05-23-2017, 12:42 AM
I was like shadesy and at the game and the weather conditions definitely played a part. It was worse than the tv showed real torrential stuff. Our young guys just ran out of strength middle of each quarter and let them get back into it once they got back the almost silent crowd came to life and lifted them past us. Dockers also started to play wet weather football kicking and knocking in on at any cost where we kept on with dry stuff of setting it up for too long. Sandilands gave Fyfe and Neale an armchair ride and they kept belting it forward quick putting our backline under huge pressure which created mistakes. Wet football in a nutshell. We certainly weren't thrashed as one poster said we just weren't strong enough for long enough, that will change with time and body shape. Was happy with the effort not the loss. Sandilands won the game with his ruck work,Kreuzer just not big enough. In the wet he was twice as tall and his tap work superb. Freo will be crap again once he retires or gets injured