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One Mark Half.

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A 20-minute "half" in a monsoon in a glorified practice match in February? Says nothing at all apart from your alarmist negativity.

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    Looked like the same old game plan to me, 18 blokes all run around chasing the ball like in auskick. No one in our forward half for most of the match, didn't we recruit one M. Clark for that? I know it's only NAB cup, new coach, new game plan etc etc, but that wasn't a great start at all.

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    A 20-minute "half" in a monsoon in a glorified practice match in February? Says nothing at all apart from your alarmist negativity.

    I thought that was a pretty good summary of a "half" of football, where we were scoreless and had one mark and the other side had 32 marks according to the Fox Footy boys. Where is my "alarmist negativity" in that ?

    I don't recall saying we were finished, or tear up the membership tickets. I was just stating the reason IMO why we were pathetic and that was that our disposal was terrible.

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    You said nothing at all about our disposal, just that we had only taken one mark in a "half" of footy and that that "says it all".

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    I thought that was a pretty good summary of a "half" of football, where we were scoreless and had one mark and the other side had 32 marks according to the Fox Footy boys. Where is my "alarmist negativity" in that ?

    I don't recall saying we were finished, or tear up the membership tickets. I was just stating the reason IMO why we were pathetic and that was that our disposal was terrible.

    Yet the other team had 32 marks and they only kicked one goal. Maybe your 'says it all' doesn't actually say much at all.

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    Guys, my line was a simple " says it all ' on a thread topic of "one mark half". It was not a scientific analysis of all that went on. It was not a hysterical "we are finished" , " we are crap" etc.

    Clearly the inference is that if you have only had one mark, your disposal is poor. Most AFL footballers can take an uncontested chest mark. We had one for the half.

    We were scoreless for the half. How would you explain that when we had some of the ball? My answer, poor disposal, evidenced by a poor marking stat. Would the Coach disagree with me?

    Yes we won the game. Yes the Lions only got 1 goal in the same first half, but they had several more shots at goal and chances to score than we did. Yes the conditions were poor but both sides had the same.

    For what it is worth, I thought we were lucky to win that game against the better side and unlucky to lose the first game when we were the better side. I thought Ablett was the difference in the first match.

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    Yes, one mark in a half...

    And Watts didn't take it!

    Girl.

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    Yes, one mark in a half...

    And Watts didn't take it!

    Girl.

    Don't want to make excuses for Watts but disposal to him was poor, weather didn't suit him either and we know he can play.

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