A lot can change very quickly
This is last year's ladder at R15 - all these teams made finals (actually I don't know if I'll count Sydney lol), two of which played off in a prelim.
Footy's a funny game these days, it ebbs and flows and a season is largely undefined by even a number of...
I agree absolutely it was too early in that it felt like we came out at Q3 with that in mind. But I think that ~10 min patch in Q4 we got it going was the perfect time for it, only to squander two reasonable chances near the end to call game and go board the plane.
Most teams are wise enough to shut down the 45-degree angle kicks inside like that, or at least make it appear likes its open but really there's a player ready to run like a cut snake, intercept, then burn you and the free paddocks ahead of them to the other side.
But a simple set up to block...
A lot like the QF last year, an inspired 5-goal drive by the oppo in the last quarter while we hang on goalless in the last. To quote Fly from the docco, we just kick one early in that run about 5-10 minutes into Q4 and that game is just over, completely destroy their will/momentum.
Repeated it...
Especially since jumpers are made to fit players skin-tight, literally any level of friction against it pulls the jumper taut and makes it look like a grab.
Conductivity of wet grass vs grounded concrete just a little bit different.
Besides been around for ages even in the local level, hardly a new interruption to the game.
Valiant defence for 15 mins just to completely piss everything we'd worked for away. They'd lost hope at QT, now they'll play with complete confidence and the games gone out of our balance until we can wrestle it back again.
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