07-03-2019, 01:12 AM
(07-03-2019, 01:01 AM)Baggers link Wrote:Not luck at all.
Earlier in the year we cr@pped ourselves when we hit the front or folded under fair-dinkum pressure.
You make your own luck and when you've an aggressive attitude and application to offensive/defensive play, it can and does throw the opposition off to a degree - it clearly rattled the D1ckers. And that's what I saw after qtr time... our good moves of SOJ onto Fyffe and Ed hunting his own aggott and an aggressive/positive mind-set combined to create 'good luck'. Also results in more mistakes but if you anticipate these and suck it up, better skills will be created.
I'll take the win any day and every day, but I think some assessments of that game are very sugar coated. Ordinary skills, behind on the scoreboard most of the night, not turning up to play, as flyboy says, Freo lost it rather than the other way around. If the siren sounds 40 seconds earlier, if Murphy kicks a behind or OOF etc., the post game emotion and analysis is very different. Teague says so himself. Watch his post game presser. Apart from the final result, that's not how good teams go about it. Yes, I know it's early days, and I hope Teague smashes it, but we won't be troubling too many sides with that display.