Anthony Rocca!!

[Swanny36]

Kudos to Pebs tonight as he took scarlett away from every contest Fantastic game.....great game by every collingwood player....but just thought i would mention the efforts of Big Ant......he'll be sore tomorrow he ran himself into the ground tonight and sacrificed his own game to help the team.....plus he also kicked a goal and took 9 marks....terrific stuff pebs keep it up...

 

[Optimax]

Beat scarlett all ends up, made the ugly dick play as bad as he looks.

Thank you geelong advertiser, you helped us a mountain, scarlett i think it was three times holding the ball? ugly mofo.

Well done ant, awesoem game when needed

 

[GoalSneak07]

Didn't see no cat dance from Scarlett tonight (referring to his antics after last seasons prelim loss to the cats) , Rocca by baby smashed him, ran him off his feet!

GO PIES!!!!

 

[Optimax]

Didn't see no cat dance from Scarlett tonight (referring to his antics after last seasons prelim loss to the cats) , Rocca by baby smashed him, ran him off his feet!

GO PIES!!!!

i was given it to him all night as well, will never forget that humble in victory not scarletts go it seems.

So happy the game started and ended with that little douche being pinged for holding it.

Im now going to go out and celebrate this game with some bruskies rofl

 

[colin_wood]

Cant believe that they fell for that one.....Rocca takes Scarlett up the ground for the whole game. He could not play his normal attacking backman role.

 

[Swanny36]

Cant believe that they fell for that one.....Rocca takes Scarlett up the ground for the whole game. He could not play his normal attacking backman role.

lmao, now that you mention it.... it is pretty simple isnt it.....hahaha why wouldnt they have just had rocca run around free up the wings and let scarlett stay off him until rocca got with in scoring range and then run back to him...dumbass'

 

[stui magpie]

Whoops. Scarlett just got exposed, can't beat a good player one on one without support from fellow backs in thelast line and midfield pressure.

Pleasant dreams scarlo. being tackeld and giving away a goal after the siren was symbolic and I loved it.

 

[Shoulz]

GEE = OWND

Too good pies!

Wd Pebs

 

[CENTERMAN]

Cant believe that they fell for that one.....Rocca takes Scarlett up the ground for the whole game. He could not play his normal attacking backman role.

Agree, why didn't they put him back on Cloke as Cloke turned out to be the handful anyway.

 

[Gymnorhina tibic]

Rocca was important on so many levels tonight and if I thought anyone cared about my opinions I would write a thousand words why, won't feature in the votes come Brownlow night but was a key to the win.

 

[BigPieSky]

Rocca-bye Baby on the tree top........... turned Scarlet over and used him as a mop !
Sorry guys, maybe its tacky but I just got back from the game and Im loaded on the go-go juice.

 

[Rohan25]

I took great pleasure in giving Scarlett the bronx cheer when he got a touch late in the match. 'Twas a great night.

 

[Visions]

By the 4th quarter me and a few of the guys in the AFL members were proclaiming Rocca the "New Richo" due to his wing play.

 

[didaka]

The Pendlebury tackle early in the first set the standard for the night.

Scarlett went into his shell and when it got tuff, he went missing, and wasn't alone.

 

[hellfire]

The first time the ball went to Rocca, the ball went to ground, Scarlett scooped it up and burst out of the 50 through the corridor, Pendles was a step behind him, and brought him to ground with a ferocious tackle... From that moment, I thought we were going to win. I have no idea why, but I thought that if we can stop Scarlett's rebound we would win. Rocca was vital tonight, despite not troubling the scoreboard too much.

 

[SIDE BY SIDE]

It just proves he doesn't have to kick a bag of goals each week to play well. If he can do what he did last night all the time I'm happy with him.

 

[andyyoa]

You can't tell me that Rocca did his job just because he took scarlette out of the game.. I bet Jonathan Brown Doesn't wonder into a deep forward pocket to take scarlette out of the game. Jonathan Brown pushes hard to every contest and tries to smash him in the contest..
Rocca needs to go back to the 2's and kick some bags to get his confidence up. He is a massive importance to out side, and if we make finals he needs to be firing to go..
I'm not bagging the guy, all i am saying is that he can be the difference to us winning and losing when he is taking big marks and hicking goals. He just seems a bit low on confidence..

 

[Optimax]

lmao, now that you mention it.... it is pretty simple isnt it.....hahaha why wouldnt they have just had rocca run around free up the wings and let scarlett stay off him until rocca got with in scoring range and then run back to him...dumbass'

they did rocca presided to outmark thre cats on the wing and then drill the ball 50 meteres to didak who out marked.............scarlett. They also tried scarlett on trav who then played highjer up with trav punishing him. so he was comprehensively beaten

You can't tell me that Rocca did his job just because he took scarlette out of the game.. I bet Jonathan Brown Doesn't wonder into a deep forward pocket to take scarlette out of the game. Jonathan Brown pushes hard to every contest and tries to smash him in the contest..
Rocca needs to go back to the 2's and kick some bags to get his confidence up. He is a massive importance to out side, and if we make finals he needs to be firing to go..
I'm not bagging the guy, all i am saying is that he can be the difference to us winning and losing when he is taking big marks and hicking goals. He just seems a bit low on confidence..

He did though, he had ten touches 9 marks most of which were contested, kicked 1 should of had two as he gave one off to bryan.

He also ran hrad, presented and tackled/attacked geelong players feroursciously.

so yeah he played well very well

 

[Brahma Bull]

Rocca only has to go back in the 2s if he doesnt help out the team in any way. Even though he didn't kick a bag- he played very well up the ground, took plenty of marks, made scarlett follow him and had 4 scoring assists.

Well done to the Pebbles!

I wonder what Rocca is going to do with Glass next week.

 

[Optimax]

Rocca only has to go back in the 2s if he doesnt help out the team in any way. Even though he didn't kick a bag- he played very well up the ground, took plenty of marks, made scarlett follow him and had 4 scoring assists.

Well done to the Pebbles!

I wonder what Rocca is going to do with Glass next week.

Glass hasnt been in great form, so rocca may well kick 3 on him, again but another effort like last night then i will be happy

 

[Kirby]

It's a team game and Rocca played a fantastic game for the team.

I must point out that I suggested he be played as a decoy during the week leading up to the game and pull Scarlett up the wings. I'm glad MM had the same idea.

 

[popathon]

Whoops. Scarlett just got exposed, can't beat a good player one on one without support from fellow backs in thelast line and midfield pressure.

Pleasant dreams scarlo. being tackeld and giving away a goal after the siren was symbolic and I loved it.

Stupid comment, he's one of if not the best KPB in the league. He had an off night, as did every Geelong player, true some of this would've been because of our inside 50 pressure but to say he's been found out is stupid.
Very good game by the pies, back to our best.

 

[swiftdog]

Stupid comment, he's one of if not the best KPB in the league. He had an off night, as did every Geelong player, true some of this would've been because of our inside 50 pressure but to say he's been found out is stupid.
Very good game by the pies, back to our best.

No they didn't. We've heard that the last 4 times we've played them. it is pretty much impossible that we happen to play them 4 times in a row on an off game.

 

[ALM_30]

Please people, Rocca played his role and did it well but Scarlett held our most dangerous KPF to 1 goal in an 86 point drubbing. If you were the Cats you'd take that anyday. Rocca ran up to the wings all night, which is good for the team but it's not like he beat Scarlett.

He took a couple of good one on one grabs, but Scarlett beat him one on one a number of times also. The actual match- up near goal where it matters was pretty even.

Scarlett had an off night in terms of giving away frees, but at least he was trying to attack and create something, wasn't his fault the Pies pressure was so good and the Cats weren't giving him an option. Any other FB would have conceded 4-5 considering the Pies plethora of easy ball into the forward line. A couple of the frees against him were rediculous too, like that last one where he picked it up and got tackled immediately, and the 50 to Davis. Leon played it for all it was worth and Scarlett barely touched him, in fact Leon fell over when Scarlett wasn't even touching him anymore.

The papers said Rocca "emphatically answered his critics." Wrong. He played a great team game, but playing that role is easy and in an 86 point win it can look pretty flattering. If Rocca did the exact same thing last night and Geelong won they'd be saying Scarlett beat him.

Good on Rocca for last night, but now for some consistency hey?

 

[spartan-magpie]

rocca did what was asked of him.. provide a contest..check... take marks.. check...
create space for others in the forward line .. check..
MAKE SCARLETT look like a lost ferrett.. CHECK... well done pebs...
lets see if u can kick a bag this week...