Not looking forward to this one, but I'll be there!
Another toss won by Crippa haven't seen him lose one
Bad Carlton has turned up tonight. High loopy kicks gives the oppo time to intercept. Also very little pressure being applied.
This is gonna get ugly.
We look farken stupid aerially thus far.
Opposition skill increases.
Carltons ability decreases.
Coincidence?
Seems to be tracking that way for the last 4 weeks pretty accurately.
Just not giving us free space but when they did unfortunately we made some stupid kicking errors and turned it over.
Feeling for F Young, poor kid has been put on a beast.
Hopefully we regroup.
Need to compete harder in the air. H, Gov all the talls at least bring the ball to the ground. H looks like a farkin bendy man that you see at the car yards!
Kicking kicking kicking. Turn it over against this mob and you pay.
You mean Lachie Plowman (is what he looks like)
Boys vs Men.
You mean a whacky waving, inflatable arm flailing tube man?
I memorised that from family guy.
https://youtu.be/rHXvMcLrLSY?si=zfA_nwtW_tSRnYNx
Watching Kayo
All they talk about is Geelong, even my wife picked this up.
Are we making a concerted effort to have Jagga killed or crippled (the way we are kicking it to him)?
Watching Kayo
All they talk about is Geelong, even my wife picked this up.
Gov pounced.
Love technology
Flynn Young goes bang.
Here we come !
The Bison
Happy they gave the free to Ison, rather than to Kemp based off recent shots on goal.
We should swap our forwards with our backs.
Our forwards could learn something from how well their forwards lead and find space. Very hard to defend their leading patterns.
Farkin turnovers killing us..
We are literally handing these guys the game.
Interesting comments from Hawkins in the pre-game.
Talked about how Geelong changed their list to be more quick running to be in line with the modern game over the last couple years.
THAT is why we don't have a list manager because we did not do the same.
Can Kick versus Cant Kick. Simple as that.
Cats are transitioning end to end far too easily.
Agree. All about execution and speed of.
At least were trying and not going into our shells..
Fark acres
.....and Acres,......and Walsh.....right on queue
Fark Walsh
Frankie!
Smart play to...
1. Keep your feet
2. Thread the needle to Flynn.
Goal.
Nice pass !
I think Gov may have just dropped a car.
Flynn young
Was just thinking this. Crows commentators last week. Whately and Hudson this week - any danger of neutral callers?
Wonderful 2nd quarter by the boys. Scored from every one of our I50’s
4.9 fark
Since we were 8.0 last week we have kicked 9.23 since. We don't need that given who we are playing. This is the best side we'll play this year IMO.
Its unbelievable. They need to use the feed from Blues radio to square it up next week!
Same story all year. Dominating play but scoring is even. When they dominate we don't score.
It's one side we can't can't afford to kick poorly at goal against.
Cerra need this
Newmans kicking is a liability ATM
Back in it!
Got lucky there.
We had 3 options inside 50 and the kick was a hospital one that got Ison crunched.
Lucky the cats shat themselves from there, but we should've found a target.
Cerra just shat himself.
We simply cannot kick to our own teams advantage.
Biggest problem we've had over the last 2 years....we can't kick.
We really need to lose the habit of passing to a team mate under the hammer. Drives me nuts.
Acres couldn't run. Welcome back to the AFL.
Unlucky to not be infront. Fair enought, happy with the fight back and pressure in the second.
Yep. Should be 2-3 goals up
2 years? Closer to 20. We tend to Caltonise every good kick that comes to us....lol.
Covering mega territory the ol boy
And to farkin top.it off. Cam Mooney on the boundary !
Very level and unbiased - “And jezza flys,whoa”. Really?.
The Ch7 commentary team was full of praise for us in the 2nd.
Given how badly we're using the ball, it's an absolutely AMAZING 1st half. Imagine if we could improve on our 53% efficiency.
Probably put the mozz on them now.
Keep taking it on lads. Don’t let a couple of turnovers discourage you. Have looked good when running, supporting each other and using the first option
If I could change 2 or 3 things about the way we play:
1. Halve the height of our field kicks. If it means shortening the kick so be it.
2. EVERY player to a man MUST charge toward the man with the footy and apply pressure. No corralling, no easy disposals.
3. Stop HBing to player under immense pressure. Wear a tackle or Look for a kick instead.
This game is being played at a frenetic pace and a number of our players are not accustomed to that level of intensity resulting in marginal errors like missed handball targets etc.
Furthermore, our guys are taking the game on regardless of the circumstances which is not a bad thing but there has been some costs. Walsh has gone back to his old ways of trying to break through the first, second & third tackle and is getting caught instead of doing the team orientated and instinctive thing and dishing off the first handpass.
Acres looks a little underdone and fumbling beaue of the pace of the game too. McGovern, who has been reasonable in the past fortnight, is beng found out tonight against a much tighter & tougher opposition. I'm not a fan of Flynn Young at all but he's giving it a really fair go tonight, just a half a step off the pace of the game which is hurting.
We really had our chances in that quarter, the poor kicking for goal cost us dearly though.
Just can't put the cue in the rack in the second half, I'm not expecting us to win here but I definitely want to see us fight it out right to the end.
Our short passes are overhead marks, theirs are grass cutters.
One of my absolute pet hates, goddam run in and screwing floor the turd !!
I think once the game opens up more they will run over us.
Geez, when H is in the ruck or on the bench, there ain’t much to kick to in fwd 50. Kicking to kemp in a 2on 1 isn’t a recipe for success
Tend to agree. Our pace will likely fall away as the game goes on.
There's a start, we're winning.
I get why we dropped Hewett earlier.
I don't get why we didn't drop Cerra instead.
I think Geelong will be the best side we play all year. With 6 blokes under 12 games, which is a good thing for us longer term, but might sting us tonight. But that's ok.
Best, worst.....whatever. We match up well against them and i'd much rather play them than Brisbane or Sydney
I'm watching on 7 now, yes much better balanced
Guv picking a bad night to be inaccurate
Poor kicking for goal is bad football
Weitering looks so slow.
Kicking at goal isn't helping.
He conserves energy.
Doesn't exert himself if its for no benefit.
He's quick of mind, not quick across the ground.
That goal is from Harry.
Great ruck tap.
Followed up for a 1-2.
Followed up for a kick inside 50......but stopped the first option, took his time and went the best option.
Ended up in a goal.
I am loving the refusal to give in!
Kemp just shafted Byrne with the high 5's.
Byrne came running over, both hands raised for the high 5's, Kemp was looking at him coming in and just turned his back on him.
Harsh.
Party time up forward.
Same old story. Dominate and the scoring is even.
Whats up with Moo?
Whatever happens from here on in, it’s been a great effort so far. I saw a stat for the 2nd or the 3rd that our pressure was 253.
Great fightback, It feels like Geel will run over the top in the last.
Florent doing well nullifying Dangerfield. Haynes and Newman having mares.
Pressure of playing on Cameron for 120mins
No matter what happens, we’ll always have jack isons handball out of the pack for that Hayward goal
Yep we’re hanging in there. Thought they might have run away in that qtr.
Hayward has found his swagger tonight
Hayward and Florent getting better with each game.
Need a goal
I'm happy to go 0-0 from here...lol.
Whatever happens from here, i'm pretty sure everyone would've taken this had it been offered to us pre-game.
If the club really cared about its members, it would stop giving us heart attacks.
I can sense them doing it to us again.
How many posters!
Umpire should NOT have paid that deliberate with 3 minutes left
FFS
Cripps....able to leap tall buildings in a single bounce
....and kicks straight!
#$#$$%#$#%$#W@! Yeah!!!!
Unbelievable. Cats are officially our bitches
Fraser just lodged his application
As Cartman would say, “ah man, this is sweeet.”
Wonderful effort by all concerned.
Lets all go to the post match and bask in the glory