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07-03-2021, 11:18 PM
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Dow played OK last night, but I think he was actually better the week before.
Dow and Walsh still have the habit of handing out some horrible hospital hand passes.
Was that Walsh that Weiters spat the dummy with in the last quarter? It looked to me like Weiters expected Walsh to make 3rd man up and instead Walsh peeled off to rove the contest/spoil and Weiters paid out on him!
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(07-03-2021, 11:08 PM)LP link Wrote:Fate had a lot to do with it, just as Freo geared up with Mundy, Fyfe and Darcy all on ball, Cripps wrecked his foot.
I'm a bit surprised we didn't pull the trigger on Ed to stop Mundy, I suppose the MC want to see the response from Dow and Kennedy. I also think on another day we might have pegged SoJ to tag a Mundy or Fyfe, but we are probably grateful the MC didn't!
Dockers are middle of the road like us presently.
Like us, they really on a few stars heavily - Fyfe, Mundy, Walters....
Darcy carved us up for big parts of last night. TDK needs to bulk up a bit, but off a limited off season, that's probably harsh re where his fitness is at....
Mundy ditto was burning us in patches....but Fyfe and Walters largely unnoteworthy.
For once, we wanted it more than the other lot - and we got the chocolates.
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(07-03-2021, 11:07 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Not in Q2. Yes, when we went to sleep half way through Q3.
In q2, 3 of their 4 goals were from turnovers - largely bad disposal by our lot.
All that aside, all square at 3-4 time. Anyone's game.
We wanted it more.
2.5 to 0.2 says it all.
Nah second quarter they got busy about 10 mins in and we started panicking.
Mundy the big difference maker.
You think we changed plans, the fact is we had to because we weren't getting the footy and freo were killing us in the clearances (with some cheap frees from the umpires giving them some free goals).
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(07-03-2021, 11:18 PM)LP link Wrote:Dow played OK last night, but I think he was actually better the week before.
Dow had 6 clearances and 11 touches...... in the first quarter last night.
No way he was going to keep that pace up for the whole game, but that was his best effort.
Last week it was more consistent, but did not dominate like he did in q1 last night.
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(07-03-2021, 11:28 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Nah second quarter they got busy about 10 mins in and we started panicking.
Mundy the big difference maker.
You think we changed plans, the fact is we had to because we weren't getting the footy and freo were killing us in the clearances (with some cheap frees from the umpires giving them some free goals).
Not saying it was a coaching directive, agreed the players starting panicking....
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(07-03-2021, 11:31 PM)kruddler link Wrote:Dow had 6 clearances and 11 touches...... in the first quarter last night.
No way he was going to keep that pace up for the whole game, but that was his best effort.
Last week it was more consistent, but did not dominate like he did in q1 last night.
Best quarter of footy I've seen from any player in a long time.....
All the hoo-har about Serong, Cerra, Brayshaw etc.
The Wow turned up. now to turn 1 quarter into 3 or 4 and he'll be juddy v2! (no pressure)
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(07-03-2021, 11:46 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Best quarter of footy I've seen from any player in a long time.....
All the hoo-har about Serong, Cerra, Brayshaw etc.
The Wow turned up. now to turn 1 quarter into 3 or 4 and he'll be juddy v2! (no pressure)
Yeah, after last nights effort i've gone off Cerra.
Not worth the ransom they'll demand.
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(07-03-2021, 10:43 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Thought Kennedy was one of the main reasons we held sway in Q4.
Top 3 for mine.
Kennedy had 17 touches in the 2nd half. 11 in the last quarter. Surprised how well he ran out the game.
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07-04-2021, 12:04 AM
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Thought Dow played his best game, forget about how many possies.. It was his ball use and decision making, no errors and his foot pass to Jack on a tight lead in traffic was excellent. Got tagged after that opening quarter and only had another 11 possies but didn't make an errors either.
I thought Brayshaw was good for Freo and better than Cerra whose kicking isnt perfect imo. Not paying 750k for what I witnessed last night... Prefer Brayshaw who is a neat composed player.
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07-04-2021, 12:05 AM
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I could only get to see the 2H but was very pleased with how we went overall. Walsh = genius, rapt with the improvement shown by Dow and Kennedy. Could it be that these 2 guys will finally pay off the investment? 
PS Loved Jack's game - worked his butt off.
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