An ugly win to see us go 3-0..... you gotta win those games and we did. I thought it'd be a bit more comfortable, but Melbourne tightened the game up, as did the conditions. There'll be some sore boys tomorrow!
Good:
Now lets get this game out of our heads, we got the W, we're 3-0. Now we move on!
Tough game next week against the Dogs away..... Will be interested to see how we pull up!
Have at it with your thoughts!
Good:
- MacKay's return to form. Hard at it, running goal. Can't ask much more! Double figure tackles!
- CEY. Those 2 goals were both excellent!
- Kelly's debut. A few hiccups, but was hard at it. Record amount of tackles for a debutant!
- Tex kicking a few, even though he was held well by McDonald
- Howe's speccy was pretty good, but MacKay's courageous mark was better
- Thommo got a ton of the ball and his chase down in Q1 of JKH was epic!
- Our midfield spread out of the centre seemed to be lacking compared to the previous 2 weeks. No doubt Roos would've put a lot of time into it, but it really hurt us not getting clear centre breaks and not being able to get it out to a player on the wing
- We got smashed in contested ball and ground ball
- JJ playing like a marshmallow
- The umpiring was pretty meh. Lots of contentiousness and no protection for Danger
- Lack of intensity by us to start the game was poor. We've been on fire in the previous 2 games first half, but today was very average
- Betts struggled again today. Jetta seems to have him covered every game
- Danger falling back into bad habits after a good 2 weeks being a bit more open
- Melbourne only scored goals due to our turnovers..... (at least 41 points came from our turnovers)
- Paul Roos coaching style. It's worked for him. Once. But Melbourne were attacking in round 1 and got a massive win, kicking over 100 points for the first time under his tenure, then the first half last week, they were on track again. They get smashed in the 2nd half last week to lose by a ton and they come out playing the man and being all dour and defensive again. Note to Roos, you'll need to kick goals to win games!
- Vince's attack on Danger. Can't believe he didn't give away more frees. Was an ugly game against his old side. Sure it worked, but if you're gonna play that way, you aint gonna win much
- Some of our switches across the ground were just dumb. Hartigan and Cameron the worst 2, with some shocking kicks, but they were trying to be too cute in those conditions
- The conditions
Now lets get this game out of our heads, we got the W, we're 3-0. Now we move on!
Tough game next week against the Dogs away..... Will be interested to see how we pull up!
Have at it with your thoughts!