The Wrap Up: West v South @ City Mazda Stadium

West 6.1 10.5 18.7 23.8.146
South 0.1 0.4 2.7 3.11.27

West bounce back from last week's disappointing performance over Centrals with a massive win over South, making it two 100+ win West have handed to South this year. Can West use the win to reignite their run to a top 3 finish? Where to now for South with yet another 100+ loss?

Firstly well done to West today, you were far and away in every department better than South all day.

What a shite performance by my team today. I wonder how many supporters will turn up next week.

The whole football department should be hanging its head in shame tonight.

I am glad I did not go to see todays slaughter.

I was one of the very few Southies that attended todays match. I think we  were outnumbered by the Weslo staff. Westies were very good.

What a lame, insipid, inept and disgraceful performance, a performance that showed little pride for individual performance and no pride for the jumper. What an utter disgrace that people who are rusted on Southies and have followed the club for generations had to endure the utter garbage that we witnessed today.

It was little more than a bruise free training session for West complete with blue and white witches hats.

Not sure if we have a game plan, not sure if the players know if we have one either. If we do have one, the players clearly haven’t embraced it, and possessing the skill level of a B grade country team, find it difficult to execute it.

The coach announced pre season,  that he now has “the list that I want”. ……
Phew, thank God for that!, at last!!!
Well clearly he hasn’t, four 100+ point thrashings have put paid to that. The mid season departures by some players, a normal occurrence under this coaches tenure have clearly disintegrated not only depth but moral.The playing group look lost ,disinterested and completely disengaged.

In recent times the Board of the safc have made some bold decisions. In making these decisions they leant an ear to the great unwashed- the membership and listened to what they said ….

A message to the board ...=there is an awful lot of noise out there, and its deafening..

I feel your pain, B&W, South were terrible. Given that though West were very good.

To those predicting a 0-0 scoreline, once I got over the hilarity of something so original, I realised it was 23 - 3.

Utterly Speechless!!

A club being ripped apart in front of my eyes.

Can not say much more tonight guys.....just that my heart is shattered.

Any one else notice a South player (might have been Cross)  walking away to his position while the rest of the team were still in a huddle with the coach at 3/4 time? ...it was as if he didn't care for what the coach had to say.

firstblood wrote:Any one else notice a South player (might have been Cross)  walking away to his position while the rest of the team were still in a huddle with the coach at 3/4 time? ...it was as if he didn't care for what the coach had to say.

I have seen this by a few players this year FB......that ain't the first !!"

I felt for cross - one of his lesser team-mates gave him a spray before the 3qtr time huddle - I remember thinking that if the player giving the spray put in the same effort he and liddle did, they wouldn't be so much behind.

I did feel for the south supporters today - You guys deserve more and credit to those who came. It was not so long ago I saw westies get flogged by similar margins -hand in there guys

as dominant as West were scoreboard wise i don't think they played that well, however they did do what they had to do & get a big % booster, i think South were just pitiful with no intensity & was just going through the motions at about 20%.....after 5 minutes today it was ''nil all'' 8 minutes later the game was over, very hard to pick best players for West & we could have 20 people picking 20 different opinins but i'll settle for MACREADIE...MAGAREY MEDAL voting in this match intrigues me so i'll wait & see what the umpires thought, the 'throw' paid in the last term was wrong as it wasn't scooped, it rolled along the ground so surely that is classed as a knock on or a tap !!

Rarely disagree with you, Bayman, but if kicking 23 goals and winning by 20 isn't playing well, I'm not sure what is.

Best player at the club was Tuck.

West by 20 goals, but still lose the free kick count, 14 - 20.

As usual.

Didnt notice the umps much BUT when you lead by so much, as a supporter you are more relaxed and decisions dont have such an impact

Ditto. Thought we got some rough decisions, but was so relaxed, didn't bother about it.

So much for playing in front, though.

Come on guys, its only 1.5 frees a quarter what are you complaining about

The Westies boys were that anxious to pick up easy kicks, they digressed while doing so. South couldnt give away many frees because they were no where near an opponent to give away one.

Does that clears it up for you.......

That's gold Prowler!

Good work, Prowler.

Same thing didn't work for us when we were the cones last week

redandblack wrote:Rarely disagree with you, Bayman, but if kicking 23 goals and winning by 20 isn't playing well, I'm not sure what is.

Best player at the club was Tuck.

i thought they were a bit scrappy & the top teams would have made them pay while South did not, the positive thing is that West still have plenty of improvement in them

redandblack wrote:I feel your pain, B&W, South were terrible.  Given that though West were very good.

To those predicting a 0-0 scoreline, once I got over the hilarity of something so original, I realised it was 23 - 3.

Glad you haven't lost that famous sense of humour R&B... You even got your weekly crack at the umpires in... Great stuff!

bigclock wrote:
Glad you haven't lost that famous sense of humour R&B... You even got your weekly crack at the umpires in... Great stuff!

A weekly crack at the umpires shows great restraint in my opinion.

Flag No.9 wrote:

bigclock wrote:
Glad you haven't lost that famous sense of humour R&B... You even got your weekly crack at the umpires in... Great stuff!

A weekly crack at the umpires shows great restraint in my opinion.

It show a great deal of disrepect IMO FN9.... it's a very hard game with out them.

I am aware that we require them, but the standard has been very poor for too long, and I don't think it's unreasonable to point it out.

Flag No.9 wrote:I am aware that we require them, but the standard has been very poor for too long, and I don't think it's unreasonable to point it out.

In my opinion there is a big difference between pointing out a perceived poor standard and accusing them of cheating... week in week out. But hey, if thats how your club wants to handle it then good on them - see how far they get and how much benefit they get out of that stance.

Where did he accuse them of cheating. The facts are we are regularly behind on the free kick count each week whether we win lose or draw. Probably an issue we need to work on with the umpiring department. Don't often see a team lose the free kick count but still win by 20 goals.

bigclock wrote:

redandblack wrote:I feel your pain, B&W, South were terrible.  Given that though West were very good.

To those predicting a 0-0 scoreline, once I got over the hilarity of something so original, I realised it was 23 - 3.

Glad you haven't lost that famous sense of humour R&B... You even got your weekly crack at the umpires in... Great stuff!

Given that every football forum I've ever seen has frequent criticism of umpiring and this site also has the same, is it vaguely possible that this is you having your usual weekly crack at me, by any chance?

I'll leave our readers to decide.

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So suggesting the umpires give you rough decisions and saying you are behind in the freekick stats (as usual) is not eluding to some kind of bias against your club - AKA cheating?