Re: RD 17 : Blues Defeat Kangaroos (After-Match Defibrillators)
Reply #70 –
Kruezer was great when the heat was on, and I like the pairing of him with Rowe...the latter ran out the game well and contested everything and while not big on the stat sheet did his part and I thought his ruck work was good and in tandem they broke Goldstein.
This is the pairing we need to go forward with and its a no brainer IMO that they are better footballers than Hampson, Casboult and Warnock. An example was Rowe getting the ball and kicking long from the wing to Henderson running into goal....none of the other mentioned would have made that kick work for Henderson.
You didn't mention Rowe missing a 20m in-the-clear Armfield in the last with one of the worst kicks of the night. Nup....Rowe's not for me after tonight, thought he was poor. A couple of nice-ish things in the first half, diddly squat in the 2nd half & his ruckwork is merely pedestrian. I'd still give him more game time just to be sure....but tonight, Rowe was poo.
I guess we see it different....thought he was a contributor
And fair enough.....happy to see him get more game time & he is a competitive beast, but when he plays ruck he needs to impose himself more around the ground.....didn't see a lot of that tonight.
Btw - is Bryce Gibbs taking the p!ss or what? I hope the Club can overrule MM's opinion of him being untouchable, 'cos he's VERY touchable imo. Impact tonight = ZERO. Poor Bryce, very, very, poor.....again.
Thought Carrazzo got back to something like the form we want to see of him, ditto Murphy. Judd's first half was beyond poor & starting the 2nd half on the bench was testament to that....goddamn it was ordinary. Imagine the scoreline if Judd & Gibbs had bothered turning up to play from the get-go? Eddie was just so-so, chimed in with the occasional good moment, but mostly he was pretty ineffective tonight, whilst his brothers-in-arms in Jeffy, played a ripping game & after quarter time, Yarran probably played his most rounded game for the Club....he became a tackling machine & that mark he took running with the flight in the 3rd.....I remember saying at the time "You gotta go Yazz, you gotta go...." and go he did....mark & goal = brilliant. Pity about the crape shot for goal in the last.
Apart from a couple of classy goals in the first, Lindsay Thomas is a cheap-goal merchant, although having your opponent (Tuohy for a lot of the night) kicking 2 goals on you isn't something I'd be overly proud of as a forward.
Ed Curnow played probably his best game for 2 years, with a PB of 2 goals, Armfield was all over the shop (his kicking for goal deadset crap), as was McInnes, Brock was too quiet for mine & Walker was serviceable.
Once again, MM appears confused as to how to use the sub - Cachia was a ridiculous choice, although 5 tackles in just a quarter of footy is pretty damn impressive.
Kreuzer's game was magnificent & he got better as the game wore on, although that shot for goal in the last.....deary, deary, me. Simmo was magnificent as his season is starting to thump into first gear, although he's still prone to some crucial errors by foot. Now we come to the bloke who suddenly finds himself as the most important player in the team, but is carrying that tag with aplomb.....Lachie. Played a ripping game last week, had all the focus on him in the press all this week & how does he respond? With an extremely workmanlike BOG......GUN, GUN, GUN, GUN, GUN.....yep, he's a bonafide gun is our Lachie.
I hate Norf with a passion, their supporters are surprisingly feral (and have been from my personal experience at the footy for quite some time), I saw bottles & footy records aplenty being thrown on the ground from the Norf member's wing in the last over what they believed to be bad umpiring decisions (suck it up princesses after the armchair ride you got in last year's corresponding game)....feral pigs the lot of them. A one point victory.....been a long time since we've experienced one of those and despite the blood pressure, I loved it.
Maybe next year Norf.....maybe next year......