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I'm not too distraught with that. Forget about the dodgy umpiring decisions ... Collingwood were just a bit too good in the end. I agree with Mutt that we ran out of legs after the short break. We were in control at 3/4 time. I said last week we should do some creative side changes to give us some fresher legs. I don't mind us dropping Young but he wasn't the one in need of a rest.
The good thing about that game was that it was played with finals type intensity and physicality in the second half and it was at the MCG. Great experience for the kids.
Bont and Crozier had outstanding games.
Macrae, Daniel and Libba very good.
A few others were good - Lloyd, Hunter, Suckling, maybe Cordy, McLean and Smith (at times).
JJ was tidy but not really damaging or line breaking. It probably wasn't that sort of game but he'll get better in the coming weeks.
A few players barely gave a yelp - Gowers, Schache, Richards, Dunkley. I was pretty unhappy with the games of Duryea, Wallis and Wood too. But you can't drop them all.
I'll have more to say about English and Naughton later.
We're not a long way off the pace but we need a few special ingredients to get there. A tap ruckman, a tall marking KPD (like Darcy Moore), another marking target up forward and an aggressive small forward would be a good start. The difficult ones are experience and physical development. Probably not this year ... but 2016 showed us that things can change quickly.
The good thing about that game was that it was played with finals type intensity and physicality in the second half and it was at the MCG. Great experience for the kids.
Bont and Crozier had outstanding games.
Macrae, Daniel and Libba very good.
A few others were good - Lloyd, Hunter, Suckling, maybe Cordy, McLean and Smith (at times).
JJ was tidy but not really damaging or line breaking. It probably wasn't that sort of game but he'll get better in the coming weeks.
A few players barely gave a yelp - Gowers, Schache, Richards, Dunkley. I was pretty unhappy with the games of Duryea, Wallis and Wood too. But you can't drop them all.
I'll have more to say about English and Naughton later.
We're not a long way off the pace but we need a few special ingredients to get there. A tap ruckman, a tall marking KPD (like Darcy Moore), another marking target up forward and an aggressive small forward would be a good start. The difficult ones are experience and physical development. Probably not this year ... but 2016 showed us that things can change quickly.