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I thought Harris was beaten by Himmelberg or whoever that blonde chap playing on him was. Outmarked too often I thought.
His soccer goal against Melbourne.
Yes expected score agrees with you. They shot the lights out and we regressed to our standard early season form in front of goal:
Ultimately it's the most convincing 11 point win you're ever likely to see. Kicked the first 3 goals of the game and literally held them at arm's length for the remainder, never conceding more than 2 consecutive goals. They closed to within 7 during the 1st, 8 points during the 2nd and 3rd, while 11 was as close as they got in the last.
Yes, a better red time and last quarter performance would have been nice, but still good to get another win with still so much potential upside. Thought we also ran the clock well at the end when things got a bit too close for comfort.
Transition defence remains a concern, but we did defend our back 50 far better than in recent weeks. Adelaide managed only 20 shots from 48 entries - that 42% is our best effort since we beat Gold Coast. So maybe this is the first step in improving our overall team defence. Better tackling in our front half would not go astray.
I think strategically we were well set up behind the ball, however conceding 15 contested marks while only taking 6 of our own limits the effectiveness of any strategy. Thought our talls were pretty well beaten at both ends which was disappointing. Payne was probably our best overall.
Just started watching the replay and noticing at a lot of aerial contests, a lot of numbers from both sides around the ball but ours were often pretty bunched up whereas Adelaide had a better spread 360⁰ around the fall of the ball. Thus they often came away with the ball when it looked like we should have won it.
Hopefully we can find ways to become more clinical in our front 60 or 70. Lots of fumbling, bombing to packs or way too adventurous long shots at goal. At least we're getting those shots now where we were struggling early in the season.
But I have a bit of a theory as to why we've perhaps fluffed our lines a few too many times in front of goal the last couple of weeks. I wonder if our crowd noise is sometimes so overwhelming that our players get a bit overexcited and ahead of themselves, and it prevents them selecting the best option and executing accordingly. Takes me back to the 2019 Semi Final, which was so amazingly loud in our favour but I'm still not sure that was to our advantage! Similarly, whenever I go to Broncos games and the ground announcer starts a chant whenever we get inside the opposition 20, we invariably drop the ball
Yes, our Gabba only holds 30-odd thousand, but as Chris Scott has said, it's one of the loudest venues in the country when it's rocking and I wonder if that sometimes adversely affects our players. NFL teams of course make a point of asking their fans to be quiet when they have the ball - it's a stark contrast to here.
Compare that to the way our inside 50 conversion has been amazing in our last two away games, against the Bulldogs and Port, where we had much less crowd support. Hopefully we get enough opportunities in Perth on Sunday to see if that trend continues or not.
Yes expected score agrees with you. They shot the lights out and we regressed to our standard early season form in front of goal:
Ultimately it's the most convincing 11 point win you're ever likely to see. Kicked the first 3 goals of the game and literally held them at arm's length for the remainder, never conceding more than 2 consecutive goals. They closed to within 7 during the 1st, 8 points during the 2nd and 3rd, while 11 was as close as they got in the last.
Yes, a better red time and last quarter performance would have been nice, but still good to get another win with still so much potential upside. Thought we also ran the clock well at the end when things got a bit too close for comfort.
Transition defence remains a concern, but we did defend our back 50 far better than in recent weeks. Adelaide managed only 20 shots from 48 entries - that 42% is our best effort since we beat Gold Coast. So maybe this is the first step in improving our overall team defence. Better tackling in our front half would not go astray.
I think strategically we were well set up behind the ball, however conceding 15 contested marks while only taking 6 of our own limits the effectiveness of any strategy. Thought our talls were pretty well beaten at both ends which was disappointing. Payne was probably our best overall.
Just started watching the replay and noticing at a lot of aerial contests, a lot of numbers from both sides around the ball but ours were often pretty bunched up whereas Adelaide had a better spread 360⁰ around the fall of the ball. Thus they often came away with the ball when it looked like we should have won it.
Hopefully we can find ways to become more clinical in our front 60 or 70. Lots of fumbling, bombing to packs or way too adventurous long shots at goal. At least we're getting those shots now where we were struggling early in the season.
But I have a bit of a theory as to why we've perhaps fluffed our lines a few too many times in front of goal the last couple of weeks. I wonder if our crowd noise is sometimes so overwhelming that our players get a bit overexcited and ahead of themselves, and it prevents them selecting the best option and executing accordingly. Takes me back to the 2019 Semi Final, which was so amazingly loud in our favour but I'm still not sure that was to our advantage! Similarly, whenever I go to Broncos games and the ground announcer starts a chant whenever we get inside the opposition 20, we invariably drop the ball
Yes, our Gabba only holds 30-odd thousand, but as Chris Scott has said, it's one of the loudest venues in the country when it's rocking and I wonder if that sometimes adversely affects our players. NFL teams of course make a point of asking their fans to be quiet when they have the ball - it's a stark contrast to here.
Compare that to the way our inside 50 conversion has been amazing in our last two away games, against the Bulldogs and Port, where we had much less crowd support. Hopefully we get enough opportunities in Perth on Sunday to see if that trend continues or not.
Unfortunately this Twitter account no longer auto-posts expected scores for every single shot at goal. Elon Musk you star
starcevich was running towards rankine while looking at the play......he wasn't aware. rankine could have held his ground and bumped starcevich but instead he charged at him getting the chest and head. it's def a 2 or 3 match ban but made worse by starcevich running blind towards rankine. not excusing rankine, that was a crap act but starce didn't protect himself because he was unaware. hope starce is feeling ok tho.Weird from Mike Whiting, especially as he is an unabashed Starcevic fan.
Be interesting to hear whether he doubles down on TRD or retracts his comments
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Why should Starcevich have protected himself running back to his position given it was a stoppage to man up Rankine.
What made it worse was Rankine, instead of getting out of the way or bracing for contact. He instead choose to jump into Starc.
Is Rankine in Brownlow contention?
Going off the Crows statement about the tribunal tonight, they accept the high contact and severe impact grading but want it changed it from intentional to careless. Which under the guidelines, still results in 3 or more games.
Off the ball contact is by default "intentional", as it should be. I have zero faith in the MRO/Tribunal to do anything remotely consistent so understand the Crows position but morally their appeal is beneath them as a club.
I haven't seen this before. Might have get on twitter and see if I can follow itUnfortunately this Twitter account no longer auto-posts expected scores for every single shot at goal. Elon Musk you star
This is the breakdown from Andrew Whelan between set shots and general play:
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So it clearly shows Adelaide shot the lights out. +1.21 points per set shot is basically off the scale.
My understanding it's always vs industry average.
lol .. TBF - seems like we have that problem fairly regularlyMy understanding it's always vs industry average.
Otherwise we could kick 10-20 every week and be rated above average
I’ll be really disappointed if the Tribunal caves on the grading. You only have to look at the vision to know it was intentional and more so that he intended to hurt Starc; every talking head has said his hit was intended to hurt even if he didn’t mean to hit him in the head so the incident can’t be careless but like you said expect they’ll fold like they always do.
Completely agree. He intended to hurt him, not knock him out but definitely wind him, which can result in other more serious injuries.
Like, I get the hate etc, but honestly it's in the past, Adelaide play Essendon next week so honestly I hope they're somehow able to talk it down to just a week.
I am coming around to the red card. As the rule currently stands, it benefits (potentially) only the teams that play the suspended players team afterwards. The impacted team is still down one man.
