AFL Toast Rnd 18: 21 point win against Adelaide!

[Bombermania]

That was one pleasing win, not one I expected to win but the way they went about it and there really is no reason why this side can't challenge for the top four.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

He was on Tex was it Ambrose?

 

[justlookingaround]

Snello’s face when he nails that tackle is my new favourite drug

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

He had a grin on his face lols

 

[Red Black and Blue]

We were getting killed in the clearances in the first half. Stringer started in the centre square and by pure strength wins the first two. His contest work is so underrated somehow still.

I think he’d have almost of the highest ratio of clearances won per clearances attended in the competition.

 

[adsla69k]

Take this team back to the start of the season and we would have won a few more games, Saints -11pts, Pies -4pts, Sydney -5pts. We could be sitting clear 2nd or equal 1st right now. Maybe we are sitting pretty going into the later part of the season still as underdogs playing for something.

 

[tandino]

Sounds like I missed an absolute belter.

 

[HirdyLannister]

Shocked we can even win a game like that with the structure and injuries. Team has developed resilience and grinding out wins which we've barely seen in prior years.
Cudos to all involved.

 

[raskolnikov]

Watching the replay on Foxtel Now, the commentary is way out of sync with the visual.

 

[MiguelM]

Sounds like I missed an absolute belter.

Just watch the second half. Still pinching myself

 

[mike14]

Sounds like I missed an absolute belter.

2nd half is well worth a watch.

Would love to know what clicked for Francis last night. He hasn't looked particularly good throughout most of 2019 after a very good end to 18, but last night he was reading the ball beautifully, working hard to be the 3rd player at a contest and pushing p the ground to be an option. Just one of those games, or is it a case that he defers to Hurley normally to do a lot of that work?

 

[VelvetSledge]

Take this team back to the start of the season and we would have won a few more games, Saints -11pts, Pies -4pts, Sydney -5pts. We could be sitting clear 2nd or equal 1st right now. Maybe we are sitting pretty going into the later part of the season still as underdogs playing for something.

Was thinking this. If the Collingwood and Sydney games were umpired correctly, imagine where we'd be...

 

[Vindicater]

Being there live I never felt like we were out of it.

We were running off them with ease by the end of the first quarter. We were just bombing long to nobody though.

The floodgates were always going to open. There is something very wrong with that Adelaide team.

 

[boncer34]

Was thinking this. If the Collingwood and Sydney games were umpired correctly, imagine where we'd be...

On the flip side imagine if the GWS and 2nd Sydney game were.

 

[VelvetSledge]

On the flip side imagine if the GWS and 2nd Sydney game were.

C'mon man don't bring me down, I don't need this devil's advocate bit when I'm trying to celebrate.

You're right, but still

 

[boncer34]

C'mon man don't bring me down, I don't need this devil's advocate bit when I'm trying to celebrate.

You're right, but still

I mean I've said the same thing as you.

But we've had the rub in close ones too, swings and roundabouts.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Mitch Brown made me eat crow.

Can't believe its taken this long for Hartley to play this year.

He was never going to get in over a fit hurleymand hooker but agree he was brilliant tonight.

 

[DERO]

Watching the replay on Foxtel Now, the commentary is way out of sync with the visual.

I strongly suspect that Wayne Carey takes Essendon winning personally.

 

[Eleven 38]

Was thinking this. If the Collingwood and Sydney games were umpired correctly, imagine where we'd be...

Cant worry about umpiring, but if we turned up to play in round 1 instead of round 3 we probably would have been a game and 4-5% better off.

 

[DERO]

Yabby Jeans had a good way of looking at it: "don't worry about their mistakes, worry about our own, as we make a lot more than them".

 

[Mercurial89]

Take this team back to the start of the season and we would have won a few more games, Saints -11pts, Pies -4pts, Sydney -5pts. We could be sitting clear 2nd or equal 1st right now. Maybe we are sitting pretty going into the later part of the season still as underdogs playing for something.

Do we have this form without the lessons learned early in the year?
That's why you can't take a form team and place them in a moment in time. There is a reason they are a form team, and it's due to what they had to go through to get there.

It's boring but there is a reason why clubs and especially our coach focus on the process. This is the result, we are seeing this team adapt to the system that we have been trying to implement.

People have been crying out for it, where is this system why can't we be like a hawks or a tigers and just slot players in and out. We are seeing that. We have been as injured as anyone, lost hugely important players. Hartley comes in plays a role, McKernan plays a role, Snelling, Zac Clarke. We are covering the injuries and continuing to improve we aren't just treading water waiting for players to get fit or come in.

It's great to see.

 

[7zark7]

Went over for the game. What great support we have over there. Seemed like about 1 in 5 people were bombers. Walking out after the game and high fiving literally every bomber fan was special. And having furphys on tap was a massive highlight.

 

[DERO]

Went over for the game. What great support we have over there. Seemed like about 1 in 5 people were bombers. Walking out after the game and high fiving literally every bomber fan was special. And having furphys on tap was a massive highlight.

Would have been a great win to see. Are you going to GC for the game?

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Easy now. Adelaide were bad. They played about ten minutes of good football all up (and kicked out to a five goal lead doing so).

 

[Bigjobss]

Just got back into phone reception range and checked the scores!! He'll yes!!
No time to catchup on the details of the win got a 4 hour drive home but looking forward to finding out when I get home.
What a feeling to watch the AFL app buffering slowly convinced of of a loss in my mind then nekminnit