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Seniors and Reserves at the Hallowed Turf today versus PEGS. Final Round before the finals series begins.
Match Discussion 2018 VAFA Rd 18 - Fitzroy v PEGS @ BSO
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per Fitzroy FB page ( https://www.facebook.com/fitzroyfc ) :
Reserves 1/2 time : Fitzroy 13.10.88, PEGS 2.1.13.
Reserves 1/2 time : Fitzroy 13.10.88, PEGS 2.1.13.
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I was suddenly worried today that I may have neglected to buy a membership this year. Just bought one this morning, but there's a chance I have now bought 2 lol. But remembering my dodgy budgetary position back earlier in the year, it's probably just the one.
Somehow, I think Mentone snuck over top of PEGS as a result of today.
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There are many things that annoy me and two of them were on display yesterday. The first occurred on the way to the BSO when I was entering the Eastern Freeway. The stream of traffic trying to get on at Tram Road came down the on ramp and accelerated, as usual, to about ninety ks. Then, as usual, all the idiot drivers started to look in their rear vision mirrors to see how they were going to enter the traffic on the freeway. Then, as usual, the idiots, all took their feet off their accelerators so slowing to about seventy ks which is a quite dangerous thing to do. The freeway traffic is now going 30 ks more than you.
The only sensible thing to do is, while attempting to enter the freeway is to plant the foot, so getting up to the same speed as the freeway traffic. The only reason that they have those lights that only allow two cars to enter the freeway is that people refuse to use the slightest bit of intelligence and get their speed up. It’s not that difficult people.
The other annoyance, the football annoyance, comes later.
What a beautiful day it was yesterday, making me somewhat sad that I am off next week to Northern Italy, Vis (an island in the Adriatic), Croatia, Bosnia, Athens and Greece, Turkey, Gallipoli and Troy. I refuse to drive on the wrong side of the road so the above idiocy will not annoy me but I am trying to think of a way to correct the infuriating error that our players constantly exhibit. Traffic lights and two cars at a time won’t solve this problem.
The game itself opened up at break neck speed, with goals galore. Pegs, who beat us out at their oval earlier in the season, kicked some wonderful long goals, keeping themselves in the game. We were three goals up at quarter time and had all of the play.
I reckon Bernie Wright wouldn’t slow down stupidly when entering a freeway as he showed the necessary hunger when kicking a goal in the first quarter. What annoys me is the reluctance of our players to have a shot when within kicking distance. We have rovers who aren’t hungry enough. Forwards who are too inclusive, caring and sharing sorts of people. Socialistic forward lines don’t work. We need avaricious, greedy capitalism to get the economy, oops, I mean the forward line working properly.
I have to single out someone here. In the second quarter the game tightened up and Matty K took a mark within range of goal, and then attempted to centre it to someone. I couldn’t see who. The point is that Matty is a wonderful kick, and over the years I have written several times about Matty kicking long crunch time goals. I would trust him from fifty more then most of our players from thirty.
Matty was not the only culprit, of course, but we need more Bernie Wright like behaviour. When I sponsored Won’t He Fenton I used to fine twenty bucks every time he didn’t shoot for goal and it certainly straightened him up. He kicked a lot of goals that year.
The second and third quarters were a struggle, low scoring as they started to dominate play but our defence stood up absorbing pressure. I noticed a few times our players putting their arms out for the ball rather than putting their bodies over the ball and we went into three quarter time nine points down.
We dominated general play in the last quarter but found it hard to score. We hit the behind post a few times and only hit the front when a Pegs defender, in a ridiculous burst of optimism, decided to take on a few Fitzroy tacklers, Rory and Bakes. Now he managed to get past Rory but with Bakes lining up next it was a case of, ‘Baaallllll, yeahhhhhh’.
Bakes knows how to enter a freeway so he calmly went back and put us in front. There were a few scares late in the quarter but we hung on for a tough win which is exactly what you want with finals coming up.
The Tramconductors gave out their rewards after the game and I will put up the video on the Facebook site. Have a look.
I will be somewhere north of Darwin next week when the seniors run out but hopefully I can get the scores on the net.
See you all next year in B Grade.
The only sensible thing to do is, while attempting to enter the freeway is to plant the foot, so getting up to the same speed as the freeway traffic. The only reason that they have those lights that only allow two cars to enter the freeway is that people refuse to use the slightest bit of intelligence and get their speed up. It’s not that difficult people.
The other annoyance, the football annoyance, comes later.
What a beautiful day it was yesterday, making me somewhat sad that I am off next week to Northern Italy, Vis (an island in the Adriatic), Croatia, Bosnia, Athens and Greece, Turkey, Gallipoli and Troy. I refuse to drive on the wrong side of the road so the above idiocy will not annoy me but I am trying to think of a way to correct the infuriating error that our players constantly exhibit. Traffic lights and two cars at a time won’t solve this problem.
The game itself opened up at break neck speed, with goals galore. Pegs, who beat us out at their oval earlier in the season, kicked some wonderful long goals, keeping themselves in the game. We were three goals up at quarter time and had all of the play.
I reckon Bernie Wright wouldn’t slow down stupidly when entering a freeway as he showed the necessary hunger when kicking a goal in the first quarter. What annoys me is the reluctance of our players to have a shot when within kicking distance. We have rovers who aren’t hungry enough. Forwards who are too inclusive, caring and sharing sorts of people. Socialistic forward lines don’t work. We need avaricious, greedy capitalism to get the economy, oops, I mean the forward line working properly.
I have to single out someone here. In the second quarter the game tightened up and Matty K took a mark within range of goal, and then attempted to centre it to someone. I couldn’t see who. The point is that Matty is a wonderful kick, and over the years I have written several times about Matty kicking long crunch time goals. I would trust him from fifty more then most of our players from thirty.
Matty was not the only culprit, of course, but we need more Bernie Wright like behaviour. When I sponsored Won’t He Fenton I used to fine twenty bucks every time he didn’t shoot for goal and it certainly straightened him up. He kicked a lot of goals that year.
The second and third quarters were a struggle, low scoring as they started to dominate play but our defence stood up absorbing pressure. I noticed a few times our players putting their arms out for the ball rather than putting their bodies over the ball and we went into three quarter time nine points down.
We dominated general play in the last quarter but found it hard to score. We hit the behind post a few times and only hit the front when a Pegs defender, in a ridiculous burst of optimism, decided to take on a few Fitzroy tacklers, Rory and Bakes. Now he managed to get past Rory but with Bakes lining up next it was a case of, ‘Baaallllll, yeahhhhhh’.
Bakes knows how to enter a freeway so he calmly went back and put us in front. There were a few scares late in the quarter but we hung on for a tough win which is exactly what you want with finals coming up.
The Tramconductors gave out their rewards after the game and I will put up the video on the Facebook site. Have a look.
I will be somewhere north of Darwin next week when the seniors run out but hopefully I can get the scores on the net.
See you all next year in B Grade.
