Stengle was not his usual athletic and agile self when he came back on too. So you had three players pretty hampered and three important defenders missing. It doesn't excuse the midfield efforts but contributed to some of Collingwood's ease of play I think.
Sorry, just to confirm, you're attempting to suggest that a night in which Geelong lost the best defender in the comp to injury early in the game, and had multiple other top 5 players hobbled by injury throughout did not constitute a calamitous series of events for Geelong that made it significantly easier for Collingwood to win?
He's from Mt Gambier. Needs the weather cold
It wasnt just injuries to defenders now was it. Stengle kept getting minor issues. Hawkins was massively underdone. Duncan, bowes and menegola all out injured from the mids. plus stewart gets in the way and stops a lot of those mids running foward. He was gone. As was j. henry and kolo. Dekonning had no run or leap. other mids had to go back to fill the gaps.
Certainly too early to be definitive but I noted that against brisbane his energy (running and pressure) was non existent. Put it down to practise game. But had same feel about it today.
What’s the whole inteference thing that the umps were yelling out? I thought that was the point of defender on forward, to interfere.
I said this a few games ago... Close in a poor team will be below average. I'll have to admit, a decent player, but a clear downhill skier imho. Someone on here once said he'd rather have Close than Stengle. I nearly fell off my chair. Was CharacterFirst...
