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Exactly, so why did they keep focussing on HIM all night - from the intro, throughout the game and afterwards? They seemed to be treating him as someone who was coming back from adversity, which is what irritated me.
Yes - this is the part that annoyed me. He played a great game, but they should have focussed purely on that.
The bigger issue is that the AFL should have had some guts and suspended Cousins for the rest of the year.
How can we be effective when we attack if our forward structure/strategy isn't up to scratch? You got it right the 2nd time; we had an amazing proportion of forward 50 entries:scores tonight.
It worked nicely tonight because our lack of potential goalscoring forwards meant that ROK had to play closer to goal, which in turn meant we couldn't rely on him to manufacture his usual glut of forward 50 entries. So we relied on smalls to carry the ball through the middle and deliver the ball on the break, which created a few marks, but a lot more sharking opportunities for our small forwards.
Our 'tempo' chipping game didn't work tonight partly because of poor execution, and partly because a team as professional as the Weagles can often see where the next short kick is going, push numbers up and shut it down. It's horses for courses; against some teams (particularly many of the defensively-minded Victorian ones who are happy to fall back when we have the ball) it works fine.
Simon, our forwards dont get enough ball from the midfield and what we get is not quality. We had 12 inside 50's at one point for 5 goals 5 points. Thats great conversion just not enough going in there.
Hell Scott a few others went missing. Try Goodes who I thought was as weak as water tonight, Schneider found it just too hard in the midfield, Richards was appalling, Ablett might as well have been in the stands drinking pi55 and that little twerp J Bolton conveniently went to ground at almost every contest, and his number was very conspicuos on the outside of clearance contests with the odd helping hand after the ump blew the whistle.
Yeh but,
Those that you mention were missing for most of the game. the other two starred early, then went missing then slowly worked their way back into the game.
Despite a couple of poor results for us today (brightened up only by Hawthorn's loss), there's still at least a 50% chance that we will make it if we go 6-0. Playing consistent footy, we should be favourites to win the first 4 (with St Kilda being the big danger game). I have few fears about us being able to beat Hawthorn in a possible death-match in R22 if it comes to that.
The potential huge showdown game, if all else goes well for us, is Collingwood in R21.
I can't believe people are still talking about top 4.
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