Game Day North Melbourne vs Adelaide - NAB Cup 1 (STREAMS CAN COME TRUE!)

[Kangaroos4eva]

Positives: North! New recruits played well. Wells...I'm gobsmacked. Really impressed with Maj.

Negatives: Warren, McMahon, Tarrant (early days but pulling out of a contest...come on) and IUB (poor poor form. Didn't think you were a troll. I know now).

I had suspicions about iub.

 

[tazaa]

For the first time in my existence on BF, as an adult and even including my teenage years- suffering a loss has not lowered my mood one bit.
We made a prelim last year. September is what matters.
Wins and form this time of year mean nothing.

Waite hit the post twice, kicked 3 and was robbed of 1 early on.
Higgins was damaging should also have had 6.
Wells was on fire in the 1st half classy as usual.
Boomer looks even leaner.
Majak looked like he belonged believe it or not. Did some nice things.

The only negatives is Max Warren failed to impress. As did Bastinac. Lets have a big month and catch up to the rest of the comp (Y)

 

[IschenkoUBeauty]

Positives: North! New recruits played well. Wells...I'm gobsmacked. Really impressed with Maj.

Negatives: Warren, McMahon, Tarrant (early days but pulling out of a contest...come on) and IUB (poor poor form. Didn't think you were a troll. I know now).

Unfair post and I've moved on. Not allowed to be upset over sloppy footy obviously.

 

[Higgins2Waite]

Unfair post and I've moved on. Not allowed to be upset over sloppy footy obviously.

There's upset and then there's threatening membership and other over the top comments. A meltdown of nuclear proportions. It was shades of Jozeph no question.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

To be fair that was Josh Jenkins - who is an absolute monster - and he was running at full steam with a don't argue chucked in for good measure. It wasn't an easy tackle to make for a guy that was significantly smaller than Jenkins.

Fair enough. Probably a bad call by me.

 

[IschenkoUBeauty]

There's upset and then there's threatening membership and other over the top comments. A meltdown of nuclear proportions. It was shades of Jozeph no question.

Why bloody pick me out? I wasn't the only one pissed off earlier today and posting displeasure. Jesus christ.

 

[Higgins2Waite]

Why bloody pick me out? I wasn't the only one pissed off earlier today and posting displeasure. Jesus christ.

Because you were doing it to get a rise out of posters. It was clear as day.

Anyway time to stop holding up the thread.

Premiers gents...i can feel it!

 

[Egga]

My favourite part of the game was when we had Turner, Thomas and Boomer at the center bounce. Clearly Brad was trying to intimidate the opposition with some big bodies.

 

[ozzyoslo]

Didn't catch the game, did Dumont play and if so how did he fair?

Nothing that screams for him to be rushed permanently into the best 22.

 

[ozzyoslo]

Give us 5 minutes and we'll win this. Adelaide are spent.

There's no doubt we're fitter !!, final quarter specialists again !!

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Higgins could well be a very very huge acquisition! He looks so smooth! I think he appreciates having a bit more space provided from our inside ball winners!

 

[kangaspurs]

Fair enough. Probably a bad call by me.

Not a terrible call. It would have been a very difficult tackle to stick but there was still a lack of intensity in his effort.

 

[Jasemon]

Very happy with the performance of the team today overall. Not surprising that a number of the teams that pushed deep into the finals last year are starting a bit slower (e.g. Hawthorn, North, Geelong) but we came back strongly and again showed that we're a team with great fitness and stamina. As Brad said it was our first competitive match this pre-season and you could see with Waite and Higgins that yeah, they'd had an extra month to fine tune their games. A lot of cobwebs today but obviously to be expected.

Re: Waite and Higgins. Wow!! On first indications our recruiting department have done it again, after the coup of picking up Dal Santo the year before. Both of them were brilliant. They don't have to be that great every week but it means that Waite will take the best defender more weeks than not, and Higgins will also demand one of the oppositions better players to man him up. He has silk and can hit the scoreboard. Yes we'll miss Greenwood's inside but Higgins is going to give us something we didn't have.

Other players that really impressed me today I touched on at half time. Majak (powerful performance) was one of his best games and adds to our depth. Wells was BOG until we subbed him out. Boomer keeps on keeping on. Turner was a brute and shows he also has class. That possession a number of people have already referred to where he scooped the ball up and spun around in one motion to handball 10 metres to a running Higgins, who did not have to break stride and run into an open goal was crazy stuff (I'm also jumping on the Rising Star bandwagon and I don't even gamble). I thought Currie did some good things early on. I though Jacobs was fantastic and has definitely taken a step forward. Ziebell and Cunnington moving onwards and upwards and show that we are definitely a team that collectively knows it needs to get better across every line.

Yes there were some negatives and a lot of people have already spoken widely about these. Obviously our back line is a worry but as Scotty said, arguably our entire best starting back 6 weren't available today, although I'm thinking that Tippett, Atley, McDonald and McMillan will be integral as the year goes on. The last three will rotate in the midfield at various times I'm thinking but overall our Defensive half is still our biggest challenge selection wise before Round 1. The other serious issue is how we stop Eddie Betts, however I'm thinking that one poster's theory that Brad was doing a bit of Rope-A-Dope today was on the money when you consider we were playing Max Warren on him for a fair chunk of the game.

As I said though, overall, a fantastic result and it looks like we came out unscathed with no injuries. Bring on the next round!!!! Gracias

 

[GarnerSmash]

Why bloody pick me out? I wasn't the only one pissed off earlier today and posting displeasure. Jesus christ.

You went a wee bit OTT mate with the membership threats and all. It's fine to be invested but those kind of calls in the first praccy match of the year will draw the ire of others around here. Save 'em till we are 6 goals down at half time against the tiggers.

 

[Flawed Genius]

And even if you are legitimately devastated we're not winning the Port Lincoln Classic, it's important to pace oneself.

You have to keep some of your better threats in the cupboard for later. Don't just come straight out with the "I'm cancelling my membership", maybe drop some lesser stuff in there. "McKenzie couldn't kick over a jam tin", "I'm going outside to give the cat a rib tickler", etc.

 

[ozzyoslo]

You went a wee bit OTT mate with the membership threats and all. It's fine to be invested but those kind of calls in the first piracy match of the year will draw the ire of others around here. Save 'em till we are 6 goals down at half time against the tiggers.

Jmac and Ats are getting arouse with those comments BT...... Great to see we have more depth but its early days, looking forward to Sammy Wright playing the next pirate match. I hate those autofill things.

 

[GarnerSmash]

Jmac and Ats are getting arouse with those comments BT...... Great to see we have more depth but its early days, looking forward to Sammy Wright playing the next pirate match. I hate those autofill things.

Damn auto correct

 

[ozzyoslo]

Higgins could well be a very very huge acquisition! He looks so smooth! I think he appreciates having a bit more space provided from our inside ball winners!

S Saunders will earn his money this year with Waite and Higgins I'm tipping..........I just hope he is teaching a small group of deciples down @ Aegis Park.

 

[IschenkoUBeauty]

No IUB when we are playing well...it's jozeph

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here was on at 6:30. Enough of the conspiracy theories and throwing shit at me. ****.

 

[Deep We11s 1]

3 Wells
2 Higgins
1 Daw

Rd 1

B Atley, Tippett, Firitto
HB McDonald, Thompson, Wright
C Dal Santo, Swallow, Higgins
R Goldstein, Wells, Cunnington
HF Harvey, Waite, Black
F Thomas, Petrie, Ziebell
IC Gibson, Turner, Daw, Macmillan
E Adams, Bastinac, Tarrant
Wood, Jacobs, Dumont, Brown

 

[ozzyoslo]

Doubt you will be seeing too much of Nahas

He was terrific last year b4 the injury.......good enough to be invited back. Im a big fan of LT but if he appears to start slowly the temperature will be screwed up a little. Whatever direction the club's sways in deciding the team its a great position to be in with many vying to play.

 

[Jay-Z]

He was terrific last year b4 the injury.......good enough to be invited back.

Agree

Im a big fan of LT but if he appears to start slowly the temperature will be screwed up a little. Whatever direction the club's sways in deciding the team its a great position to be in with many vying to play.

Completely disagree, LT is a locked as they come. If Nahas wants a spot he's gonna have to take the sub role or win a fight (not a **** fight) with Turner

 

[Harris 10]

Positives:
How good was our ability to lock the ball in our forward 1/2 in the last qtr.
Turner, Wells, Higgins, Waite
Tarrant, Tippett, JMac all getting full games.
No injuries.
We won't see Warren play in R1.
Maj has gone past Currie as2nd ruck.

 

[nicko74]

Did Tippett play today? If so, how did he go? Did Tarrant look lost down back? I believe Daw looked good. That is good to hear. What about Currie? Sorry for all the questions

 

[kangaspurs]

He was terrific last year b4 the injury.......good enough to be invited back. Im a big fan of LT but if he appears to start slowly the temperature will be screwed up a little. Whatever direction the club's sways in deciding the team its a great position to be in with many vying to play.

Wouldn't worry about Lindsay. He usually comes good when the real stuff starts.