Oscar had a poor first half. But I actually think he slightly had the better of Gawn in the 2nd half.
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Oscar had a poor first half. But I actually think he slightly had the better of Gawn in the 2nd half.
Oscar had a poor first half. But I actually think he slightly had the better of Gawn in the 2nd half.
Going need to you confirm you're talking about Dean, not Mason.Gawn to me is probably one of the all time greatest rucks. Might be going past Cox. Some of his taps to Vineyard's and co tonight were beautiful. Going up against him is a nightmare but felt Oscar absolutely competed well. Did well to push forward and try and stretch him round the ground. Didn't let him dominate in the air down the ground when we were chasing the win
I thought I must have been going bonkers, live at the game I thought Oscar was quite good all game against Gawn and also lifted his level in the 2nd half.Ok, so Gawn won the ruck but I thought Oscar was far from disgraced.
Gawn didn't have much influence around the ground did he?
No big influential marks and no monster of a goal, as he has tended to do against us in past games.
Never for one instant did I think of Mason in the context of a greatest ruckman conversation...Going need to you confirm you're talking about Dean, not Mason.
I thought I must have been going bonkers, live at the game I thought Oscar was quite good all game against Gawn and also lifted his level in the 2nd half.
I get home read through most of the review thread and this one and thought gee I am a horrible judge(some might say yes always have been), the Big O was copping it.
Glad you and a few others restored my scant remaining sanity, thanks luthor.
I would give him a D for the first half and a B for the second.To me it was more that Gawn didn’t have the influence around the ground like he usually does. And had we lost it would not have been because of Gawn - which usually is a major reason we do lose to Melbourne. A pass for Oscar tonight.
Would love to see the hit out to advantage. In particular Oscars tap work is where he has the biggest issue and in the last few weeks has the biggest improvement. But from my eyes Gawn monsters him at the stoppages all night.
Yeah I heard the commentators say that too.I think it was 6-1 in the first half
Agree with this, had his colours lowered but even then it was more Gawns tap work that was hurting us, never really impacted the game around the ground at all. Oscar won the second half too I thoughtOscar had a poor first half. But I actually think he slightly had the better of Gawn in the 2nd half.
I thought he was comparatively great. He isn't in Gawn's league but how many rucks are? If he can negate to a large extent the influence of guys like this, the rest of our team is good enough to capitalise. Big O is not a superstar and he never will be but if he can do what he did last night against the gun rucks, he's done his job and then some.