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This was clearly the time to kick it while Harry was on the lead. Having to stop and change direction, as Harry had to do, is not doing the forward any favours.
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Sometimes. Gotta stay young at heart and make the occasional poo joke.
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Cripps also stated that the Carlton players behind the LoB/Haryr play - should have been able to defend the rebound. I think that lack of defending was a bigger issue than Motlop handing off to LoB - Lob erred in running by and demanding teh receive- instead of instructing Motlop to hold anyway - but LoB is always going to be a flaky thinker. Acres erred in dropping a regulation chest mark after being spotted up in teh clear - a one pointer from teh fifty where he was would have iced the game as well...if Harry was as accurate as his counterpart at Ricmind- Carlton wins easy...
middling sides find ways to lose every week.
middling sides find ways to lose every week.
Are you sure he demanded?
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He was looking at Motlop with arms out for a receive- it was the wrong body language I think both played on instinct. Watching the vision again - LoB could have kicked to Harry earlier - but that didn't make a difference Harry absolutely had teh jets on and made it into perfect space for LoB to kick to- he just fell over a fraction of a second too soon - LoB goes from hero to boofhead in some people's eyes- like I said in the post-match - LoB's kick was elite 10/10and should have produced the match-winning goal from Harry - and everyone would be talking about Richmond not being the team that they were.....
There are lots and lots of little 'wrong' things that all combined are the difference between contending or not. Closing games out is 100% mindset and commitment to making it easy for your team mates to actually execute 'safety'. People aren't commenting / focusing as much on the backline repeat brain farts - leading UP to Weiteroing to Motlop mark. There were three repeat fails to clear or control leading up to the Motlop play - the pressure was on and senior players were fumbling and bumbling all over the place.
Game one in a season is often a lottery - it will be interesting to see how the team is set to play against a different opponent with different match up issues in Geelong - but that forward line bludge-orama cant be repeated again in '23.
I thought that for most of the game we moved the ball reasonably well in a high pressure game. Playing too fast plays into the Tigers hands. While our bottom 6 were invisible the 2 major factors in our play were:
CC couldn't hold a mark to save himself, 1 pack mark for the day and must have dropped about 10 others.
H's disposal was atrocious. He took 10 marks and his DA was a team low 46%. No point him coming up the ground and marking it and then turning it over
Lots of room for improvement from those 2.
I wonder if the people calling for changes are the same ones that wanted to drop CC after being quiet in the Practice matches and round 1 last year.
CC couldn't hold a mark to save himself, 1 pack mark for the day and must have dropped about 10 others.
H's disposal was atrocious. He took 10 marks and his DA was a team low 46%. No point him coming up the ground and marking it and then turning it over
Lots of room for improvement from those 2.
I wonder if the people calling for changes are the same ones that wanted to drop CC after being quiet in the Practice matches and round 1 last year.
Correct, he panicked and just wanted to get away from the opposition chasing him.
The composure will come hopefully.
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Spot on.
LOB punched the kick in harder than people realise, not necessarily a bad thing, but it needed to be pinpoint if your going to, and it wasn't.
Harry read it off the boot very early but slipped as he had to turn too hard to get to it, knowing how quick it was coming in.
It looks simple from the telly.
People forget the ball will always travel quicker than any player.
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Ah, no they don't.
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It was exactly what Richmond wanted. They wanted us to get the ball live and we handed it to them. However, I think the biggest cause for concern was prior to this when Richmond kicked inside 50 on a number of occasions and blokes just tried to kick the ball off the ground rather than picking it up. Gave up 7 points trying to do that. Game would’ve been over if they just picked the ball up and set up for a stoppage. We need that out of our game more than anything. Pick the bloody ball up and take the tackle!!
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Cripps mentioned in his interview last night about not enough players pressing up, himself included.
Well, when it was turned over there were 21 players supposedly defending against 17….with three of those surrounding Lynch
We saved our worst defensive effort for the game in the second last play
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That's right.
If you want to analyse the last 2 minutes to death, Young has to wear a fair bit of responsibility. He just stood there and watched.
I think you meant 17 defending against 15, unless of course the bench players were on the ground.
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Expecting McGovern to kill the ball. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen all our guys go up and then have no one at the fall. It’s easy to see why our players don’t trust each other and second guess, with efforts like that from McGov. Even Weitering sat back and watched. Really poor from all, not just one.
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Yes. It's hardly SOS, Dean and Sexton.
To my way of thinking, Young was in the perfect position to come over the top with no risk of a free kick. Gov had to come from the side and there is some risk of "front on contact, no eyes for the ball" type shit.
Year 8 of the rebuild and we are still trying to synchronise nearly every part of the ground.
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Why is the majority of the focus in here on one kick?
There were many missed opportunities over the 120 odd minutes...
Is it because it was LOB?
There were many missed opportunities over the 120 odd minutes...
Is it because it was LOB?
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Wtf? Gov flew, the ball went above him. What else could he do? Just stand there and watch Lynch launch like Weitering and Young?
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6 days later pages & pages & pages & pages same old same old.
We have a game in 2 days!
We have a game in 2 days!
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That's what a draw does to people.
Wait til we get started on Stick's kick after the siren in the draw with Ess in '93.
Well said…
Take the 2 points and make off like bandits…
Was LOB at fault, maybe, was Mots at fault, possibly, was Young to blame, probably. I distinctly remember Owies making a horrendous error earlier in the game that has imprinted on my brain much more than the last 100 seconds…
Our game plan was cut to pieces, our major drivers were targeted, our forwards couldn’t catch it, no one wanted to go near Rioli, that’s you HF’s and we have 2 dead weights playing in our forward line…
Need to beat the cats or ‘they’ will start coming for us..
Funny how that one never seems to get much attention from the 'mentally weak, can't win a premiership with players like that' crowd.
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If I remember correctly, didn't he kick the winning goal the very next week in similar circumstances. Just made sure he made a statement nest time opportunity came - leadership.
I wws im that pocket. That was just a very tired kick. He had a huge end to the game, getting us back into a winning position.
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Probably. I was bummed on the Thursday evening like everyone else, but then I started thinking about the fingertip that Newman got on Lynch's goal out of the ruck, and that fantastic piece of goal-keeping by Young to deny Lynch a goal off the ground, after the ball had carried the pair of them, and Young was on a hiding to nothing going back towards the goal line. Desperate acts that ended up saving us from defeat.
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