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POSTGAME: Rd 21 vs North Melbourne

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Good win, though once again backline looked less secure without Petty there.

Speaking of which, losing him is huge, just have to cross fingers. But not ideal.

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    14 minutes ago, Go Lordie said:

    Glad we won but Q1 and Q4 were embarrassing. 1g 6b in Q4: have the goal-kicking yips returned? And some foot passes in Q1 were awful. It was like we were trying to kick it to North Melbourne! Kicking coach: hellllpppp!

    Q4 was not embarrassing when you looked at the bench and saw who we weren’t playing. 
     

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    21 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Ruck round?  really?

    is it small defender round next week?

     

    (this week's addition of Dub's Pet Peeves)

    I know, right?

    After “Small Defender Round”, it’s:

    - “Holding the Ball Round”

    - “Goal Sneak Round”

    - “Ode to Dropkick Round”, and of course

    - “Barrel/Torp From Beyond the Arc Round”.

     

     

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    33 minutes ago, BDA said:

     

    JJ and Harmes didn’t do their cause any favors.

     

    Not sure why JJ gets lumped in with HArmes? Everything Harmes touched turned to [censored].

    JJ had 24 disposals at 88 percent with two goal assists and six score involvements.

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    JJ lifted significantly after a poor first quarter where he was not alone. He lacks speed which hurts him but he used it well. Harmes butchered everything he touched. 

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    Unless I am wrong Sparrow ran with D-U - thought he did a brilliant shut down job.

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    A win is a win. While those around us are stumbling we are putting together a good period of footy.
     

    I think with that win it is now mathematically impossible not to play finals. Hopefully we can now get some loading in (Pies are definitely in a loading phase) and maintain our place in top 4. 

    Congrats Dees! 

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    JJ lifted significantly after a poor first quarter where he was not alone. He lacks speed which hurts him but he used it well. Harmes butchered everything he touched. 

    Yeah I thought he finished well. Just looked more sure of himself and better with the decision making.

    He seems to start games stuck in his head lately, over thinking things. 

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    12 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Fair to say we’ve done our service for football by playing in Hobart 5 times since 2016, 6 if you count the fact that we were also scheduled there in COVID 2020. A little more than Collingwood and Essendon who have travelled there about zero times in that period.

    One of our schedule requests should be to not play at [censored] grounds - Tas, Geelong, Ballarat, Cairns [censored] them all off

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    2 minutes ago, Call Me What You Will said:

    Unless I am wrong Sparrow ran with D-U - thought he did a brilliant shut down job.

    Did he also do a job on Lachie Neale?

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    Harmes was poor with the ball no doubt.  But he did chase and tackle and put his head over the ball

    I suspect this might be Good's thinking in playing him.  A senior body to play midfield minutes before Clarry come back

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    20 minutes ago, Go Lordie said:

    Glad we won but Q1 and Q4 were embarrassing. 1g 6b in Q4: have the goal-kicking yips returned? And some foot passes in Q1 were awful. It was like we were trying to kick it to North Melbourne! Kicking coach: hellllpppp!

    Embarrassing 4th quarter a bit strong? Night and day between that and the first.

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    Just now, dee-tox said:

    Not sure why JJ gets lumped in with HArmes? Everything Harmes touched turned to [censored].

    JJ had 24 disposals at 88 percent with two goal assists and six score involvements.

    Yep. JJ and Sparrow were v good (after first quarter) as usual. Harmesy ran around a lot with some horrible decision making and beyond awful disposal. He’s in a category all his own at the moment. 
     

    in the end, a decent correction after quarter time, but that first quarter was indescribably bad. 

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    8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    First quarter was an absolute disgrace. A combination of arrogance, laziness, disorganisation and Clarkson’s sugar hit.

    No issues with the last quarter. Goodwin put the cue in the rack at 3 qtr time by giving Gawn, Viney and Trac major bench minutes.

    Gawn, Viney and Tracc not among our sharpshooters. IMO their absence does not explain our inaccuracy in Q4. 

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    My other takeaways from the couch - appallingly slippery surface - everyone slipping over on both sides, and secondly the adjudicating clowns giving no credit to both sides for fantastic football actions like “tackling” or “push in the back”. But my word they were good for the one “not 15” they called. Clowns.

     

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    Somewhat Pyrrhic victory with Petty going down.

    Hope he's ok 

    Bad start but good we didn't fold like Pies did 

    Gus was very good.

    Last week it was our talls, this time our smalls kicked them.

     

    Edited by leave it to deever

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    7 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Q4 was not embarrassing when you looked at the bench and saw who we weren’t playing. 
     

    I think our goalkicking in the last could qualify as embarrassing, JadedNM.

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    2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    i'd bring in dunstan for harmes

    didn't think i'd say that

    (unless clarry ok)

     

    I am/was a big Harmes fan but.... Dunstan seems plausible right now.

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    I thought Harmes was pretty good, and our midfield limited LDU who has been on fire recently.

    ANB and Hunter were very good.

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    7 minutes ago, Call Me What You Will said:

    Unless I am wrong Sparrow ran with D-U - thought he did a brilliant shut down job.

    I thought Sparrow was great. 

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    8 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

    Not sure why JJ gets lumped in with HArmes? Everything Harmes touched turned to [censored].

    JJ had 24 disposals at 88 percent with two goal assists and six score involvements.

    JJ was decent today and you have to give him credit, I think many people just think like I do where I don't think he is best 22 at the end of the day and people project that onto him no matter what happens, similar to the hate Hunter often gets.

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    40 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

    And that folks is why I have a lot of whisky.

    It's the reason I drank all mine.

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