A 19:40 start on a night that promises to be cold.
Barely touched the ball yet. :( Wanganeen-Milera 7 possessions in less than 10 minutes.
weak as piss.
Lacklustre poor de to start q1
Doesn't impress one bit.
Need to lift. Now. Before it feeds the mindset
First 2 goals for 2 smalls of the saints.
Now mark to Harry.
Script on point so far.
Harry! About time!
Binns was always going to take a shot then.
Poor first effort.
Me me me.
Team first or f*** off back to the 2's son.
Panicked dump kick out of defence by ?
We never learn
Better effort
Binns: 6 possessions and 1 goal.
Charlie! 2 ion 2 minutes!
What happened to McG?
Vintage Curnow. His movement looks pretty good. Not hampered as far as I can tell.
Charlie is the only bloke that can make a 60m goal look like a toe poke from the goal square.
Some say he's overrated. lol
Better intensity
Finish it off boys
Looks like he got whacked in the jaw.
Doesn't do it enough Kruddler...that's the issue
How bad is McGovern? Concussion?
Have you seen how our mids kick to our forwards?
When was the last time you saw a nice easy mark on the lead from Charlie?
He's always pulling off a miracle grab, or crumb and has to work extra hard to get it.
Lets make it easy for him. Give him half a chance and he'll win more than his fair share.
Jaxon Binns: 2 goals, 7 possessions!
Last goal overturned?
Most likely.
Held his jaw/throat before he hit the deck, but i'm tipping he's done.
Too soon.
Touched on the line
Another week, another 1st qtr injury, another score review, more leaked goals from the goal square.
Charlie doesn't help himself K, needs to get on his bike more.
Spends too much time trying to wrestle his opponent
Acres back to his old ways this year. Kicking is average.
A 3 point lead. 3 of the top 4 possession getters are St. Kilda: Wanganeen-Milera, Byrnes & Sinclair. Do we pick these guys up? Doesn't look like it to me!
I reckon his km's will surprise many. He's on his bike too much. We can't kick to his advantage!
Curnow is the least of our problems. In fact he’s not a problem at all. Put him on the market and watch 17 teams fall over themselves.
afl.com.au has no idea. It hasn't fixed up the Binns non-goal yet and it think St. Kilda were in front at 1/4 time.
Charlie has 3.
Disposal efficiency is very poor; still in the 60's.
Curnow finally got a decent kick on the lead and an easy mark and goal, thanks SOJ.
Can we clone silvagni?
Our mids getting into the game:
George 11 possessions.
Cripps 9 possessions.
Walsh 7 possessions.
Adam Cerra 10, with 4 clearances.
We should be 5 goals up. Wasting forward entries
Nothing new there, alas. :(
A big arm wrestle between MC strategies.
We went big....
5 goals to bigs between Harry, Young and Charlie.
1 goals to smalls - bins
Need to keep that up.
Will White!
Now 2 goals to the smalls.
St Kilda have the top 3 possessions getters, but we have the next 8!
We've had 13 scoring shots.
They've had 4.....and only 14 inside 50's for the game
Prepare for the flood gates to open.
5 goals straight. If only we can kick like that!
2 quick goals to them. :(
Sheriff done his shoulder again.
2 goals to Lewis Young.
An ongoing weakness
Goalkicking 🫣
Cowan down in the rooms now
=career high
Got 2 against dogs in R4 this year
McGovern subbed out injured.
Cowan down in the rooms
Acres down in the rooms
Haynes now off looking very sore.
But injuries are just an excuse. ::)
3 injuries before half time 😫
14 points up at 1/2 time. Better than being behind.
Injuries: why us?
Any chance we get through more than a half without injuries?
What happens if 4 go out injured?
No interchange???
The Haynes one looks like that errant foot has left his neck very sore...holding it as he came off at half time.
We've used the sub, so 3 injuries from the 22.
Acres has been patched up and its 'only' a shoulder, so he'll be forced to play out the game....and the year, like every other year, with a dodgy shoulder.
Haynes may be ok, holding his neck, so hopefully its just some contact, rather than structural.
Cowan is an unknown. Disappeared down the rooms, no replay, no talk about it until he was down there for 4 minutes.....when someone told them off mike. So bit of a mystery.
This is an extremely frustrating match to watch, don't think any neutral supporters would even bother.
Not much so far from Motlop (2 possessions), Young (2 possessions, but both goals!), Corey Durdin (3 disposals), Lord (3 disposals), Mitch McGovern (3 possessions) and Will White (4 possessions). :(
Update on injuries.
McGovern gone to hospital, trouble breathing.
Acres, shoulder strapped, back out there.
Haynes, may miss with concussion
Cowan, grabbing back of left leg....hasn't come out of rooms yet. (Hamstring??)
4 Injuries in a game, lets go for last years world record of 7 against Haw and go for 8 shall we? FFS you cant make this crap up.
Well we can overstep the interchange limit can we, that's a positive isn't it.
Its a farken sick joke is what it is.
Yep.....mostly backline players with Acres the exception......but also very important to our backline with his defensive running and last line heroics.
Cowan missed the last 9 minutes of that quarter and to still be in the rooms some 15 minutes after going off the ground, you'd think he's done for a few weeks.
So disappointing, because both McGovern and Haynes were giving us plenty from the backline.
Silvagni copped a bit of a corky at one stage but looked to shake it off.
Suddenly that tall timber doesn't look so tall.
If Haynes can't continue Young might have to go back.
Sack the fitness guy.
St Kilda picking up their game. Our possessions are going nowhere. They now have 5 of the top 6 possession getters. :( :(
Cowan officially out with hamstring
For the 2nd week in a row Saad has copped one in the 'lower abdomen' area and is going off the ground.
We'll run.out of puff with a lack of interchange. Be a good win if we get.out of it.
A repeat injury. Didn't Cowan just come back from a hamstring?
There's an avalanche of goals coming.
Haynes is back on. Looks to have done his 20min concussion protocol and passed.
Looking very ominous
So we have someone on the bench. Thank God for that!
Am I on a Fawlty Towers site?
They just want it more at the moment.
8 marks to Jack Silvagni.
6 of the top 8 possessions getters are now Saints. :(
We haven't scored for about 30 minutes of game time....about exactly when those injuries hit.
Any thoughts on the ruck battle to date ?
Almost an entire 30 minutes.
We finally score, 31 minutes later.
Hitouts the same.
De Koning has 6 clearances and is 2nd in disposals for Carlton (17 currently), but has 40% DE and is helping them as much as us with the ball in hand. MIssed a shot on goal
Marshall has only had it 10 times, but has had 2 shots on goal (2 misses) and a couple clearances himself and going at 60% DE
Currently being played like a typical st kilda game.
Scrums. No space.
Ugly
Our 2nd point for the quarter.
I think the Weitering Haynes Silvagni combo is a good one. Good to see Harry finding his touch, apart from that shank.
H! At last!
First goal in basically a quarter and a half and it came from a free kick in the goal square.
Another week off for Mrs Saad… 😎
Young gone back to defence, perhaps like a charlie - late in the quarter - but came up with a good spoil.
What does Motlop give us?
Oh well, we didn't lose that qtr, that's a positive right?
14 point lead at 3/4 time. Better than the alternative.
George has 21 possessions.
Binns has 20. Sam Walsh has 17, as does Tom de Koning.
St Kilda still have Wanganeen Milera and Sinclair as the top 2 possessions getters on the ground. :( :( :(
We just do not help each other - no shepherding, no kicking to advantage just difficult play.
Frustrating game to watch.
A scramble fest. Looks like a raffle after that qtr.
Typical Ross Lyon coached game. Ugly.
I don't think we have the troops to try and break it open, so might have to grind it out.
Jesse Motlop: 3 possessions. :(
Corey Durdin: 5 possessions. :(
Will White: 5 possessions. :(
Frankie Evans: 6 possessions and 4 tackles.
Not enough! Not nearly enough!
Higgins subbed out.
Thats handy and works in our favour.
Collard on.
Someone pick up Wanganeen-Milera and squash the bugger!
Repeat stoppages would suit us I think.
Bad miss Holland. Needed that and now Saints strike.
That's as embarrassing as I have ever seen.
And squash Sinclair while you're at it!
We need to get it through the big sticks!
Another missed chance by Durdin
They just know they are going to win, our blokes know they are going to lose. You can see it on there faces.
Next goal wins i reckon
And they don't miss. :(
Stupidity gives them another!
9 minutes to go. 3pts up.
Who stands up?
Oh Lord!
One goal to us in a half of football. Not good enough.
Cooper Lord stands up !
Thanks to the Lord
God we needed that goal!
That's 1 for the Lord as sub. Let's see the 2nd young man
Evans might be able to tackle, but he is very slow to react with ball in hand
TDK looks cooked.
.....and not worth 1.7mil
Unfair, he's busted his balls tonight
Charlie needs to do something.
They still have more guys getting more of the ball.
charlie has no heart. good early on but when he needs to push hard just doesn't work hard enough.
Never said he hasn't. Just that he's hit a brick wall and looks cooked.
....and hasn't influenced the game like you hope he would with that price tag on him.
Whats unfair about that?
3min
Keep possession
Durdin has to kick them!
H! At last!
We have been VERY good at clock management tonight.
Still should finish in front of goal, but at least we are giving ourselv every chance.
Harry goes BANG.
Game over.
Bang
Needed that 🙌
Inconsistent. Like much of our season
30 seconds
Fantastic, gutsy, gritty effort and a very absorbing contest IMO.
Fantastic to grind out a win against the odds and the gods (footy)
That has us sitting in 9th % out of the 8 from GWS.
With most of the round to play, e could end up down to 11th if results go against us.
We play GWS next week which is an 8-point game and could get us into the 8 with a win.
The internet can be a cruel place sometimes.
Managed to win a real scramble but a win’s a win I suppose.
To lose the players in game that we did, changed the game.
To be able to close it out was good.
On to next week.
Yes! We beat the damned 'Aints. They've had the wood over us.
But, what AN ORDINARY SPECTACLE! 3 goals each after half time!
Big last quarter by Cripps!
Charlie & H : 3 goals each.
Hewett: 26 possessions, 4 tackles and 6 clearances.
Cripps: 26 possessions, 10 tackles (!!!) and 8 clearances.
Jack Silvagni: 17 possessions and 11 marks.
Jacob Weitering: 19 possessions and 14 marks!
H: 19 possessions and 10 marks, with 3 goals! A big last half!
Swans in Sydney next week. Another tough assignment.
Sometimes we make it crueler than it needs to be…
The Jekyll and Hyde form continues, all we need to do is win.
The season is not dead yet.
They had more tackles than we did, but some of ours had huge tackling games.
125 contested possessions to 108!
OK, guys, time to go the post game thread.
IF GWS lose to Cats by enough, we may end up in the 8!