Binns: 42 possessions, 11 marks, 5 tackles, 5 clearances, but in the last couple of moment he had a couple of serious mistakes. Still, he got leather poisoning.
Casey wanted it more, especially at the end. We have too many who are not hard nuts. Many of them were disappointing tonight.
Fantasia: 22 possessions, but not a single score.
Moir: 6 possessions. Disappointing.
So other than the Auskicker, the other senior listed players showed SFA. Great.
Sadly, Corey "Homicide" Williams lost his relatively short battle with cancer. I'm not a basketball fan in any way shape or form but I followed Homicide mainly through his socials and on SEN. Nice fella, always spoke his mind and was often very funny. He and Gazey would often have me in stitches back in the day. Will be missed.
Petracca was on and I dont think anyone was going to stop him if he got enough supply and it was one on one stuff where he excels like Dusty did at his peak. We needed to put more pressure on the delivery and get another player across to help out when we could..
Ms DJC is pretty much a neutral observer and she remarked that she never heard such biased commentary before. She also had a crack at the umpires for some poor decisions
BT and his mates do tend to boost the team that's behind so that the punters won't turn the game off but a bit of balance would be a pleasant change.
I must learn how to sync Blues Radio
Apparently is live, no delay as is the Ch7 telecast. So just turn it on, mute BT and youre away.
We've had three tough games in a row. Our players looked pretty stuffed (although, happily smiling) at the end of last night's game. This fourth will be really difficult.
We need to up our pressure which still seems to be well short of last year at times. Heeney is a worry in a similar fashion to Petracca. Can play a few roles and be hard to match up on.
IIRC, Most teams have performed poorly after playing us. Lets see how Melb go next week. Having said that, all games are tough these days, we seem to be recovering well and I expect us to recover well for the Syd game.
From the media coverage you'd think Melbourne dominated this game. Aside from our gun players, I thought a lot of our lesser lights played important roles. That's been overlooked - teams win flags, not a handful of guns within chaff.
Arrived home from the game with Junior G2C to be greeted my an angry Mrs G2C. Reckoned the Ch7 commentary was so biased she had to mute it. Ahhhh yes, love it when my effect wears off on family members. PS Heard Cornes this morning on radio say how he listened to SEN Blues Radio (Maher, Edmond, Kouta and Ange) synced with the TV telecast, absolutely hilarious he reckons.
Backs against the wall, line in the sand, facing 3 defeats in a row (to very good opposition).
We found a way to win. That's to be appreciated, respected and applauded. The Go Dees were always going to come back hard after qtr time, premium sides do that.
We owned the game for about 35 minutes, they owned the game for about 35 minutes... the rest was an even arm wrestle.
The effort from Petracca was a once in a season brilliance from one person.
We negated most of their match winners. Kosi, Fritch, Van Rooyen un seen and smashed by our defenders (that's two big scalps in a row for Cinc). Lever was forced to defend all night as opposed to running around unaccountable picking off I50s. May had his hands full with Charlie who ran him up the ground a few times. When May returned from one sortee chasing Charlie, he was right in front of us and was completely gassed gasping for air. Charlie was laughing at him like a schoolboy. I love Gawn, he is a monster who just doesn't stop. But FMD you cant touch him, instant free kick when you do and and nothing in return when he does the same.
Cardiac Carlton was back tonight. The first half was as good as I have seen by us vs quality opposition. The 3rd and 4th were very ordinary. Couldn't but a free but couldn't seem to hold a mark, thread the ball through their wall defence or buy a goal.