Fantastic win and absolutely credit to Haynes and McG today, I’ve been a huge critic but they were both fantastic today.
Think Ollie works so hard and brilliant to see repeat efforts from all other players throughout the game. Nice to see H do well and happy for Durds for doing well.
Yes Carroll had a few shockers but thought he, White and Lord were quite good and settled when needed at their age and experience level:
Huge day and what a goal by George, just love him.
At around the 26 minute mark of the third quarter, Weitering was pinged for holding the ball when Curtis brought him to the ground in the forward pocket. How did Curtis bring Weiters down? He hooked his right leg around Weiters' leg and tripped him. It should have been Weiters' free and, after SDK's and Keane's fines, the MRO should be relieving Curtis of some of his hard earned. I suspect that Christian will turn a blind eye.
Yes the umpires have way too much to decide on and they do it on the trot
BUT things have changed - this was obvious to me at the time, but they get a shot on goal!?
The not 15m is doing my head in, every call is completely different!
Tbh Young looks panicked as soon as he has the ball in hand 99% of the time. His kick on goal was great and I want him to succeed but he needs to shake those worries asap.
Really v happy with Jesse and Williams, working harder and it pays dividends. The ‘tough conversations’ must’ve worked. Jesse in particular has really impressed me in fairness, when he’s good he’s very good.
MCG and Hayes still not convinced, they both improved as the game went on but as senior players they need to hit the ground running!
I suppose that is better than the alternative where we aren't even that.
I hear you. I am not celebrating too hard but reality is we won very well, like we should’ve!
Thing is, if after half time had they come out and kicked a few, how confident would any of us been that we’d go on with it? I was even nervous when they kicked the first 2 of the 4th.
Against a top side, a 20pt lead at halftime means nothing.
Really sick of the discrepancies in the 15m - surely they could have something that marks it On the ground to make it easier for the umpires to get it right?
Second quarter not great, we had so many opportunities.
I'm not suggesting any one group is right or wrong, but there are many supporters who feel that they have been very patient, and any unloading on the club is justified. I don't agree, and I think it creates more problems than it solves, but those folks certainly feel pretty strongly about it.
Okay but seriously we have had a number of award winning players for quite a few years now and surely a list can be built around them by now to have a competitive winning team fielded each week?
I'm not suggesting any one group is right or wrong, but there are many supporters who feel that they have been very patient, and any unloading on the club is justified. I don't agree, and I think it creates more problems than it solves, but those folks certainly feel pretty strongly about it.
Also, Dan Houston has copped a two match ban for the Fogarty bump.
2 matches doesn’t seem enough - hasn’t he got prior form with this?
To me Jesse doesn’t work hard enough for long enough. He’s got friends in that category no doubt.
JSOS and Weiters seem the most rallying/vocal, maybe Saad. Then there’s crickets imo. George and Cripps lead by example but don’t seem to rally the troops - Walsh doesn’t seem to have it, Doch very sadly is a shadow of the former player he was. Charlie doesn’t have it. Yes we’re obviously now desperately missing Newman.
