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Petracca - 4 quarter brillianceĀ 

Viney - hard and importantĀ 

Oliver - seemingly different role

Brayshaw - not his best

Neal-Bullen - some vital intercepts

Gawn - fit and imposing

Brown - an important role

Jordon - better second half

Jackson - exciting in bursts

Harmes - excellent tagging game

Langdon - excellent first quarter

May - great second half

Fritsch - fifteen minute game

Sparrow - was rarely noticedĀ 

Spargo - excellent with ball

Smith - seemingly no errors

McDonald - genius positional change

Hunt - quiet after first

Bedford - some encouraging involvementĀ 

Bowey - continued perfect record

Tomlinson - slowish but effectiveĀ 

Pickett - needed more involvementĀ 

Salem - a huge loss

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Tyson? ....oops, sorry.

 
27 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Brayshaw - was fantastic tonight

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Yep the amount of time the dropped into the hole at CHB and help out the back men was fantasticĀ 


1 hour ago, joeboy said:

Petracca - 4 quarter brillianceĀ 

Viney - hard and importantĀ 

Oliver - seemingly different role

Brayshaw - not his best

Neal-Bullen - some vital intercepts

Gawn - fit and imposing

Brown - an important role

Jordon - better second half

Jackson - exciting in bursts

Harmes - excellent tagging game

Langdon - excellent first quarter

May - great second half

Fritsch - fifteen minute game

Sparrow - was rarely noticedĀ 

Spargo - excellent with ball

Smith - seemingly no errors

McDonald - genius positional change

Hunt - quiet after first

Bedford - some encouraging involvementĀ 

Bowey - continued perfect record

Tomlinson - slowish but effectiveĀ 

Pickett - needed more involvementĀ 

Salem - a huge loss

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Very good analysis but you were hard on Brayshaw. His defensive efforts were brilliant and I thought his disposal was effective for the most part.

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2 hours ago, joeboy said:

Petracca - 4 quarter brillianceĀ 

Viney - hard and importantĀ 

Oliver - seemingly different role

Brayshaw - not his best

Neal-Bullen - some vital intercepts

Gawn - fit and imposing

Brown - an important role

Jordon - better second half

Jackson - exciting in bursts

Harmes - excellent tagging game

Langdon - excellent first quarter

May - great second half

Fritsch - fifteen minute game

Sparrow - was rarely noticedĀ 

Spargo - excellent with ball

Smith - seemingly no errors

McDonald - genius positional change

Hunt - quiet after first

Bedford - some encouraging involvementĀ 

Bowey - continued perfect record

Tomlinson - slowish but effectiveĀ 

Pickett - needed more involvementĀ 

Salem - a huge loss

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To say Gus Brayshaw didn’t play that well is unbelievable, you have no idea


10 hours ago, M_9 said:

Tyson? ....oops, sorry.

Not to be a scold, but I think that joke played itself out a long time ago (and I was one of the original urine takers who gave joeboy stick over it).
It has been 4 years since Tyson left after all and joeboy is pretty generous in taking the time to come up with these analyses every week. šŸ™‚

Why not frame Joel Smith's game in a positive light. Seemingly waiting for the bloke to fail is pretty poor.

1 hour ago, In Harmes Way said:

Why not frame Joel Smith's game in a positive light. Seemingly waiting for the bloke to fail is pretty poor.

Agree Joel did really well last night I've said this before but those who don't rate him need to remember he has struggled to stay on the park consistently and build his confidence and understanding of the game at the top level

If he stays fit he has a good chance to continue his improvement and become a very valuable player for usĀ 


Agree on most Joeboy but not Gus his game was one of the reasons doggies couldn’t score in the 3rd.!!

1 minute ago, DeeZone said:

Agree on most Joeboy but not Gus his game was one of the reasons doggies couldn’t score in the 3rd.!!

Agree Gus was really good

Brayshaw -Ā  continued finals form

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This needs to be his baselineĀ 

Bowey - fantastic 9 touches

We're used to small forwards having low disposals and playing well, see Pickett in the grand final, or even last night.

But I don't think many half back flankers play as well as Bowey did with just 9 touches last night. I thought his defensive positioning and contests were really strong.Ā 

Along with Hunt, Smith, Tomlinson I thought he allowed McDonald and particularly Brayshaw to get in intercepting positions to provide what we usually get from Lever.

I was shocked to see he had only 9 touches.

Pickett - off the boil (great goal though)

Sparrow - couldnt find ball (hope he hasnt relaxed with re - signing)

Gawn - not umpires friend

Oliver - not umpires friend


9 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Bowey - fantastic 9 touches

We're used to small forwards having low disposals and playing well, see Pickett in the grand final, or even last night.

But I don't think many half back flankers play as well as Bowey did with just 9 touches last night. I thought his defensive positioning and contests were really strong.Ā 

Along with Hunt, Smith, Tomlinson I thought he allowed McDonald and particularly Brayshaw to get in intercepting positions to provide what we usually get from Lever.

I was shocked to see he had only 9 touches.

Also put his body on the line in the last Quarter, it hurt, and he didn’t flinch until the ball was moved on.Ā 
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16 hours ago, binman said:

Who did harmes tag? Libba?

Didn't even notice Libba at all.Ā 

20 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Didn't even notice Libba at all.Ā 

Seemed to be playing half-forward for much of the night. Whether that was to change their on-ball mix (a polite way of saying whether he'd been demoted from that role following the pasting they received in the GF) or he had a particular role, such as tagging one of our defenders, I couldn't tell.

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48 minutes ago, Jontee said:

Pickett - off the boil (great goal though)

Sparrow - couldnt find ball (hope he hasnt relaxed with re - signing)

Gawn - not umpires friend

Oliver - not umpires friend

Oliver had what 7 or 8 free kicks paid against him for iffy infringements and yet when he was infringed against...... Play on. CLUB might need to make representations to AFL if this continues

18 hours ago, picket fence said:

Oliver had what 7 or 8 free kicks paid against him for iffy infringements and yet when he was infringed against...... Play on. CLUB might need to make representations to AFL if this continues

Umps just want to make sure Oliver earns his Brownlow the hard way.


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