Biffinator
Norm Smith Medallist
Brothers, just because we have troops coming back does not mean that they're battle-hardened.
Port by 35
Port by 35
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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Ugly:
Seriously, we need to put in a formal submission that he doesn't umpire our games.
Clearly a player must have run over his pussy sometime in the past, as he absolutely has it out for us.
Great, great win. I was sure Port was going to roll us easily.
Good: Hibberd is just a gun. An elite footballer. Hannan very close to BOG. Oliver was huge again.
Bad: Tysons disposal. Was going at 14% at one point. He had one effective kick in seven. Might find himself no longer in our best 22 shortly.
Fugly: Watts playing in a half arsed manner for 3 and a 1/2 quarters. When is he going to cut that out?
He was good in that he was a safe set of hands. Made good decisions and didn't fumble. He didn't get heaps of it but used the ball really well. Boak got a couple of goals outrunning him but I'm not sure if he was Trenners man or not.How was Trengove's first half? Only saw the second half and didn't see much of him/
Did you watch the game? Nicholls was ****ing atrocious.Why is it that we win our 10th game for the season, look headed for finals and the first thing you think about is sooking about the umpires. Just enjoy the ******* game
Did you watch the game? Nicholls was ******* atrocious.
Wanna talk about the last while its fresh.
Not sure if it was the plan or we were just so ******* tired its all we had left but the bomb long and force repeat stoppages tactic was bloody nerve racking. On one hand I thought it was going to cost us because we were wasting entries everywhere. However in the same weird way it allowed us to set up our zone and we looked near impenetrable in the last quarter with our zone brilliant
I suspect we were out on our legs and just ground out a victory, I like it though it was what we learnt under Roos it was grind them down footy and hit them on the counter which we did with Melk and Petracca.
Game of 2 halves, we were near perfect aside from our entries in the first half and the forward line was functioning beautifully. Tackle pressure was enormous and it ment our defence could zone and sweep up everything. Second half Port matched an even outdid our pressure and we had to just put the gloves in front of the face and take body shots like a boxer out on his feet but never really having enough damage done.
Best players were Maxy in the first half, Alex Neal Bullen who I think had a mini break out game with his kicking and decision making and Mitch Hannan who is just a bloody good player. Hard at the footy but has the brilliant balance only the very best have, his ceiling is high IMO. Melksham is becoming a mini favourite of mine now has found a nice little niche around half forward kicking winning goals.
Tyson and Watts were as rusty as a sunken WW1 submarine
Jesse Hogan should start studying the tapes of Jarryd Roughead in his prime because thats the player he will become. Jarryd was the best big small forward in the league but actually not a very good deep forward and Jesse is the same. Doesnt win many 1 on 1s deep forward and likes a clean jump at the footy but he can crumb well and get up the ground and get 25 touches like Ruff.
Oscar Mcdonald needs to be told if he ever spoils into the corridor again he has to go on a dinner date with DrWhoooooo. Twice in the one quarter he spoiled into the hot spot with little to no regard.
Jack Watts needs to bring the ball to the front more often, lets the guy infront mark it far too often.
Also we are the only team who is disadvantaged winning a centre clearance out the front of the stoppage, we bomb it long and it always lands in the hands of their spares 30m out from goal. I swear we need to win it and kick backwards just to retain the pill.
Olivers last quarter was immense again, when Port went 6-0 for clearances he won the next 2 to swing momentum
This is an indicator of you being in Canada, if you were at the G it was ridiculous. Especially the three consecutive including the 50 at the start of Q3Mate I take no notice of who the umpires are, it seems ridiculous to me that people work out which umpire paid which free kick. Its all confirmation bias. We won the free kicks by about 10 so I dont know why anyone is sooking. So annoying. 80% of posts on bigfooty are about the umpires.
First half was the best Nibbler has played all year.
Don't agree on Hogan, he's proven to be dangerous 1v1 as a forward - he's not there at the moment but is working into form.
Primarily half back with a bit of midfieldFor those at the game, what kind of role did Trengove play?
This is an indicator of you being in Canada, if you were at the G it was ridiculous. Especially the three consecutive including the 50 at the start of Q3