Now that was us. As for that final qtr... for those of us getting long in the fang, reminiscent of the 70s/80s/mid 90s.
Rapt to see creativity from the coaching boxes. Williams to the forward line, Cincotta a run with role...
Charles and H working beautifully together.
Cowan & Kemp coming along nicely.
Acres rapidly becoming Mr Reliable. If not already.
Take a bow, TDK.
Crippa, Walshy... cometh the hour, cometh the men. (Walshy, stop putting the aggot onto the chest of opponents... clean up on that foot disposal and you may very well become Mr Perfect!).
Vossy, congrats on the weight loss and drinking water during games rather than that poison lolly-water, coke. Love your comment (when commentators mention AO hoodoo), "We don't play the ground, we play the opposition side." Or something like that. Great mindset. The boldness of tweaking during games is ripper stuff.
Another hoodoo (AO)... buried.
The Fantasia experiment aint working. Note to Mr Motlop... make it impossible not to get a recall to the senior line-up after Sunday's VFL game.
When we're the hunters, we're irresistible. Port succumbed to that relentless pressure, as will most.
Type of player you take off when the game is won to protect him from himself, hopefully only badly winded with some bruising at worst, played very well despite Soldos efforts to injure him and others..
He looked fine in the rooms after the game... no apparent shoulder or arm issues - probably winded.
they both do. These guys are essentially the same age as my parents. My dad passed away in 2004, and mum is looking frail healthwise and understands as much about living in a technological world as anyone of her generation. Why are these people leading our countries? Ageism aside the prime candidates should be somewhere between age 40 and 65, any older and they're too detached from the realities of being sub 40 in the modern world. He'll I hear half the kids I work with of Sam walshes generation and occasionally feel like a dinosaur and I'm 41.
Yep.
But the problems facing the US go way beyond Biden & Trump. The first question to ask yourself is how the fck do these two get to be chosen to lead their respective parties!! There is palpable decline of both the Democrats and Republicans with resultant foolish disagreement and even hatred between the two. Yep, a civil war is on the cards - not like 1860 but could be ever bit as devastating. It is a nation divided against itself... something Abe Lincoln foresaw and was very worried about. China and Russia are loving it.
Once upon a time, the Dems & Reps were civil to each other and united on many policies. Each was more moderate than today's iteration. Enter the lunatics of the Far Left and Right. Now the Dems & Reps hate each other and do just about anything to spite the other. Result? Democracy and decency are in decay.
Yes, we should be concerned. It will disadvantage Cripps in particular, as well as Walsh, Charlie, and most of our defenders, and we have no time to adjust our current version of playing to the rules.
Yep, our boys are going to have to adapt and adjust... quickly!
However, the same will apply to Port and some of their blokes.
Could be all games this weekend will be effected by the long overdue change. Strong tackling sides could reap a few benefits.
Saw a few reports recently from psychiatrists specialising in dementia and all agreed that Trump is exhibiting very real symptoms (of dementia).
Biden's issue is very different. He has a rather bad stutter and to prevent the stutter presenting itself he has to go through a brief psychological system in his bonce to prevent the stutters... makes him seem like there's a dementia issue. Add that to normal age mental deterioration and voila, instant senility appearance.
Bottom line. Neither is fit to run the local milkbar.
Umpiring - I don't want to go there, but the numbers don't lie: we had 3 frees in three quarters of the game. That is just ridiculous.
The number of times I saw blokes take on the tackler, then get caught without a correct disposal, was considerable. Has been for weeks. Dropping the ball has also been diluted. Plenty of times over the weeks I've seen blokes, again take on the tackler, and the ball is dislodged in the tackle to fall without correct disposal by foot or hand resulting in play on or ball up.
Williams had significant game influence today, fans seem reluctant to give him credit where credit is due. For me his F50 success highlights a fundamental contributing cause of our failings over the last few weeks. How can it be a rookie SF like Williams gets in all the right spaces, while relatively more seasoned SFs like Fantasia, Owies and Durdin cannot?
Yep.
What Williams did as a small forward is probably what we were expecting/hoping from Fantasia, and Durdin. Opposition sides will put time into Williams now, so that's a hurdle to tackle. But what I really liked was his instinctual goal sense, and when it was time to hold the aggot in our forward line, his defensive work was front and centre. Ripper.
Should we find a fit and in form small forwards trio of Martin, Motlop & Williams... drool. As an opposition defense how would you like to have to quell Charles, H, Martin, Motlop & Williams? And add to that the hardness and tackling pressure of Fog... more drooling.
No, Tom didn’t get smashed in the ruck. Witts got more hitouts but few ended up as GC clearances. Most of Tom’s hitouts resulted in a clearance to us, and Tom’s second and third efforts at stoppages played a big part in that.
Tom had twice as many effective disposals than Witts and took important marks around the ground. Witts was a virtually a non-event around the ground, apart from the goal he was gifted.
From what I could see, Tom went to the bench for running repairs and because he had no gas in his tank.
Exactamundo. TDK looked like a man hungry for the contest; hungry to prove something - and he did.
But what a conundrum. Pitto is also a ripper. We love him. He is different to TDK and his point of difference is really effective in its own way. Perhaps a horses for courses situation? There might be times for both, times for Pitto and rest TDK, then vice versa.
I know it may open a can of worms, but we just look better with TDK as the solo ruck, it also allows H to get into the game more in the ruck and around the ground. Not so top heavy. An extra running small is oh so handy.
Our only lapse was the last 7 or 8 minutes. Huge step re persistence.
I saw why Fantasia was chosen over Durdin, narrowly.
McGovern so supreme in defense.
Walshy great but gotta clean up on disposal, handed them possession too many times.
I think we have to live with the fact that Charles is spasmodic, laconic and inconsistent... but when he's on, he's an amazing weapon and turns games.
Martin showed what a small forward can doing hanging around H and Charles. Too much talent to be used as a lock down defender. Great opportunistic goal sense.
Cincotta sacrificed his game to play his lock down role really well.
Got a beaut with E Hollands. Just used the aggot so well.
Crippa shone.
To be honest, I wouldn't make any changes for next week. Saady and Fog will be better for the run. Motlop needs another game in the Magoos. Maybe Billy for Jack as the sub.
