AFL Toast Nailbiter against The West Coast

[caboose]

The boys worked their hearts out against terrible umpiring all night. Very proud of them.

 

[ghostdog]

Parish pretty bloody good as well.

Yep. I've got him behind Martin then Merrett.

 

[Snake Charmer]

It’s never easy to get 4 points in Perth

 

[Call Me Cake]

We really need to work on being able to put our foot down on lower placed sides. Not for percentage, but to make things easier.

Then again, when you consider where people had us going into this season, you'd bank any win and move on.

 

[DERO]

Those free kicks/ 50 meter penalties were interesting.

Better to complain about the impact after a win.

 

[Just A Tragic]

Actaully thought it was a pretty honest performance. Made a few mistakes but kept at it and did what was needed - that's professional.

Especially happy with how hard the forwards worked tonight.

I'm with this. We get more out of a good contest than a roll over anyway. Lots to work on, but definitely the better team in the end. Get the points. Well ahead of anybodies predictions.
We should be proud and look at the improvements that have been made, while embracing there are plenty more to come.

 

[Redandblackflyup]

Go the mighty Bombers!!!

Feel like a broken record but Merrett really is on track to be best Captain in the game.

So happy he's our leader.

Love the fight we showed and take the 4 points and onto the Giants

 

[The Donners]

We are we are still essington

Eagles weren’t horrible though. They’ll win a few more games this season.

 

[maskmcgee]

Doubled their tackles, too tough for them. Remember they thrashed top 4 contenders Freo a few weeks ago there.

 

[Blind Turn]

Funnily enough, both teams from the drawn Anzac Day game have won by a goal the following week.

 

[Happyskeret]

McKay was magnificent again

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

That's the Guelfi I came to love.

There's so much to like about the Guelf, it's just a shame he hasn't got a bit more finesse to his game. Have to remember he was a pick in the 60s at the draft.

 

[rumply]

 

[jdstorm]

Don’t know what to say.

Effort and physicality was good, Merrett was great. Hung on with heart despite lacking in skill execution

More things need tweaking but showed flashes of competent transition footy.

 

[Call Me Cake]

You could tell how important Caldwell has been to our midfield make-up that we dropped off when he went down. Wasn't a coincidence.

I hope he'll be okay.

 

[Mercurial89]

Tough game, take the points. Really physical clash.

Real shame about Yeo, was playing some outstanding footy. Hopefully it's only minor.

Think there is a few in the team that might need a spell if we have selection pressure at their positions.

Keen to see how the midfield match up against GWS, they may be missing Greene but will still be a good test for our boys.
If we can get a good solid performance against them and then win the following 3, I'll start to buy that they may sustain the fight this year.

 

[andleanback]

We went all game with one persson unmarked at centre stoppages.

Yeh but when you’re up by 1 goal with 1 minute left, probably not a good idea to leave the midfielder on fire 180 degrees to himself to run through the stoppage.

 

[footyfanatic111]

13 of the last 16 games in Melbourne. Get ready to watch some footy lads. Quite the opportunity in front of us


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[VelvetSledge]

 

[Don_Gia]

Yeah…expected to be a bit flat after last week but happy with an interstate win.

The team looked solid to the extent that I didn’t feel like we would lose that game as close was it was…or maybe it was just a false sense of security looked like we had a system…

Duz is a gun. Zerrett massive.

McKay makes us look so much better.

Good to see Langford still confident taking shots after last week.

Haven’t looked at the frees tally, but far out we got reamed lol except for that Martin reversal.

Go Dons!

 

[JayJ20]

13 of the last 16 games in Melbourne. Get ready to watch some footy lads. Quite the opportunity in front of us


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Only two interstate games left. Gold Coast round 12 and Brisbane round 24.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Martin was immense again. Who couldnt love zach!
Eagles players were ducking into tackles but duz and goldy needed to be a bit smarter, 5 and 3 free kicks is poor

 

[Godzke]

Very ordinary performance. Our ball movement was disappointing.

Shakey performance down back. Can't wait until we get Reid and Ridley back in.

Must drop Davey. Guelfi good and Gresham alright, but they did the best work up the ground not that close to goal.

Midfield good early but fell away badly. Wonder if that is linked to having a tiring Goldstein in the ruck. Lack of deep forward entries meant more HFs pushing up the ground. Became a bit of a slug.

 

[silk]

Look, it's really important after a game like this we don't lost sight of what's important, and that is that we are currently above the blues on the ladder.

 

[Donakebab]

we would’ve been ****ed without Laverde

Waterman toweled him up.