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I was, bit of a hoarse voice today though. Only advantage of the small crowd is the delusion that the umpire can hear you and cares.I’m travelling so I haven’t seen the game, so with that in mind…
This is why I hate the new dissent rule. If the players are not able to give the umps a gobfull when they make a huge mistake, then how can they make corrections mid-game? The players have a bunch of coaches who give them a spray during the breaks - who’s letting the umps know they need to sort their s**t out?
In his defence it seemed to be instruction that he was the first receiver rather than the extractor. The stoppage structure had him on the outside more often. I suspect it's part of trying to rectify our million blokes getting sucked into the contest.The defence (and the team behind the ball in general) had their best game for the year.
How a 74-34 inside-50 deficit only resulted in a 47 point loss was yesterday's miracle.
The 38-22 stoppage loss being a big part of that.
LDU, Anderson, Horne-Francis and Greenwood all had 10 contested possessions or more. But then we had a guy who attended 18 centre bounces and multiple other stoppages who had just 2 contested possessions. Jai Simpkin. That despite attending 18 centre bounces and multiple other stoppages.
Meanwhile Oliver had 22 contested possessions and won 11 stoppage clearances.
Simpkin has to be moved out of the midfield. Cannot have a player who attends the most centre bounces and other stoppages winning just 1 stoppage clearance and 2 contested possessions.
This is one of our biggest problems..Melbourne players were more disciplined in not venturing into congested contests there by creating outages for them to run the ball out from..In his defence it seemed to be instruction that he was the first receiver rather than the extractor. The stoppage structure had him on the outside more often. I suspect it's part of trying to rectify our million blokes getting sucked into the contest.
I don't usually critique umpiring but JHF had his head taken off twice and a blatant hold against inside 50......nothing :/
Sure but if the ball spills to a player at a centre bounce, given he's one of only four players in there, he has to try win that contested ball against his opponent given the other two plus ruck are invariably in different spots.In his defence it seemed to be instruction that he was the first receiver rather than the extractor. The stoppage structure had him on the outside more often. I suspect it's part of trying to rectify our million blokes getting sucked into the contest.
He’s not an AFL footballer unfortunately.Was thinking same during the game. He’s not a defender. Try him as a tagger, especially when we are getting reamed.
Yeah anyone potting Xerri’s game has nfi. I thought CCJ was stiff to be dropped but X was terrific, beating Gawn to tap to advantage for a goal and also snapping one of his own particular highlights.It was easily the best I’ve seen Xerri ruck. Particularly early. He was leading the hit outs to advantage all day
Despite media fuelled nonsense, it is exceedingly rare we lose players we want to keep.Hope he stays at the Kangas long term.
Umpiring was clearly not the reason we lost.
However, they are making the game we love almost unwatchable.
Definitely at an all time low yesterday afternoon, and the bar was already bloody low to start with.
Incompetent. Horrendous. Infuriating.
I don’t watch games as a neutral now because of the way they inject themselves into the contest.
Also all the dissent rule has done is pushed vitriol into coming from the stands.
North supporters should be allowed to carry bricks to games as a cultural right.
The umpires made it very clear from pretty much the outset. They almost always err on the side off favouring the higher ranked team or the home team if the crowd is big. It is not always apparent in the count of frees, but it’s generally obvious with regard to the rub of the green wit the 50/50s and then of course, the blatantly obvious misses or wrongly paid frees.The early penalising of Tarryn's perfect tackle set the tone for the umpiring from go to whoa, and not just Eleni either.
Effort was there today, thanks boys.
Nobles game plan is reliant on players that can use the ball well. Since he came to the club I don’t think that we’ve drafted anyone that is just an average kick (bar Spicer and maybe Goater who are elite athletically).I must say Cam Mooney was very positive towards us. Jason Dunstall who is a fairly level headed person made a great point- North need to draft players that can kick the footy. We have a couple of youngsters that are ok but need consistently good kickers and more importantly use them
Amen.Umpiring was clearly not the reason we lost.
However, they are making the game we love almost unwatchable.
Definitely at an all time low yesterday afternoon, and the bar was already bloody low to start with.
Incompetent. Horrendous. Infuriating.
They were OK. Hudson on the other hand, he can eat a tin of dogfood.I must say Cam Mooney was very positive towards us. Jason Dunstall who is a fairly level headed person made a great point- North need to draft players that can kick the footy. We have a couple of youngsters that are ok but need consistently good kickers and more importantly use them
Totally agree.Nobles game plan is reliant on players that can use the ball well. Since he came to the club I don’t think that we’ve drafted anyone that is just an average kick (bar Spicer and maybe Goater who are elite athletically).
It’s certainly a balance. You don’t want to play a style that hides incompetent players, equally you don’t want to play a style that is so far outside the current groups grasp that we get pumped every week.Totally agree.
The thing is though I'd like to see how we go when we have the current predicament of using players that don't use the ball as well. I'd rather we drill the game style that stacks up against the best of teams regardless of whether we dominate the stoppages or contested situations. In the past that's been our forte no doubt but it's also our catastrophic downfall when teams are beating us in stoppages. Petrie's impact in the air mitigated how unimaginative we were getting the ball in bombing it long repeatedly.
Controlling the ball allows us to setup the play and control the tempo so we don't gas ourselves. Additionally, we need to look at finding the right balance forward of the ball where we would need one forward providing a leading target, and another doubling back zipping around creating uncertainty.
Game plans will get drilled well enough to see more of what we saw yesterday. The Dees were clearly frustrated at the fact we were picking them apart at times.
To put it simply, to be the better team when your team is so hamstrung by injuries and missing personnel crucial to structures, is a huge plus despite the fade in the last.