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I really liked the pressure chain that Fritsch set up prior to Oliver’s goal. At each pass, Saints had slightly less time to dispose because of other pressure acts, resulting in a turn over!

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Vince made best case for round one so far, well to me atleast. I turn on a stream and first thing i see is someone spoiling Lever in the air, i guess communication will get better over time. 

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Good follow up. We didn't get sucked in like the Saints did by being too cute and handballing excessively to counteract the breeze.

I'm also liking the front on pressure. Rarely do the Saints get a possie without a Demon coming right at them.

I still think pre season wins aren't much to write home about considering where we should be at but would be nice to get the win. Especially since I skipped the gym and shelled out for my AFL pass for the year tonight.

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9 minutes ago, --coach-- said:

Really pleasing to see how much more efficient we are this preseason. Saints have more disposals but we are well up.

we have more kicks than handballs!!!

Oscar McDonald no longer listed as OUT according to the app

 

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Been a good game to watch .. fairly full-on for a practice match.  We've played very well.   Lever is such a good acquisition. 

Not only is our backline really solid but we've got plenty of depth back there (more so with a number of our onballers being able to drop back) 

Roos is great to listen to as well ... his knowledge is 2nd to none.  Our whole defensive make-up was built from the ground up by Roos and Goodwin is following suit.  There is a lot to like about this list. 

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Loved Gawn’s response when he was soft in the contest and gave up the goal. From the next bounce he willed himself at the contest and got involved multiple times leading to a goal. He knew he done bad and he fixed it. BEAST.

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Frost, mate please pull your thumb out and break someone, without it mate you’re not getting a call Rd 1, and I know you would just love to destroy Hawkins!

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I don't think we could have asked for too much more in that first half.

We played against the breeze intelligently, and because of that we ended up out scoring them.  We are playing team footy, and even if the oval is a little slippery which has stopped us in our tracks a few times, we generally have them covered across the ground.

Hopefully we keep the foot on the throat and finish them off, like we did against North, in the third term.

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Salem has spent what feels like a good percentage of the game in the middle. Hogan has been good around half forward. Loving the way Hannan and Fritch have hit the contest... hard to split the 2 effort wise. Reckon they both have one eye on the other and its showing in the way they are cracking in. We have been in control all game and the scoreboard is honestly flattering the Sainters. 

Tackling from us especially has been really good, but the Saints have also been going in hard for a pre-season game.

Enjoyable to watch.

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Just now, ding said:

Salem has spent what feels like a good percentage of the game in the middle. Hogan has been good around half forward. Loving the way Hannan and Fritch have hit the contest... hard to split the 2 effort wise. Reckon they both have one eye on the other and its showing in the way they are cracking in. We have been in control all game and the scoreboard is honestly flattering the Sainters. 

Tackling from us especially has been really good, but the Saints have also been going in hard for a pre-season game.

Enjoyable to watch.

love the way Plough has described us as one of the "elite" organised teams in the AFL!

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37 minutes ago, BAMF said:

Roos loves us.

Must be horrible for Saints fans.

Petracca looks classy, Getting belted and you have Roos yaking on about how good all our players are.

:roos:

First thing Roos says in the 3rd is “if we turn our focus to St Kilda”. Someone must’ve had a word to him at half time. 

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