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Well there's the argument in a nutshell. You can't quantify "hurt factor", maybe DE approximates it. If you get it, to be effective you have to use it properly....moving to the the advantage of the team mate/team.
BTW, our overall DE was horrible, a damning stat that says plenty.
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(08-15-2020, 10:22 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:Murphy had a terrible game, let's not re-write history because of the big win.
Agree.
He was involved in a couple of chains which saw us on the back foot including that holding the ball decision that led to freo extending their lead back out to 14 points.
Murphy did some good things but some really bad things too. The fact he was in the bests says more about the rest of the team than it did Murphy. Walsh did some really important stuff when it counted.
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I like what Williamson could potentially be, but he's disappointing ATM. Attack on the contest hasn't been good enough and ball handling is hesitant and fumbly.
How long before Marchbank gets a run off half back?
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I thought the moment that Fyfe pinched the ball from Williamson was a telling moment and showed that his confidence is well down. You could see on replay Williamson catch sight of Fyfe in the corner of his eye a split second before taking full control of the ball. He panicked, fumbled and Fyfe just took it away from him. Having said that I still think he did some OK things and will come good if he can get some confidence back.
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All things considered, I will take this. Winners are grinners and we won against adversity, with a large portion of our 'better'players in the stands, not on the field.
[1] The deliberate out of bounds was there. That idiot just tapped the ball towards the line. Free Kick in any game.
[2] Brayshaw crashes into Docherty. The commentators can complain to Satan if they wish, but that is a free. He was taken down after he kicked the ball. Free down the field.
Docherty was lucky as that kick of his was a shocker and went on the full.
End of story on that.
Some of the other frees, especially those given early in the game, were pretty dubious. The frees to Taberner and Lobb in particular were shockers. I could go through others.
Since we've been in Perth we've been up against it. We've played with generally hostile crowds. The weather has not helped us. We generally play better when it is drier, especially our indigenous players. In the old days Eddie was usually at his quietest in the rain. We have so many of our name players unavailable and were down our 2 better ruckmen.
This was our first TV game win in more than 2 years.
Accept it and move on. Time to learn from it before we play the Gold Coast.
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i thought Willo has taken a few positive steps in the last few games...
The conditions were shitty last night and to a lesser extent against WCE.
No more fumbly than Doc quite frankly. Or Samo!
Finals, then 4 in a row!
E.. in those conditions just get the ball moving forward. Ed Curnow had the right idea just get it and kick it our way.
