It has been long known that Judd ain't the best kick in the world.. Hasn't stopped him influencing a lot of games.
I'm sure I could trawl Utube and come across numerous clips of hack scraggers like Melksham blocking Judd's run at the ball and holding at every contest.... holding that is so frequent yet infrequently penalised.
The fact that it isn't FTA is disgraceful... did the AFL expect the members to fly to NZ to see the game? How is the common person expected to follow their side under such circumstances???
I don't have a problem with Lewis, he is a damn hard competitor who normally makes the ball the main object. Personally I'd have offered him a million a year and the captaincy to come across. Don't get me started on the other sniper though.
Look, I'm not condoning on field violence but there has been stuff happening around the edges ("gamesmanship") for a long time... and the juicers have been masters at it going back to the 1980's. Invariably we've been on the wrong end of it. Chappy has been one that has thrived on dishing out jumper punches and umpire bothering until he gets what he wants.... basically an on field bully. Carlton is the cleanest, least aggressive list in the AFL and I for one am pleased that somebody actually pushed back for once. Yes it was ill disciplined and beating them on the scoreboard is the ultimate revenge but enough's enough.... maybe it was line in the sand day?
No, they clearly tried to put pressure on the lippy sod from what I saw. Gibbs committed to a charge (good old fashioned hip and shoulder) that landed on Goddard late, and his shoulder clipped Goddards ear, who sooked up big time and made sure all and sundry knew about it. He looked stunned that somebody actually had the temerity to line him up.
Didn't hurt him, can't see Gibbs getting rubbed out for it, though Watson et al. did the usual hatchet job.
Bitterly disappointed that Gibbs couldn't even lay the hip in properly... in fact I'd put it does as yet another clanger stat for him on the day.
Henderson was scragged all day - no "blocking" or "chopping" frees at our end, funny about that. I'd play Walker at CHF and Jones on a wing... because he has zero idea where to run as a forward and looks better running with the ball in open play. Lost count of the amount of times he ran to where Henderson was and pulled his opponent to the contest, which made life bloody hard for Henderson with the second opponent over the top. Henderson looked very proppy at the end which is a worry. I don't know who our forward coach is but he needs to work on the leading patterns because Jones seems to want to run to where others are all the time instead of leading to locations from whence he can score. Its called separation guys.
Cripps is exactly as noted by NB followers - smart hands and nous inside but kicking is iffy. Had the chance to really hurt the scum on the scoreboard today.
Wood battled manfully -gets no help from the maggots and constantly scragged - coupled with some smart inside work it is a shame that we couldn't capitalise on this work as we have no outside run.
Thought Armfield gave us a bit of run and effort which we have been sorely lacking.
Smaller defenders did better under pressure and Rowe, although still average, showed some glimpses today. The way the ball came in at time it was hard being a defender today.
Murphy a lot better but possessions not hurting sides. Gibbs was excremental and he is rushing his kicks.
Was pleased to see Yazz stand up for himself and the boys made sure Goddard received plenty of treatment. There are some smart asses in that side who clearly need taking down a notch - a lot of sly stuff today, but you'd expect it from the juicers.
