AFL Toast RND 18: Win Against the Roos

[JT_the_Man]

4 points.

 

[84859300]

An ugly win is a win... except when you cop a kick in the shi and it isn't paid for a trip.

 

[WindyHillZephyr]

So, about them umpires. 23-11 frees in Norf's favour. Clear ones in front of our goal not given to us. It is beyond a joke at times.

The good thing is that this year we dont drop our bundle, Mostly.

 

[rumply]

lol. stringer is so sh!t. 7 touches with heavy midfield time. he's a full moon this guy.

Aged well.

 

[WindyHillWarrior]

 

[Mr Bultitude]

Drapes in the song. Love it.

Took it by the scruff of the neck, social distancing be damned

 

[Duckworth]

All that, and we were still younger than North!

 

[Charliebrow 16]

Thought Heppell was immense for the full four quarters. When everyone seemed flat and flustered, he was composed and showed great leadership. When he took that contested mark and got cleaned up afterwards, that turned the tide.

Draper was magnificent in the ruck. Didn’t win the hitouts but I thought he was great around the ground and provided a lot of toughness. Wright keeps impressing - probably one of his top performances of the year.

Stringer, what more can you really say. He was the difference. Perkins did some nice things. Can’t wait until he builds his tank and can put in four quarter performances. Quality debut from Durham - we might’ve found another little gem in the MSD.

Wasn’t pretty but we got the job done and sometimes that’s all that matters.

 

[eth-dog]

Peter Wright kept us in it, along with Merrett and Draper. Stringer, Parish, Reafter HTdman huge

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Norf lost both of their Grand Finald this year.

what an irrelevant bunch of minnows.

 

[Runk]

Meh.

I'll take it.

 

[Petrify]

Ridley deserves some credit. When our whole team was shit in the first half he was composed and setup multiple goals with nice kicks from the back half, whilst saving a few himself

 

[Ati Tude]

Would really like to see Smith dropped to send a message. His undisciplined stuff is going to cost us a game. Just need to make it clear that isn't acceptable.

 

[eth-dog]

Norf lost both of their Grand Finald this year.

what an irrelevant bunch of minnows.

Lost their last 7 Grand Finals

 

[RearNaked]

Lolnorf good try enjoy your spoon

 

[TheWeapon]

Fletcher would have got weeks for that North trip on Smith
Our depth is struggling need some reinforcements back for the next 2 weeks

 

[windyhill]

Best bit ? Doing their **** witted 12 supporters heads in.

 

[DeezNuts]

death, taxes, David King saying we're a contender

The Kiss of death

 

[raskolnikov]

Let's go Swannies!

 

[Seb78]

The grand delusions on the Norf board is great reading . They actually think they have a great young list and will surpass us next year and our list is average.

They couldn't beat half a VFL team that didnt get out of second gear till the last quarter.

News flash Norf, when Aaron Hall

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Aaron Hall

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

11.8

4star

HB

7.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.3

5star

MG

268.3

4star

D

14.9

4star

K

8.9

4star

HB

6.0

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.6

4star

MG

268.3

4star

D

13.2

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.6

5star

is your highest ranked player, let me tell you, you aint goin anywhere fast.

 

[Macca18]

It was a definite danger game and it played out that way.

Our first half was arguably our worst half of the season. To kick 9.8 after Half Time (left a few more goals out there as well) and turn around that result is an indication of growing maturity across the list. All this whilst missing a significant number of first choice players who automatically improve our team when out there. They were missing one of their most important midfielders (Cunnington) but that was pretty close to their best team.

They may be bottom but their form in the last 5-6 weeks has been anything befitting the 18th team.

Happy to take the 4 points. Plenty to work on, of course. Even happier to beat them twice in the one season.

 

[Lore]

 

[Ati Tude]

Would be interested to know how many goals Stringer has kicked in 2nd half vs 1st half this year. He hauled us back into it against Eagles with I think 3 in a row in 2nd half of that game. And 4 today. Probably more balanced against Hawkes.

 

[Highly Evolved]

Let's sign Jake for four years already. Absolute match-winner.

 

[JT_the_Man]

For how poor we were for large parts, I thought that was probably Wright’s best game.

Stringer’s last quarter was immense.

Classic games for Parish, Merrett, Heppell and Ridley. Snelling also continues to show why he gets a game every week.

Durham good debut, missed goal aside.