08-09-2020, 08:24 AM
Good contested effort by most players, WC have a much stronger team physically and we looked spent in the 3rd quarter..
DeKoning and Cottrell did some nice things and deserve to play next week, who ever played on Sheed doesnt deserve a game, no one picked him up and he hurt us badly.
Jones was good at FB on Kennedy and it was probably the big body of Darling that gave us the most problems down forward , thought Cripps was injured and he pulled up short in that marking contest which wasnt a good look but everyone has a moment like that. Our own Kennedy and Setterfield were handy, the former took some very good marks under real pressure.....Nicnat won the ruck duels but didnt do much else IMO. Kelly got a lot of ball and hurt us late as did Shuey but to half time we had them contained.
SPS had a shocker....the 1st holding the ball was rubbish but he got caught again in front of goal and froze for a second or two and the way the umpires are now you dont get long sometimes. Then he had another bad moment in the last quarter where he needed to attack the ball better, not sure we can keep playing him down back especially vs bigger bodied teams like the WC.
Losing Charlie, Harry and then McGovern didnt give us much forward structure and allowed WC to double up on Levi or make him lead wide and we didnt have any alternative avenues to goal other than crumbing work of Fisher who was excellent taking his opportunities for 4 goals..
Eddie did some nice things early then faded and losing Martin robbed us of some smarts and forward pressure, Duggan seemed to get a lot of uncontested ball along with Hurn and we needed Martin to keep them honest.
Umpiring was carp and the holding the ball rule remains a lottery....
DeKoning and Cottrell did some nice things and deserve to play next week, who ever played on Sheed doesnt deserve a game, no one picked him up and he hurt us badly.
Jones was good at FB on Kennedy and it was probably the big body of Darling that gave us the most problems down forward , thought Cripps was injured and he pulled up short in that marking contest which wasnt a good look but everyone has a moment like that. Our own Kennedy and Setterfield were handy, the former took some very good marks under real pressure.....Nicnat won the ruck duels but didnt do much else IMO. Kelly got a lot of ball and hurt us late as did Shuey but to half time we had them contained.
SPS had a shocker....the 1st holding the ball was rubbish but he got caught again in front of goal and froze for a second or two and the way the umpires are now you dont get long sometimes. Then he had another bad moment in the last quarter where he needed to attack the ball better, not sure we can keep playing him down back especially vs bigger bodied teams like the WC.
Losing Charlie, Harry and then McGovern didnt give us much forward structure and allowed WC to double up on Levi or make him lead wide and we didnt have any alternative avenues to goal other than crumbing work of Fisher who was excellent taking his opportunities for 4 goals..
Eddie did some nice things early then faded and losing Martin robbed us of some smarts and forward pressure, Duggan seemed to get a lot of uncontested ball along with Hurn and we needed Martin to keep them honest.
Umpiring was carp and the holding the ball rule remains a lottery....