Like last week, getting information about who is going to play tomorrow is not easy. I understand that we've taken a 'squad' to the Gold Coast and that they've already arrived in Queensland, but how many and who ... different tale.
The Gold Coast are also unbeaten at this point.
Mirkov barely spent 1/2 the 1st-Qtr on the ground, we ended up rucking JGM!
I'm all for female umpires, but FFS, let the boundary umpires come in 10m or 15m to throw it in, it's crazy at a stoppage besides the behind post to have a female umpire with a short throw in.
Can't see Boyd holding Stocker out of the team for much longer!
Shortage of umpires Australia wide.
Yep, suburban and amateurs have taken to playing games into the night so that senior umpires can double up with a daytime and evening game and get a rest in-between. It's a serious situation.
But let's not make the job of those who do harder just for the sake of tradition, let the boundary umpires come in a few steps if they want to so that we at least get the pill in a reasonable distance from the boundary line.
Glass-McCasker has been sharing the ruck duties with Mirkov. He's handy and gives a contest.
Our fill ins are starting to struggle a bit, we are losing a bit of run and carry around the football.
We burnt 2 or 3 opportunities that 3rd-Qtr that really should have been easy goals.
Has Dow been injured or have we pulled him out early?
A few of these VFL listed boys have been looking very good in all games this year.
Didn’t play q4 either.
No late AFL changes. Maybe an injury or precaution?
Cotterell did has chances for a call up no harm. Sealed it in q4 with 2 goals I think
Stocker looked very comfortable. His stats a bit skewed due to kick in duties against a team unable to kick straight today.
After being challenged in q3, 5.5 in q4 is a convincing result. Hope our seniors can do that when the pressure mounts late in games
Really like Xavier M.'s game. Certainly putting his hand up for that mid year spot on our list.
Stocker a stand-out as well.
Dow dominant but still something missing in his game. Looks like he's inured or managed as he didn't play the final qtr.
Mirkov coming along nicely, but still needs plenty of Magoos' time. Impressed with is his disposal by hand and foot.
Cottrell was good until the final qtr, when he was brilliant!
Newnes gets plenty of the aggot but decisions and disposal are only okay.
Love how the seconds game is so consistent with the firsts.
Parks is close. Great attitude and second efforts. Disposal by foot needs work.
Good to see JGM getting amongst it. Good seconds player ;)
Crocker has adjusted to the new game plan nicely. Robbed of a late goal by JGM's fumble on the goal line.
Great effort from the boys. Top of the VFL table at the moment.
Looking forward to getting along to a seconds game soon... Up for a pie fest Ye Rat O' The River?
Dow: 23 possessions and 7 clearances and didn't play the full game.
Cottrell: 20 Possessions and 2 goals.
Newnes: 28 possessions
All good signs, but it was the VFL boys who really stood up today:
David Handley: 25 possessions, 5 tackles and 5 clearances: his first game for the year.
Zavier Maher: 28 possessions, 6 tackles and 3 clearances
Joel Trudgeon: 25 possessions, 5 tackles and 5 clearances
Cooper Stephens: 24 possessions
Ned Cahill: 20 possessions and 6 tackles
Ben Crocker: 20 possessions and 4 goals
This is very good!
Dow for Crippa next week...
Very probably. Wonder if he can reproduce his VFL form?
I know Mirkov is very raw, but if Pittonet misses again, we should strongly consider playing Mirkov. He might not be the answer yet, but he doesn't get shorter as the game goes on. Not many 6 foot 10 inch players can move or jump like he can.
Tend to agree Crash. Silvagni relieving in the ruck just doesn't fill me with confidence and to tell you the truth it seemed to impact his game today. Great game last week and putrid today.
Silvagni did better than expected.
IMO TDK did worse.
He looked out on his feet. He blew up. He hasn't had to cover that much ground in a long time and he struggled.
I'd be more hopeful of Omac or Gov coming back and trying Young in there before going all in on Mirkov
Silvagni busted his @rse again but it robbed us of his forward half pressure IMO.
I'm surprised Young wasn't given a run in the ruck in the second half. When Chol went into the ruck he could've gone with him.....Witts usually goes off the ground anyway.
Yep, imo it was a waste and a mistake to put SOS into the ruck. We really missed him forward. We also had Kennedy tagging which he is not suited to and robbed us of ball winning ability.
Couldnt agree more, not for the first time poor selection and tactics have cost us, add in the fact we did feck all scouting on some of their players didnt help either. How does a player like Rosas kick 3 goals without an opponent....I'd be dropping that slack ar$e who ever it is and teaching them the basics of minding a man.
They named Fogarty as the Follower in the official team when Pitto pulled out, I thought it was funny at the time. They may as well have played Fog there in the end. Very poor team selection, like many of the players, I think the MC thought we would just turn up and collect 4 pts. I prayed they wouldn't take the GC lightly, they did just that.