Lol there is actually some gold on their big footy page.
âThatâs the first time Iâve watched Essendon all year. Canât even stand to look at them as a neutral. Not sure whatâs worse, that a drug cheating, unco-ordinated gumby like Hooker can â â â â 4 goals and get them over the line, or that they are largely being carried by their high draft picks from the last 2 seasons - picks they should have had stripped if the AFL wasnât so corrupt.â
I donât know which part of that to correct first
Watched the midfield contests through binoculars all day.
Bellchambers was well beaten. He could not get near the ball. Daw could simply jumping higher than he could.
I wasnât until the last quarter when Bellchambers started to take Daws space that he was able to neutralise the ruck contest. So the good news was he worked out how to neutralize Daw but the bad news was he didnât win much ruck ball all day.
I also noticed how much direction, tackling, tapping and blocking Watson does. These activities donât generate stats, but he is very good at it.
Myers is an absolute bulldozer. We must continue to inject the kamikaze spirit into Ambrose so he can take over this role. These blocking, tackling and general nuisance roles are critical and allow the team some space to play.
Parish was excellent yesterday. He is coming along just fine.
No doubt heâs pretty capable but I can recall several games in recent times where he has gone an extra level against the Bombers. And heâs usually matched against M Hurley. It doesnât make sense.
We really missed been yesterday
Green I mean lol
Lol theyâre full rustled by hooks
âWhy no one snotted Hooker in the last is beyond me. We should have had three guys rubbed out for teaching him a lesson. What a â â â â .â
âWouldnât â â â â on Hooker if he was on fireâ
"Geez, Hooker is setting himself up for all sorts of karma with the carry on.
He must perform each time he plays us from now on.
The scrutiny is gonna be intense.
Has elevated himself to flog status because he wouldnât have the balls to do that to Tarrant"
Itâs instructive that while we see ourselves as overcoming great adversity, other footy fans donât see it that way.
They think weâve been given an armchair ride.
Dermie and Eddie are big on it, and I guess people are listening.
Watching the Sunday Footy Show - apparently North Melbourne are very unhappy about Hookerâs treatment of their player. Uncalled for and over the line etc.
Have a sook North! Iâm sure you had a few things to say to Hooker after his easy misses in the 3rd quarter.
To be fair, he was absolutely giving it to his first or second (or something) game opponent every time he beat him.
It must have sucked to see that as a North supporter so I can understand their anger.
Personally, Iâm in favour of it.
Hooker might have to line up on that guy again in future, so itâs absolutely a good idea to let him know that heâs not good enough.
And also just generally. We need more mongrel. We need more demonstrative.
Been saying for years weâve needed some â â â â about us
Iâm sure Carey never ever taunted younger opponents. Lol.
But the North membership is outraged? Oh well. I doubt Iâll ever meet any of the 17.
Interesting observation Stabby. I expected Bellchambers to win, but I believe he broke even, looking at the stats, and looking at Joes stint in the ruck in the last, Joe won a really good share of the taps, so much so he had 9 hitouts, all 9 of which were judged as to advantage. Nrths chopout ruck was bad, he should have been the one to cop a spray !. But I noticed Daw getting a rub down on his quads, in the 3rd. Clearly he could not sustain the jumping all game and tailed off in the last. Thats when we thrashed them for clearances 9 to 1.
Watching the replay, just got to Joeâs âtouchedâ mark in the final quarter. What an absolutely disgusting decision. Unbelievable an umpire wouldnât pay that mark.
Yeah, we lost Ryder, Crameri, Hibberd, Carlisle due to the saga, but since we unearthed Walla and Raz and Merret got extra midfield time we should consider ourselves lucky? Oh and we wouldnât have James Kelly, did i forget to mention that? Thats right, James Kelly was a top up, just so you know.
It seemed to fire up hooker, so keep doing it cale if it works
If the old priority pick rules were still in place, I reckon northâs management of centre bounces in the last quarter and a half would be generating a little bit of discussion.
The best bit about that was it was deliberate. TIPPA could have simply punched, the safest option, but instead did the roundarm tap to Hookerâs advantage.
Not that we should be targeting it, but TIPPAâs work in the air has improved very substantially this past month.
We got the Sunday barrell this week - for not taking the game seriously and showing up expecting the win again (after doing the same against Brisbane).
Fair enough I guess.