Post Match. Pies beat Saints - All comments please.

[Cam]

This was a decent performance. Finishing off like we should have in the last could have elevated it to good. Still, in an even comp any win is important. See Cats/Bombers.

and Lions/Hawks - shows how lucky we were to escape

[AN_Inkling]

This was a decent performance. Finishing off like we should have in the last could have elevated it to good. Still, in an even comp any win is important. See Cats/Bombers.

I don't think we really had any standout player. Sidebottom was probably our best. De Goey? Good outcomes, but the play itself wasn't too great. More like a Ronche performance I thought. Didn't really hold many of his contested marks.

In the middle Pendles and Steele were both very good. Adams again disappointing - should be banned from ever kicking inboard.

Down back both Howe and Crisp were excellent again and Dunn was reliable.

The injury to Fas was a real shame.

Kicked 6 goals out of a total of 14 goals. That's a match winning performance and I'd be surprised if he's not awarded the maximum 10 votes in the coach's award.

Sure. But in the modern game goals, just like disposals, need to be taken in context.

Ronche's performance wasn't that of a superstar when he kicked 7 last week. Most of those were just goals of circumstance which most players would have kicked.

De Goey's performance was better than that, but not massively. Got a free kick or two, a simple goal over the top, one good mark where he did just enough to be paid and two nice finishes. I felt his game against Brisbane was better. No one was clunking marks in our forward line yesterday, De Goey included.

And he may well get the 10 votes as I don't think anyone else really stood out either.

[Raw Hammer]

[AN_Inkling]

^^Missed one. Didn't make the distance from about 40m.

[RudeBoy]

[K]

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JDG has now kicked a bag of 5 and a bag of 6 this year. I'm pretty sure I heard a commentator say there was only one other player in the entire AFL who has done that so far.

Well, such stats may mean something but not everything. For example, there was only one player other than WHE who was in a position to kick a goal in every match in the first 9 rounds. (I don't know whether he subsequently did, or whether WHE is now the sole player.)

[RudeBoy]

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JDG has now kicked a bag of 5 and a bag of 6 this year. I'm pretty sure I heard a commentator say there was only one other player in the entire AFL who has done that so far.

Well, such stats may mean something but not everything. For example, there was only one player other than WHE who was in a position to kick a goal in every match in the first 9 rounds. (I don't know whether he subsequently did, or whether WHE is now the sole player.)

Goals are hard to kick. Regular multiple goal kickers are worth their weight in gold. That's why Peter Daicos declared that signing JDG should be our club's top priority, above signing any other player.

[K]

It does look like small forwards may be taking over AFL forward lines.

[Pies2016]

[think positive]

[E]

[AN_Inkling]

Some goals are now not at all hard to kick and De Goey had a few of those yesterday.

Thomas and Stephenson have also kicked 5 goals this year.

De Goey's a very good player and we definitely will want to sign him, he'd be a big loss if we didn't. His game yesterday was good but nothing extraordinary and not his best of the year. Not all 5+ goal games are equal. No one's rushing to give Ronche Buddy money for example.

[E]

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JDG has now kicked a bag of 5 and a bag of 6 this year. I'm pretty sure I heard a commentator say there was only one other player in the entire AFL who has done that so far.

Well, such stats may mean something but not everything. For example, there was only one player other than WHE who was in a position to kick a goal in every match in the first 9 rounds. (I don't know whether he subsequently did, or whether WHE is now the sole player.)

Goals are hard to kick. Regular multiple goal kickers are worth their weight in gold. That's why Peter Daicos declared that signing JDG should be our club's top priority, above signing any other player.

Rudey, you and i have been saying this for a long long time. DeGoey might already be our best player.

What a shame the magpie morality police ruined the start of the season by over-reacting to his indiscretion this year (which amounted to an error in judgment - didnt drive to the party, but on returning home, mistakenly thought he had sobered up enough to drive). without that, we might have signed him up already and be delighted at the bargain he turned out to be.

Instead, nearly everyone here wanted him traded. Sad misjudgment.

i bet if the club announced a 4 year $600 per year deal at the start of the season, you all would have been howling.

It seems we dont want to pay overs (ever) and we don't want the club to sign a player too early in case its a mistake. As someone who does deals for a living, if you dont snag an early bargain, AND you don't outbid the market for known quality, there isn't really much left.......

[The Average Tourist]

Now DeGoey was great

But I was excited about how good was the captain and how good was Wells

I love watching Steele but I nearly fell off my chair when I read he had 38 possessions. I thought he was ineffective.

[Mugwump]