Gather Round’s first ever Sicko Saturday treats Adelaide Oval to a day of gloriously bad football

If I did not know better, I would have sworn that it was a typographic error on your accessory card.

A displacement through the list of games and places took him to Saturday in Adelaide Oval, and the curious match of Carlton-West Coast to Melbourne-Essendon.

There is no rule that says that games at the Oval Adelaide of 53,000 seats have to be the Marquesina of the day, but it makes logical sense. And yet, here we were.

The first Prime Minister Brisbane had been sent to Norwood along with the Bulldogs, and to anyone’s surprise he played one of the games of the year.

Okay, it was a little more sense to send the canuric and the soles to the Barsa, but both parties were projected this year and played as a tanning way.

At that time they could not have predicted it, but by the time we all met for this round, the four teams that played in the center of the stage on Saturday arrived with a combined season record of 1-15.

Whether due to bad luck or bad design, the AFL had created its first Sicko Round Sicko on Saturday, a double header to be savored only by the most true and more depraved football nuts.

Part of Gather Round’s gift is the opportunity, if he has the media and will do so, to enjoy a wide spectrum of games and equipment. In doing so, you can really start having an idea of ​​how good football looks compared to the rest.

On Saturday, Adelaide Oval obtained nothing more than the rest. And in a rude way, he was quite captivating.

It may have been nonsense to wait for anything else, but the early between Carlton without victories and Winless West Coast was a disaster. If there is a worse game this year, I just hope I don’t see it accidentally.

So many bad decisions, and then so many mistakes when the right decision was made. The blues were clearly the upper team, but they needed time to convince themselves of that fact.

It seems that losing is a terribly difficult habit of breaking.

Once they discovered it, it became a non -glorified training drill for the Michael Voss side, since they accumulated statistics that even the coach himself described as “extraordinary.” But the numbers could not do justice to this game.

Identifying a low afternoon reflux is difficult. Was Charlie Curnow a handball of five meters to a teammate in an open goal and accidentally hurried?

It could have been Jake Waterman trying to avoid Mitch McGovern in the central wing, just to forget to change the instructions before running directly to the arms of Carlton’s defenders.

Perhaps it was Jack Williams’ brain overheated and closed when only 20 meters from the goal, nor passing nor shooting and instead attacked anything already through a point.

Sometimes it was a punishing clock, and the only subsection of the population that had taken some joy would be Carlton’s supporters. But even his comfort was contaminated by a brain shock at the return of Harry McKay and a serious late injury to Brodie Kemp.

Positive for the west coast? Tom Gross seems promising. Liam Ryan played well. The draft is in about seven months.

Without wanting to sink the boot more than necessary, the eagles are out of the standard of even the next worst teams. They know this as well as anyone, but finding some relief, much less one cure, is being impossible.

What demons and bombers produced may have been less ridiculous than the efforts of the afternoon, but it was barely better.

Melbourne in particular is a totally lost team in the desert, a shadow of the outfit that won a prime minister in 2021 and dominated the first half of 2022.

The main one among the problems of demons is its total lack of a line of progress, although with the way they use the ball that enter there, it would not matter if David Neitz was still running.

For a team that fights for his season, perhaps even for the long -term future of his coach, Melbourne was a complete humid squi in the first half. He was painful to see.

For your credit there was an answer after part time, but it was for little. The quality did not coincide with the effort, and finally a couple of ball losses and the fallen marks did everything void and without effect.

Essendon was not convincing, but a clear step above the opposition. There were periods in which the bombers would turn the ball in two or three or four times within their own 50 defensive, but each time it would be saved by the ineptitude of Melbourne.

The bombers wouldn’t know, will West Coast play next week the same day Carlton faces North Melbourne? In case you couldn’t have enough Saturday.

Everything will give AFL cause to consider inventing round accessories next year. There must be a way to avoid treating regional games as second -class games while maintaining the crop cream in the grooves during stellar schedule.

Or maybe they can only rely on the Sicko Saturday concept and reserve one day of the meeting round per year for an adequate slope. It may make us savor the good games than a little more.