07-13-2024, 11:58 AM
Not to mention I reckon we got the rough end of the stick with some umpiring today.
They gave weightman a goal that was barely high if it was and the umpires were wrong sided to see it.
Poulters arm chop against weiters in red time in quarter 2 was a joke. The finish outstanding.
Cripps managed to dish it out to someone who spotted up a kick inside 50. Marked 30 metres out. They brought it back for a free kick. Cripps had a shot from about 55 pulled it left.
It wasn't why we lost, it just makes it harder.
Tactically I thought the dogs played a very compact game and made it tough for us to play through. They moved as a unit and were able to break our lines too easily whilst we had to move the ball very precisely or rely on dump kicks.
Was interesting to see.
Beyond that the current holding the ball rules are a mess now. It's chook lotto. A couple times players are getting tackled as they take possession. No arm free holding the ball.
Credit to the dogs they were able to score every time we got a goal with an instant reply and it just meant we never looked like winning.
We'll need to find a way through that scenario. Losing Williams is a big loss. He picked owies out with a 50 metre bullet early from the wing and thats the sort of kicking we needed to pierce the dogs zone today.
Forget the ruck discussion. Our strength is winning and bash and crash on the inside and we got hammered at it again this week by the dogs.
They gave weightman a goal that was barely high if it was and the umpires were wrong sided to see it.
Poulters arm chop against weiters in red time in quarter 2 was a joke. The finish outstanding.
Cripps managed to dish it out to someone who spotted up a kick inside 50. Marked 30 metres out. They brought it back for a free kick. Cripps had a shot from about 55 pulled it left.
It wasn't why we lost, it just makes it harder.
Tactically I thought the dogs played a very compact game and made it tough for us to play through. They moved as a unit and were able to break our lines too easily whilst we had to move the ball very precisely or rely on dump kicks.
Was interesting to see.
Beyond that the current holding the ball rules are a mess now. It's chook lotto. A couple times players are getting tackled as they take possession. No arm free holding the ball.
Credit to the dogs they were able to score every time we got a goal with an instant reply and it just meant we never looked like winning.
We'll need to find a way through that scenario. Losing Williams is a big loss. He picked owies out with a 50 metre bullet early from the wing and thats the sort of kicking we needed to pierce the dogs zone today.
Forget the ruck discussion. Our strength is winning and bash and crash on the inside and we got hammered at it again this week by the dogs.
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Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson