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Great win, Errol is a star, so good to have him back. The boys really had a go today, they were intense and attacked the footy.
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Hopefully Amartey can push through the clear mental barrier. He is presenting really well - easily our best forward for leading. Good day for the club - the 2nds beat another Grand Finallist today - so we have beaten Southport and Werribee lol. Hopefully no surprise injuries - no change next week.Comment
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Agree with this first two - standouts. Grundy has been better than I thought he would be this far into his career.
Jordon was very effective in his shutdown role. But Its great to have Mills back to near his real form.
Amartey would have been in the votes if he had kicked straight!Comment
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Great win today....let's not talk about the goalkicking though. Amartey goal kicking practice all week FFS!
Having Paps and Gulden back obviously lifted the team, lets hope this can lead to some sustained good form from the team now.
From the reserves six point win:
Lloyd 38 possessions, eight marks and a goal, Florent 26 disposals, six tackles and five clearances and Caidyn Cleary had 30 touches and a team-high nine tackles.Comment
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Best game I have seen Mills play for about 2 years. Grundy was great again.
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Yes, well, there’s a reason for that with Mills. ?
But we did a lot right generally. You’d only say McLean and maybe Francis were down a bit. Everyone else made a good contribution. Our contested work was excellent, full ground defence very good and ball movement better. Errol and Paps very good on return, and in some ways, Paps was the better of the two, which surprised me as he’s often a slow starter off a break.
I hope Amartey knows what a good and important player he’s become and finds a way through his yips.
Gus had another good game, and kudos to Hayward as the one forward who could kick straight. Though I reckon Cox hasn’t felt his heart in mouth since Leo marked his kick inside 50 in the 2005 grand final when Hayward dribbled kicked that shot in the second quarter. But he delivered, so good on him.
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I was more confident of the Lions beating the Cats, so to
win away against our bogey team was awesome.
Liked to have put them away by the bucket loads
that was possible, but get em home & prep for the
Dogs.
Grundy is playing more like a Rover . He’s in stellar form.
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I thought Mills was our best. He played from the back of the centre square and read the ball so well coming his way. A lot of his possessions were coming through the centre. I can't recall him making a mistake and the backline goes much better with him back there.
The thing that I have noticed the last 2 games is that we have been so much harder at the footy, and we are getting a lot more players to the contest. We gave Port very little space in their forward line when the ball hit the ground. We now 2 have hard nuts around the footy with Rowbottom and Sheldrick. Although Sheldrick's kicking is rubbish at times he now gets first possessions at centre bounces and gets the ball into our forward line. At last we have someone who reads the ball off the rucks.
A good example of getting more players to the contest was late in the 2nd quarter, deep in PA forward line, and we got 8 players back to stop a goal and smothered the Port forwards.
Apart from the goal kicking our discipline was way up again this week.
Amartey at least got on the lead and gave us a focal point. He had 8 marks and if he does that every week look out. He can't possibly kick that badly again.
A good all round performance with no passengers.Comment
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It’s a good observation on Gus’ ability to read the taps. I also think we’ve got a better balance to our game around the ball.
I've got no doubt our contested and clearance work is something Cox has been keen to improve since taking over. You still need it to be sustainable in big games, as much as turnover footy is king these days. Due to the turnover in our team and number of young players early in the season, we often got it wrong and overindexed on players getting sucked too far and too tight into the contest. The last two weeks we’ve gone at the ball, but had both release players and defensive set ups better organised.Comment
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Amerty bad kicking to me. Doesn't anyone remwber his kicking in a final for sandringham (i trhik it was) missed from ten m sq. Never been a great kick for goal and he either improves or gets dropped.Comment
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Fantastic for both teams to win yesterday! Combined score for our 2 teams was 21.37.
Wonder what we'll be practicing this week?
GO BLOODS!Comment
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Agree Mills was great, best game in a long time, I think it helped Roberts as he was a bit surer by foot.
Grundy and his follow up work were outstanding
Heeney was Heeney, Blakey seemed to be able to get up the ground a bit more.
Hayward is a different player when he plays along 2 talls
Francis was the only tall, outside if Grundy that attacked the packs for marks, would like to see him go fwd more with kicks and only go back if a switch is on not just an open man.
Bice is the perfect Sub, who did he come on for ?
Wicks was clean, still can't believe his turn around
Outside of Amartey and JMAc kicking, the 1 that frustrated me was Campbell. Guy is more than capable but has games were he is the cleanest if hands and then games where he fumbles. With his speed, if he is clean he is dangerous. Also missed alot of tacklesComment
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Grundy, Isaac and Gus were all great in the mids. Rowie too but tackles don't get you a B&F vote. McCartin gave Georgiadis a bath, 7 disposals 1.3. Roberts was great when he was playing the mid role. Good on a wing but not great. Mills was super Ted. I loved his game he was directing traffic all around the ground. A special mention to Wil, stood up when most didn't. Only player not to kick a point. I also would like to say that Aaron Francis put his body on the line, nearly took mark of the year and was not paid, and brought the ball to ground, again and again. Those acts will not get much credit.
Run Down of players;
Amartey; Had a great game except he could,t find the middle of the two big white ones. Now Joel, you have to kick the ball in between the two big white ones. Not the little white one and the big white one. Try again
Bice; Good option as sub. I thought one of the comeback kids would be subbed out. But they went for Francis instead. Probably a mistake as it turns out. Port got a run on in the last and Gulden and Papley were cooked. Bice was good.
Blakey; Was very good. His running set up so many forward entries. But he got lost in the defensive mire quite a few times too. This is not his fault it is the coaches fault for not playing him up the ground.
Campbell; A really good game. Some of his defensoive efforts were so strong and rugged. His tackling pressure and run down pressure were super. He was very good at anticipating whre the Port players would run.
Cunningham; Harry was, well, Harry. He was high Pressure Harry. Good luck getting out of his grasp if he gets hold of you
Francis; May not have had too many disposals but he did the hard things well. He competed and brought the ball to ground.
Grundy; Was superb. I can't believe he ran away from Butters. Pushed off him and ran away. WOW. He did the hard things, the easy things all well. His rucking was super and he flogged their two rucks, he then became an extra mid. People tend to forget, when he was AA he was the most mobile ruck in the AFL.
Gulden; A good return. He disposal was the thing. He went missing in the second, 2 disposals. But came back again in the third. He hit up so meany leads, at one stage he didn't have a handball.
Hayward; Due to his accuracy, he was the forward of the night. He was super competitive too.
Heeney; What can I say. An absolute champion. Best player in the AFL. Don't give a a @@@@ about Daicos. Daicos does not take hangers or mark the ball like this guy. He is the most complete footballer in the AFL.
Jordan; Did some good things and kept their mids quiet until the last quarter. Ran out of puff I think. Certainly cleaned up in the clinches.
McCartin; Tommy was good. Super good. His marking and spoiling were super. He kept Georgiadis to 1.3 and negated their forwards with the other known outlaws who stole ball again and again. Harry, Melly, Wicksie, Ramps, Mills & Blakey. They work so well together and this guy is the pin that keeps the threads together.
Mellican; Another fine game from this guy. He just gets the job done, no fuss, no ado. Goes about his business efficiently. He was on the resting rucks and burned them.
Mills; What A SUPER GAME! He is well and truly the leader the club says he is. Heens keeps talking about his ability to see the game and identify the problems or options. He did exactly that. He led by example and directed the game. He pointed out options when players were taking too long. He quickly identified space and turned that into a marking opportunity fir his forwards and mids. A truly top captain's game
Papley; A good return. Gave us all a fright when he got that corkie. But could have kicked better vfor goal, same as Joel just not as much opportunity. Goal kicking practice for these forwards I think.
Rampe; Getting to the end I think. Defended well. But his disposal is like LLoyd's, wait forever and then bomb long. It's as though he doesn't have the confidence to pass the ball. He waits an eternity to kick it. If I was an umpire I would have been saying play on several times when he had the ball. A much loved character and bloke but time waits for no man and it is catching up with Sir Dane.
Roberts; Was really good. I liked his role better than at HB. The wing and Mids suits him better. He used his brawn to muscle opponents out of the play then handballed or kicked to advantage. Liked his game.
Rowbottom; Had another ho hum game. He has had less than 20 disposals or less in the last 6 games. Port 14, Tigers 15, Crows 20, Dees 12, Baggers 19, Bombers 21, GWS 14, Suns 20, Port 23, Pies 22, North 20, Dockers 22, Lions 11, Hawks 16. These figures show a mixed season. He is still a tackling machine but sometimes his output is not good enough for a mid. I love this bloke but he has two flaws he has to fix. The random kick in haste our of a pack or in the backs. The panic kick. Or the kick from a stoppage with no plan. Just kick the @@@@ out of the thing in hope a forward might just get onto it. The second is in most matches this year he has not gotten enough disposals to warrant him being in the mids. This is worrying as he is a heart and soul player. I want him to succeed. But look at what Gus has been able to do recently and he is going past Rowie at a rate of knots. I think he might be carrying some bruises. Maybe time to give him a rest and let him recover.
Sheldrick; Boy was he good in the clinches. He doesn't get 30 disposals but he does ectract so others can get 30. He gets the ball out no matter what, no manner what. Tap ons, shove it out, handball, kick, knock ons. He might be small but he is a brute in there. A good game.
Warner; Not one of his best but had Willem Drew up his kyber most of the night. Frew has done the job on nearly every top mid this season. Still managed to get 17, the average on Drew is 13.
Wicks; Took on Rioli and did it well. Rioli kicked 1.1 with 7 disposals, most of which he got up the ground. Great negating game from Wicksy.Comment
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