Land of the Giants
Premiership Player
Well, we got the chocolates against the Suns. We had to if we were serious about the rest of the season.
It was a real team effort, with seven individual goal kickers and uniform effort across the board. As expected we benefited enormously from the return of Zac Williams, who was clearly among our BOG. We just look far more balanced across the ground when he plays.
Moving forward, the question will be who replaces Toby and Matt de Boer, both out with hamstring injuries. I can't see them returning until Round 13 at the earliest, because while there's a bye round this season, it's not a full week off. Round 10 is Friday August 7th, Round 11 is the "bye", and Round 12 against the Swans is on Thursday August 13th. So until Round 13, whenever that is, I suspect we’ll see Ward and Kennedy recalled, as both got through unscathed in the scratch match against the Swans the other day. Another candidate for consideration might be Tom Green.
Now for Friday night, again at Metricon.
Remember Round 15 last season? How could you forget, when we let the Bombers kick six final term goals and snatch victory with just five seconds left? Being acquainted with a couple of insufferable Essendon fans, I’m still having nightmare flashbacks over it.
But Essendon were creamed by Brisbane the other evening. They’ll welcome back Kyle Langford from suspension to play us, but have a long injury list, and their big-name outs – Ambrose, Daniher, Fantasia, Heppell, and Stringer – are weeks away. They are way down on scoring power and our backline at least should be too good for them.
To be blunt, there won’t be any excuse for us losing this game, and I don’t think we will. Touch wood.
Are we now back on track?
It was a real team effort, with seven individual goal kickers and uniform effort across the board. As expected we benefited enormously from the return of Zac Williams, who was clearly among our BOG. We just look far more balanced across the ground when he plays.
Moving forward, the question will be who replaces Toby and Matt de Boer, both out with hamstring injuries. I can't see them returning until Round 13 at the earliest, because while there's a bye round this season, it's not a full week off. Round 10 is Friday August 7th, Round 11 is the "bye", and Round 12 against the Swans is on Thursday August 13th. So until Round 13, whenever that is, I suspect we’ll see Ward and Kennedy recalled, as both got through unscathed in the scratch match against the Swans the other day. Another candidate for consideration might be Tom Green.
Now for Friday night, again at Metricon.
Remember Round 15 last season? How could you forget, when we let the Bombers kick six final term goals and snatch victory with just five seconds left? Being acquainted with a couple of insufferable Essendon fans, I’m still having nightmare flashbacks over it.
But Essendon were creamed by Brisbane the other evening. They’ll welcome back Kyle Langford from suspension to play us, but have a long injury list, and their big-name outs – Ambrose, Daniher, Fantasia, Heppell, and Stringer – are weeks away. They are way down on scoring power and our backline at least should be too good for them.
To be blunt, there won’t be any excuse for us losing this game, and I don’t think we will. Touch wood.
Are we now back on track?
