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  • floppinab
    Senior Player
    • Jan 2003
    • 1681
    #1

    Key Moment....

    I still think Tim Lane is getting close to his used by date but he picked this up quite well.

    http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/06/25/1151174073587.html


    "The Swans were attacking and the ball came loose. Brett Kirk looked like running onto it. Coming the other way, though, hard and uncompromising, was Simon Prestigiacomo. Kirk, of all people, hesitated, and the Collingwood man barged through, took the footy, and thumped it clear."

    What he neglects to mention is that Hall was coming the other way as well and the hesitation was caused by uncertainty over who to go for the ball. It occured to me in a split second that it might've been the two captains unsure over who should've stepped up to attack the ball. If it had been Kirk and ROK, Kirk and Davis, there would've been no instinctive question over who would've gone in. With Kirk and Hall it looked a little like "who should be the leader here???"
    Tags: key, moment, Swans, sydney
    • NMWBloods
      Taking Refuge!!
      • Jan 2003
      • 15819
      #2
      I remember that. It cost us a goal at a critical point in the third quarter.
      Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

      "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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        • Gary
          Regular in the Side
          • Sep 2005
          • 608
          #3
          That was a critical moment...surely it had to be the man running toward goal who got right of way (even if it was Kirk)...looked like schoolboy stuff to me.

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            • sharp9
              Senior Player
              • Jan 2003
              • 2508
              #4
              I didn't see it...it must have been while I was picking up the TV which had (mysteriously) been catapulted off the entertainment unit and finished up upside down on the bookshelf.

              The screen wasn't cracked but several of the buttons are broken now.

              .........I'm not joking, either.
              "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

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                • cruiser
                  What the frack!
                  • Jul 2004
                  • 6114
                  #5
                  I thought that a poor kick by Goodes resulting in a turnover that ended our 3rd quarter roll and started theirs in the 3rd quarter was the key moment that eventually cost us the game?
                  Occupational hazards:
                  I don't eat animals since discovering this ability. I used to. But one day the lamb I was eating came through to me and ever since then I haven't been able to eat meat.
                  - animal psychic Amanda de Warren

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                    • Gary
                      Regular in the Side
                      • Sep 2005
                      • 608
                      #6
                      No doubt about it...Adam was in his "lair mode"...running past pressure situations as if it was below him to get down & dirty. He was not alone of course (Essendon revisited)...but when he does it, it has a certain panache...as with everything he does.

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                        • ScottH
                          It's Goodes to cheer!!
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 23665
                          #7
                          Re: Key Moment....

                          Originally posted by floppinab
                          I still think Tim Lane is getting close to his used by date but he picked this up quite well.

                          http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/06/25/1151174073587.html


                          "The Swans were attacking and the ball came loose. Brett Kirk looked like running onto it. Coming the other way, though, hard and uncompromising, was Simon Prestigiacomo. Kirk, of all people, hesitated, and the Collingwood man barged through, took the footy, and thumped it clear."

                          What he neglects to mention is that Hall was coming the other way as well and the hesitation was caused by uncertainty over who to go for the ball. It occured to me in a split second that it might've been the two captains unsure over who should've stepped up to attack the ball. If it had been Kirk and ROK, Kirk and Davis, there would've been no instinctive question over who would've gone in. With Kirk and Hall it looked a little like "who should be the leader here???"
                          Put your head over the ball, son!!.

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