AFL Round 14

[MW]

The half time score flattered us. Big time. I was saying at the ground it feels like we should be 6 goals down.
I've also never heard a quieter collective 46,000 group. All I could hear was people talking about their holidays, kids, work, love life etc etc. It was almost inconvenient every time I yelled something out or cheered.

[Senor Moto Gadili]

The half time score flattered us. Big time. I was saying at the ground it feels like we should be 6 goals down.
I've also never heard a quieter collective 46,000 group. All I could hear was people talking about their holidays, kids, work, love life etc etc. It was almost inconvenient every time I yelled something out or cheered.

Can you give a run down on some of those love life conversations?

[BZB27]

The half time score flattered us. Big time. I was saying at the ground it feels like we should be 6 goals down.
I've also never heard a quieter collective 46,000 group. All I could hear was people talking about their holidays, kids, work, love life etc etc. It was almost inconvenient every time I yelled something out or cheered.

Can you give a run down on some of those love life conversations?

Well a Crows supporter proposed to his hawks supporter missus at HT

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Another crazy result. At the beginning of the season Hawks were $8.50 to win the flag. Earlier this week they were $8.50 to beat the crows. People need to stop over reacting to shock losses. All teams have had them and there are probably more to come. At the end of the year two teams will play in the GF and one team will win. June form will count for nothing.

[MW]

This was not a shock loss. The same game plan has beaten us four times. Easily.
This team playing this style will not win a final. Not a single one.

[Corona Man]

At the game. Crows just need to tidy it up. There is not that much pressure or perceived pressure, they just aren't being clean even in the open! If they clean it up they'll beat them by 10 goal.

Excellent post.

[Brodlach]

I took the Hawks +25.5

Well at least my account has a fill up

[mighty_tiger_79]

Even Sando was a better coach than what Don has shown

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[heater31]

Even Sando was a better coach than what Don has shown

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And he was the worst coach since Robert Shaw

[Magellan]

At the game. Crows just need to tidy it up. There is not that much pressure or perceived pressure, they just aren't being clean even in the open! If they clean it up they'll beat them by 10 goal.

Excellent post.

Reckon they didn't clean it up.

[MW]

I've been saying it all year. We get exposed for leg speed when teams run against us. There is also an element of down hill skiing which makes it worse. Atkins, Cameron, Douglas, Crouches....don't chase when the opposition have the ball. Is that a coached thing to guard space? I hope so cause that can be changed.

[Magellan]

How do Crows fans rate the form of Taylor Walker in recent games? I haven't watched much of the Crows at all this year, but reading between the lines I get the impression he's gone missing when the side needs him to stand up.

[Brodlach]

How do Crows fans rate the form of Taylor Walker in recent games? I haven't watched much of the Crows at all this year, but reading between the lines I get the impression he's gone missing when the side needs him to stand up.

Poor, playing injured IMO. Had a fitness test just before the game against Geelong

[Booney]

Jenkins, 18 touches, 9 hitouts, 4 marks 3 goals, how does he do all that and not be sighted half the night?

Beech, lovely fairy tale, but not up to AFL football, Milera works one way, Otten a liability when the ball hits the deck, is Walker still the best captain in the AFL?

[Booney]

Oh, sorry, good morning everyone.

[Brodlach]

This is what happens when you drink your own bath water

[MW]

Jenkins, 18 touches, 9 hitouts, 4 marks 3 goals, how does he do all that and not be sighted half the night?

Beech, lovely fairy tale, but not up to AFL football, Milera works one way, Otten a liability when the ball hits the deck, is Walker still the best captain in the AFL?

Agree with everything except the knock on Tex. That award was voted by his piers, not anyone else. In saying that, he's not playing like a good captain at the moment.

[Wedgie]

The half time score flattered us. Big time. I was saying at the ground it feels like we should be 6 goals down.
I've also never heard a quieter collective 46,000 group. All I could hear was people talking about their holidays, kids, work, love life etc etc. It was almost inconvenient every time I yelled something out or cheered.

Must admit when I was leaving in the last quarter when the Crows were 6 points down and I was outside the tennis centre I couldnt hear the crowd at all yet when I lived at Prospect 4.3 kms away I could clearly hear the Power crowd one night v the Hawks.
There was loud periods in the first half though, i quite often had to shout at patrons asking what beer they had, havent had that issue before.

[Wedgie]

Id prefer Taylor Swift to Taylor Walker atm.

[Booney]

The plan that is beating the ultra offensive Adelaide is to play ultra defensive. Don't allow them to have space forward, keep Lynch ( who is IMO becoming an A grader with his consistency ) as high up the ground as you can and simply hold a player on Jenkins when he falls out the back.

Hawthorn had an 8 man back 50 at times last night, created space through the middle by having 2 less mids and they used that space to move the ball and gave them acreage up forward. This moves Talia and Hartigan up the ground with their opponents and makes Smith and Laird be more accountable to their direct opponent.

The extra numbers back also means any ball up / contests at Adelaide's half forward line is flooded with opposition jumpers, Hawthorn beat Adelaide up at the contest between the 50m arcs.