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I have a very clear recollection of the hall thing - and BBBH was a self-indulgent player at that stage of his career - railing against the appalling delivery that came into the forward line all too often in Melbourne games and complaining incessantly.
But that day at the MCG I was sitting very close to the boundary on the wing (it had rained in the morning so the seats near the wing were free for once) he should have received the free and the second fifty was as a consequence of mitchell getting away with deliberately egging him on - and i dont think it was there either. And as far as i was concerned I wasn't against BBBBH laying one on mitchell by the time the third came around - he had run about 80 metres from the initial offence with mitchell about one metre away from him yelling abuse and carrying on. I still think there was a lack of leadership from players such as kirky to actually tell barry to go back up the other end - or alternatively to have just stood between hall and mitchell.
The antagonism towards hall which came from roos that night was, and still is, unfortunate in the context of the relationship between those two and the club.
Anyway on topic I'd have to go for the solomon one - that was one of the last times we've played the bombers at the mcg, if not the last, and we were really in that game until i think schneider did his hamstring and that decision went against us. in the context of repeated smashings by the bombers at the mcg (was it about a year after lloyd kicked 14-16 against us) and our inability to get anything approaching a win against that mob (see for example kelly kicking into the man on the mark when we should have beaten them in 2001) it was really disappointing.
The stenglein one i just remember being upset about but we moved on pretty well (although there was a shepherd paid against crouch in the semi-final v geelong which i thought was pretty ordinary in the context of that game)
But that day at the MCG I was sitting very close to the boundary on the wing (it had rained in the morning so the seats near the wing were free for once) he should have received the free and the second fifty was as a consequence of mitchell getting away with deliberately egging him on - and i dont think it was there either. And as far as i was concerned I wasn't against BBBBH laying one on mitchell by the time the third came around - he had run about 80 metres from the initial offence with mitchell about one metre away from him yelling abuse and carrying on. I still think there was a lack of leadership from players such as kirky to actually tell barry to go back up the other end - or alternatively to have just stood between hall and mitchell.
The antagonism towards hall which came from roos that night was, and still is, unfortunate in the context of the relationship between those two and the club.
Anyway on topic I'd have to go for the solomon one - that was one of the last times we've played the bombers at the mcg, if not the last, and we were really in that game until i think schneider did his hamstring and that decision went against us. in the context of repeated smashings by the bombers at the mcg (was it about a year after lloyd kicked 14-16 against us) and our inability to get anything approaching a win against that mob (see for example kelly kicking into the man on the mark when we should have beaten them in 2001) it was really disappointing.
The stenglein one i just remember being upset about but we moved on pretty well (although there was a shepherd paid against crouch in the semi-final v geelong which i thought was pretty ordinary in the context of that game)
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