Back from Demons vs Pies. Not a bad turnout, considering. Completely different experience being the neutral observer.
I went mostly to see the "red hot" Demons in action and got something quite different. Had their moments in the first half but really fell away in the second. Pies by far the better team, moved it around quickly and skilfully. Poor old Buckley must be wondering why they waited until his last day to turn it on.
Was the Darcy Cameron that kicked 4 goals for the Pies and was among their best players the Darcy Cameron that was once a Swan? Sigh!
They don't put in regularly enough. Yesterday at the SCG proved yet again the gap between 1st and last is very little, and if you are off
5% or slack off just a tiny bit and the other team doesn't then you will lose. There are challenges being based where they are. I'm sure
some of them feel a bit out of the footy loop. But Brisbane in the early 2000s proved a vaguely talented bunch with a gale force superiority
complex and a ruthless coach can go a long way whilst being out of the southern states bubble.
Interesting that the Swans are one of the few teams that have to play a team back from the bye before they have a chance to rest. Even the Dees weren't playing a rested Pies. Friday was so disappointing but I wonder if the Dees loss will take pressure off the Swans loss? At least we had an excuse. An old friend said he always tipped the team coming off the longest break - and against the teams flying back from Perth.
West Coast won it, hands down, didn't they. They got a premiership-winning, multiple AA and Coleman medallist full forward who has sustained excellence for over a decade. Judd was a great player, but Carlton got a marketing exercise. Typical of everything that's gone wrong at Carlton for the past 20 years.
'Delicious' is a fun word to say
I couldnt agree more. Only the melbourne media could spin that the Judd/Kennedy trade was even close to 50/50. For starters, WC got Kennedy for his whole career, rather than the tail end of Judds career, and they still had Judd when they won in 2006, so he delivered twice. Carlton got screwed badly.
I think both teams got players that wanted to return home, that wanted to play where they ended up. Judd was very good at
Carlton (a Brownlow, 3 B&F, 4 AA). I remember a game at the SCG where he beat us singlehandedly. At his peak he was scary
good. West Coast have got more years out of Kennedy, but would he have been as good at Carlton had he stayed?
No one will ever know.
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