07-17-2022, 03:23 AM
(07-16-2022, 09:05 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:Smashed in the middle. We need Pittonet back so we can return to our strength from early in the year which was centre clearances.This was where we lost the game. We simply couldn't get a decent break from the centre. Geelong mids were holding ours before they even got the ball, while theirs managed to get the ball out, somehow or another (not many of these were remotely like legal disposals, but I'm not going there). We barely won a centre clearance all night.
Around the ground we started poorly, but picked up. Eventually we won most of those, but it was the centre that killed us.
Kennedy was great early, but he faded. Cerra and Hewett were good players for us, but they didn't get centre clearances like they usually do. Even Walsh, hard work that he was, was fumbly and didn't show his normal high standard when disposing of the ball.
Cripps was well held, and I mean that literally.
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