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HTF Fantasia keeps getting a game is beyond me. The photos must be incriminating.
The Freo F50 is taller than us, three KPFs over 195cm and Jackson rests forward!yeah but who are they? Amiss is the only one that looks promising. Taberner is a good size but he's a bit of a dud, and treacy is a relative unknown quantity.
Could be a tough week for TDK, Jackson is in good form.
Freo have finally realised smashing Jackson in the ruck trying to win taps means nothing when you have a player with his sort of ground skill and agility. If a fan was naïve enough just to look at the rucks stats it would suggest O'Brien smashed Jackson, but the ruck stats are meaningless, Jackson made O'Brien look like a traffic cone.
When the ball got locked into the Freo F50, Treacy took some of the ruck and Jackson became a mobile 4th KPF in Charlie style.
I suspect this win might not get the merit it deserves, because I actually thought the opposition wasn't too bad.
North are a young side with a bit of talent coming through.
They moved the ball really well at times, but just lacked a bit of polish and discipline....yet we've beaten them by nearly ten goals.
There was a point in the game around the middle of the third where we started to get a bit 'lairy' and they kicked a couple of goals. It was good to see that checked.
Clarkson actually talked us up in his presser (probably as a bit of a deflection) but he said....
Coming off the bye they were "just so fresh and strong, they're a strong side anyway".
He also made mention of our pressure which he said was "supreme".
“Maybe”No that's my opinion. I think marchbank is better one on one than Kemp, whilst Kemp is better zoning off.
Or maybe perceived to be.
Marchbank as an in and Kemp as an out makes this comment a bit worrying. Keml has more versatility than marchbank....and I'm a marchbank fan.I think marchy is a better stopper than Kemp whilst Kemp is more akin to mcgovern.
Dropping Kemp was a mistake last September, I don't think we should make that same mistake again.Yep, Id swing him or Gov forward for a game to see what that does to their defense.
I have the feeling that this is a danger game this week but I am not sure exactly why. Maybe one reason is that North were 4-5 goals up against Freo in the 2nd quarter then missed 3 easy shots at goal that could have given them a bigger lead but they missed them all.
They played well in the first half. But we are better than Freo? Still, we need to start well coming off the bye worries me.
Maybe it's the Clarkson factor that still haunts me? Anyway, if we aspire to be a top four team, we need to put young developing teams like Norf to the sword and win and win well.
Why does everyone forget about fogerty?fog for all his faults has had a bigger say in our fortunes this season (and part of last) than most of the rest. His forward pressure game against Brisbane was a big factor in the comeback.
I'd drop him before leaving out Martin and Cuningham.
...and McGovern.I think McGovern is better as a doer than a leader. No rule saying you can't be both. Newman does too, but I see him marshalling the troops down back. Realistically there is usually one setting it up, and weiters is normally that one. Newman I think performs that role well.