Qualifying Final Positives

[Jeffers1984]

- Kirk was inspirational again.
- Davis is our game breaker, and should of been in the midfield in the last quarter.
- If it wasn't for C Bolts, we could have lost by more.
- No one has mentioned this, but Kudos to Fosdike for a superb performance off the bench. Has really worked hard getting back into the team and has maked the most of his chances.

- Oh and one more positive...Thank christ we're still in the finals.

[Thunder Shaker]

No injuries.

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by ugg
There's a lot of negatives in those positives.

And I was trying so hard to be positive!!

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by Thunder Shaker
No injuries.

Still to be confirmed - Williams suffered a cork, which hopefully won't stop him from lining up next week.

[Jeffers1984]

Originally posted by Mike_B
Still to be confirmed - Williams suffered a cork, which hopefully won't stop him from lining up next week.

Ablett seemed to get hurt late in the game too, but i was told that he came back on.

[swans_premiers]

If we do win the Premiership..it will feel even better after tonite..esp if we play WC.

[stellation]

*Davis was good. We need to get the ball into his hands more often (derr!). He finally took a kick in too!
*Tadhg was good.
*Jolly had a good first quarter.
*You'd like to think that with that many players having poor games at least one might pick up for next week?

[connolly]

Craig Bolton magnificant
Adam Schnieder's never say die goal (shows a young play with real ticker)
And we'll kill the eagles if we play them again at a neutral venue

[Rob-bloods]

1/Adelaide and Saints will fight it out with suspensions, melees and serious injuries.

2/We are a fit side and need more work.

3/We cannot play that bad again and should have won anyway at the hardest ground in Aus.

4/A game in Sydney and two more in Melbourne.

5/Surely we cannot get McLaren again!

On a more serious note...

Kirk and Bolts C for effort
Tadgh's running

And come on how proud are we of our effort?



110% Bloods...

[dimelb]

Courage.
Determination.
All the players mentioned so far, plus the eternally youthful Ball, who was dead unlucky to get pinged in front of the sticks for a regulation ruckman's grapple when they were both doing it.

[Newbie]

The umpires cannot be any worse in future games.

[Xie Shan]

Originally posted by barry
Bull@@@@. In case you hadnt noticed, this lock down game plan has lost us games against all 3 of the other top 4 teams at their home ground.

Blame the umps, blame the skill errors, even blame Bazza's poor game, but it wasn't the game plan that cost us the game. They created enough chances to score, but didn't take them - inability to hit a target inside 50 at times really killed us, and should have kicked more than 3 goals in the third quarter.

But then this is supposed to be a positives thread, SO....

* Our midfield is good enough to go all the way. Yes, Judd is a freak, and the likes of Kerr and Cousins found space far too easily, but our guys managed to peg them back whenever they looked dangerous, or at least stayed with them. Kirk, Willo and Fossie did pretty well, I thought.

* Nick Davis. 3 goals, along with some great second efforts. Split between him and O'Loughlin for our most effective forward.

* Schneider's coolness in the last qtr to set up one goal and kick another to keep our hopes alive.

* Kennelly. His run was terrific all night, and always looked dangerous. IF ONLY he had kicked that goal!

* That magnificent team goal that Davis kicked in the second. Took it the length of the field.