You hope lots of goal kicking practice this week we will need it against the Swans
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Freo played pretty well and contributed to our inaccuracy by forcing us to take a lot of shots from outside 40 or on angles. By my count 15 of our 21 behind were either outside 40ish or on reasonably tough angles. Sure on another day we would have kicked 7.8 but we were not overwhelming Freo with overlap run and kicking them from the square.
As it was brown and Myers combined for 4 fairly unlikely goals from difficult positions.
In contrast they were able to get better penetration with their entries and have shots from easier spots.
You are right Ivan, Freo seemed to play well but in the first minute when Hurley had the run of the ball and it bounced over his head, it didn’t look like it was going to be our day.
I also remember Smith being held down and getting a free kick in the first quarter about 60m out (but not too long ago Goddard had a 50 m paid against him for the same thing, probably the once in a generation of that free kick) and in the last quarter we had one where two Dockers players were on the mark so at least one of them had to be within the protected 10 m area ( I remember when the umpires thought that was important). There is at least 10 points we should have had on the scoreboard.
I was at the game but haven’t had a chance to watch the replay yet but the umpiring wasn’t so terrible but just seemed pretty average.
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Everyone needs to go watch this again
12:26 to go in the third 54 - 51
tommy b freakshow no look over the shoulder 5 metre backhanded tap
raz, leaps, taps ball forward
freo player collects
tackled by raz
Langford busts through tackle gets off handball
raz deftly split second deflects ball to Myers
Myers handballs to raz
Goal
Can that be our brand?
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Did he? I’ll have to watch again
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UHUH, but please check the pre-1960 rules and get back to us.
EFA
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look how raz hunts the ball
so good.
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We were unusually dominant for being 10 points up with 8 minutes to go. Putting our foot down in the last 7% of a match seems a little late, but I guess we keep taking these and retain some respect for a patched together Freo.
62 - 36 I50’s
34 scoring shots to 15.
Lost a key structural piece early in the game.
Dominated the contest without reward.
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Had several frees paid straight in front to Freo and anothet bias set of frees in general play that did not reflect possession time where we had 25% more of the ball…AGAIN. A bit in accurate ourselves, else we win by 10 goals + IMO
Langford was so strong there and clean.
And that little shimmy/lateral movement to give himself time was poetry.
I love that he was trying to get the ball out to the guy in the most space(Brown) rather than just get the handball out.
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How good indeed. Orazio just kept going and going and providing something throughout that play to finally end up with the goal.
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The criticism of player performances on Blitz is influenced so heavily by obvious turn-overs that usually are followed by a goal to the opposition. It’s so clearly an emotional trigger that overrides the ability to objectively assess the players performance over the entire game (refer to Goddard, Dea in the first half). Both these players ended up playing decent games of footy, but get completely framed by an earlier howler (aka the Stanton effect). It’s frustrating.
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Hah!, … I was thinking this exact same thing just yesterday.
Eg BJ’s bounce, Deas couple of poor choices. Travs fumble etc.
If it costs us one, or one against, they are way more remembered, and straight away the player is shitt, … or cooked, or the Cannon is called for, … the same things happen to all players all game.
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Agree. Goddard was good, did several important things that a younger player probably would’ve messed up had he even been in the smart position in the first place. Got caught a couple of times, maybe once bc tried to do too much. Missed McKenna’s urgency through hb and middle for the give. Love to give him a rest but talk of dropping this guy when we still have a slim finals chance is utter stupidity.
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And BTW, just on BJ’s bounce, … he actually only takes it because Hurls is right there, and IMO, clearly expects a shepherd, … but Hurley just runs straight past and he realises he’s exposed, and the surprise of it leads him to fluff the collect.
Don’t really know what Hurley was thinking at the time, … I would have expected him to cover too.
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4 rushed behinds too.
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It’s absolutely the Stanton effect. Stanton was good but he had a way of ensuring his errors were the mother of all errors each and every time.
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