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I know you guys will cover it, but can we put a big call-out to Dees fans to get along to the G on Saturday for the AFLW prelim? Heard ANB interviewed and he says the men's team will be along to support as well.

I was a bit distracted when the game was screening live and haven’t had a chance to watch again, but I was wondering if you could comment on the stoppages, as we often seemed to get beaten. I was concerned that I saw a reversion to one of pre-2021 (bad) habits, namely the “bees to the honey pot” approach with too many going in for the ball. 

 
10 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

I was a bit distracted when the game was screening live and haven’t had a chance to watch again, but I was wondering if you could comment on the stoppages, as we often seemed to get beaten. I was concerned that I saw a reversion to one of pre-2021 (bad) habits, namely the “bees to the honey pot” approach with too many going in for the ball. 

Sorry, missed this. 

We won center clearnces by 8 and they won rhe around the ground clearances by one, so net seven positive to us.

So, pretty good on rge raw numbers. Bur agree we didn't get a huge advantag - though I don't think that was a function of mutiple players at the ball.

Credit must go to the suns. Watts was excellent and I think their mids were excellent- as was their structure and set up.

They clearly had a focus on being physical and hard at us, and were really trying to work over our mids -  particularly clarry. Lots of niggling and grappling.

I think one function of thst work by suns is there were lots of 50 50 midfield scraps and there were several occasion where mutiple players looked to tackle Rowell - who was into our guys all game. That might have contributed to the sense we were bees to rge honey pot.


13 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

I was a bit distracted when the game was screening live and haven’t had a chance to watch again, but I was wondering if you could comment on the stoppages, as we often seemed to get beaten. I was concerned that I saw a reversion to one of pre-2021 (bad) habits, namely the “bees to the honey pot” approach with too many going in for the ball. 

Also sorry we missed this prior to the show....

I agree with BInmans assessment, and would also add that clearances as a statistic can be meaningless....it is the quality and effectiveness that counts.  We have shown multiple times last season that we lost clearances, but easily won the game.  And in the GF we saw how quality clearances can rip a game open. 

Scrubby kicks out of the pack or to the outside do little toward scoring, but they still count as clearances.  And in this game the conditions were slippery, so quality from both sides really fell down.  Not surprising there appeared to be bees to the honey pot, since neither side could get regular clean possession. 

Hopefully we will get a better picture in better conditions this week, but at some point in the season, we will encounter the wet, slogging type of game, and like this one if we still win, then that is all that matters.

Becoming more professional with every episode.  Keep up the great work guys.Thanks!

 

Thanks for these comprehensive responses - that’s re-assuring. Just listened to the podcast. Excellent as usual. The insights into the playing conditions particularly helpful. Unfortunately I won’t be able to re-watch before tomorrow’s game. I’m getting smashed at work at the moment 😁

Go Dees 

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