I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm never happy until the siren sounds, hence the angst. I'll be at the game on Thursday, so have fun with this thread.
Car'n the Blues!
Willo the sub
Go Baggers
Oh wow! David Teague's a Richmond assistant coach and was out on the ground during the warmup.
Hit Targets vs No Hit Targets, and then something out of nothing
We are bad. Slow ànd dumb. This is embarrassing
Hmmm ... Lynch is humiliating Oscar McDonald. If he doesn't improve, Lewis Young might be in next week. McDonald v Naughton isn't a great prospect.
Oh dear.
Positives.
We played terrible.....and its only 3 goals.
Rocket from Vossy, regroup and bring the same pressure we had against the dees and we are back in it before half time.
No composure.
Still in it, lucky they kicked for goal poorly.
Horrendous matchup with Newman on Bolton...
Gov - Baker, Oscar - Bolton, they are creating mismatches.
That qtr was horrible, lets start again but can't help thinking we just can't beat this mob.
Turnovers still plaguing us. We are still not handling the pressure.
Disappointing start.
No real system evident, just a kick and hope.
Same old rubbish, ground hog day again.
Look lost.
Hopefully they will get better next quarter.
McGovern proving himself. Beautiful speccie/intercept and precise and searching long passes.
Prestia out, Ralphsmith in.
LOB using his 1 wood: handball receive and beautiful pass to TDK which would have hit him on the tit on the lead if Durdin hadn't cut across to take the mark. Goal from set shot.
Goal to the Doc! Insprirational. Let's hope he doesn't do a Jason McCartney and retire immediately.
It's like the old days: Cripps is wearing a toga now.
Fantastic run-down tackle from TDK. He's not a 1 trick pony.
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Playing with a bit of animal too which is good to see.
Just checking to see if we are on top of the live ladder. Not quite yet.
Great quarter Blues, stopped the Tiger run and turned the game back on them! 😎
Let's see this through now.
Now to not do our usual fade .... Martin has been disappointing
Half gone, start again, MUST put score board pressure on them immediately.
Got better, still improvements and lifts from some required!
Covers a lot of ground, just doesn't get involved anywhere near enough. He is class though.
Bit stiff that JSOS's 2 set shots close to the right boundary both hit the post.
Go Blues. Bring the heat.
Regardless of tonight’s result you can finally see that on every line we have talent that just needs to gel as a group and we could be a very strong team.
Positive is we have had nothing from Charlie not Harry goals wise yet we are still up.
Feel quietly confident in this one. Be massive to start the season with a win
Tough job for Charlie, though, as Balta is a very good tall & athletic key defender.
Are we better off forcing a close game and coming out on top?
Are we better off jumping out of the blocks and getting a few goals up?
.......can we stop an all out attacking Tigers giving everything at the end??
Not sure we are up for handling THAT kind of pressure yet.
LOB was pretty impressive flying across the front of a pack inside 50 for the Tigers to spoil. Not what you'd expect from him.
Its ok for forwards to nudge backs under the ball with their hands
My biggest aggravation in footy: Lynch pushes Weets in the back to push him under the ball and no free kick. As I've said before, contact should only be allowed from a player attempting a mark or a spoil (and spoil does not mean pushing someone out). THis is the nonsense the "protect your space" interpretation wrought. The person who had the space was Weitering. You can't create space by pushing people in the back.
Looks like Q1 all over again.
As long as Q4 is like Q2, i'll take it.
We've switched back off for this qtr. Must get back into it pdq.
Harry! Just what we needed.
Balta monstering McDonald now. McDonald doesn't stop a tall getting in front of him and can't reach the ball to spoil it. We might as well play Plowman as the extra height isn't working for McDonald.
Time to play Charlie up the ground a bit more to get the ball in his hands.
Play him on the wing ala Waite if you like. His long penetration inside 50 will clear a lot of the defenders and harry will always bring the ball down to ground.
They've said they're going to play him as a swingman and Balta was played as a forward in the 2 community matches.
And Newman on Balta is a joke.
50/50 frees going their way.
McDonald was able to spoil Lynch from the front position, so maybe he's adjusting.
how many posters!
Martin and fisher no influence at all.
Pity Gov hit the post, but how good is he looking? He's looking for intercepts whether off the boot or hand, and he has the pace and skills to make them count.
More influence than Setterfield
I’m patient but LOB…..,
Is SOS our Bailey Fritch (?sp): he isn't particularly tall but he know how to play.
Need 3 unanswered. Rinse and repeat q2💪
Too many non contributors
Martin
LOB
Fisher
Charlie
Setters
Gosh a lot of line ball calls are going their way
However our delivery into F50 is crap and the pressure in our F50 is pretty crap too.
We have had opportunities.
We need to break this first round losing streak, needs to end tonight!!
i feel like LOB is everywhere just a little rusty on his execution.
Setters and Martin are annoying me.
Cerra and Kennedy have been great but why does it still feel like unless Cripps has another quarter like he did in the 2nd we wont win. Last goal to dusty would not have been paid to any other player then him.
He’s a champ no doubt but gets the 50/50s everytime.
How many end to end goals by this mob? Ridiculous
I think he's been alright but LOB stuffed up that loose ball and it cost us a goal.
The LOB experiment is over
Nah he has been ordinary.
I've seen enough of LOB I'm afraid.
Durdin's a live wire though. Just the type you'd want with you at the Fight Club.
if we don't get the next its over
And the next
You've got 2 wishes remaining. Use them as well as that first one.
And with the big win from the Reserves its easy to find replacements, LOB and Fisher gone
Big Fella has to do farken everything
Went for a piss and we kick 2 goals.
2 points in it, 14 minutes remaining.
We've hit the post 3 times. We could be 13 points up!
Slot this Jack FFS
Yessssss
Our Father who art in heaven....
Why? Surely you have a couple of empties on the coffee table :lol:
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Fortunately, we didn't drag Fisher too early ...
Reminder.
We still have Sam Walsh to come back into this side. :o
Hopefully injuries don't kill us: Weitering, Cripps, Newman & Pittonet have limped off at various stages.
LOB!!!
He copped what his own supporters have been wanting to do to him for ages and goals!
LOB goes bang.
Hallowed be thy name
I'm taking full responsibility going for that piss.
First thing he's done all night, ahem.
We've got in their heads now.
Game over.
Thy kingdom come
Heart in mouth
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One more goal and we sit on top of the ladder for at least a day...lol.
Thy will be done
Jack Martin's earned his keep.
3 votes - M. Voss.
No voice left
Da da da da da
Ton's up. Raise your bat Blues
We played 'em to a standstill! Well done boys, well done Vossy! 👍😎
Pretty damned good result