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[TheGrimReaper]

I'll have to rack my brain,but i'm already famous as my user name was in big letters across the middle of the banner.

Did you take a pic of the banner for proof of your username on the banner?

[swantastic]

Which quarter was it el tastico? We can put it on youtube with a whacky sound effect and make you famous.

I'll have to rack my brain,but i'm already famous as my user name was in big letters across the middle of the banner.

[stellation]

Which quarter was it el tastico? We can put it on youtube with a whacky sound effect and make you famous.

[swantastic]

Yep. What a dropkick.

LOL..I've been called worse.

[ScottH]

Changing the subject for a minute,did any one see when Steve Johnson went into the fence between the point posts some guy hanging over the fence giving him stick?

Yep. What a dropkick.

[swantastic]

Changing the subject for a minute,did any one see when Steve Johnson went into the fence between the point posts some guy hanging over the fence giving him stick?

[rook]

I agree - Bloods have three key players out - Hall, Everett and Kennelly -

Geelong had Ottens and Egan ( all australian CHB ) out, 2 players that would walk into any team .

Rook

[kapoweewow]

i haven't read the whole thread but did anyone else notice that at one point in the game, the scores were the same as the 2005 semi final (well at one point in that game)? it was 44 to 53, when I noticed that i was like cmooooooon nick davis!

[swansrule100]

mattner kicking in isnt too bad, made a few errors but a high percentage were pretty good. He is probably third choice for kick ins when we are at full strength.

theres a lot of players higher on the list to get stuck into than mattner.

[NMWBloods]

Yes, but without Kennelly who else will kick in?

[TheHood]

Who else will? He really doesn't make too many mistakes.

Marty was a car crash at vital times and as I said through the week, he bypasses his first instinct and by then the opportunity is lost or he takes the 3rd of 2 options (thanks Dennis).

When Kennelly is back, hopefully he will resume duties.

[liz]

Completely agree. Mentioned this earlier in the thread. We need a tall target up forward. I don't know when Everitt will be ready. However our forward structure was very ordinary yesterday. Or perhaps the delivery was too slow it ruined the structure.

Maybe a chicken and egg situation.

It's been observed that when we played good footy in rounds 2-4, there were times during the game that we were playing on far more and trusting our forwards to beat their man one-out in a contest.

When you know you don't have the obvious target up there maybe you don't do it. Or maybe it's even more imperative that you get it up there quickly, because while ROK, Davis and O'Loughlin are all more than capable of beating an opponent one-out, none is particularly good in a pack situation.

Particularly in the first half, ROK was a very effective target around the forward 50 arc and won more contests than he lost. But he's not in kicking range there. Maybe they need to bite the bullet and play him more like 30m out. On the other hand, I think we missed a lot of his run around the ground yesterday.

Barlow's done some excellent stuff when he has the ball but at the moment he's only playing cameos. That's not unexpected but we not its not a lack of endurance that's stopping him being more involved. Maybe he and O'Keefe need to spend the next week watching tapes of some of O'Keefe's best games to try and help Barlow learn where he needs to run to emulate that role. And then use O'Keefe as a target closer to goal.

[NMWBloods]

A key target is important, but you can kick goals without one (or at least more than we do). However, you can't if you persist with a slow sideways build-up. Half of our players look to go sideways before they go forward.

[TheMase]

We will struggle to kick goals with that forward structure. We need a big body target and the only one is White. ROK refuses to play close to goals or drift there, MOL is no longer a key forward, Nick Davis is an inigma, Jude is a waste of space, Goodes is an on baller, LRT is a CHB and nothing else and Barlow is an onballer.

Completely agree. Mentioned this earlier in the thread. We need a tall target up forward. I don't know when Everitt will be ready. However our forward structure was very ordinary yesterday. Or perhaps the delivery was too slow it ruined the structure.

[mcs]

can someone that was at the game actually tell me what that Bartel free kick was for? Ch 10 never showed it or mentioned it. It was an awful long way behind the play!

And Liz, what I was trying to say about that Moore miss in the last quarter was more in terms of momentum- its all hypothetical but we kicked that well the momentum just might have swung enough for us to go on and steal it. We got smashed in the centre clearences mainly due to the fact we lost Jolly (Or partially anyway) at about the 20 minute mark and also that we clocked off.

But I totally agree that some of those earlier misses really hurt us- especially in the 1st quarter. We could of easily been within a goal or 2 at quarter time had we have taken our chances. And when you play Geelong you have to take your chances simple as.