(04-28-2019, 09:44 PM)cookie2 link Wrote:Sure, doesn't help does it? Just not enough hardened winners at the moment. That's what was needed yesterday to get us over the line. Effort was mostly there, nous was lacking against Clarko the old fox and his men.
And a bit of luck, it's not every game you lead well then end up with three significant players on the pine!
That takes a toll on any team, and under the current rules it's amplified!
But it is interesting, pre-game a few players looked off colour. When Simmo failed to surface I thought maybe a lurgy was going through the club, because during the Anzac Day ceremony I thought Simmo, Marchbank, Cripps and SoJ all looked off colour with dark rings under their eyes. I said to my son Simmo looked like he'd seen a ghost when he walked the boundary. If that thought has any substance it's probably a learning curve for BB.
On the tagging issue, OMeara had 27 at 1/2-time and it made not much difference to the result. I think tagging is a bit wasted unless you have a tagger that can hurt teams going the other way, and we probably don't have that type. Several of the experts claim tagging is dead under the new rules, because it leaves you short of a free player when you win the ball.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"