Review Cats drop Bombers by 45 at MCG
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Their creativity and vision was elite.
Their kicking was ok. Accurate, but not penetrating. Phil could hardly get past 40m by foot.
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Neale ain't getting dropped so soon
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Dempsey rucked once
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Rohan plays his 200th game next week.
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One thing for sure, it will be you and I doing "a dazbroncos" pants down- when that occurs, and it will.
Or maybe just settle for a self satisfied I-told-you-so.
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Technically we are 3 and 3 against top 8 so far
Bunch of sooks. Their meek capitulation had plenty more impact than the umps calls.
Agree - watched the 2’s today and loved what Ted offers - could come in for Clark or Atkins if required.
Looks AFL worthy.
Hardie is an accumulator but can’t see what his point of difference would be in the 1’s.
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Was that the throw in when no ruck was nominated by Geelong? Commentators seemed puzzled + kept saying 'Geelong hasn't nominated a ruck'.
no he couldnt find form in defence. But he will need to eventually and there aint much season left as we have no other tall defenders. Henry and kolo are too small to play on the giant fowards. We got a bit lucky with the rain yesterday with Wright. The only other option for a tall defender in defence is blicavs. But cant see them making that switch.
This reminds me of when we played hawkins in the ruck quite a bit one season early in his career when he couldnt find form up foward.
Really liked his game - his positioning was so much better , was in the aerial contests instead of being off .
Competed well and should have had 2 goals which you would take every day of the week.
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That's the one
After watching every game this week where players have seemed to adjust (some better than others) - This HTB interpretation has changed the game irrevocably. Almost rugby like, with the flow they wanted. The umpires have to keep up, and I would expect mistakes to be made.
It's hot ball, move it out and quick hands, and just get any old kick in. The teams that show synchronicity with each other's movements around the ball will benefit. It's direly important that the forwards play in front of their man ,or escape to the F side flank where Dempsey is excelling. You'd have to hope that training will reiterate where support will be in the clinches.
I think we will be good at it, if we can develop consistency and a hardened group of players that back each other. Our players that aren't bulls, and have trouble completing a full tackle (body weight) to ground, i.e. Clark, Henry, Miers, sometimes Atkins, will gain from it.
It's hot ball, move it out and quick hands, and just get any old kick in. The teams that show synchronicity with each other's movements around the ball will benefit. It's direly important that the forwards play in front of their man ,or escape to the F side flank where Dempsey is excelling. You'd have to hope that training will reiterate where support will be in the clinches.
I think we will be good at it, if we can develop consistency and a hardened group of players that back each other. Our players that aren't bulls, and have trouble completing a full tackle (body weight) to ground, i.e. Clark, Henry, Miers, sometimes Atkins, will gain from it.
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He doesn’t have to play in defence. Nothing dictates that. We have O’Sullivan at 198cm who is being groomed for a defensive role.
It’s also curious how in the first half Henry was too short for Wright but he gave him a bath in the second half. Did he grow taller at half time?
Conway gone to injury. So have to scrap the second fiddle idea.
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In Rohan's post game interview, was asked if Scott delivered a stern message at half time. Rohan laughed + added Scott has never told them off. Then said he'd love Scott would rip them apart because it would be really funny.
Rohan's 200th game coming up, hopefully next week at home against Poos+Wees.
Rohan joked that Humphries had 50 tickets for his debut + other player's family couldn't go to game, so he's going to ask for 50 tickets for his 200th.
He's terrific to interview, just a great guy.
Was talking this season. Not the futue.
And henrys big weakness in defence is playing on tall fowards. Has a habit of being towelled up by them. Excellent defender otherwise.
And it sounds like conway may have gone down with injury. So the second fiddle option may not be an option.
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I went to the VFL today (been enjoying getting to a few home matches over recent times), and I kinda forgot Hardie was playing - it may have been different for those watching via the live stream & getting a more condensed or focused look at the play, but at the ground there were others that I was drawn to. And when thinking about all the VFL matches I've attended this season, the really isn't too many times that Hardie really grabbed my attention & shown that spark which screams "pick me for the seniors", at least not in the way players others have.
Hardie a nice player, but agree in I'm not sure the point of difference he'd bring - I read elsewhere someone describe him as similar to Atkins which I don't see at all; Ted looks more in the mould of Atkins, but with possibly a higher ceiling
I commented on it in the VFL thread that Clohesy & Mannagh just had this presence out on the field, and felt drawn to watching them. I've been impressed by Clohesy in each match I've watched, his work rate & hunger for the contest is something I'd love to see how it translates to senior level against bigger bodies - and absolutely loved that smother late in the match
Mannagh is another who has been good in previous matches, but this was clearly his best game in the hoops and I liked the leadership he also showed out on the field - providing instructions & directions to teammates when setting up under different circumstances, a good indication he feels like he belongs
It was 2010. It was in part because of his form and in another part because we brought Pods in that season. We couldn't play all of Hawkins, Mooney and Podsiadly up forward, but Hawk was at the time the weakest of the three but Bomber didn't want to drop him from the side so you wound up with him in the ruck, which wasn't a great move.
Not really the same as the SDK scenario, as it's not like SDK has been forced out of defence because of other good options there. We'd be laughing if that were the case. We're playing him more out of need due to not having adequate ruck stocks. His form hasn't been great there, but he's a best KPD prospect and that's where he should play. Conway, meanwhile, is our ruck for the future and should be given games whenever possible.
We're not winning a flag this year, so best to think of what moves are going to help us long term. I don't think SDK will be a ruck long-term so I don't think it helps him or the team if he's played there.
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RHYS time
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