Toast Clutch Moments

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E Shed

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We all know what happened last time we played the Swans, the infamous 10 points to 10 goals scoreline.
Momentum, confidence, scoreboard pressure. Its so crucial.
With that in mind there were a few moments that really stood out for me yesterday.

1. Amiss kicks the first goal. He's had a horror run with his goal kicking so to come out in the first few minutes, lead straight up the middle to take the first shot on goal is exactly what you want to see from a full forward, being prepared to take the responsibility.
For the first time for a long time Amiss had a steely look on his face and a determined, decisive setting of the mark and stride back.
I actually thought, he's going to kick it.
What a way to plant the flag and say we've come to play.

2. Treacy's first set shot. He had a mare only 2 weeks ago and this week everyone's been talking him up since his dominating performance in his 50th and I was worried for minute, hoping the pressure hadn't got to him. Never in doubt, straight through the middle.

3. Sturts 3rd goal. His first couple of kicks at goal were pretty ordinary and it was only being so close that saved him from missing. After he was called for the run too far I thought he looked rattled and never looked liked kicking the set shot a minute or so later. To then come out in the 3rd (I think) when the Swans were coming and absolutely flush one, just when we needed it was, I thought, as clutch as I've seen from him.

Could probably mention Drapers whole last quarter when he seemed to done a superman cape and I'm sure there's other moments but these one's have stayed with me. I'm still buzzing.
 

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Purple Suit said:
How about Fyfe’s pass to Amiss. That was the best kick he has done in a long time.
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At the time I thought that’s so Fyfe. His brain is his worst enemy at times. The degree of difficulty of this kick was so high it was sufficient to fully engage him & let his instincts work.
 
Not to revise some painful thoughts but if you take yourself back to the Carlton game last 10 minutes, Draper faced those exact same moments getting caught out 1v1 against Curnow with the opposition coming hard and lost out.
This time he stood up and asserted himself (be it against a lesser forward). All you want to see from young players is signs of development, improvement and learnings from past efforts.
Could not have been more clutch for us that last 10 minutes and will get his chocolates come this evening with a rising star nom. Now he can take some learnings from his first media outing to improve for the next, the nervous man, good on him!

Also personal clutch moment from my partner this week, bringing to the world my first born, another lifelong docker to the team! Don't think the young one will believe me when I describe the years prior to her existence when she will be growing up on multiple flags!
 
E Shed said:
At the time I thought that’s so Fyfe. His brain is his worst enemy at times. The degree of difficulty of this kick was so high it was sufficient to fully engage him & let his instincts work.
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I think there's (still) an element of him not quite trusting his body to deliver what he wants. And some of the over thinking is running through the options, and - rightly or wrongly - ruling out some that he doesn't 100% believe are feasible any more.

I am well aware that there's some bias in what I can recall, but totally agree that Fyfe's best moments come when he attempts things that would be impossible for mere mortals, and his worst seem to be when he has plenty of time to think it through.

And in case it seems like I'm being negative in a 'Toast' thread: Hell yes, that was a beautiful moment.
 

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Clutch is an interesting term. It’s usually for those finals moments with the game on the line.
So, any and all clutch moments would seem to be our defensive efforts.

Sharp scoring a behind was as much clutch as anything that happened in the first 115 mins.

The tap from Darcy to Brayshaw in space to scrabble a 2 point lead was also clutch.

Personally, I think we bottled it to some degree offensively but defensively we held on… just.

If we loosely apply the term clutch, then all our goals in the 3rd quarter were big as it was obvious the Swans were coming and we were at least able to throw some punches back. It was 5 mins away from breaking the game open BUT they won that last 5 mins in the last quarter 14-0. From there it was always going to be a dogfight.
 
Our away record is good precisely because it’s like no one is watching. We should ditch Wharfie Time for close home games and instead put a picture of Bubba Darcy hushing the crowd with the words “Be very very quiet”.
 
We need to do better better with our kick ins in the dying moments of loose games. Invariably its’s Ryan taking the kick. Always long to just backward of our wing. Don,t remember us ever marking it or even breaking forward from a ground ball.
 
yakamoto said:
We need to do better better with our kick ins in the dying moments of loose games. Invariably its’s Ryan taking the kick. Always long to just backward of our wing. Don,t remember us ever marking it or even breaking forward from a ground ball.
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I haven't gone back and fact checked, but most times I've seen a team defending late in a game that looks like the percentage play.
As a few others have pointed out I'm not sure why they don't push that kick a bit more boundary at the death, but I expect whatever the answer it's a coached move and not something Ryan just dreams up at the time.

There is one distinct outlier I remember quite clearly though, ye olde Richmond pumping it down the middle, Ibbo intercepting and passing to a young buck Mundy who put it through the big sticks.

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kingswood71 said:
I loved Darcy's 30m spoil :)
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And his tackle on Heeney. He almost squashed him.
dockshark said:
Draper standing up in multiple one on one contests under immense pressure was huge in the last. Without Draper winning those contests we wouldn’t have held on IMO.
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He was like CURTAIN hanging over them.
A Curtain alongside the Brick wall.
 
The Man. The Legend. David Clutch Mundy.
[PLAYERCARD]David Mundy[/PLAYERCARD] Freo GIF by Fremantle Dockers
 
Clutch moments all time?
Stephen Hill sealing the win v Geelong 2013 QF. Easily.

Saw a similar moment, although not clutch, but Sturt bouncing towards 50 and hesitated to pass it off- got call for running too far. Would’ve loved to see him back himself, run into the 50 and nail it.

This team has the capability to be something big- but feel at times around goals can be a bit too selfless.
 

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