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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs GWS

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Geez, they miss Greene. Wouldn’t they like a quality finisher tonight?

 

4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

I’m sitting at the giants attacking end. It is so hard to get through. May Lever and Petty. Such an amazing defensive structure 

Rivers looking back to his best too so far.

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    I'm in the MCC & what would the odds be the one giants supporter would be sitting behind me.  Cannot believe it

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    Petty straight back in as if he never left. 
    Loving the accuracy. 

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    Just now, Demon Disciple said:

    Getting schooled in clearances. God help us if our back-line ever decided to take a day off

    Pressure around the ground outside of clearance work - is better than usual today. We have definitely done our homework. I watched GWS last week against Freo. Seems I wasn’t the only one. We dissected that and went to work implementing a strategy. We are forcing them to bomb it in.

    Can’t win a stoppage but held them goalless. 

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    Let’s see if we can 2 weeks in a row of goalless halves by our opponents.

    1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

    Getting schooled in clearances. God help us if our back-line ever decided to take a day off

    I said it would happen. There are a handful of teams that do this to us year after year. Our turnover game is on tonight which makes us look much better than we are actually playing.  

    Defence is holding up really well but we need to even up the contest. 

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    1 minute ago, KingDingAling said:

    We are forcing them to bomb it in.

    Yes, which our system is built to defend really well. But given we are built on contest, why not start in the middle.


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