I thought we had the top 3 out of the top 5 players on the ground, and the other two were not Pendles.
I thought Sidebottom really hurt us, we seem to always have troubles with these medium sized highly mobile types. I also thought Crisp was very good for them, I thought Grundy ended up with a lot of stats but not much influence outside of a couple of very good defensive marks! Hoskin-Elliott was also quite good for them.
Will be an interesting week for AFLCA votes, I think Buckley would not be too happy, he had a lot of blokes out on the ground who only did 95% of the required work! A couple of weeks back I liked the look of them, and some will argue they did what they had to do yesterday, but I cannot recall the really red hot flag teams ever picking and choosing when to give 100%! In all honesty to me it looked like a day where circumstance should have seen them win by 10 or more goals, for more than half the game they were basically curtailed by just 4 or 5 of our team!
I thought Sidebottom really hurt us, we seem to always have troubles with these medium sized highly mobile types. I also thought Crisp was very good for them, I thought Grundy ended up with a lot of stats but not much influence outside of a couple of very good defensive marks! Hoskin-Elliott was also quite good for them.
Will be an interesting week for AFLCA votes, I think Buckley would not be too happy, he had a lot of blokes out on the ground who only did 95% of the required work! A couple of weeks back I liked the look of them, and some will argue they did what they had to do yesterday, but I cannot recall the really red hot flag teams ever picking and choosing when to give 100%! In all honesty to me it looked like a day where circumstance should have seen them win by 10 or more goals, for more than half the game they were basically curtailed by just 4 or 5 of our team!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"