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    Review Showdown 59

    To be fair to Sweet, it was less than a minute earlier that his aggression and brilliant hit out to Wines led directly to the Berry goal. He probably just didn’t get time to reset to zero after being juiced up to his eyeballs in adrenaline. It wasn’t stupidity, it was adrenaline-fuelled euphoria...
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    Player Watch Pick #38 (2024) - Christian Moraes

    While he is on the field, he certainly gives it everything he’s got.
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    Player Watch Pick #15 (2024) - Joe Berry

    Like I wrote in another thread, that last goal was just a brilliant piece of ballhandling to take the handball from Wines cleanly in his left hand and in a single movement place it so perfectly onto his boot to make that difficult shot. And this was while running away from Wines, so he must have...
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    Our Midfield In Big Games

    Berry, Keats and Soligo (and Peatling) are all bigger, stronger and just as fast as Butters & JHF, even if they’re much shittier footballers. They can easily physically keep them out of stoppages, especially given free rein by umpires. Have there ever been small mids who could successfully...
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    Our Midfield In Big Games

    It’s not “softness” or failing to “show it when things get serious”, that’s far too simplistic. They are small physically so they can’t do what the bigger mids (Bont, Dusty, Petracca, Cripps) can do and physically break the tag. Are there any small mods that have ever been able to consistently...
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    Preview Changes v Bulldogs Fri May 8th, 740pm.

    In the Showdown, our defence was under relentless pressure for the last 7-8 minutes before 3QT. For all of this time, we were never able to get the ball out of our defensive half, let alone break out of their forward press. Our defence held out for several minutes but eventually cracked...
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    Review Showdown 59

    The Butters goal was definitely not “a bit soft”. He was pushed off balance by Soligo while they were both chasing the ball to the boundary line, and Butters only just managed to acrobatically slow his momentum before hitting the fence quite gently. If he hadn’t been able to slow his momentum on...
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    Preview Changes v Bulldogs Fri May 8th, 740pm.

    Not sure if it was Carr, but one of the interviews suggested that Marshall had not fully gotten over his gastro from the week before and probably shouldn’t have played. The thing with Marshall is that, with all his shortcomings that we all know about, he’s an extremely good kick out of defence...
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    Review Showdown 59

    I admire your perseverance, I haven’t watched those shows for ages. :cool:
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    Review Showdown 59

    Joe Berry hasn’t had nearly enough recognition for his “Wingard-esque” last goal. I’ve watched the video a number of times and I’m still trying to figure out how he did it. From the ball-up, as soon as he sees that Wines was going to collect the ball, he starts running hard laterally, realising...
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    Review Showdown 59

    And see where the umpire is positioned. If he’s watching the play, Drew and JHF are in his direct line of vision and just a few metres away, clearly being illegally held. He’s seen obvious frees, but chosen not to pay them. This happened several times in the last few minutes of the third...
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    Review Showdown 59

    I think if any of them knew how to play it, they would have gone about it very differently. Nobody had any idea. I bet that Hawks, or Pies, or Swans, or Brisbane, would know exactly what to do. And they would have rehearsed it again and again in training, so every single one of them would know...
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    Review Showdown 59

    Hey, 66. You know that “6 of their best 22 out” thing you keep bringing up? Would that 6 include any of the 3 of your Crow “stars” who were omitted at selection?
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    Review Showdown 59

    On the other hand, there’s another Crow goal, I think in the 3rd quarter, that seems to have gone unnoticed. Brayden Cook, the Crow who kicked the winning goal, took a mark in the middle of the ground in front of Jacob Wehr. He shoved the ball in Wehr’s face, then gently bounce the ball off...
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    Review Showdown 59

    It’s probably just a lack of rehearsing end-of-game scenarios because Ken was too lazy or too stupid to do what every other club probably does. At least, every successful club.
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