05-23-2021, 06:16 AM
I was at the game. A couple of disclaimers:
We were sitting at the very back of the top of the Olympic stand. It was great, because we had the sun on our backs and it was nice and warm, however, I was also wearing the wrong specs, so couldn't easily identify the players. Our family (4 Blues) went with a good mate (neutral) and his son (Hawks).
There was 7-8 minutes in the third quarter and same again in the last where the turnovers were appalling. Would have preferred to be at the local footy where there is some expectation of this. We were actually laughing it was so bad.
At the end of the first half, we were surprised that Hawks were 3 points down. We were doing it easily, but didn't really notice the Hawks scoring (or that they had more scores than us for most of the day) - weren't really watching the scoreboard until the second half.
The turning point was when Kositschke played on in the goal square, we tackled and got the free. We seemed to settle a bit after that.
The scoreboard had disposal efficiency at about 73% each - don't know what makes an efficient disposal, but it certainly didn't feel that at the ground.
Watched the replay. In the last qtr, Jordan Lewis was asked, how he saw Cripps' game - "OK" then was given some stats "I take that back he's been good" then was told Cripps had the most pressure acts on the ground "OK - he's been excellent". Pickle.
We were sitting at the very back of the top of the Olympic stand. It was great, because we had the sun on our backs and it was nice and warm, however, I was also wearing the wrong specs, so couldn't easily identify the players. Our family (4 Blues) went with a good mate (neutral) and his son (Hawks).
There was 7-8 minutes in the third quarter and same again in the last where the turnovers were appalling. Would have preferred to be at the local footy where there is some expectation of this. We were actually laughing it was so bad.
At the end of the first half, we were surprised that Hawks were 3 points down. We were doing it easily, but didn't really notice the Hawks scoring (or that they had more scores than us for most of the day) - weren't really watching the scoreboard until the second half.
The turning point was when Kositschke played on in the goal square, we tackled and got the free. We seemed to settle a bit after that.
The scoreboard had disposal efficiency at about 73% each - don't know what makes an efficient disposal, but it certainly didn't feel that at the ground.
Watched the replay. In the last qtr, Jordan Lewis was asked, how he saw Cripps' game - "OK" then was given some stats "I take that back he's been good" then was told Cripps had the most pressure acts on the ground "OK - he's been excellent". Pickle.