Round 4 vs Dogs. Watchable second half

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Okay, there were positives. The main one is that the second half shows that when the team applies some pressure, the performances of individual players improves. Gresham cops heaps on here, but he’s one of our few players who actually can kick a goal. Parish can dispose of the ball pretty well when he’s got a target to kick to.

But there’s still not much to like. Even in the second half our pressure, according to the commentators, was only about 185, which is far better than it’s been so far this season but still well below what the best teams do. Yes, we outscored them from quarter time onwards, but we never got within 5 goals of them; basically we kicked a lot of junk time goals, because after half time it was all junk time.

So it’s still sack Scott for me.

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Was out for Easter dinner so knew nothing of the match. Check the score and check the first few posts - I figure we did a lot lot better than expected. Not sure what that means, let’s see what next week brings.

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84% time on ground

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Prior no, Guelfi yes

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Hopefully the fraud is gone this week so we don’t allow him the luxary of loss 18,19 and 20 in a row

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Listening to Bont on Fox. Geez he’s a polished media guy. Will be straight on telly post retirement. Great player and leader

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Farrow and Johnson tonight - 0 kickins

Last week - 1 kick in to farrow

Glad they got going and got some ball rest of the game. But surely we just put it in their hands more often then not?

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Any Zach Reid news?

Fark I just wanna hear is awareness or something like That

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If you told me before the game they’d not get to 100 and we’d win two quarters, I’d have taken it. I legit thought it was going to be a record victory for them, and at quarter time and even half time, it looked that way. After half time it was our best football of the year, they tackled hard, pressured, and worked their ■■■■■ off. Credit to the boys, where the fck has that been? All we want is some hope. Least we had something to hold our hats to. Realistically they did lose their best ruck, and didn’t have Richards or Liberatore out there…

Roberts had 29 kicks at 100% efficency. Farrow 21 disposals and looks promising. Edwards and May could be decent if they ever got good delivery. Johnson, Reid and Merrett had good second halfs. Durham and Caldwell were disgraceful in the first half, so at least showed something in the second half. Fair play to Gresham who kicked 3 good goals.

Parish, Guelfi and Langford are utterly cooked. Perkins looks lost out there. McKay provides little.

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Awareness at Essington is 10 weeks minimum

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Worst possible outcome tonight. Pressure off Brad. That first half was appalling and simply not acceptable.

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That’s Rylee

Seriously, who would name their kid Rylee?

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With those numbers he’s absolutely begging to be dropped, Brad would have every reason to do it and literally everyone, including Archie’s mum and dad, would agree that it’s the right thing to do.

And yet it still won’t happen.

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I think if you review the preview thread this result would have been a win for 99% of blitz.

I’d have liked a better first quarter for clearances with Edwards and Libba out. So it feels like in that respect the game was wasted a little.

But the contest after Q1 was fantastic. Nice work dons.

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credit to them for the way we fought it out. encouraging signs

we are still hot trash, but we can control how we attack the ball, and attack the man.

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I’m not saying he had the best game but if everyone hit the contest like Xavier Dursma does we would be a real competitive side.

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Is Reid injured ?

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Positives:

Edwards & May really look like they can make AFL footballers they should play every game from now on.

Merrett’s 2nd half was amazing, he has been poor looking for cheap kicks, but his 2nd half was his best football for quite some time.

El Hawli showed something after 1/4 time, unfortunately looked like he did a quad late, but worth persevering with.

Farrow really looks a player, great composure & excellent by foot.

Wright, Caldwell, Durham and to some degree Parish were much better after 1/2 time and they need to continue to bring this sort of effort.

Gresham’s best game for the club.

Johnson was good again after a poor 1st quarter.

Negatives:

Perkins, simply no good, how in hell does he keep getting a game?

Reid, injured again? I hope not, but…..

Langford, not sure what’s happened to him, but, his spot must be getting questionable.

McGrath had a pretty good game, but his panic disposal is a really poor look for a Captain.

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Yep. They looked ok in the second half.

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We did basically play 3 quarters of a dead rubber, so I’m not going to sing too many praises. But to be fair the dogs ■■■■■■■ love to belt the ■■■■ out of a team once they get into a situation like that, so I wouldn’t put it all down to the dogs taking their foot off the gas.

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