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Garlett may have been a bit quiet, but he has laid 6 tackles this evening.  You can't fault that effort, even if we all wish he had hit the scoreboard a little more.

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    Nice leading chest mark to Hogan. With how many entries we get, we should see that from him 10 times a game.

     

    Hogan has been reading the forum!

    he led, they kicked it too him, he marked... simples

    edit: kicked the goal too, the perfect finish to a perfect passage of play 

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    Thats how you doit demons.  Well done Hoges...fcs do more of that!!


    If Oliver isn’t a pure star, I don’t know who is. Seriously he is insane. 

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    Just now, Return to Glory said:

    FFS, we're over 50 points up in Darwin. You'd think we're down by 80 with some of the negative Nancy stuff

    I was just about to write - I've done a hell of a lot of whinging for what's going to turn out to be a 10-12 goal win!

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    I think the changes this week have been ok

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    Lewis fresh kicking the footy at every opportunity. Bend down old man. 

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    2 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    probably is...says something about what we have at VFL level

    We have plenty, ANB has played his role, good changes this week.

    1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

    Garlett may have been a bit quiet, but he has laid 6 tackles this evening.  You can't fault that effort, even if we all wish he had hit the scoreboard a little more.

    He has been busy. thats what we need crumbing getting those handballs out to runners.

    1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

    Garlett may have been a bit quiet, but he has laid 6 tackles this evening.  You can't fault that effort, even if we all wish he had hit the scoreboard a little more.

    No, but you can fault his lack of impact.

    1 minute ago, Chook said:

    Nice leading chest mark to Hogan. With how many entries we get, we should see that from him 10 times a game.

    Looked superb, but it's hard to do when there are generally 8 other players standing in front of him most of the time.  If you give him the space he'll lead up and mark it 9 times out of 10.


    Note to self eff ark is sweary

    child 1 is going to be wearing a Fritschkrieg jersey. Lotta love

    1 minute ago, Return to Glory said:

    FFS, we're over 50 points up in Darwin. You'd think we're down by 80 with some of the negative Nancy stuff

    Probably because we should be up by 80

    Just now, Undeeterred said:

    No, but you can fault his lack of impact.

    For his first game back for a while, I'll take 13 touches, 6 tackles and a goal.  He can build on that in the coming weeks and I've liked his pressure in the forward half of the ground.

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    1 minute ago, Undeeterred said:

    No, but you can fault his lack of impact.

    22 inside 50s for Freo could well be the impact we wanted from Jeffy and his tackles.

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    Jeez reading this thread... Who knew we'd win by ten goals.

    1 minute ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    22 inside 50s for Freo could well be the impact we wanted from Jeffy and his tackles.

    With respect, mate, that is a very, very long bow.

    Just now, Dappa Dan said:

    Jeez reading this thread... Who knew we'd win by ten goals.

    Self protection mechanism - complain until siren sounds with a win. Based on work cover advice

     
    1 minute ago, Dappa Dan said:

    Jeez reading this thread... Who knew we'd win by ten goals.

    8:8 since half time v 5:15 in the first half

    2 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

    FFS, we're over 50 points up in Darwin. You'd think we're down by 80 with some of the negative Nancy stuff

    I think it's just a bit of pragmatism based on the significantly under-strength and youthful opposition.

    We're not going to get away with this amount of wasted forwards opportunities against a half decent team.  

    Around the ground we've been fantastic though.

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