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Yesterday's great win - some of the lesser lights!

TonyMelb
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The vastly improved ball handling and decision making in the second half by everyone was major reason for the great win yesterday. Some of it was understandable like Bater who was very rusty in first half and fumbled a lot but got his touch back and Davey and Bruce improved in decision making and getting into better positions. Generally handballs were to the receivers hands and not their feet or the ground!!

There were some lesser lights who performed very well foe us yesterday whose contributions need to be noted. In particular Mark Jamar's physical effort against Sandilands and second efforts in the middle was sensational and he jumped into the big man from the first bounce. He was major factor in reducing Sandilands influence on the game (had 27 possessions against Cats) in much the same way as Crowley tagged Jones (27 for us last week) out of the game. Best game for the Dees and 4 qtr effort.

The other was Matty Warnock! 2nd week in a row. He is actually a backman & has developed well. He also has height and strength which greatly assists Rivers and particularly Nat Carroll. He also took Tarrant out of the game after half time!

Colin Garland also played well despite punching instead of marking which allowed Wizz in for a goal and played on the Wizz most of the day!

Frawley was also solid all day.

Also Brad Miller was good all day and as noted in other posts by far his best game for the Red & Blue for a long time

Some good signs!

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