Review thread - Dons d Adelaide - the road trip specialists

Yep just watching replay I will be gushing over that soon

Marty fearless

I’m still ■■■■■■■ buzzing. I was doing about 140 down the freeway here in Puglia so I can hurry up and get to the hotel and watch the replay.

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Sive drafely

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Q4 we are way better.

Um, no. I’ve been solidly and repeatedly in the Hooker forward camp for years.

That win was so frikkin important. If we can win our remaining games we have a real chance at a top 4 finish.

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Sporadically I agree

Premiership on the cards

What a performance in the second half!

For all the excitement over the last month or two, tonight’s win was on a completely different level.

We had the same run and desire and heart of previous weeks but tonight we were rewarded for all this effort by showing composure and efficiency kicking into our forward 50 and it showed on the scoreboard.

We truly made Adelaide look second rate in the second half.

A great team effort but also some wonderful individual performances.

Parish and McGrath’s running (both ways) and support play is outstanding and they are only going to get better which is just so exciting.

Shiel’s dash tonight was incredible. He finds gaps where there aren’t but his inside work and tackling was just as key tonight.

Heppell was unbelievable. He is a captain in every sense of the word (was Jobe like tonight in fact with his determination to drag us forward). He wills himself to the contest, never shirks the hard stuff and his goal at the end never looked like missing.

Mitch Brown is so underrated. He runs his opponent ragged and gets reward for effort. He is the guy (if Walla wasn’t available) that you would want to be kicking for goal if your life depended on it. Just so calm and focused.

Stringer is a bull. Loving his work in the middle at the start of each quarter. Does he ever fail to make an impact when he is in there? And then moving forward he is such a great target for us to have. Two fantastic goals tonight.

Loved seeing Hartley play so well. Haven’t seen any of his VFL form but he looked more nimble and athletic than last year. I love Hurls but we lost nothing with Harts. His long pass to switch the play out of defence in the 3rd quarter was one of the key moments in the game. High (calculated) risk for high reward and it really solidified the wave of momentum that we maintained until the end.

Gleeson is back at the level he was at the end of 2017. Tough as nails, playing way above his weight but marking well and also giving us another sneaky run and carry option out of defence.

Finally, Zach Merrett after a quiet first quarter was absolutely everywhere again. Unbelievable in the second half and so good to see him make the commentators eat their words with two brilliant finishes.

Great win boys!

Some very satisfied and happy Bomber supporters this evening!

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Wow what a night. Got loose in Singapore with a group of Bombers fans. Still going.

Go Bombers!!!

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Expensive grog enjoy

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6:30 to go and we just had the amazing Stringer goal to get us in front.

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Massive underdog win…just MASSIVE!!!
Much like Simona Halep taking down Serena Williams in the Wimbledon Final.
Very very proud, and a win for the ages…GO YOU MIGHTY BOMBERS!!!

Managed to watch the replay. Wowee, those 3rd quarter transition goals from half back were absolutely breathtaking! Chain after chain of handballs, quick running and team effort goals.

Our midfield really got on top of them in the 3rd quarter. Tippa, who was quiet in the first half really came into the game in the second half, was a real spark.

Brown was Mr Reliable up forward and Merret and Parish really good games. Well deserved win!

P.S. Reckon we got a good ride with the umpires in the 3rd quarter. Just before that Tippa to McGrath goal, Stringer should have been gone for HTB. He took on the first tackle then got caught again, that is having prior opportunity to me. Well, makes up for the ANZAC day game non-calls :grin:

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96 to 75 woop woop

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Starting to think that the win by the pies against the Eagles may have been good for us after all.

It helped. Thank you

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Harder.

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And Adelaide sucked it.

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