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Jones - career best game

Viney - continued disapppointing season

Salem - slow and indecisive 

Watts - played with heart

Petracca - missing when needed

Gawn - please hurry back

Tyson - played little part

Oliver - couldn't get involved

Stretch - some glaring errors

Kent - a pleasing return

Melksham - little to commend

Hannan - couldn't get involved

Vince - was rarely noticed

T.McDonald - stood up well

O.McDonald - was often lagging

Weideman - not the answer

Hunt - an excitement machine

Neal-Bullen - has few tricks

Garlett - didn't take chances

Smith - all at sea

Jetta - was almost flawless

Harmes - not a forward

 

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Melksham continues to cop a bagging unfairly, he was good yet again.

And I would hardly describe Tim Smith's debut as "all at sea".

Hunt was amazing, but like others, he hit the wall  late in the game.

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I thought trac was good

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10 minutes ago, joeboy said:

Jones - career best game

Viney - continued disapppointing season

Salem - slow and indecisive 

Watts - played with heart

Petracca - missing when needed

Gawn - please hurry back

Tyson - played little part

Oliver - couldn't get involved

Stretch - some glaring errors

Kent - a pleasing return

Melksham - little to commend

Hannan - couldn't get involved

Vince - was rarely noticed

T.McDonald - stood up well

O.McDonald - was often lagging

Weideman - not the answer

Hunt - an excitement machine

Neal-Bullen - has few tricks

Garlett - didn't take chances

Smith - all at sea

Jetta - was almost flawless

Harmes - not a forward

 

Not your best work Joeboy

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I usually agree with most of your post mortems but not today. This is a game that if we slotted 3 or 4 out of 10 easy shots for goal we would have won. Throw in a star ruckman out early and a game played where we have lost 20 or so out of the last 22 and I contend that the players werent as bad as you claim.

I think inexperience in hannon wied and smith contributed but all in all we had a crack to say the least. 

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I know my watching was on TV, but I cannot believe some of the ratings given.

Watts : played with heart Plus a lot of skill. Plus should have silenced ALL doubters

Neal Bullen : Put in all day

OMac : Top 1%

TMac & Jetta: Bloody terrific

Stretch : Improved each match.

Petracca : Provided a focal point

Salem: a go-to machine

Oliver : Involved all right

Apart from their kicking I think today was one of the best efforts you could ask of a young still developing side. Proud of them

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1 minute ago, Bates Mate said:

Please I'm over the Oscar bashing

I tend to agree. I haven't been his biggest fan, he was woeful in round 1, but has been good since, with the odd mistake thrown in, like every other player.

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37 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Please I'm over the Oscar bashing

Me Too ! I thought him serviceable today! Still needs to get body on body and do some pro running in summer with a running coach to get him at least looking like he can run! Still looks slow

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6 hours ago, joeboy said:

Jones - career best game

Viney - continued disapppointing season

Salem - slow and indecisive 

Watts - played with heart

Petracca - missing when needed

Gawn - please hurry back

Tyson - played little part

Oliver - couldn't get involved

Stretch - some glaring errors

Kent - a pleasing return

Melksham - little to commend

Hannan - couldn't get involved

Vince - was rarely noticed

T.McDonald - stood up well

O.McDonald - was often lagging

Weideman - not the answer

Hunt - an excitement machine

Neal-Bullen - has few tricks

Garlett - didn't take chances

Smith - all at sea

Jetta - was almost flawless

Harmes - not a forward

 

so [censored] negative

Posted
8 hours ago, joeboy said:

Jones - career best game

Viney - continued disapppointing season

Salem - slow and indecisive 

Watts - played with heart

Petracca - missing when needed

Gawn - please hurry back

Tyson - played little part

Oliver - couldn't get involved

Stretch - some glaring errors

Kent - a pleasing return

Melksham - little to commend

Hannan - couldn't get involved

Vince - was rarely noticed

T.McDonald - stood up well

O.McDonald - was often lagging

Weideman - not the answer

Hunt - an excitement machine

Neal-Bullen - has few tricks

Garlett - didn't take chances

Smith - all at sea

Jetta - was almost flawless

Harmes - not a forward

 

kent* missed two crucial goals

Posted
11 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

Please I'm over the Oscar bashing

I agree. This is sheer cruelty. Just consider how he compares with Tmac at the same stage. We were one tall short on the backline which made Hawkins' day too easy

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What hasn't been noticed by many was the work and time Geelong put into Oliver. 

Make no mistake - Blicavs played a hard hard tag - a good choice as Clarrie couldnt get his arms up into the clear as Blicavs was so tall. Then he used his running capacity to run off him, and kicked a few. 

Clarrie didnt have the tank to go with him and this was one match up we didnt fix the longer it went on. Cost us offensively and defensively and was a rare piece of good coaching by Scott. 

Other than that - Geelong have no system. None. Their entire game revolves around selwood or dangerfield winning the clearance and tumble punting it to hawkins and hoping for the best. Some of their supporters were incredibly smug in the last and a few were complaining about the vocal dees fans.

Well, they managed to beat a team that beat themselves. I can't remember a team so reliant on so few players, it's absurd!

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