04-23-2022, 10:58 AM
(04-23-2022, 10:51 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:For mine TDK is a worry.He's not experienced.
Scoreboard gonna get ugly.
If you go back and watch a replay of the first half centre bounces, you'll see Darcy taking his eyes off the football and targets his knee at our rucks shin or quad. There are a couple of clear shots of it happening, one has cost Pitto a PCL. It's a dog act, and technically it's a block that should be penalised, but is rarely paid because the umpires aren't watching for that stuff. An experienced ruck knows that if you come at the football from the same direction as Darcy he can't do that, and it becomes a wrestle / jumping contest.
Hard to get Freo pinged for holding the ball in Perth, the crowd has a lot of influence.
Not sure how Newnes gets a run ahead of Stocker or LoB, on form and intensity nothing I've seen justifies Newnes selection ahead of those others. Both Newnes and Owies dropped baby marks that turned potential goals for us into opposition scores.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

