06-18-2023, 07:53 AM
It does marvellous things for my mental health when we win, especially a game like that where it threatened to get away from us. But the thing that pleased me the most was that we appeared to finally learn something from our previous mistakes:
[1] We tackled like we meant it. 69 tackles this week, compared to 33 last week. Not only that, but we really tackled well. Doc had a couple of absolute beauties, as did H.
[2] We seemed to have picked up in the centre square against a pretty good bunch of mids. We got more where the ball was. Cerra early and Matt Kennedy late were dynamic in the way they got the ball in the middle. Even though we didn't get a lot of taps, our rucks competed well and didn't allow Witts to just put them where he wanted.
Tom de Koning really competed well and took a few marks. He is a different player when he is holding his marks.
[3] Cincotta, Boyd, Cuningham and Fogarty didn't get huge possessions, but they really did good jobs. Cincotta's defensive work was excellent, Cuningham's run and dash, and his kicking really stood out. His smothers, chases and tackles were a big positive. All of these guys deserve a mention, even if they didn't get the numbers, because of the effort and the positive effect.
[4] Dow should get a go next week. His last quarter was pretty good: he had as many possessions as Martin had in 3 quarters. That said, Martin was so much more dangerous this week.
[5] Three goals to Cripps was excellent, but all of our mids hit the scoreboard today. 2 goals for Cerra, a goal to Fogarty, a goal to Kennedy and 2 goals to de Koning were more than useful contributions.
We had 9 goal scorers this week, which 150% of the number of goals we've been kicking recently.
[1] We tackled like we meant it. 69 tackles this week, compared to 33 last week. Not only that, but we really tackled well. Doc had a couple of absolute beauties, as did H.
[2] We seemed to have picked up in the centre square against a pretty good bunch of mids. We got more where the ball was. Cerra early and Matt Kennedy late were dynamic in the way they got the ball in the middle. Even though we didn't get a lot of taps, our rucks competed well and didn't allow Witts to just put them where he wanted.
Tom de Koning really competed well and took a few marks. He is a different player when he is holding his marks.
[3] Cincotta, Boyd, Cuningham and Fogarty didn't get huge possessions, but they really did good jobs. Cincotta's defensive work was excellent, Cuningham's run and dash, and his kicking really stood out. His smothers, chases and tackles were a big positive. All of these guys deserve a mention, even if they didn't get the numbers, because of the effort and the positive effect.
[4] Dow should get a go next week. His last quarter was pretty good: he had as many possessions as Martin had in 3 quarters. That said, Martin was so much more dangerous this week.
[5] Three goals to Cripps was excellent, but all of our mids hit the scoreboard today. 2 goals for Cerra, a goal to Fogarty, a goal to Kennedy and 2 goals to de Koning were more than useful contributions.
We had 9 goal scorers this week, which 150% of the number of goals we've been kicking recently.
Live Long and Prosper!