Certainly there was plenty more on show last night to feel cheerful about. We may well have turned a corner and are now headed in the right direction. Good experience for the likes of Graham and Johnson and Wood again looked OK. All of them should be played for the remaining games.
The difference in the end was probably Fyfe with some late input from Ballantyne. Demonstrates the importance of quality talent and we need to bolster ours for next year.
Gutted by the loss of course but it's good to come on here and read the positivity that's being shown by most posters.
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I think that we have played better in the last two weeks than we have for the entire season.
It's like something has just switched on and they've decided that they are going to turn up and show a bit of mongrel, and throw some class in there too.
Judd: 5 (carried the side from the first bounce) Simpson: 4 (utter class) Murphy: 3 (some very good passages, hard at the ball) Yarran: 1 (set up some good portions of play) Curnow: 1 (kept Hill quiet for 3 1/2 quarters) Thomas: 0.5 (best game he's played) Docherty: 0.5 (that out of bounds in the last killed us, but was hard at the contest all night)
I don't think we deserved to win. We didn't earn it. They played with 2 men down from half time, was a very fair effort by them. But, I think we were a much classier outfit tonight then we have seen. Disappointed with the result, but not crushed as I have been before.
Australia has won five gold medals at the pool and velodrome as the women's 100m freestyle relay smashed the world recordon the first day of competition at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
The combination of Emma McKeon, Melanie Schlanger, Bronte and Cate Campbell won gold in a time of 3.30.98, beating the previous world record of 3.31.72.
"Smashed the world record"........ by 0.74 of a second!
I haven't read the all of this thread so I'm sorry if this has been said before but.....
Rowe; BOG. Kept a lid on Petrie. Gibbs; he was a number 1 pick for a reason. Murphy; all class. Waite; match winner. Henderson; keep him in the forward 50! Wood; Warnock should be VERY scared. Judd; lifts when he needs to. Helped carry us over the line. Docherty; very good pick up.
