Has to stay in all year if he keeps playing like that. A class above our other depth players
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Review Cats hang on by 3 points to beat Pies
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Or play away from the MCG
If Clark can just get his body right over another preseason, he's not far from clicking into gear as he has the toughness and the skills.
Mullin looked so good through the middle. I was hoping we saw more of this sooner. He's a powerful young man.
Mullin looked so good through the middle. I was hoping we saw more of this sooner. He's a powerful young man.
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Yep.
It's a fairly simple job to teach and a hard one to pull off.
Stick with your man. Make him uncomfortable. Make him earn it.
What's that bit of (TV?) audio where the players are all asked who the hardest player to play on is and they all answer "Cameron Ling".
That's what we need.
The free to Bowes was for a hold of the jumper. It was very clear to me live. Thankfully the umpire noticed too.
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I meant the one against us that seemed to be nothing on the far halfforward flank.
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yup that was a clear tug of the jumper.
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King hating us always helps for later in the year.
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Didn't rate the wood to highly, but man they're in it to win it.
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I remember a fair few people last year calling for him to spend time in the midfield in the 2s for a bit of development. Not a bad idea
1. Rhys Stanley - Got injured early and subbed off at 1/4 time. He was due for a rest anyway, but I have no idea how we're going to fill the ruck spot now.
3. Bailey Smith - What a difference he's made to the midfield. With Holmes getting tagged every week now someone has to get the metres gained, and Smith is giving us a heap of drive. Knowing he can ping goals on the run from 50 will no doubt give oppo coaches major headaches.
5. Jeremy Cameron - Had a pretty quiet day. He seems to lack intensity, or interest. Still, you can always count on him to produce two or three bits of magic a game.
7. Shaun Mannagh - I liked his game. He took some of the hungus out of his game this week, but still knew when to have a ping himself. When you've got Mannagh lurking around F50 stoppages he can often make something happen.
9. Max Holmes - He needs to work out how to handle getting tagged. Sacrificing his own game in the Holmes/Smith whac-a-mole strategy is OK when it works, but he broke the shackles in the last quarter and gave us a lot of forward momentum so we need to find a way to get that to happen more reliably.
12. Jack Bowes - Bowes was another player who atoned for a poor first three quarters with some matchwinning work in the last. Getting caught HTB in the third quarter was a twelve point turnaround for us and could have been so costly, but a few nice touches in the final quarter and a really timely goal were a big part of getting us over the line.
13. Jhye Clark - I think he had a career best game tonight. While he still has limitations- notably being too small and poor endurance- he worked very hard. One moment in the last where Clark ran with the flight of the ball and managed to get a spoil in on a much taller Collingwood player on the wing was important. I liked his decision making all night and willingness to both lay and wear tackles.
14. Connor O'Sullivan - When Collingwood can repeatedly feed their big marking forwards with quality inside 50s, you're going to struggle. But I don't think COS lowered his colours tonight at all. He continues to make good decisions, not panic, and put in some really timely little taps to advantage in congestion. And I hadn't realised he was that quick.
16. Sam De Koning - I thought he had an indifferent game. He took a few nice grabs in defence, but having to rotate in and out of the ruck after Stanley went down put him off his game a bit I thought.
17. Lawson Humphries - I think this is the first poor game I've seen him play. He's usually so sure by foot, but I guess getting burned so often on the "not 15" tempted him into over-kicking a bit.
18. Tyson Stengle - He was lively without really starring, but he always finds ways of contributing even when conditions don't suit him. He seemed to be involved in a lot of our F50 possession chains, and doesn't panic or turn it over.
21. Oli Wiltshire - He looked completely out of his depth but despite that I liked what he provided tonight, coming on as the sub. He runs to the right places, including really hard gut running in the passage of play leading up to his first AFL goal, and that was the goal that started our revival in the 3rd. Winning a HTB with a big tackle on Mason Cox was a highlight too. He'll certainly be squeezed out when Kolo, Stewart, Knevitt, JHenry, Clohesy, etc return, but I don't begrudge the investment we've put into him the last two games.
22. Mitch Duncan - Two terribly hilarious howlers aside, I thought Duncan was solid. He got his fair share of the ball, generally used it well, and wore some pretty nasty-looking bumps in the congestion. He played an unobtrusive but important role for us.
28. Ollie Dempsey - Last year we'd see him go for some outrageous speckies and say it was only a matter of time until he started hanging on to them. I think today was that day. His new-found ability to take contested marks makes him a real nightmare for defenders, because he can also do the Ronaldo stuff on the goal line.
30. Tom Atkins - Another day, another 21 touches, eleven contested possessions, and eight tackles. He's like an engine that never stops. He'd be leading our B&F I reckon.
33. Shannon Neale - I don't know. Numerous contested marks early in the game, including our first goal, but he seemed to drift out of the game after that and some of his decision making kicking inside 50 was lamentable. He did do OK in the ruck though.
34. Oisin Mullin - He was given the daunting task of tagging Nick Daicos, who'll rack up touches no matter what you do, but I thought Mullin quelled his influence a lot and, crucially, kept him to just two or three touches in the final quarter. I liked him giving one of the Pies players, Maynard I think, some stick. That kind of thing puts some swagger into our game. This was probably the best game of his career so far.
35. Patrick Dangerfield - When the game was there to be won, PFD went to another level. He was in everything in the last quarter, kicking goals, winning clearance after clearance, saving goals down the other end, and even rucking. It was like he was challenging his teammates that this is what he needed from everyone, and the team lifted as a whole. Leading by example.
36. Ollie Henry - This guy needed to lift after a disastrously terrible first 7 weeks, and he did. Although he only got the 6 touches, two of them were beautiful shots for goals, and I even saw him put in some 1%ers, particularly early.
39. Zach Guthrie - Zuth let himself down with some stupid decision making early on, but improved big time as the game progressed.
42. Mark O'Connor - When we were under siege in the first half, MOC saved us again and again with strong defensive marks. Without that, we go into half time four or five goals down and it's game over.
45. Brad Close - Best game from him for a while. He seemed to be playing a bit higher up the ground this week, and got a lot of creative touches through the midfield. It helps when his teammates don't drop long, high inside 50s on his head when he's being matched up on by a much taller defender.
46. Mark Blicavs - Aside from one potentially very costly blunder in the last three seconds, I thought Blitz played a brilliant game. When your backup in the ruck is Neale, who lacks experience, and De Koning, who lacks physicality, and you can grab the ball clean out of the ruck against the likes of Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox, you know you're having a good game.
3. Bailey Smith - What a difference he's made to the midfield. With Holmes getting tagged every week now someone has to get the metres gained, and Smith is giving us a heap of drive. Knowing he can ping goals on the run from 50 will no doubt give oppo coaches major headaches.
5. Jeremy Cameron - Had a pretty quiet day. He seems to lack intensity, or interest. Still, you can always count on him to produce two or three bits of magic a game.
7. Shaun Mannagh - I liked his game. He took some of the hungus out of his game this week, but still knew when to have a ping himself. When you've got Mannagh lurking around F50 stoppages he can often make something happen.
9. Max Holmes - He needs to work out how to handle getting tagged. Sacrificing his own game in the Holmes/Smith whac-a-mole strategy is OK when it works, but he broke the shackles in the last quarter and gave us a lot of forward momentum so we need to find a way to get that to happen more reliably.
12. Jack Bowes - Bowes was another player who atoned for a poor first three quarters with some matchwinning work in the last. Getting caught HTB in the third quarter was a twelve point turnaround for us and could have been so costly, but a few nice touches in the final quarter and a really timely goal were a big part of getting us over the line.
13. Jhye Clark - I think he had a career best game tonight. While he still has limitations- notably being too small and poor endurance- he worked very hard. One moment in the last where Clark ran with the flight of the ball and managed to get a spoil in on a much taller Collingwood player on the wing was important. I liked his decision making all night and willingness to both lay and wear tackles.
14. Connor O'Sullivan - When Collingwood can repeatedly feed their big marking forwards with quality inside 50s, you're going to struggle. But I don't think COS lowered his colours tonight at all. He continues to make good decisions, not panic, and put in some really timely little taps to advantage in congestion. And I hadn't realised he was that quick.
16. Sam De Koning - I thought he had an indifferent game. He took a few nice grabs in defence, but having to rotate in and out of the ruck after Stanley went down put him off his game a bit I thought.
17. Lawson Humphries - I think this is the first poor game I've seen him play. He's usually so sure by foot, but I guess getting burned so often on the "not 15" tempted him into over-kicking a bit.
18. Tyson Stengle - He was lively without really starring, but he always finds ways of contributing even when conditions don't suit him. He seemed to be involved in a lot of our F50 possession chains, and doesn't panic or turn it over.
21. Oli Wiltshire - He looked completely out of his depth but despite that I liked what he provided tonight, coming on as the sub. He runs to the right places, including really hard gut running in the passage of play leading up to his first AFL goal, and that was the goal that started our revival in the 3rd. Winning a HTB with a big tackle on Mason Cox was a highlight too. He'll certainly be squeezed out when Kolo, Stewart, Knevitt, JHenry, Clohesy, etc return, but I don't begrudge the investment we've put into him the last two games.
22. Mitch Duncan - Two terribly hilarious howlers aside, I thought Duncan was solid. He got his fair share of the ball, generally used it well, and wore some pretty nasty-looking bumps in the congestion. He played an unobtrusive but important role for us.
28. Ollie Dempsey - Last year we'd see him go for some outrageous speckies and say it was only a matter of time until he started hanging on to them. I think today was that day. His new-found ability to take contested marks makes him a real nightmare for defenders, because he can also do the Ronaldo stuff on the goal line.
30. Tom Atkins - Another day, another 21 touches, eleven contested possessions, and eight tackles. He's like an engine that never stops. He'd be leading our B&F I reckon.
33. Shannon Neale - I don't know. Numerous contested marks early in the game, including our first goal, but he seemed to drift out of the game after that and some of his decision making kicking inside 50 was lamentable. He did do OK in the ruck though.
34. Oisin Mullin - He was given the daunting task of tagging Nick Daicos, who'll rack up touches no matter what you do, but I thought Mullin quelled his influence a lot and, crucially, kept him to just two or three touches in the final quarter. I liked him giving one of the Pies players, Maynard I think, some stick. That kind of thing puts some swagger into our game. This was probably the best game of his career so far.
35. Patrick Dangerfield - When the game was there to be won, PFD went to another level. He was in everything in the last quarter, kicking goals, winning clearance after clearance, saving goals down the other end, and even rucking. It was like he was challenging his teammates that this is what he needed from everyone, and the team lifted as a whole. Leading by example.
36. Ollie Henry - This guy needed to lift after a disastrously terrible first 7 weeks, and he did. Although he only got the 6 touches, two of them were beautiful shots for goals, and I even saw him put in some 1%ers, particularly early.
39. Zach Guthrie - Zuth let himself down with some stupid decision making early on, but improved big time as the game progressed.
42. Mark O'Connor - When we were under siege in the first half, MOC saved us again and again with strong defensive marks. Without that, we go into half time four or five goals down and it's game over.
45. Brad Close - Best game from him for a while. He seemed to be playing a bit higher up the ground this week, and got a lot of creative touches through the midfield. It helps when his teammates don't drop long, high inside 50s on his head when he's being matched up on by a much taller defender.
46. Mark Blicavs - Aside from one potentially very costly blunder in the last three seconds, I thought Blitz played a brilliant game. When your backup in the ruck is Neale, who lacks experience, and De Koning, who lacks physicality, and you can grab the ball clean out of the ruck against the likes of Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox, you know you're having a good game.
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Nice to see OHenry get a couple of nice goals.
All love here, but Vdubs saying Dangerfield couldn't be expected to play well (amended to "be a match winner") 2 weeks in a row (anymore) has been a backfire. Has been our most inspirational in majority of the games and highly influential in each win.Thanks. Toldya Paddy was gonna bring us home
I kind of agree with Dubsy that it shouldn't be possible. But seeing is believing.
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The last time we were 2 years younger than our oppo would have been in that 01-05 period, that is insane
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I think the early goal assist to Blicavs helped him - teammates got around him to acknowledge the teamwork and that may have helped settle him a little
The goals are great, but it's plays like that which deserve a lot of credit
3 really bad moments, but the rest was all class and grit from Duncan. 20 touches rebounding from half back on the big ol' MCG with his broken body was a hell of an effort. Involved in plenty of nice transitions or pressure releasing kicks.
Not unusual when we play Collingwood (and N Melb)…have seen it often over the years.
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