Personally, I thought Durdin put himself in more dangerous places today and was perhaps more influential than fans will credit, because it was mostly without the footy.
Motlop is still some way off, because it's not what he does when he is around the ball, it what he doesn't do when the opposition win the footy and take it away. Also, I was a bit disappointed to see him flying against Charlie and BigH, sure fans love it but you'd think that our small forwards would have worked out that Big H and Charlie are not regularly out marked, and either bring the ball to ground or mark it many times more than they get beaten in the air.
I thought Durdin, Fisher and Cottrell really hurt GWS with aggressive run today, and that meant when we got the ball GWS were struggling to put the brakes on. It was important because for much of the game I think GWS got first hands on the footy a lot courtesy of Preuss, but we were able to create the turnovers, and then really hurt GWS on the turnover. Also qudos to LoB, was a bit rusty getting back into it, but he was an option all over the ground and that also stretched the GWS ability to stop our momentum.
When Owies and Pttio are fit, it will be interesting to see what Voss does.
I thought Gov was also quite good today, I was reticent about his early return because to me he looked off the pace in the VFL. But I was proven wrong today, Gov was a bit rusty but he made all the different for the likes of Weitering, Young, Plowman and Newman.
Motlop is still some way off, because it's not what he does when he is around the ball, it what he doesn't do when the opposition win the footy and take it away. Also, I was a bit disappointed to see him flying against Charlie and BigH, sure fans love it but you'd think that our small forwards would have worked out that Big H and Charlie are not regularly out marked, and either bring the ball to ground or mark it many times more than they get beaten in the air.
I thought Durdin, Fisher and Cottrell really hurt GWS with aggressive run today, and that meant when we got the ball GWS were struggling to put the brakes on. It was important because for much of the game I think GWS got first hands on the footy a lot courtesy of Preuss, but we were able to create the turnovers, and then really hurt GWS on the turnover. Also qudos to LoB, was a bit rusty getting back into it, but he was an option all over the ground and that also stretched the GWS ability to stop our momentum.
When Owies and Pttio are fit, it will be interesting to see what Voss does.
I thought Gov was also quite good today, I was reticent about his early return because to me he looked off the pace in the VFL. But I was proven wrong today, Gov was a bit rusty but he made all the different for the likes of Weitering, Young, Plowman and Newman.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"