Smith may get a week for tripping. Reid injured....So...
OUT : Reid, Smith
IN : Dawson, Aliir or Marsh (Depending on St Kilda match ups)
Smith may get a week for tripping. Reid injured....So...
OUT : Reid, Smith
IN : Dawson, Aliir or Marsh (Depending on St Kilda match ups)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect... MT
I was on the Churchill side and it was dominated by red and white. it's a great little ground and the food stalls looked good except the queues were too long. They didn't cope well with the increased patronage and I had to forgo my usual hot chips and cold beer. It's always great to see Princess Toby on the losing side. After the intensity of the last 5-6 weeks, to me it looked like they had to grind out this win. I could be wrong tho as the match was mostly played on the far side of the field to where I was sitting. Good spread of work load through the bulk of the team I thought. A few obviously need a good hard look at themselves (ie Reid).
I heard from someone well connected that the AFL have officially given us "fairy tail" status (seriously) and the umpiring reflected that.
Play this right and we could go all the way.
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Giants have a flawed game plan. They win almost all stats except tackling, yet were never in the game. It's not just injuries, although having to play musungu is telling. They are wasting there list at the moment.
Great win last night. Gws were down on personnel for sure but it's the first time in a while that we've controlled the game.
Even the scg game last year we won through better efficiency in front of goal rather than system. If we didn't win that one I think we would have been looking at a long gws winning streak.
Phil Davis is the best full back in the league imo. No way was that a free to Buddy in front of goal.
Umpiring was rubbish, way too many soft frees paid and no doubt we got the better of it.
We need Grundy to play a few more years yet. McVeigh was great in setting the tone early - composure under pressure.
GWS are frightening when they are allowed to run the ball. I thought the Swans did a really good job of preventing GWS moving the ball the way they wanted to. Can't remember the number of times a GWS player blocked by a Swans player and have to take a second or third option.
They were all over us at the start of the first and end of the third, but we were in control most of the game.
Really liked Rampe playing on Greene although not sure what it says about Smiths abilities as a small lock down defender. Smith seemed to be playing as the spare a few times last night.
If Rampe is going to play on Smith's opppnents then maybe Smith's days are numbered. Although GWS are extremely hard to play against.
If Reid is injured, then that would rob us of Horses's last 5 minutes security blanket. Maybe it is time to bring in Aliir for Smith and Dawson / Hayward for Reid
Btw I loved the piss-take of Sweet Caroline. Out - Neil Diamond, In - nothing. We don't need a Q time theme song
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Forgot to mention how weird it was watching Towers rucking against Mummy. I feared for his safety.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
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