AFL Toast Win Against Saints

[Nicholas61]

I only watched the last 15 minutes on replay but would be interesting if our forward line is better balanced without Wright - Harry has a motor so can close down space and provide more defense.

 

[Cold Sober]

We won, our season ahead is looking good.

 

[The Devils Advocate]

Jones’s career written off a week ago then goes on to play his best ever game

I dunno. People forget the game he played vs the Hawks in Launceston. I was convinced after that game. He had that bad miss where he covered his face. But he killed it.

 

[84859300]

Have been one of Parish’s biggest critics but he worked hard today on the defensive side of things, I love to see it.

Oh my goodness no, he was 20-30m off his player all day.

My goodness, he was bad.

 

[Dave]

8th on the ladder, % under 100 - that's Essendon baby!

Eightendon

 

[VelvetSledge]

Another ripper prediction by VelvetSledge

Changing my username to Nostra-Dumbass

 

[schmuttt]

How goods footy

 

[WABomber]

I dunno. People forget the game he played vs the Hawks in Launceston. I was convinced after that game. He had that bad miss where he covered his face. But he killed it.

He's great in the air, he also seems to like cutting across a pack. Think with draper resting forward the long bombs into the 50 would suit him as opposed to trying to work in tandem with Peter's long leads.

 

[The Devils Advocate]

Jones reminded me of Justin Westhoff

39

Justin Westhoff

Age

38

Ht

199cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.4

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.9

4star

CL

0.8

3star

D

10.4

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.4

2star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.9

3star

CL

0.8

3star

D

12.0

3star

K

8.4

4star

HB

3.6

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.2

4star

CL

0.8

3star

today. Has such a good ceiling, here's hoping he starts to reach it consistently.

 

[Mercurial89]

He's great in the air, he also seems to like cutting across a pack. Think with draper resting forward the long bombs into the 50 would suit him as opposed to trying to work in tandem with Peter's long leads.

That is a very good observation

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Oh my goodness no, he was 20-30m off his player all day.

My goodness, he was bad.

Sorry what? There were a couple of times he wasn’t where he should be but for the most part he was far improved. He was definitely not 20-30m off his player all day. Players don’t even have players they’re assigned to for the most part anyway.

 

[The Donners]

Really surprised with so many positive posts, felt that we barely scraped through against a toothless saints. The skill errors were so glaring, luckily the saints couldn't kick straight or it would have been a different story. The press was getting absolutely destroyed early on, they were cutting through our zone and shrugging takcles with absolute ease. In the end it worked when all the players were tired and we got some clutch goals.. No point having a player get 40+ touches when our backline is getting chopped up. As much as I like Martin I feel this new role is taking away from what Redman offers and exposes heppell even more. I should try be more positive seeing as we had a win, but far out that was a horrible display of football.

Whilst I don’t disagree with everyone you’ve said. We could’ve been better tonight yet we still scrapped it out against a team probably expected to finish above us.

 

[Bramax]

Nice win Bombers.

How great does it feel to shut the media up?

 

[Happyskeret]

Jones reminded me of Justin Westhoff today. Has such a good ceiling, here's hoping he starts to reach it consistently.

He is to good of a player to discard imo.

 

[84859300]

Sorry what? There were a couple of times he wasn’t where he should be but for the most part he was far improved. He was definitely not 20-30m off his player all day. Players don’t even have players they’re assigned to for the most part anyway.

If you watched it from up high - he had no opponent for 3/4 of the game.

He was off it royally today.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Duz out with concussion still no mention of the tackle that slammed his head into the ground

Fox Footy saying it was an accident and not a concern for the MRO

 

[citizen-erased]

How goods footy

Too much salt in my diet after the main board threads for both games

 

[Vander18]

Went to the game, always good to see the stuff you don’t pick up on tv.

Far out we take up some aggressive positions defensively. I’m an old school back shoulder, arm across guy….there’s none of that. Think the issue for back 6 is that Hep and Lav can’t close space so it leaves us exploitable at times. Will work better with Ridley and Reid.

Langford and Stringer need to be the focus of our forward line. They are 50 goal plus forwards and very, very hard to contain if they get deep, 1:1 isolations. Play 1 ruck (Draper), Wright and Jones working high and providing down the line marking and let Langford and Stringer get to work inside 50. 2MP to spell Draper. This maximises the strengths of the group - 2MP especially will benefit from not being the focal point of our inside 50 entries.

 

[Vindicater]

Oh my goodness no, he was 20-30m off his player all day.

My goodness, he was bad.

No he was not

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Fox Footy saying it was an accident and not a concern for the MRO

i hope ross cops a week for consistency.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

Lots to like and lots to dislike about this game.

 

[Nicholas61]

Fox Footy saying it was an accident and not a concern for the MRO

Just saw it on the match highlights certainly not malicious (like a nasty sling) and Duz grabbed the shoulder straight away - maybe a delayed and mild concussion.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Thought fair comments from Ross Lyon after the game, even mentioned we were missing a couple plus Setterfield loss. Terrific win after a poor start …the manner of the win very pleasing with the forward pressure and superb midfield which has been good in all three games. Jones and Duursma performances really encouraging

 

[84859300]

No he was not

He definatly was - numerous times.

I know what you want - but he's not it.

 

[MiguelM]

Oh my goodness no, he was 20-30m off his player all day.

My goodness, he was bad.

Rubbish, 8 tackles & 5 clearances & 26 disposals.