I really don't think I like Bailey getting that much time inside. I know he is returning from injury but personally don't rate his inside game. Thinks he's Rayner or Dangerfield in how he tries to bust tackles so often. Think I'd rather see several others get that sort of mid time and think they'd be more effective
Wonder about the votes for Keane. Not exactly who i would have thought of for their bests
I wonder how many of those were from 65 out!
I read that too and though WTAF!!Did Rankine write this? Very Clumsy Starce, very clumsy.
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100% would much rather Jarrod Berry spend more time inside than Bailey, Bailey's best position is primarily as a dangerous small forward.
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I’m still struggling to understand how and why Mike Whiting thinks Starcevich ran into Rankine
Pretty evident that turd Rankine launches into an unsuspecting Starc who is not bracing for anything and Rankine just wants to hurt him by splitting him down the middle. Hope Whiting admits he was wrong in the Roar Deal
Thought Rankine was reasonably well held. For really his first go playing the role, with limited or no preparation, Wilmot did a great job.
Was covered on 360 by both Mark Robinson and Gerard Whateley
Yes expected score agrees with you. They shot the lights out and we regressed to our standard early season form in front of goal:
Looking forward to seeing "forward half loose cannon" appear on coaches' magnet boards all over Australia. 3KZ is Football your thoughts?
I thought Harris was beaten by Himmelberg or whoever that blonde chap playing on him was. Outmarked too often I thought.
His soccer goal against Melbourne.
Yes expected score agrees with you. They shot the lights out and we regressed to our standard early season form in front of goal:
Ultimately it's the most convincing 11 point win you're ever likely to see. Kicked the first 3 goals of the game and literally held them at arm's length for the remainder, never conceding more than 2 consecutive goals. They closed to within 7 during the 1st, 8 points during the 2nd and 3rd, while 11 was as close as they got in the last.
Yes, a better red time and last quarter performance would have been nice, but still good to get another win with still so much potential upside. Thought we also ran the clock well at the end when things got a bit too close for comfort.
Transition defence remains a concern, but we did defend our back 50 far better than in recent weeks. Adelaide managed only 20 shots from 48 entries - that 42% is our best effort since we beat Gold Coast. So maybe this is the first step in improving our overall team defence. Better tackling in our front half would not go astray.
I think strategically we were well set up behind the ball, however conceding 15 contested marks while only taking 6 of our own limits the effectiveness of any strategy. Thought our talls were pretty well beaten at both ends which was disappointing. Payne was probably our best overall.
Just started watching the replay and noticing at a lot of aerial contests, a lot of numbers from both sides around the ball but ours were often pretty bunched up whereas Adelaide had a better spread 360⁰ around the fall of the ball. Thus they often came away with the ball when it looked like we should have won it.
Hopefully we can find ways to become more clinical in our front 60 or 70. Lots of fumbling, bombing to packs or way too adventurous long shots at goal. At least we're getting those shots now where we were struggling early in the season.
But I have a bit of a theory as to why we've perhaps fluffed our lines a few too many times in front of goal the last couple of weeks. I wonder if our crowd noise is sometimes so overwhelming that our players get a bit overexcited and ahead of themselves, and it prevents them selecting the best option and executing accordingly. Takes me back to the 2019 Semi Final, which was so amazingly loud in our favour but I'm still not sure that was to our advantage! Similarly, whenever I go to Broncos games and the ground announcer starts a chant whenever we get inside the opposition 20, we invariably drop the ball
Yes, our Gabba only holds 30-odd thousand, but as Chris Scott has said, it's one of the loudest venues in the country when it's rocking and I wonder if that sometimes adversely affects our players. NFL teams of course make a point of asking their fans to be quiet when they have the ball - it's a stark contrast to here.
Compare that to the way our inside 50 conversion has been amazing in our last two away games, against the Bulldogs and Port, where we had much less crowd support. Hopefully we get enough opportunities in Perth on Sunday to see if that trend continues or not.
Unfortunately this Twitter account no longer auto-posts expected scores for every single shot at goal. Elon Musk you star
starcevich was running towards rankine while looking at the play......he wasn't aware. rankine could have held his ground and bumped starcevich but instead he charged at him getting the chest and head. it's def a 2 or 3 match ban but made worse by starcevich running blind towards rankine. not excusing rankine, that was a crap act but starce didn't protect himself because he was unaware. hope starce is feeling ok tho.
What made it worse was Rankine, instead of getting out of the way or bracing for contact. He instead choose to jump into Starc.
Is Rankine in Brownlow contention?
