Autopsy 2024 Rd 6 Premiership Quarter Blue Blitz hands Giants their first loss

[RPCB]

Shame we can’t say we are 6-0 but I will take 5-1 at this stage. Not our best performances as it wasn’t a 4 quarter effort but from halfway through the 3rd to FT, they played some amazing football.

 

[T2B_]

Weirdly I feel we might still grind a win

Well I was right... But also wrong! That was no grind, we went blitzo!

 

[Accidental genius]

Now that's how we played last season - our mojo is back

 

[Dunna Heartknee]

Really like Cowan super cool under pressure.
Cripps awesome.
Great team performance as a whole won this one.

 

[Arr0w]

Cottrell, did a number on Whitfield

Cotts is a lock

 

[Blue since 72]

Awesome win, well played all.

The players proved so many opinions incorrect today including some of my own.

 

[slashin_velvet]

Boyd had a great game, Young really held up well against Hogan and some fantastic glimpses from Carroll.

Cripps just a monster, and good on Pitto for such a good game after a lot of criticism on the 2 ruck structure.

 

[Arr0w]

Hollands needs to be dropped? Nah, too much heart

 

[athensblue]

Zac walking ok

 

[Bostonian]

We can't play like we did for the first 2 1/2 quarters every week and get away with it.

Hope when they watch the video of the game it sinks in what changed the game around.

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Awesome win to kick through them the way we did. Brilliant in close, pressure was amazing after 1/2 time.

Loaded with talent & belief.

Huge.

 

[BlueGum]

After the sack Voss s**t of last year I no longer trust the footy judgement of so many people on here. And get to enjoy the grit and skill of this footy team...without the disaster BS.

Go baggers. Great win.

 

[Osc1]

Cottrell, did a number on Whitfield

Cotts is a lock

8 score involvements. I think he knows where to position himself well on the ground.

 

[Arr0w]

System over personnel

 

[Cringle]

I wouldn’t be dropping Cowan anytime soon.

Love his cleanness and strength.

Big penetrating kick. Nice tan skin. Huge d***.

 

[Gethelred]

I gave us no chance midweek. Their firepower through the middle and up forward were going to blast us apart; their defense, even short Taylor, were going to be too strong given that we don't know the meaning of the phrase, 'lower the eyes'. We were going to get done around and behind the ball, and it wasn't going to be pretty.

Well now.

I'd argue that the coaching staff sticking with Ollie Hollands have been vindicated, only a lot. The impetus prior to today was clearly to improve our turnover game; see how easily we flicked the switch over to a clearance dominance game? That was brutal, an evisceration of an opposition who simply could not go where we went; they felt fear today, Tom Green

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Tom Green

Age

23

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

4star

CL

2.8

4star

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

3star

CL

2.8

4star

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

4star

CL

2.8

5star

and the Giants mids. They saw our brutes coming, and they chose to knock the ball away rather than take the ball; content to be second to the ball, to feel fear rather than to confront it. When our pressure rises, we're terrifying. There was no stopping us today; they couldn't get the ball, and when they got it they could not retain possession.

Patrick Cripps

9

Patrick Cripps

Age

29

Ht

195cm

Wt

93kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

16.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

5.8

5star

CL

7.4

5star

D

21.0

5star

K

10.1

4star

HB

10.9

5star

M

2.5

3star

T

3.8

4star

CL

6.3

5star

D

12.6

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.4

4star

, that was Judd like. You've never chosen your moment quite like that before; you've been high, you've carried the team on your back before, but today you genuinely felt the occasion upon you, like an epiphany from above. You rose, and from where you stand few share the space with you.

I'm going to rewatch it tomorrow, when the feeling has gone from me. I don't have it in me to analyse at the moment.

Carn, the Blues!

 

[Beyond Blue]

Best win we’ve had since….wait for it…wait for it…5 weeks ago against Brisbane!!!

Third quarter was like pr0n.

 

[Blue_Fusion]

So much for not being able to score big against top teams...

 

[athensblue]

Matty Kreuzer in background looks like he could still play

 

[CCurnow3votes]

We can't play like we did for the first 2 1/2 quarters every week and get away with it.

Hope when they watch the video of the game it sinks in what changed the game around.

Yep, let’s complain about the first 2 1/2 quarters - you may be missing the point.

 

[xDQ82x]

Wow... Just wow.

I think it changed my view... I was against the two rucks... I don't think I am any more.

Two things:

1. Sam "*ing" Walsh
2. Pitto, anyone who said he shouldn't be in the side. Was huge tonight.

 

[Loose at HB]

I don’t have kids yet but when I do I may be naming my first two Patrick and Sam

 

[bigm386]

So many stood up today.

We honestly could have won by a lot more if we capitalised Infront of goal.

But a huge win with challenging circumstances.

 

[Ahuitzotl]

What a great win!! Well done, boys!

 

[Stig O'Hara]

That’s as fulfilling a win as we’ve had lately.

We’re a top side now & we were challenged today.

We were down on personnel & early in the 2nd we were right up against it.

But geez, we showed a bit of ticker & rolled a contender good & proper.

Could not be happier.