Beating the demons last week would have made it all a hell of a lot easier...
Autopsy Rd 17 Surging Blues beat Swans on their own turf
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Beating the demons last week would have made it all a hell of a lot easier...
If we manage to finish 15th (pick 4) and Adelaide finish where they currently are (pick 12), then we'd have traded pick 4 (2034 pts) for picks 12 and 19 (total 2216 pts), and on points have won the trade. A quality pick or trade with 12 and we'll be walking away laughing. Just gotta keep winning!
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I have a personal question regarding my future, B71.......
Was driving to a function with the handbrake and Daughter, handbrake was playing some game on her phone whilst me and #1 daughter were listening to the footy on the car wireless, siren sounds we both scream YEEESSSSSSS and the handbrake nearly jumps out the window.
Very funny stuff.
Very funny stuff.
I only got to watch the last 10 mins of the match and WOW what a nice surprise it was. Very happy for the whole team and coaching staff to pull off a great win. Finish the season strong blue boys and head into 2020 with a new confidence.
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Soooo happy with yesterdays game, obviously because we got a win but because it was a hard fought win. We outplayed the Swans all day but they didn't go away and kept pressing, i thought we really showed character and composure to keep ahead and win the game.
Ill say it every time i see it because i think its the basis for every good team/game, pressure, pressure, pressure. Our tackling and pressure yesterday was great, its infectious, builds pressure, creates doubt, doubt creates errors and errors allow for opportunity.
Playing well the past few weeks and winning yesterday with still Marchbank, Weits, Curnow, Doc, Willo, Cunners, Gov missing, gives me a lot of confidence going forward.
I really hope Cuningham is available next week, im not a fan of Lang in the side, David needs a good run to finish the year, as his body is holding him back currently.
A big shout out to Gibbons, he is slowly building his AFL game week by week, has good moments, goes missing, but he is finding ways to contribute in a role/position that is not his bread and butter, i think he will keep improving and hopefully as we get better, he will really start to play consistent football. A lot of clubs, us included will be thinking, how did we ignore this guy for so long.
Go Blues
Ill say it every time i see it because i think its the basis for every good team/game, pressure, pressure, pressure. Our tackling and pressure yesterday was great, its infectious, builds pressure, creates doubt, doubt creates errors and errors allow for opportunity.
Playing well the past few weeks and winning yesterday with still Marchbank, Weits, Curnow, Doc, Willo, Cunners, Gov missing, gives me a lot of confidence going forward.
I really hope Cuningham is available next week, im not a fan of Lang in the side, David needs a good run to finish the year, as his body is holding him back currently.
A big shout out to Gibbons, he is slowly building his AFL game week by week, has good moments, goes missing, but he is finding ways to contribute in a role/position that is not his bread and butter, i think he will keep improving and hopefully as we get better, he will really start to play consistent football. A lot of clubs, us included will be thinking, how did we ignore this guy for so long.
Go Blues
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you refer to her as handbrake? ok.......
When he forgets about her, there's lots of bleeps!
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It doesn't matter what they tell us. Either he is unfit and being managed or he is out of form and dropped, while telling us he was being managed. The important thing is McGovern knows which one it was.
Remember last year when we managed Weitering and he had a couple of minor injuries. He was terribly out of form and would have been dropped anyway.
It certainly looked like Kennedy was doing this. Mostly staying deep inside F50 to keep his opponent from getting further up the field.
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Yep. Coz we’ll all be smashed for a week
Great to see no knee bandage on Setterfield. Confidence growing I hope
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Not necessarily. It was a club wide plan to pump games and experience into the young players. Outside pressures changed that. We lost a few games we were entitled to win and if we did, everything would have been different.
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Bang!
There it is. I'm late reading the tail of this thread so held off on contributing just in case I was repeating someone else's fine observation.
I don't know what crazy-arse world you all live in but in mine, if your employer hires and pays for someone to give you advice that ain't no mentor - they're your boss. Alternatively, if your employer uses its network to put you in touch with candidates after you've indicated you're looking for a mentor - that's fine...and please don't automatically look to raid the soft cap or start using those brown paper bags again.
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Yeah I remember Motleys car accident as well. Puts football well and truly into perspective when something like that happens.
This is the thing though. We keep saying "He was playing for the future" as though that alone gives his methods credit.
You could be playing for the future and doing it well, or you could be playing for the future and doing it poorly.
Maybe Bolton was playing for the future but just doing it in a poor fashion. I don't know for sure but the paralysis in the box sent me the message he was out of his depth. He may have been a good coach through the week, but a poor tactician on game day.
Gibbons and Fisher arent getting much of a mention.
Thought they were a big part of our run all day harrasing gamestyle. They ran at the ball carrier and provided energetic links all over the ground.
In windy conditions that kind of pressure is a big part of turning the ball over.
For once those turnovers came to us a lot more than we gave them away.
Thought they were a big part of our run all day harrasing gamestyle. They ran at the ball carrier and provided energetic links all over the ground.
In windy conditions that kind of pressure is a big part of turning the ball over.
For once those turnovers came to us a lot more than we gave them away.
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Good point. On reflection, this is exactly what it seemed to be.
Kennedy is pretty good overhead also, although we haven't sen much of that yet.
Not a bad kick either as he's only in recent weeks started to stretch that leg out.
Good thinking.
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Isn't that when you have your morning nap?
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Definitely food for thought. I had Stocker earmarked for that role, but SPS may be the better option
It's funny you say that, my dad didn't see the game, but when talking to him on the phone afterwards he actually asked "Did it feel like we'd stuff up at some point like we always do?"
And honestly my answer was no. Even when they kicked the goal with 90 odd seconds to go I still didn't really feel like we were going to slip up. I'm fairly sure they got to a point behind or so at some point as well didn't they? Even then I thought we'd kick away again.
I don't think I've been so comfortable watching a close game in years.
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We still have Doc to come back as well
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