I'll be at this one, hoping for the best. Enjoy!
Said it in the pre-game., but boyds kicking have been a HUGE disappointment so far this season.
First touch, a dinky 15m kick sideways misses the target by 2m and turnover.
Twin towers working brilliantly early.
Wonder if TDK can get in on the action too?
Boyds 2nd touch....lack of pace/agility/ability.....holding the ball.
He is a liabilty.
Should've gone with Martin and use Boyd as the sub.
Curnow's going beserk. And a classic mark from Silvagni. A really pretty mark, back arching and off the ground.
Last time we see boyd for a while
Marking all round the ground has been awesome.
Harry, Charlie, Jack, Cripps, Kennedy all taking big marks in big moments.
What a difference an off-season and some fit players makes!
Durdin the magician has pulled CJ's pants down. The smalls are making their opponents pay the price for dropping back in front of our talls. And our talls are forcing them to make that choice.
I didn't mind Doc handballing that off to Boyd then. He could've kicked it himself, but trying to bring a struggling teammate into the game and give him his first goal.
Now, it didn't come off, but we see the length he has on his kick. Just needs to work on the accuracy.
Williams errors hurting us atm...
Get Plowman off Breust now!
Setters is having a good game.
We dominated the first quarter - Got up by 6 goals.
They dominated the second quarter - Only pulled it back to 5 goals.
Great quarter by the team to withstand the hawks and limit it to 1 goal difference.
We are growing as a team, and being able to pull together and switch gears at the drop of the hat to suit the situation.
This is a much more mature side.
More maturity and a heavy Voss stamp on mental focus. Between the ears. Backing strengths and being fully accountable.
Settlefield missed an easy 20 min pass to Walsh to kick a steadier. Game on now.
Need to dig deep in the last. The game isn’t in the bag yet. I saw this coming as the Hawks are a quality side and can shift momentum at will. Time for our leaders to lift the whole playing group.
Radio spectator today
Sounds like we dominated for a quarter or so and the Hawks have wrestled back momentum.
What will Vossy do at 3/4 break. He won’t want a repeat of q4 Dogs💪
Back to winning the contest
Go blues
Big quarter coming up. We've played one good quarter and this last one is a game breaker.
The hawks are plucky and also have good system but nothing flash IMHO.
Boyd costing us the game big time. Hes not up to it.
Vossys nightmare unfolds😳
Voss has no answers. CJ ripped us off half back no plan to stop him.
Now the hype around us will vanish as the core issues are exposed... good, now Vossy & co. can see our problems clearly. Pressure applied and we went into our shells. Non-hackers out there, exposed.
Must keep up the pressure
My nerves are shot. Thank god Silvagni.
Honeymoon is over. Now the work begins.
Important 5mins
Revive me as I think I died.
🥳🥳🥳
Composed Weiters 🤩
Without Doc, we would have been finished. Is he a gem or what? Weitering too.
Hard to know what to make out of that. Brilliant first qtr, god damn awful for 2 3/4 qtrs then lifted when it mattered.
3-0
First time since 2012 according to Murph the commentator
Winning ugly = good team.
For all the complaints of lesser lights lacking composure or being wayward with kicks under pressure, Doc had a couple of moments he'd rather forget in the last 5 minutes. And he's a hardened player who's usually reliable. Mistakes are made by even the best.
And the lesser lights can have big moments. For instance, Boyd (IIRC) got the ball at CHB and rather than hacking the ball forward under great pressure in the dying minutes, he screwed it around sideways towards the boundary where we had a couple of spare men who cleaned it up. If Weitering did that, we'd say it was classic Weitering.
“When it matters”
That is all.
Yep. To be able to see thru games like that bodes well for us. I will take some time to recover though - phew!!
Not sure if it was Boyd or not, but if it was, that makes 1 good thing he did for the game. IF.
Docherty, and some others, made some silly mistakes throughout the game too, but they also did plenty of good things throughout the game. Can't say that for Boyd.
Funny little sidelight to our win. We subbed out Pittonet at the end of the match which allowed a fresh Martin to come on. He almost took a mark deep in F50 in the last couple of minutes which would have highlighted the switch but it wasn't to be.
My bad ... it wasn't Boyd who kicked laterally to save the day, it was Sam Walsh with 2.25 left on the clock. Classic Sam Walsh!
That long break I assumed would see us fit and raring to go for the full game. Don't think it did us any favours, aided no end by some ordinary performances. Jack and Jacob brilliant.
You think your day was bad, my Kayo stream kept buffering and at the start of the 3Q they started with a replay of the opening Q !
My stream ended in the last Q with us a point behind, the match had finished and that’s how far behind I was watching “live” !
Started streaming the replay and watched the last 20 mins to see us over the line !!
Frustrating when you’re paying for something not being delivered. Particularly when it was so close.
You can relax and celebrate now 🎉
I've had some issues with Kayo over the journey.
The 1 way i've found to solve all those problems.....scroll down past all the shows to the channels at the bottom. Put it in 504 and be done with it.
Never has buffering issues, or resets the stream or any of that.
Try it next time, will always be live too. ;)
I solved the problem by getting Fox
Will do, thanks for the tip.
Interestingly, the replay didn’t buffer but the picture quality wasn’t too flash.