Matthew Lloyd

[ManWithNoName]

If he doesn't improve next week, drop him. In 5 games he's played one good game. Fair enough he's come back from an injury but 5 games is long enough to get resettled.

 

[Longy413]

I thought he was good tonight.
An improvement on last week, lead a lot stronger.
His hands aren't quite right at the moment, but his kicking is getting better.

 

[marcuz]

I thought he was good tonight.
An improvement on last week, lead a lot stronger.
His hands aren't quite right at the moment, but his kicking is getting better.

Second efforts were poor. Was beaten body on body and lead under the ball more times than i've seen him do before.

Was better than last week but he is way out of sorts. The hard leading FF of 98-2001 is not there at the minute.

 

[Darealrath]

Barry was driving me crazy the way he ran off him.

Lloyd was pretty good though - he put it on the scoreboard at least.

 

[Toasta]

If he doesn't improve next week, drop him. In 5 games he's played one good game. Fair enough he's come back from an injury but 5 games is long enough to get resettled.

As if we have the depth to afford us that luxury at the moment.

 

[Longy413]

Second efforts were poor. Was beaten body on body and lead under the ball more times than i've seen him do before.

Was better than last week but he is way out of sorts. The hard leading FF of 98-2001 is not there at the minute.

I thought he tackled well and lifted his work rate.
He is still out of sorts, but a call to drop him is pathetic and insipid.

We didn't kick to him a lot tonight, which is a positive for us. We had several options forward tonight and I can say with some confidence that if you were at the game you would have seen Lloyd lead away from the ball to create space for Lucas, McVeigh etc.

7 marks, 4 goals and 4 tackles and we are saying that's not a good game from Lloyd.

Can't wait till he plays a good one.

 

[marcuz]

He is still out of sorts, but a call to drop him is pathetic and insipid.

Agreed

We didn't kick to him a lot tonight, which is a positive for us. We had several options forward tonight and I can say with some confidence that if you were at the game you would have seen Lloyd lead away from the ball to create space for Lucas, McVeigh etc.

Too busy enjoying myself at the bar unfortunately.

7 marks, 4 goals and 4 tackles and we are saying that's not a good game from Lloyd.

Mistimed his leads, he didnt chase and was pushed off the ball too easliy. When he is in form those things rarely happen. He kicked 4 goals becuase he is a bloody good footballer and a brillint kick...doesnt mean he had a great game though, for a man of his ability anyway.

 

[Longy413]

Mistimed his leads, he didnt chase and was pushed off the ball too easliy. When he is in form those things rarely happen. He kicked 4 goals becuase he is a bloody good footballer and a brillint kick...doesnt mean he had a great game though, for a man of his ability anyway.

Exactly.
His poor games are still servicable and people are calling for him to be dropped.

This bloke has taken hit after hit for this club, from the media, the general public and the vast majority of defender's in the competition. He comes out, kicks four goals and people want him dropped.

The reason we lost tonight isn't because Lloyd had a 'poor' games, its because we have about six blokes in the side whose good games aren't as good as Lloydy's 'poor' games.

 

[topdon]

Ppl calling for Lloyd's head should have a long hard look at themselves. He play a very selfless game tonight, acting as a decoy. Still managed to kick 4 of the best from limited opportunities. Lets keep Bolton/Henneman and drop Lloyd. Morons!

 

[grimlock]

It was a good matchup tonight, Barry got on top early before Lloyd hit back with some goals. You can't put too much blame on Lloyd when you only had 3 inside 50s in the last quarter.

 

[liz]

It was a strange game in that both team's prime forward kicked 4 goals yet you'd probably say that Barry (the Leo variety) and Fletcher had better games.

 

[grimlock]

Dunno about the Fletcher call, I thought Hall edged him out in a few crucial contests. Or maybe that's just me calling it through my red-and-white tinted glasses.

 

[teams]

It will be quite on the main board this week about him playing for free kicks. To win it he had to come up the ground in the last quarter as Captain and create a bit of play.

 

[Longy413]

If you equated it to a soccer match, the Hall and Fletcher duel was about a 4-4 draw.
Both players had a big impact on the match.

 

[M29]

I thought Fletch did ok on Hall. But Hall did seem to get up the ground alot more. Lloydys slowly improving.

 

[ant555]

Maybe if he knew some of our guys could hit him on the chest a little more often then his second efforts may be better. Must be very frustrating to come back and have our guys spray the ball all over the place.