I know what your saying but when JD starts clunking big contested marks in his own right our forwardline takes on another dimension. Agree though he's still playing an important role just not quite at his best.
Review Positives and Negatives vs Essendon
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For starters - he's almost impossible to nullify as he'll get 6-10 kicks from kick ins.
Secondly - he used to be tagged and it definitely hurt - now with Jetta's kicking and mcgovern's intercepting - hurn isn't on the radar.
And a tagger isn't going to stop him intercept marking.
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I did say opposition in general. This could involve a heavy tag, putting a man into the hole, particular zoning techniques from kick-ins etc. I do agree that with Jetta and McGovern they don't really tag Hurn any more - great for us, as it won us a flag.
It looks to me like OAllen is the new improved JD.He took a mark on the flank and immediately took two steps to the side of the man on the mark and fired a short pass to the leading JK.Such fast and decisive decision making.JD marking away from goals its like hes stopping for a photo opportunity.
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Just on a lot of the Darling commentary.
His second half was a mare - no doubting that - but his first half was actually reasonable.
It's too easy to look at a stat sheet and say they were s**t. However Essendon had a +1 as we had committed one extra to the stoppage.
Many times Darling went up against 2 of ambrose/hurley/hooker and halved a contest. Doesn't get any stats for it - but it caused a stoppage which more often that not went our way.
If all darling does in a game is halve 2-1 then he is having a good game and delivering for our side.
It's not something Allen is able to do yet - and something Darling wasn't doing as much in the second half as his feet kept going out from under him
His second half was a mare - no doubting that - but his first half was actually reasonable.
It's too easy to look at a stat sheet and say they were s**t. However Essendon had a +1 as we had committed one extra to the stoppage.
Many times Darling went up against 2 of ambrose/hurley/hooker and halved a contest. Doesn't get any stats for it - but it caused a stoppage which more often that not went our way.
If all darling does in a game is halve 2-1 then he is having a good game and delivering for our side.
It's not something Allen is able to do yet - and something Darling wasn't doing as much in the second half as his feet kept going out from under him
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Jetta's in peak form like now IMO. Hopefully he goes on like this for a few more season's until Francis, Rotham and co develop their game
yep, for all the clunky things he does when he's having an off-night, he's still doing all the defensive and transition work, score assists, tackles etc...
And it is a bit like Yeo or Shuey, JK or JD, one gets attention, the other gets off the chain.
It's a real treat when they both fire together in the forward arc! (and spells misery for the opp.)
He'll come good...
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It needs to be said, and I'm going to say it. I don't care.
Hurn and Shep are as good a combo as Woosha and McKenna.
Hurn and Shep are as good a combo as Woosha and McKenna.
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I reckon we will miss his mentoring, even more than his playing ability when he does retire.
Is Saad really that good though? I feel like he’s only really damaging when the rest of the team is performing well, which they certainly weren’t last night.
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He's decided to use his run again and it's a delight to see
So many short 30m kicks to targets, only to follow up and get another handball and hit a target another 50m further on.
So damaging last night - especially in the first half
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Agreed. I don’t know if it’s a tactical move where Jetta can be aggressive because he knows he has more cover behind him, or it’s as simple as he has a new found willingness to do so, but the follow up work to turn his precision kicks into a handball receive and second kick is so damaging.
Or were the Bombers not performing well because Saad wasn't damaging?
I just don’t think he has that much bearing on the game but maybe I haven’t been watching enough of their games. He cut us up last year Ill accept that
I haven't seen much of them to have any insight for you, but I know we singled him out for a tag and the Bombers never got their fast rebounding game plan off the half back line going consistently. Then we won. I'm over simplifying it perhaps, but thems the facts.
We appear to have scouted the Bombers source of scoring and stopped it's supply.
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He's been close to their most dangerous player all year. Averaged 18 disposals on the season, 19 in their last eight games. Hutch restricted him well.
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I'll add one more positive:
Coming from a rugby background since I was a tadpole (blame Rhodesian parents for that), I reckon if anyone in the side needs tackling lessons, send them to Cameron. What a beast at tackling he is. No brokens, just a solid, all in hitting for a smaller fella. I too often see shocking tackling in this game from supreme athletes. Not so with Cameron.
Though be careful, the MRO are always waiting to swoop on anyone who tackles anyone and injures them, remember we want to have AFL turn into Sarcastaball.
Coming from a rugby background since I was a tadpole (blame Rhodesian parents for that), I reckon if anyone in the side needs tackling lessons, send them to Cameron. What a beast at tackling he is. No brokens, just a solid, all in hitting for a smaller fella. I too often see shocking tackling in this game from supreme athletes. Not so with Cameron.
Though be careful, the MRO are always waiting to swoop on anyone who tackles anyone and injures them, remember we want to have AFL turn into Sarcastaball.
Positives:
+ We didn’t come out flat off the bye like last year
+ Yeo is just a beast. Surely on track for AA this year. Agree fully with Nicky Dal, best two way mid in the game.
+ Sheeda, big game from this lad. No ones pockets are safe around him. Still needs to work on his tackling though. Saw Redman run straight at him and put him on his ass.
+ JK, beat Hurley all night. Could have been a big night for him if not for those missed shots.
+ 36 Shots on goal, need to keep that up.
+ Cameron debut. Him along with Cripps, Ryan, Rioli, Petrucelle and Venners is a scary proposition for oppo defenders. They all have a mix of pace, hardness, pressure, skill and flair.
+ Hutch shutting down Saad
+ Sheppard, I feel like say this in every +/- thread I post in. The lads need to get him a medal
+ we get to add Naitanui, Barrass and Rioli to this 22
Negatives:
- Gov being offered a one match suspension. Absolute BS.
- 14.22 is no good. Luckily it’s something can be fixed.
- We might not get to see a forward line of Kennedy, Darling, Cripps, Ryan, Rioli, Petch and Cameron next week.
- commentators being absolute s**t campaigners all game. Just talking amongst themselves and cracking poor jokes rather than doing their job. And just picking one thing and running with it all game.
+ We didn’t come out flat off the bye like last year
+ Yeo is just a beast. Surely on track for AA this year. Agree fully with Nicky Dal, best two way mid in the game.
+ Sheeda, big game from this lad. No ones pockets are safe around him. Still needs to work on his tackling though. Saw Redman run straight at him and put him on his ass.
+ JK, beat Hurley all night. Could have been a big night for him if not for those missed shots.
+ 36 Shots on goal, need to keep that up.
+ Cameron debut. Him along with Cripps, Ryan, Rioli, Petrucelle and Venners is a scary proposition for oppo defenders. They all have a mix of pace, hardness, pressure, skill and flair.
+ Hutch shutting down Saad
+ Sheppard, I feel like say this in every +/- thread I post in. The lads need to get him a medal
+ we get to add Naitanui, Barrass and Rioli to this 22
Negatives:
- Gov being offered a one match suspension. Absolute BS.
- 14.22 is no good. Luckily it’s something can be fixed.
- We might not get to see a forward line of Kennedy, Darling, Cripps, Ryan, Rioli, Petch and Cameron next week.
- commentators being absolute s**t campaigners all game. Just talking amongst themselves and cracking poor jokes rather than doing their job. And just picking one thing and running with it all game.
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Anything to say about the match?
Yeah the give and get and give makes Jetta a much more dangerous player. Takes the ball from the back fifty to half forward in three possessions. Loved to see it.
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