Box Hill lost as well, so we stay in front of them and Geelong.
Francis watch? Anyone?
Took 7 intercept marks, had 12 rebound 50s, and kicked 3 goals.
Pretty impressive considering he did both knees 4 minutes into the second.
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According to the interim VFL app stats, Houlahan was our only player to kick a behind (i.e. 12 were rushed). They list Footscray with 9 behinds and 3 rushed.
Real, or VFL stats at their best (especially since @Paul_Cousins mentioned Colyer hitting the post twice)?
So Colyer had a good game?? Any chance he comes back in first game after the bye?
Doubt it. More game time me thinks.
Key question with Zak likely to be out for a while (and Parish already out). Depends how much game time Colyer had yesterday. Named in the bests means he must have had a fair bit of time. He has been training with main group for a while so his fitness might be reasonable already.
R12 was when Crowe has always talked about him being back in his videos (it was originally R7 and then Colyer had a āsetbackā).
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BRING
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Trav Colyer would be disappointed to know his snaps were considered rushed, as would several set shot misses.
Not real.
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Played 60 minutes of game time. Got through well, I didnāt have him in my best players but was terrific to see him back and did some nice things.
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How did Draper go being the main ruck?
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Paul I know they were on the best but can you tell us a bit about the performances of Francis and redman - hopefully we see both in the AFL
This week.
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Stats are up in the āFooty Liveā app. Essentially it was a draw stats-wise, except for Footscray being a bit more liberal with the handballing on a dewy cold night with no wind.
They kicked the first three goals as we kicked the first three points, and after that it was evens.
Battled hard but struggled a little against a pretty good ruckman and big body in Campbell.
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Count of hitouts for Campbell and Draper close enough to a draw, but Campbell did a bit more around the ground and is rated top player of the game.
Clarke top for us with 20 disposals and 8 tackles.
Green on 19 and 8 plus 2 goals.
Myers 21 and 7 and 2 behinds.
Redman 22 and 4
Dropping lower, Francis with 17 and 2 and 6 marks (3 inside 50s, 4 rebound 50s and 1 goal). Colyer with 14 and zero tackles and 1.2.
Brown appears to have had a dud night as did many of the VFL-listed players. NewLAV may have goaled AGAIN but 2 kicks and 1 handball and 1 tackle and 1 mark aināt too exciting.
Lazarroās debut was 6 kicks, 2 handballs, 1 mark, 6 tackles, an inside and a rebound 50, and a free for. I have no idea where he played so I present this with zero context.
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Footscray only had one player exceed 23 disposals (Biggs with 30), so the above isnāt as damning as it might seem.
Similar to the past few weeeks, Mason provided real drive in overlap run and and carry off half back while being really positive with his ball use and hard at ball and player, went onto the ball in the second half and probably didnāt have quite the impact he did early bust was still very good. Frang again was able to impact a heap of contests by reading the footy coming down, made some terrific spoils and took a couple of intercept marks, took the game on with both run and carry and by foot though some of his disposal was a little hit and miss. Went forward at three quarter time as weād been struggling to score and was able to mark and goal from outside 50 at the start of the quarter, made a heap of marking contests for the rest of the quarter but unfortunately couldnāt reel any in.
Strong games from both, my personal two best EFC players in a bit of a scrappy game of not too many standouts.
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Thank you
Thanks Paul, reasonable report.
However, I like the DJR channel better.
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Cheers. People from Dubbo (via my mum) gotta stick together.
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