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I recently watched a few Grand Finals from the 70s and it is tragic to see what has happened to the game and its adjudication. Rarely did a player get tackled to the ground
because a free would quickly be paid to the tackler if the ball carrier was caught with the ball. There was no extra merit in taking a man to ground. None of this 360 degree stuff . Scragging was not tolerated at all, any sign of an arm around a player was holding the man.The game moved fast and there were not many injuries caused by tackles as there are now ( of course there was the off ball thuggery and shirt fronts but they are 2 things that I don't mind being gone).
Its a completely different game now, and not a better one.
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St Kilda won.?Why? Because St Kilda managed to put a game together. Unlike us. Who had every player in the St Kilda forward line so we could not possible get to our own forwardline. Believe me I would love to say Horse was not responsible for this loss but cannot due to previous record of flooding back.
Ross totally psyched Horse. He led him like a lamb to the slaughter to a scoreless tussle and Horse obliged. @@@@ing sucked in every day of the week. Horse is a total mung
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Disappointing game.
- That first quarter was like we still had the bye and we were having a kick in the park.
- Missed shots at goal killed us again. As well as forward 50 entries.
- Gave away crucial frees in front of goal as well as the two 50 metres.
- Lost Blakey to concussion so he will miss next week. Although he did get injured early so he may have missed anyway.
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No. But the umpires were bloody dreadful. We lost because we had absolutely no system. We just tried to make it up on the run. Not only that, Hotlrse was sucked into 0laying this really defensive hard ball game by Ross. He won Horse lost. That is not outmr game. We play hard but we also like to get clear and set ball up. Horse fell into the trap of playing an in close grunge game
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Why on earth do we kick to the dead pocket so often? Surely there must be someone around centred 30 metres out. We either kick it to a small or kick it out of bounds. Fox gets the ball on the wing, dashes clear, a small player leads to the boundary and Fox kicks in a direct line to where he was running straight over the player's head, out on the full by a long way. We do it constantly every week. It's nauseatingly poor play. There is a tiny margin for advantage, yet a massive margin for error.
In the 2nd quarter we finally started to win centre clearances and kicked goals from those efforts, yet we then relax and let them kick 2 goals from disgustingly easy centre beaks.
I thought Jmac was on target for a top game up to half time. Then his other brain took over with his chippy little kicks to either a turnover or no advantage.
People can be critical of Chad but when he got the footy and was ganged up on, he had little or no assistance. But I don't get why he has stopped backing himself running through half forward, whereby he is now Mr. Unselfish trying to give it to someone else. I hope he learns from that stupid kick to I think Wicks where he kicked it over his head, rather than go back and kick for goal.
Collectively our skills are sorely lacking in all departments. It is looking like we have a number of players who lack footy smarts.
We couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a handful of wheat from a metre away.Last edited by Nico; 8 June 2023, 11:23 PM.Comment
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