Re: RD 4 : Blues Beat Saints To Win The Cake-Tin !!
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I'm gonna call it, Cripps is gonna be a star if this competition. He is a deadset brute, as is Bell, both imposing figures. Bell's third quarter was superb, as was his second half in general.
I tell ya what, the treatment Murphy was copping from go to whoa behind play was like nothing I've ever seen.....and to his credit, he never flinched and never stopped, toughest game I've seen Murph play. Some of his 24 handballs were pretty awful to be honest, but overall I can't fault his game and thoroughly deserved B.O.G. honours. 10 kicks to 24 handballs is fairly lopsided ratio though, rumours at the ground today is that he's carrying a lower leg injury and that kind of ratio makes you wonder if it's true.
The first half was just plain ugly.....well, let's face it, most of the game was, but Hendo played his best game in over a season, I thought Wood was good, Curnow made up for last week's disaster, Simmo was typical Simmo, Docherty was solid and Tuohy played his best game of the year so far.
Liam Jones contests well, he really does to his credit, but geez he needs to get more of the footy and when does get the footy, he needs to hurt teams on the scoreboard a lot more than he does. Rowe made some howling mistakes too which is concerning, as his year has been horribly underwhelming and I'm over Casboult's kicking, I really am. Gibbs got better as the game progressed, but his 2015 form is nowhere his 2014 form.
40 points was a good margin though and I'll take that anyday of the week. The Carlton support at the ground was pretty good......quite a few more Saints seeing as they had all the prime seats and it was their home game, but we obviously had a lot more to be loud about in that 2nd half. Good to see Andy Lee there, sitting a few rows in front of us and he's genuinely hardcore with his barracking and just seems to be a cracking guy.
The wind whipping through the stadium was friggin' freezing and apparently that was their 'warm' wind!