Rivers = One of the best 4 possession games you'll ever see.

You can add 10 1%ers to that too. It was almost always his fist doing the punching.

Amen.

A more important defender you will not find in our team.

Consistently does the team things, risks his own well- being to punch the ball or provide a contest. How was his blind backwards punch on the goal square?

He is a godsent and if he ever leaves us I'm jumping off the West Gate.

im pretty sure i read a stat somwhere that freo had 54 possesions the whole last qrt.... which is not even 3 touches per player on their team.

some other interestng stats for melb...

Robbo = 3 goal assists

moloney and mcdonald = 5 centre cleareances

Bate and mcdonlad = 6 clangers

Mcdonald and bruce =9 contested possesions

Amen.

A more important defender you will not find in our team.

Consistently does the team things, risks his own well- being to punch the ball or provide a contest. How was his blind backwards punch on the goal square?

He is a godsent and if he ever leaves us I'm jumping off the West Gate.

I agree. I can see other clubs closer to a premiership trying to poach him from us. He keeps our backline together and makes Warnock, Bell, Garland, Carroll and co. look better at the same time

I was surprised that Rivers only got 4 disposals because I thought he a good game his spoiling was superb. Warnock was great I don't think Tarrant touched it in the second half. I'm not convinced about Frawley yet but I would still play him. I was impressed with Garland I think he is starting to find his feet at this level. Carroll got a spray at quarter time, didn't touch it after half time and Pavlich kicked 5. Finally I think my prayers will be answered and Bailey will finally drop him.

With Jones if I was a Freo supporter I would be ripping into Harvey as much as I have ripped into Bailey over the last 6 weeks for keeping Crowley on Jones. McLean is very good player who if you let loose more often than not he will tear you apart. Jones is a Barry Battler nothing more I don't think any team in the AFL will tag Jones again.

The thing that I can't believe was Miller's game. He has had some good games leading on the wing but he done it all against Freo he actually looked like he could play the game a very unlike Miller performance hopefully he has turned the corner but I wouldn't hold my breath.

QFT. Their defensive pressure in the second half was fantastic, and I put a lot of that onto Rivers, Bell, Frawley and a lesser extent, Carroll, who didn't let a dominate 1st half by Pavlova let him down.

Don't forget Warnock. A few time both him and Rivers hit packs deep in defense to kill the ball over the line. Garland's performance on a small leading forward was also impressive, don't know how many times these type of players have carved us up. Once the coaching staff got the match up right we actually had a well balanced backline.

Interesting observations

Jared Rivers...Seven 1%

Welcome to Demonland

Rivers actually averages 7 1%s a match.

He is currently 6th in the league for average 1%s.

Jones scored a massive 7 points for my dream team. :angry:

my opponent had jones, i had mclean

win for me

frawley's a spud

rivers made one big punch in the dying minutes, disspaointing

shows who stands up at a the worst of times

weird about jones though

Carefull what you say ok...i don't like reading that AT ALL