?

Well Port have a long established pattern of going purely defensive when in front and my wife, who was a Port supporter and came from a Port Adelaide linked family, first pointed it out to me.
She used to watch Port matches more closely than me, and always saw it as a sign they were about to lose - and she was usually proved right!
I'd concede it could have been just a remarkable turn around by Nth Melbourne, but I'm not convinced from what I saw on the televised game.
Port's effort appeared to drop off rather like last year, although their early play was much improved, and much more direct.

I'm not sure why you highlighted my comment about the Crows kicking directly to an unmanned opponent, as you didn't comment on that, unless you did and it was lost in your grammatical construction
But that is a basic mistake whatever the opposition is doing at the time..

my point is that to say you'd rather see the crows kick to a contest than to the opposition is like saying you'd rather see them kick goals than points... it is a very strange comment from someone analysing that match

[stan]

Relax all. Freo were pretty good sunday night and there will be a lot of teams taht will come un-stuck over there this year if they play that brand of football. The crows have started this season like they normally do. Slow at the start and then will ramp up towards the end of the season.
The crows are a good team and will get back to there best soon, just need to get sort out some of those shots on goals early.
Anyway no need to panic, its only round one.

[Psyber]

my point is that to say you'd rather see the crows kick to a contest than to the opposition is like saying you'd rather see them kick goals than points... it is a very strange comment from someone analysing that match

I did think it was obvious when I said it - but I didn't know one was not supposed to say obvious things...
I was pointing out that they were making such fundamental errors.

[Brucetiki]

Then play it Saturday night if they wanna play night games in Perth to escape the heat

Other games were scheduled Saturday night in areas which can be hot also. The AFL world doesn't revolve around what Crows supporters want

Brisbane - yes I agree
Sydney - rarely gets anywhere near 36 there this time of year

[stan]

I woulod pick the crows to win this week as they will bounce back strong. The first week in perth was always going to be a tough one. But this week at home against the swans well, I believe the crows will bounce back.
One thing that the crows are really missing, or actually two things or people are Knights and Porplyza. Once there both back in the side the forward line will retain its balance again.