MVP 2021 Didaka Medal - Rnd 8 Collingwood V North Melbourne

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AFLCA award votes:

10 Jordan De Goey (COLL)
8 Darcy Moore (COLL)
3 Brayden Maynard (COLL)
3 Aaron Hall (NMFC)
2 Scott Pendlebury (COLL)
2 Jack Crisp (COLL)
1 Ben McKay (NMFC)
1 Jack Ziebell (NMFC)
 
First Quarter
Grundy v T Goldstein, Crisp v Kayne Turner, Sidebottom v T Thomas and T Brown v Cunnington

Pendles starts in the forward line v A Hall, WHE v Atley, Henry v Ben McKay, De Goey v Bonar, McCreery v Ziebell and Checkers v Walker
Down back its Roughie v Larkey, Moore (Switched back to defence after last weeks shocker) v Zurhaar, Noble v Powell, Keane v C Taylor, IQ v Stephenson and Maynard v LDU. Poulter and Murphy on the wings.


Observations -

* First match this season where Pendles has not started the first quarter in the middle. Tyler Brown who returned to the team finally starts at centre bounces.

*Tyler Brown attended five centre bounces against a tough opponent in Cunnington and did well. Crispy attended six. Pendles did not attend one that quarter.

*First Kangaroos goal to Stephenson when Noble had the brain fade and handballed the ball through the goals and was penalised was interesting. The player who was applying the pressure and contesting the ball with Noble was Curtis Taylor. That is Keane's opponent. You can see when the ball is bounced that Keane and Taylor are together at the Kangaroos CHF 50m line. Then when Goldstein wins the clearance and kicks the ball inside Kangaroos forward line to about 30m from goal, Keane is about 5m defensive side (45m from goal) of C Taylor (50m approx) which is fine. But then Keane starts ball watching and completely forgets/ignores his opponent in Taylor. Taylor runs straight past Keane and into the contest with Noble. Keane then chases but the gap is too big to make up. IQ and Noble come off ground and Maynard switches to Stephenson. (Seems like a waste of two rotations as only 90 seconds into the match?)

*When Keane is up the ground with the ball he seems ok. He just not appear to be a defender.

*Ziebell switches to De Goey after De Goey kicked his second goal. Ziebell then beats De Goey one on one.

*What separates Moore from the rest of our defenders is that if Moore has three options (as an example) he takes on the aggressive kick (as opposed to the easy short sideways kick) and with a decent success rate.

*Henry had a bloody tough match up against McKay. He is giving away 12cm and 19kg to McKay.

*Next year we will miss Chris Mayne. Kangaroos through Tarryn Thomas marks the ball about 70m out from goal (about 20m from corridor). At this stage Mayne is about 35m out from Kangaroos goal on his opponent. Grundy is also 35m out from Kangaroos goal on the flank with Roughie nearby. Moore is in the goal square. Cunnington has peeled off Tyler Brown and found space about 50m out from goal (Tyler Brown had been sucked into the contest in the build up).Tyler Brown tries to make up the ground but Cunnington marks at 50m. Mayne is now maybe 30m from goal with his opponent. Keane is near Curtis Taylor and is about 35m from goal. Cunnington swings around on his right foot and goes for goal (Moore and Roughead are closer to goal than Mayne). Keane is running up the corridor, not really sure why (Taylor has peeled off him lol). Mayne was the shortest out of our three players, but was the only one who sensed the danger and showed urgency to try and touch the ball. Umpire gave it a goal but after review was awarded a point. Brilliant from Chris Mayne.

*Kangaroos kick a through Powell goal after the umpire misses a high tackle on Murphy and a holding the ball after a great tackle by Mayne. Umpire might have been blindsided for the high tackle but had the perfect view for the holding the ball. Pretty unlucky on that one.




Second Quarter

Grundy v Goldstein, Crisp v Turner, Sidey v T Thomas and Tyler Brown v Cunnington.

Observations -

*Moore is back at it again - nails another perfect kick in the corridor - Tyler Brown spills an uncontested mark. The field kicking of Moore is elite - his kicks and low and fast through the air. Contrast that to Noble who 30 seconds late with a much easier kick, fails to hit Henry on the chest with a 25m kick. A minute later Maynard has a mark in the back pocket. Maynard has a short kick of 20m (max) and misses Noble by 3m. Noble had to try and mark the ball like he was diving for a catch in slips. Luckily the result is only a point. The option Maynard took was fine as further up the line was Goldstein loose all by himself. But a really sloppy kick under no pressure.

*Grundy against Cunnington fails to take the contested mark.

*Moore takes an intercept mark on the wing. He gives a quick signal to Henry about 50m away to lead up at the ball. He then kicks the diagonal pass about 40m to Henry who slides into the mark. Another super kick by Moore. His field kicking stands out big time. Henry kicks to De Goey who is surrounded by 3 players but marks and goals. Credit to Darcy Moore for that goal.

*Nathan Murphy wins a free kick for too high about 70m from goal. As Murphy is waiting for the ball to be returned to him, you can see Grundy running past to get into our forward line and he is 20m ahead of Tom Campbell. Murphy takes a few seconds once he receives the ball to take his kick. Murphy then kicks the ball to the forward pocket where Campbell takes the big intercept mark. Grundy was near by but did not influence the contest at all. Big effort from Tom Campbell.

*Pendles goal you could watch over and over again. By the end of the quarter Pendles is yet to attend a centre bounce.


End of Quarter


Third Quarter

Very similar to the first half
Grundy v Goldstein, Tyler Brown v Cunnington, Sidey v Thomas, Crisp v Turner. Murphy on wing v Sympkin, Poulter v Young on other wing. Ziebell starts on De Goey who is at full forward.

Observations -

*Needless free kick given away by Maynard to Stephenson in goal square. Riewoldt mentions perhaps we should have had another player on the goal line. Possibly that should have been Keane as he was the closest.

*IQ off half back kicks to Sidebottom but gives the ball way too much hang time and to the wrong side of Sidey and Goldy intercept marks easily on the wing. Needs to be faster through the air like Moores kicks. At this stage Hall is on our half forward line defending Pendles. When Goldstein marks Halls runs off Pendles and receives the handball from Goldstein. Hall fumbles but is in so much space he can recover. Hall does not do that well but eventually handballs to Cunnington. The funny thing is we actually have an outnumber in the Kangaroos forward 50 (it is five magpies v four kangaroos) but two Kangaroos (Zurhaar and Thomas) players deepest to goals with only Maynard covering. Keane think he is covering Larkey but Moore has Larkey covered. Even after Larkey peels off for some reason Keane still is guarding space at the 50m line. Keane is so slow to react and read where the danger is. Moore is in a decent position defensively. It ends up being Zurhaar flying up against Maynard with Curtis Taylor and Tarryn Thomas front and centre waiting for the spillage. Thomas picks up the spillage and snaps the goal. GOAL KANGAROOS.
I believe at that stage the match ups were Larkey v Moore, Crisp was on Taylor, Maynard v Zurhaar and Keane was meant to be on Thomas. So one poor kick from IQ led to the opportunity for the goal but Keane and Moore did not sense the danger.

*So the switch appears to be when Thomas pushes forward Keane goes to him and Crisp is then responsible for Taylor.

*Thomas is doing a similar job to what Stringer did on Anzac Day - starting at the centre bounce and then pushing forward and creating a mismatch.

*LDU has a kick in our half back flank and kicks it to the wing where Tarryn Thomas marks. Keane is responsible for LDU. Thomas kicks a 20m pass sideways into the corridor to Atley who marks the ball. At this stage Keane points to Daicos to tell him to pick up LDU. Atley kicks a diagonal pass towards the boundary where the ball is marked by Lazzaro. LDU is about 10m on the boundary ahead of Lazzaro and is calling for the handball over the top. Keane is about 10m away from LDU. When Lazzaro eventually goes to kick the ball long, Keane and LDU are about 55m from the Kangaroos goal. As the ball is travelling in flight you can see Keane jogging whilst LDU is sprinting. The contest is between Roughie/Larkey and Moore/Campbell. LDU has left Keane for dead at this stage. At the time of the contest IQ is probably 20m defensive side of Turner which is fine. The ball falls to the front of the pack, LDU runs past collects the ball in mid air, Roughie tries to chase LDU (Keane is about 5m behind), IQ allows Turner to run past him. LDU and handballs to Turner who walks into goal and scores.

Keane was responsible for LDU - the question is after running back from our half forward line back into defence, whether someone should have switched with Keane? A few poor efforts all round.

*Aaron Hall from half back is running McCreery ragged this quarter. McCreery looks cooked. On this occasion Halls kings deep inside 50m towards the pocket where Taylor has put a 10m goal side gap on Keane. Goldstein is leading Roughie to the contest. Taylor almost marks but it is not paid. Keane is now right next to Taylor as Daicos tackles Lazzaro. Zurhaar receives the ball from Lazzaro and breaks the Keane attempted tackle easily and centres the ball but luckily Moore and Sidey help avoid the danger and create a stoppage. Great tackle from Grundy to win the free kick.

*Keane has positioned himself (corridor 40m from goal) well in our forward line and intercepts the rushed kick about 40m from goal. Misses by an absolute mile. The one positive is that at least he positioned himself well. Uses his body well a bit later against Lazzaro to help set up a goal for WHE.

*WHE after a two possession first half (first halves this year have been 3 possessions (Dogs), 7 (Carlton), 2 (Brisbane), 2 (GWS), 9 (Essendon), 9 (Suns). Four invisible and three acceptable first halves.

*Crisp has the best connection with Grundy out of all the midfielders.

*We get lucky with 6 minutes left in the quarter. Daicos is meant to be on Hall. Mahoney takes a mark about 45m straight in front of goal and Daicos has switched off (walking away from the contest (away from Hal)l, Hall runs past receives the handball and kicks from 50m but misses.

*Pendles eventually shifted to centre bounces and attends the last four of the quarter.

End of Quarter

Fourth Quarter

Grundy v Goldstein, T Brown v Cunnington, Pendles v Thomas, Crisp v Turner.


Observations -

*Crisp attempts a diagonal 30m switch (ball is given too much air) into the corridor from the wing to Sidebottom. (When Moore attempts that same type of kick it is faster and lower). It ends up being a two on one contest as Powell has drifted into space. Turner spoils Sidebottom and Powell passes to Campbell about 60m from goal. Keane is our loose man of sorts and heads back to goal square. Campbell kicks the ball to the open side where Zurhaar marks about 45m from goal on the lead in front of Moore. GOAL KANGAROOS.

*Keane gives away a needless free kick for a push against Goldstein. To be fair it is a pretty soft free kick. Luckily Goldstein misses.

*The commentators mention that based on the numbers so far Grundy is rated the number 1 ruckman in the league.

*9 minutes left and there is a stoppage in Norths forward 50m. Prior to the stoppage Daicos signals to Keane to pick up Zurhaar. At the stoppage Keane and Zurhaar are side by side. We have two extras at the stoppage. Sidey on one side and Daicos (Curtis Taylor about 10m away) on the other. Goldy taps the ball forward into space and Zurhaar charges through and wins the ball shrugs off Maynard (Sidey/Pendles/Cunnington are all boundary side. Keane jogs then just stops/ gives up. Its left up to Noble to chase down Zurhaar about 10m from goal and bring Zurhaar down with a great tackle and gets a well deserved free kick. That was great desperation from Noble.

*Henry might have been outsized but he gets to the right/dangerous spots and has a good work ethic. I like the fact that he does not stop and think my job is done or i won't receive the ball etc. He was not directly involved the passage of play but it did not stop him from working hard and presenting an option.

*2.06 left in the game - Complete junk time. Kangaroos have the ball boundary side in our half of the ground. Larkey marks the ball on half back wing but we are set up well behind the ball, so is forced to kick backwards to Atley (who initially kicked the ball to him). Atley kicks sideways to Hall who is 45m out from our goal. The Kangaroos have switched the play well with McKay charging through the middle of the ground. Keane is the last man in defence and Kangaroos have two spare players (Zurhaar and Thomas). Zurhaar is on the same side as McKay and is pointing to the boundary. Whereas Thomas is in the corridor. Keane stuck in no mans land and Thomas marks in front of goal - handballs over the top to Zurhaar GOAL. Not Keanes fault but defensively it is poor to allow him to be the last man back. I think Keane is like "where were you all".

*Tyler Brown attended 24 centre bounces and did a pretty good job. Cunnington (who is a great clearance player) was his opponent for most of the team

End of Match.
 
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First Quarter
Grundy v T Goldstein, Crisp v Kayne Turner, Sidebottom v T Thomas and T Brown v Cunnington

Pendles starts in the forward line v A Hall, WHE v Atley, Henry v Ben McKay, De Goey v Bonar, McCreery v Ziebell and Checkers v Walker
Down back its Roughie v Larkey, Moore (Switched back to defence after last weeks shocker) v Zurhaar, Noble v Powell, Keane v C Taylor, IQ v Stephenson and Maynard v LDU. Poulter and Murphy on the wings.


Observations -

* First match this season where Pendles has not started the first quarter in the middle. Tyler Brown who returned to the team finally starts at centre bounces.

*Tyler Brown attended five centre bounces against a tough opponent in Cunnington and did well. Crispy attended six. Pendles did not attend one that quarter.

*First Kangaroos goal to Stephenson when Noble had the brain fade and handballed the ball through the goals and was penalised was interesting. The player who was applying the pressure and contesting the ball with Noble was Curtis Taylor. That is Keane's opponent. You can see when the ball is bounced that Keane and Taylor are together at the Kangaroos CHF 50m line. Then when Goldstein wins the clearance and kicks the ball inside Kangaroos forward line to about 30m from goal, Keane is about 5m defensive side (45m from goal) of C Taylor (50m approx) which is fine. But then Keane starts ball watching and completely forgets/ignores his opponent in Taylor. Taylor runs straight past Keane and into the contest with Noble. Keane then chases but the gap is too big to make up. IQ and Noble come off ground and Maynard switches to Stephenson. (Seems like a waste of two rotations as only 90 seconds into the match?)

*When Keane is up the ground with the ball he seems ok. He just not appear to be a defender.

*Ziebell switches to De Goey after De Goey kicked his second goal. Ziebell then beats De Goey one on one.

*What separates Moore from the rest of our defenders is that if Moore has three options (as an example) he takes on the aggressive kick (as opposed to the easy short sideways kick) and with a decent success rate.

*Henry had a bloody tough match up against McKay. He is giving away 12cm and 19kg to McKay.

*Next year we will miss Chris Mayne. Kangaroos through Tarryn Thomas marks the ball about 70m out from goal (about 20m from corridor). At this stage Mayne is about 35m out from Kangaroos goal on his opponent. Grundy is also 35m out from Kangaroos goal on the flank with Roughie nearby. Moore is in the goal square. Cunnington has peeled off Tyler Brown and found space about 50m out from goal (Tyler Brown had been sucked into the contest in the build up).Tyler Brown tries to make up the ground but Cunnington marks at 50m. Mayne is now maybe 30m from goal with his opponent. Keane is near Curtis Taylor and is about 35m from goal. Cunnington swings around on his right foot and goes for goal (Moore and Roughead are closer to goal than Mayne). Keane is running up the corridor, not really sure why (Taylor has peeled off him lol). Mayne was the shortest out of our three players, but was the only one who sensed the danger and showed urgency to try and touch the ball. Umpire gave it a goal but after review was awarded a point. Brilliant from Chris Mayne.

*Kangaroos kick a through Powell goal after the umpire misses a high tackle on Murphy and a holding the ball after a great tackle by Mayne. Umpire might have been blindsided for the high tackle but had the perfect view for the holding the ball. Pretty unlucky on that one.




Second Quarter

Grundy v Goldstein, Crisp v Turner, Sidey v T Thomas and Tyler Brown v Cunnington.

Observations -

*Moore is back at it again - nails another perfect kick in the corridor - Tyler Brown spills an uncontested mark. The field kicking of Moore is elite - his kicks and low and fast through the air. Contrast that to Noble who 30 seconds late with a much easier kick, fails to hit Henry on the chest with a 25m kick. A minute later Maynard has a mark in the back pocket. Maynard has a short kick of 20m (max) and misses Noble by 3m. Noble had to try and mark the ball like he was diving for a catch in slips. Luckily the result is only a point. The option Maynard took was fine as further up the line was Goldstein loose all by himself. But a really sloppy kick under no pressure.

*Grundy against Cunnington fails to take the contested mark.

*Moore takes an intercept mark on the wing. He gives a quick signal to Henry about 50m away to lead up at the ball. He then kicks the diagonal pass about 40m to Henry who slides into the mark. Another super kick by Moore. His field kicking stands out big time. Henry kicks to De Goey who is surrounded by 3 players but marks and goals. Credit to Darcy Moore for that goal.

*Nathan Murphy wins a free kick for too high about 70m from goal. As Murphy is waiting for the ball to be returned to him, you can see Grundy running past to get into our forward line and he is 20m ahead of Tom Campbell. Murphy takes a few seconds once he receives the ball to take his kick. Murphy then kicks the ball to the forward pocket where Campbell takes the big intercept mark. Grundy was near by but did not influence the contest at all. Big effort from Tom Campbell.

*Pendles goal you could watch over and over again. By the end of the quarter Pendles is yet to attend a centre bounce.


End of Quarter


Third Quarter

Very similar to the first half
Grundy v Goldstein, Tyler Brown v Cunnington, Sidey v Thomas, Crisp v Turner. Murphy on wing v Sympkin, Poulter v Young on other wing. Ziebell starts on De Goey who is at full forward.

Observations -

*Needless free kick given away by Maynard to Stephenson in goal square. Riewoldt mentions perhaps we should have had another player on the goal line. Possibly that should have been Keane as he was the closest.

*IQ off half back kicks to Sidebottom but gives the ball way too much hang time and to the wrong side of Sidey and Goldy intercept marks easily on the wing. Needs to be faster through the air like Moores kicks. At this stage Hall is on our half forward line defending Pendles. When Goldstein marks Halls runs off Pendles and receives the handball from Goldstein. Hall fumbles but is in so much space he can recover. Hall does not do that well but eventually handballs to Cunnington. The funny thing is we actually have an outnumber in the Kangaroos forward 50 (it is five magpies v four kangaroos) but two Kangaroos (Zurhaar and Thomas) players deepest to goals with only Maynard covering. Keane think he is covering Larkey but Moore has Larkey covered. Even after Larkey peels off for some reason Keane still is guarding space at the 50m line. Keane is so slow to react and read where the danger is. Moore is in a decent position defensively. It ends up being Zurhaar flying up against Maynard with Curtis Taylor and Tarryn Thomas front and centre waiting for the spillage. Thomas picks up the spillage and snaps the goal. GOAL KANGAROOS.
I believe at that stage the match ups were Larkey v Moore, Crisp was on Taylor, Maynard v Zurhaar and Keane was meant to be on Thomas. So one poor kick from IQ led to the opportunity for the goal but Keane and Moore did not sense the danger.

*So the switch appears to be when Thomas pushes forward Keane goes to him and Crisp is then responsible for Taylor.

*Thomas is doing a similar job to what Stringer did on Anzac Day - starting at the centre bounce and then pushing forward and creating a mismatch.

*LDU has a kick in our half back flank and kicks it to the wing where Tarryn Thomas marks. Keane is responsible for LDU. Thomas kicks a 20m pass sideways into the corridor to Atley who marks the ball. At this stage Keane points to Daicos to tell him to pick up LDU. Atley kicks a diagonal pass towards the boundary where the ball is marked by Lazzaro. LDU is about 10m on the boundary ahead of Lazzaro and is calling for the handball over the top. Keane is about 10m away from LDU. When Lazzaro eventually goes to kick the ball long, Keane and LDU are about 55m from the Kangaroos goal. As the ball is travelling in flight you can see Keane jogging whilst LDU is sprinting. The contest is between Roughie/Larkey and Moore/Campbell. LDU has left Keane for dead at this stage. At the time of the contest IQ is probably 20m defensive side of Turner which is fine. The ball falls to the front of the pack, LDU runs past collects the ball in mid air, Roughie tries to chase LDU (Keane is about 5m behind), IQ allows Turner to run past him. LDU and handballs to Turner who walks into goal and scores.

Keane was responsible for LDU - the question is after running back from our half forward line back into defence, whether someone should have switched with Keane? A few poor efforts all round.

*Aaron Hall from half back is running McCreery ragged this quarter. McCreery looks cooked. On this occasion Halls kings deep inside 50m towards the pocket where Taylor has put a 10m goal side gap on Keane. Goldstein is leading Roughie to the contest. Taylor almost marks but it is not paid. Keane is now right next to Taylor as Daicos tackles Lazzaro. Zurhaar receives the ball from Lazzaro and breaks the Keane attempted tackle easily and centres the ball but luckily Moore and Sidey help avoid the danger and create a stoppage. Great tackle from Grundy to win the free kick.

*Keane has positioned himself (corridor 40m from goal) well in our forward line and intercepts the rushed kick about 40m from goal. Misses by an absolute mile. The one positive is that at least he positioned himself well. Uses his body well a bit later against Lazzaro to help set up a goal for WHE.

*WHE after a two possession first half (first halves this year have been 3 possessions (Dogs), 7 (Carlton), 2 (Brisbane), 2 (GWS), 9 (Essendon), 9 (Suns). Four invisible and three acceptable first halves.

*Crisp has the best connection with Grundy out of all the midfielders.

*We get lucky with 6 minutes left in the quarter. Daicos is meant to be on Hall. Mahoney takes a mark about 45m straight in front of goal and Daicos has switched off (walking away from the contest (away from Hal)l, Hall runs past receives the handball and kicks from 50m but misses.

*Pendles eventually shifted to centre bounces and attends the last four of the quarter.

End of Quarter

Fourth Quarter

Grundy v Goldstein, T Brown v Cunnington, Pendles v Thomas, Crisp v Turner.


Observations -

*Crisp attempts a diagonal 30m switch (ball is given too much air) into the corridor from the wing to Sidebottom. (When Moore attempts that same type of kick it is faster and lower). It ends up being a two on one contest as Powell has drifted into space. Turner spoils Sidebottom and Powell passes to Campbell about 60m from goal. Keane is our loose man of sorts and heads back to goal square. Campbell kicks the ball to the open side where Zurhaar marks about 45m from goal on the lead in front of Moore. GOAL KANGAROOS.

*Keane gives away a needless free kick for a push against Goldstein. To be fair it is a pretty soft free kick. Luckily Goldstein misses.

*The commentators mention that based on the numbers so far Grundy is rated the number 1 ruckman in the league.

*9 minutes left and there is a stoppage in Norths forward 50m. Prior to the stoppage Daicos signals to Keane to pick up Zurhaar. At the stoppage Keane and Zurhaar are side by side. We have two extras at the stoppage. Sidey on one side and Daicos (Curtis Taylor about 10m away) on the other. Goldy taps the ball forward into space and Zurhaar charges through and wins the ball shrugs off Maynard (Sidey/Pendles/Cunnington are all boundary side. Keane jogs then just stops/ gives up. Its left up to Noble to chase down Zurhaar about 10m from goal and bring Zurhaar down with a great tackle and gets a well deserved free kick. That was great desperation from Noble.

*Henry might have been outsized but he gets to the right/dangerous spots and has a good work ethic. I like the fact that he does not stop and think my job is done or i won't receive the ball etc. He was not directly involved the passage of play but it did not stop him from working hard and presenting an option.

*2.06 left in the game - Complete junk time. Kangaroos have the ball boundary side in our half of the ground. Larkey marks the ball on half back wing but we are set up well behind the ball, so is forced to kick backwards to Atley (who initially kicked the ball to him). Atley kicks sideways to Hall who is 45m out from our goal. The Kangaroos have switched the play well with McKay charging through the middle of the ground. Keane is the last man in defence and Kangaroos have two spare players (Zurhaar and Thomas). Zurhaar is on the same side as McKay and is pointing to the boundary. Whereas Thomas is in the corridor. Keane stuck in no mans land and Thomas marks in front of goal - handballs over the top to Zurhaar GOAL. Not Keanes fault but defensively it is poor to allow him to be the last man back. I think Keane is like "where were you all".

*Tyler Brown attended 24 centre bounces and did a pretty good job. Cunnington (who is a great clearance player) was his opponent for most of the team

End of Match.
Great observations again JLC. Just on Keane, we sounded pretty tall down back with Moore and Roughie so sounds like some of the match-ups were not kind to him picking up smaller players.

Wonder if he picks up game sense or not. I think if we persist with him we need him as a second tall ahead of Roughie. He may not make it but I feel if he has a good pre-season, we give him 6 games and see how he goes. Unfortunately, he's lost so much VFL development.
 

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