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We do not pump teams. Just doesn’t happen. Very good at grinding out wins though.
Yeah, pretty much. Even one of them and it's over at HT.After all said and done, we are once again playing with a bits and pieces forward line, if we and Stringer and Daniher out there today that match would have been done and dusted at half time, simple as that, we just don’t have enough quality back up forwards.
O'Brien was going to dominate around the ground either way. Bellchambers and McKernan combined for 25 hit outs, 11 to advantage (7/4). O'Brien and Himmelberg combined for 27 hitouts, 6 to advantage (5/1). We basically dominated at the coal face (+8 in total clearances, +5 in centre clearances, +3 around the ground) largely due to the effectiveness of our ruck combination of hitting it to our midfielders advantage. Bellchambers had the same amount of clearances, more tackles, less clangers, more effective disposals*, the same amount of marks, the same amount of contested marks, same amount of score involvements, same amount of "pressure acts"* and same amount of 1%ers as O'Brien. So O'Brien got more touches, but were less effective with them, had more hitouts, but put them to a teammates advantage on fewer occassions, and was equal at best defensively, but had fewer tackles.Absolute URGHHHHHHH
ROB towelled TBC around the ground (20 touches to 10) and had more hitouts and pressure than the useless glacier lummox.
they were down 2 and we were down 1 for pretty much the whole second half and they outran us but couldn't kick straight.
Irish deserves to be dropped for that ******* airy - RULE 1 pick up the ball
UGLY UGLY forward line structure - and why didnt we tag B. Crouch when M.Crouch was done and cactus
OUT Ham, Irish (suspended or for being a doofus), Laverde (injured)
IN The Shield, The Clarke, The Stewart
It is almost as if we had Stewart available to play. It was actually very obvious that we needed another tall. Woosha even debated it throughout the week. We elected not to play another tall.After all said and done, we are once again playing with a bits and pieces forward line, if we and Stringer and Daniher out there today that match would have been done and dusted at half time, simple as that, we just don’t have enough quality back up forwards.
I thought TBC was pretty decent for the first 3 quarters. Tackled, smothered, contributed to some clearances and tapped it to our midfielders. ROB is known for his work around the grounds so he was always going to dominate TBC (and likely Phillips). Returned to his horrible slipping in the last quarter though. Frustrating, but I guess that's what we have to go with until Draper is ready.Absolute URGHHHHHHH
ROB towelled TBC around the ground (20 touches to 10) and had more hitouts and pressure than the useless glacier lummox.
they were down 2 and we were down 1 for pretty much the whole second half and they outran us but couldn't kick straight.
Irish deserves to be dropped for that ******* airy - RULE 1 pick up the ball
UGLY UGLY forward line structure - and why didnt we tag B. Crouch when M.Crouch was done and cactus
OUT Ham, Irish (suspended or for being a doofus), Laverde (injured)
IN The Shield, The Clarke, The Stewart
It is almost as if we had Stewart available to play. It was actually very obvious that we needed another tall. Woosha even debated it throughout the week. We elected not to play another tall.
If we are going to go handball heavy we need to improve our bloody skills. The amount of dropped balls and off target hand passes just stuffs it as a game plan
By the way, would have been good to see how Phillips would have gone against O'Brien.
Bellchambers was awful. Absolute bullshit that he's moving well. The reason for the early comment about his physicality is that he threw himself at O'Brien when there was a dead ball and O'Brien was sitting outside the contest.
He could hardly move.
We've been running Phillips, a group 3 horse, in group 1 races and Bellchambers, a group 3 horse in group 3 races. They get the same results and we penalize Phillips for it.
Don't get sucked in
He was almost ready before quarantining. He was also named on the extended bench. He was ready to play.There is a fine line between needing him to play and being ready to play I guess. He’s coming off a long term injury then spent 2 weeks in quarantine and is unable to play any full matches at full intensity.
Ben Keays looks like a hard trance DJ from the 90s, by the way.
A terrible sound and matched by an equally bad look.
Lol Adelaide are Owen8 and were Owen7 before they played us. I found that funny.Thought Snelling was ok, he's one of those guys that is only a bad game from being dropped, yet keeps doing enough each week to stay in the side.
Amazingly, playing Hibberd in an inside midfield role saw him play his best game for us.
Wasn't a great game, but one we would have often found a way to lose (and we really did try to find a way at times) so take the 4 points and reload for Brisbane with Shiel available.
Absolute URGHHHHHHH
ROB towelled TBC around the ground (20 touches to 10) and had more hitouts and pressure than the useless glacier lummox.
they were down 2 and we were down 1 for pretty much the whole second half and they outran us but couldn't kick straight.
Irish deserves to be dropped for that ******* airy - RULE 1 pick up the ball
UGLY UGLY forward line structure - and why didnt we tag B. Crouch when M.Crouch was done and cactus
Can someone please find the photos that Zaka has and pass them to Stewart?He was almost ready before quarantining. He was also named on the extended bench. He was ready to play.
Had a night to digest it. I stand completely by my precious comment (our inability to defend handball chains were really bad and that brain fade by McKenna was near-diabolical).
However:
Grinding out the win with 6 best 22 players missing (Heppell, Hooker, Shiel, Stringer, Daniher and Ambrose) and with current travel measures meaning they likely got up at 4:30odd to catch their flight (which would mess with sleep) is a good effort.
Especially when you see Port get rolled by St Kilda and Melbourne almost getting over the top of Brisbane. Teams are dropping games left and right so to grind out the win is a positive. The fact we have won as many games as we have with our forwardline is a good effort.
Zerrett back in form, Parish building and McGrath was super. Ridley is fast becoming our most important player.