TGO gold. Obviously the Saints and Roos got it wrong, they didn't follow the scripture.Thursdays holy scripture.
Ins and outs.
First the outs
Fn (false nerdling): let's talk about wilson, who's aaah been a little bit off for the last couple of weeks, and maybe just a bit of wake up call for him ahead of the finals. He's had a brilliant
TGO: he, to the half way point, and even to round 15, I'd say he was in all Australian half back line contention. You know I, it's funny, I can't pinpoint right now why he's out of the team. I, I've been watching them, but i, I still haven't said oh that's, that's bad, he's letting his man kick too much. You can't penalize him for running with the ball, he seems to, seems to do it every week. (Long mystified silence) I, I dunno, I can't even guess why he's out of the team.
Fn: I would suspect it's a bit of a wake up call, Adam kennedys been great the last few weeks.
TGO I think was still put off and wondering about Wilson (from the Giants btw) when it came to ins. You need to remember Hawks play Roos and saints play swans.
Fn: patty mccartin's a good in
TGO: I argued with you on Monday didn't I
Fn: about what
TGO: I didn't think mccartin would get in, because they're gonna play Bruce, membrey, mccartin, and reiwoldt will go down there occasionally. Im sure, I'm sure they're thinking "right can we push the north Melbourne defense"
Fn: (to his credit he nods) mhmm
TGO: and then north bring in Lachie Hansen.
Fn: (somewhat perplexed, I think realizing this is one of those moments Gerard warned him about) yeah
TGO: thinking, "ST kilda are gonna push our defense, we better bring in a." (Not a mistake btw, the sentence finished there.) That's right, it's gonna be interesting how those 3 operate in the same forward line.
Fn: it will. (And it gets back to some sort of normality, with fn introducing a discussion about Hawks playing north.)
I think Robbo has nailed the root of the problem for both north and the saints. Their coaching staffs set up for incorrect opposition. Imagine the surprise, when north turned up to the MCG on sat arvo, and it was the Hawks forwards, not the 3-4 talls of the saints.