I think the day was fairly well summed up by The Bald Eagle's goal. He worked hard to get to the fall of the ball, used pure strength to push away his Geelong opponent, baulked through heavy traffic and slotted it straight through the big ones.
Every time Eagleton went near the footy yesterday I was amazed and forced to eat my words. Marks, kicks, handballs, tackles, shepherds and didn't get caught out once! Lets hope he can keep it up
Hahn / Dimma combined well through the middle as the bustling type midfielders. Each goes about it a little differently but both were effective and bagged a couple of goals between them - provided plenty of physicality in the middle and did all that anyone could expect of them.
Bandy's game was a bit like his last season IMO, started off very good, waivered a tad but still was very effective. Harrison did well as the dummy CHF, provided plenty of options and got plenty of the footy. Bassett and Kretiuk were rock solid all day, Shaggy was handy although a bit wasteful (he basically gave the Cats 2 goals on a platter)
I was impressed with the tenacity at the footy and the hard running off HB into the forward line - Perhaps next week Wiggo will be given more of a go at FF, allowing Browny to play more as a crumbing forward and take a bit of pressure of him in the marking contests.
Felt very sorry for Chris Grant, huge blow for us but one which we can recover from - hopefuly Crofty, Kritters, Bassett et al can stay on the park most of the year and perhaps Harris / Skipper can step up. Hopefully.