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Here is my report on the day at Skilled. A bit disappointing.
I just got home from the VFL today, I went with CatAttack and gocats2002, it was really disappointing cos we could've won, and should've except for some appauling Umpiring decsions in the last Qtr that cost us the game in the end. Anyway here is my report.
GEELONG VS BOX HILL
Skilled Stadium, Geelong
Crowd: Approx 1500
GEELONG: 3.1 7.2 13.3 18.3.111
BOX HILL: 7.1 10.2 15.4 19.6.120
Goals: Geelong: Kingsley 5, Mackie 3, Lonergan 3, Bartel, S.Johnson, Playfair, Rahilly, Street, Byrnes, Cook.
Best: Geelong: Finnin, Mackie, Grgic, Byrnes, Rahilly, S.Johnson.
As I said the umpiring cost us the game today, there are few occasions when you can say that, but today is one of them. 2 ridiculous decisions resulting in 2 goals in the end cost us a win. A free was paid against Tim Callan for a high hit on a BH player. But this is the best thing, he didn't even hit him. The umpire got sucked in by the BH player. That was bad enough, then he called advantage when clearly he shouldn't have, and they got a goal. The second was a mark to a BH player about 45-50m out, then for some unknown reason the umpire about 50-60m away paid a 50m penalty. Costing us another goal, if you take those 2 goals out, we win by 3 points.
IMO, best on ground would have to go to Brent Grgic. He showed today why he should be in the seniors, and I expect he will be recalled next week for the game against Adelaide. He was strong all day, always getting to the front and marking, and if not marking, spoiling his opponent.
Kent Kingsley played great today in Umber 31?? Dont know why he was wearing Chambo's no. but it worked. He kicked 5.0. He provided an option and worked hard up the ground, and worked hard for his crumbers.
Andrew Mackie was brilliant, he showed today why we picked him up. His kicking today was sensational on both feet. I remember on specific occasion when he was on the boundary line and kicked it on his left foot from about 40m out to the top of the square perfectly to Tom Lonergan who kicked truly. Mackie worked hard up the ground hitting the packs hard and winning the tough balls. He was cruely denied a mark in the 2nd qtr (I think) when it was clearly was a mark, but we managed to get a goal about 2 mins later. So it was OK. Also he managed to kick 3 goals, all at pivotal times.
Ben Finnin was really good down back. He ran hard out of defence and took on the opposition and with his long booming kick it worked really good for the boys.
Overall it was pretty solid performance by all the boys and it was hard to pick out great players. But we still lost, which was disappointing. Box Hill were second on the ladder and to beat them would have been really great. But there is always next week, when we play Tasmania in a Curtain Raiser to the Crows game.
That is just about it, not a lot to say this week, we played well and deserved a win, but we didn't.
I just got home from the VFL today, I went with CatAttack and gocats2002, it was really disappointing cos we could've won, and should've except for some appauling Umpiring decsions in the last Qtr that cost us the game in the end. Anyway here is my report.
GEELONG VS BOX HILL
Skilled Stadium, Geelong
Crowd: Approx 1500
GEELONG: 3.1 7.2 13.3 18.3.111
BOX HILL: 7.1 10.2 15.4 19.6.120
Goals: Geelong: Kingsley 5, Mackie 3, Lonergan 3, Bartel, S.Johnson, Playfair, Rahilly, Street, Byrnes, Cook.
Best: Geelong: Finnin, Mackie, Grgic, Byrnes, Rahilly, S.Johnson.
As I said the umpiring cost us the game today, there are few occasions when you can say that, but today is one of them. 2 ridiculous decisions resulting in 2 goals in the end cost us a win. A free was paid against Tim Callan for a high hit on a BH player. But this is the best thing, he didn't even hit him. The umpire got sucked in by the BH player. That was bad enough, then he called advantage when clearly he shouldn't have, and they got a goal. The second was a mark to a BH player about 45-50m out, then for some unknown reason the umpire about 50-60m away paid a 50m penalty. Costing us another goal, if you take those 2 goals out, we win by 3 points.
IMO, best on ground would have to go to Brent Grgic. He showed today why he should be in the seniors, and I expect he will be recalled next week for the game against Adelaide. He was strong all day, always getting to the front and marking, and if not marking, spoiling his opponent.
Kent Kingsley played great today in Umber 31?? Dont know why he was wearing Chambo's no. but it worked. He kicked 5.0. He provided an option and worked hard up the ground, and worked hard for his crumbers.
Andrew Mackie was brilliant, he showed today why we picked him up. His kicking today was sensational on both feet. I remember on specific occasion when he was on the boundary line and kicked it on his left foot from about 40m out to the top of the square perfectly to Tom Lonergan who kicked truly. Mackie worked hard up the ground hitting the packs hard and winning the tough balls. He was cruely denied a mark in the 2nd qtr (I think) when it was clearly was a mark, but we managed to get a goal about 2 mins later. So it was OK. Also he managed to kick 3 goals, all at pivotal times.
Ben Finnin was really good down back. He ran hard out of defence and took on the opposition and with his long booming kick it worked really good for the boys.
Overall it was pretty solid performance by all the boys and it was hard to pick out great players. But we still lost, which was disappointing. Box Hill were second on the ladder and to beat them would have been really great. But there is always next week, when we play Tasmania in a Curtain Raiser to the Crows game.
That is just about it, not a lot to say this week, we played well and deserved a win, but we didn't.
