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Cyril had some pretty good ones…..but agree, a lot of hype. But once he finds his groove he’s going to hurt a lot opposition.Still talking about Horne Francis. Must've been the best 13 possession game of all time.
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Cyril had some pretty good ones…..but agree, a lot of hype. But once he finds his groove he’s going to hurt a lot opposition.Still talking about Horne Francis. Must've been the best 13 possession game of all time.
Stiff on Worps, most of his touches were effective and good. Just didn't win enough of it in the end and didn't get enough midfield time imo.Frost - was excellent today.
CJ - arguably best on ground today, especially the first half.
Lewis - dominant. Exactly what we wanted.
Gunston - great return from injury. Nice foil for Lewis.
Finn - his gut running today was phenomenal. One moment he was in the forward pocket and the next he was deep in defence. He helped create multiple goals (including his own) through some real hard running.
He had some iffy kicks on his opposite though, but they were his opposite.
Newcombe - showed he can have an impact up forward which is absolutely crucial in today's game.
MacDonald - all class and composure. Really nice debut.
Ward - did some very classy things. Helped change the game when he went into the middle.
Sicily - great return from injury. Probably our most important behavior.
Nash - started very slow but worked his way into the game and had a positive impact. Didn't look out of place.
Even when I was a "hater" I always said we should give him a crack at ruck, as he'd be able to beat his man around the ground.
Shiels - didn't want him in the side, but he played well.
Backline in general - terrific team performance. We were undersized compared to North, and they played above themselves. Great group effort all round.
Credit to DGB who was asked to play a team role, as Sicily, Scrimshaw and CJ in particular were given licence to peel off their opponents.
Negatives:
Worpel - way off the pace in every regard. Had one nice kick though (but did he mean it?). Not a good start.
JOM - had no impact up forward but at least did some hard team thing in the middle in the second half.
He's got a point, he's just overstating it. He needs to know when to just bang it on his boot.You're An Idiot.
Probably have McEvoy in for Lynch next week so we will have three towers up there. With the Power losing more defensive talls, hopefully Gunston will get another mismatch.Do we think we're going to go with that forward set-up for much of this year, Lewis and Gunner as keys? Or will it depend on the defence we play, I'd still like to see Kosi back in for a 'twin towers' type of set-up.
Lynch (inj) - McEvoyI hope MacDonald isn’t one of the players who has to make way next week.
Rucked pretty much solo for most of the day.Though not our best player today, I thought Reeves was terrific against a ruckman who has bent us over many times. Top effort
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At the game - he was doing heaps off the ball and I thought he had a great game.Disappointed in Jaeger today.
Guy has some character so expect a big effort next week.
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At the game - he was doing heaps off the ball and I thought he had a great game.
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Will be a gun , but yeah I thought Macdonald and Ward had better games .I don't want to hate on Horne-Francis as a player but all of this for a 1 goal 13 disposal game, it's extremely over the top.
I mentioned it in the last quarter of the thread, felt like his running at the end of the game was opening up a lot of our scores.I thoroughly enjoy how nobody has mentioned Dylan Moore's game yet, because it was very good, and the lack of commentary on it means this is what we've come to expect him him.
He felt like one of our senior players out there, which speaks volumes about how young we were.
But that's the point Cyril actually DID have some good ones. His name was mentioned exactly the same number of times as he touched the ball in his debut. This bloke was mentioned at one point because he was in the same half as the ball. Ball was in our forward pocket and King said "Horne Francis has ventured down the the back half." Wasn't near the ball, just has to shoot his load over him again.Cyril had some pretty good ones…..but agree, a lot of hype. But once he finds his groove he’s going to hurt a lot opposition.
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Not much credit given to Dylan Moore. I thought he had an underrated game pushing up the ground a lot.
19 disposals - 10 marks (2 contested) - 6 tackles - 4 tackles inside 50 - 6 inside 50s - 1 goal