4 minutes ago, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

And the free kick count was kept under wraps.

Not on TV. Was on screen on multiple occasions.

Next time we have a 5 day break, Goodwin needs to consider more players to rotate.  Chandler looked 50% but soldiered on. Billings could have been subbed out.  I think AMW or Tholstrup could have got the debut game tonight.  

Just now, spirit of norm smith said:

Next time we have a 5 day break, Goodwin needs to consider more players to rotate.  Chandler looked 50% but soldiered on. Billings could have been subbed out.  I think AMW or Tholstrup could have got the debut game tonight.  

Thought Chandler was fantastic. His contested stuff brilliant. 7 tackles. Great goal from boundary. Gave him votes

Hugely improved player. Glad he was out there 

1 hour ago, BDA said:

i watched the whole game on mute. no way i'm subjecting myself to BT. The bloke is a total peanut

I've started watching on mute this year also, and I find it a lot less stressful. The ideal TV option would be just crowd noise with no commentary.

2 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

Thought Chandler was fantastic. His contested stuff brilliant. 7 tackles. Great goal from boundary. Gave him votes

Hugely improved player. Glad he was out there 

Agree but thought he tired badly with a dodgy knee. Had 3 disposals in whole 2nd half. Played 100 minutes and most of 2nd half.  

Edited April 4, 20241 yr by spirit of norm smith
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3 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Next time we have a 5 day break, Goodwin needs to consider more players to rotate.  Chandler looked 50% but soldiered on. Billings could have been subbed out.  I think AMW or Tholstrup could have got the debut game tonight.  

Sometimes your best players at 50% are better than your next available at 100%. 

Tell me who would be better tonight, May with 3 broken ribs or Tomlinson? 
AWM and Tholstrup would not have had the impact Chandler had today even with a sore knee. And Schache wouldn’t have taken away a good defender and halved contests like Brown did for three quarters.

Hell Clarry with his busted hand was pivotal to turning the game in the third quarter. 
Elite players find a way and they are irreplaceable, so you play them as often as you can when there are critical wins on the line. If we played West Coast today May wouldn’t have played. Nor Oliver. 

18 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

He'll have Lachie Hunter breathing down his neck now that he is available again. 

Hunter can't play forward though, Billings' pressure is poor and tackling inept, but at least he has most of the right attributes to play 3rd wing/forward. Hunter would have the same poor pressure at half forward without any overhead marking or forward craft.

Hunter requires Windsor or Langdon moving positions (or out of the side), so it's a harder task for him to get back in than just dislodging Billings.

Windsor and Langdon should roll through the forward line as is to give us a bit more pace and pressure. But there is also another solution to get Hunter in over Billings, it's a tad risky and might not work but the coaches should already be contemplating if Windsor is ready for brief on ball rotations.

I'm just loving how we are defending the ground and setting up to defend space. It's going to become very difficult to play against.

It's very noticeable that we block outlets by hand and then sag our zone back to our half back (when defending from our own half forwardline), which creates space in behind for us and enables us to turn the ball over, usually in the corridor.

This means we're starting attacks from in the corridor in the centre square, and then moving the ball either to our forwards running back into space towards our goal, or to leading forwards with much more space in front and around them to work in.

You can see the result of this tonight. We were devastating on turnover, and most chains seemed to start through the middle of the ground. 

Being happy to lose the territory battle can mean we are defending from quite deep inside our own D50, but it eases our forward connection, because we're not kicking to a crowded A50.

I'm loving the coaching and the discipline from the players to execute this.

I think it's a bit of an evolution of how we tried to play Collingwood on KB last year. We sat deeper and allowed Collingwood to run into our zone, and then closed in around them. 

Well done, Goody and team.

Edited April 4, 20241 yr by Binmans PA

Umpires were disgraceful, blatant cheating

46 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Windsor, the Kid has got it

We have a deadset Gem here

He will be singing a new contract soon. 

So when he sings that new contract will it be as a baritone or a tenor?

Edited April 4, 20241 yr by Deeman

Gamble responsibly

2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

As sweet as it gets.

Stuck it up the Afl.

The umpires.

The fans.

And commentators.

Now let's get home.

That sums it up for mine.

What a bunch of biased [censored] they are over there.

AFL thought they'd serve us up a curve ball with two consecutive games against home teams in Adelaide on a 5 day break as punishment for the Tax Payer Park refusal and look where it got em.

Love to see the free kick count in the last.  Umpire 22 the biggest culprit.

What a [censored] [censored] Farken fabulous win!!

Carn the mighty redlegs!

Edited April 4, 20241 yr by Demon Dynasty

18 minutes ago, Deeman said:

So when he sings that new contract will it be as a baritone or a tenor?

Who cares, so long as he sings!!

63% win rate at AO!!

Must be up there or at the top as our fortress now.

There’s one thing about winning a game when you also finish with a free kick count of 21 to 9 against you.

You can be really magnanimous about beating a team that has four maggots playing for them on top of 23 of their own, knowing they robbed us but we still won.

 

We should get a couple more home games at Adelaide Oval. 

Watch for the blowback!

Max held around the waste / pulled away from the ruck comtest by the guernsey on at least 3 to 4 occasions and nada zilch ignored!

Was it Howes pushed square in the back in the square for Dawson's goal in the last?

That was an amazing win given the bias of the yellow fellows tonight.

37 minutes ago, mpc said:

I've started watching on mute this year also, and I find it a lot less stressful. The ideal TV option would be just crowd noise with no commentary.

I'm with both of you. I've graduated to keeping the volume very low so I can still hear some crowd noise but it won't be long before I graduate to total silence.

The commentary is at gob****e levels. BT going on and on about the length of time Jordan Dawson was off the ground. If you ever need an example of how terrible this man is at calling a game, this is it.

3 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Max held around the waste / pulled away from the ruck comtest by the guernsey on at least 3 to 4 occasions and nada zilch ignored!

Was it Howes pushed square in the back in the square for Dawson's goal in the last?

That was an amazing win given the bias of the yellow fellows tonight.

I've been saying Rivers but it could indeed have been Howes. Not one mention in commentary and no replay either. Watched it back 3 times and thought the arms were extended and in the upper part of his back. 

Not quite at the 23-9 free kick levels of the corresponding game two years ago but still pretty poor.

 

1 minute ago, layzie said:

I'm with both of you. I've graduated to keeping the volume very low so I can still hear some crowd noise but it won't be long before I graduate to total silence.

The commentary is at gob****e levels. BT going on and on about the length of time Jordan Dawson was off the ground. If you ever need an example of how terrible this man is at calling a game, this is it.

As bad as Taylor is, (he is unbelievably bad) I was pleasantly surprised with Daisy Thomas and Selwood as special comments. Certainly an improvement on the likes of Ling and Hodge.

Just now, dee-tox said:

As bad as Taylor is, (he is unbelievably bad) I was pleasantly surprised with Daisy Thomas and Selwood as special comments. Certainly an improvement on the likes of Ling and Hodge.

Yeah that's fair, at least they can speak properly and don't sound brain-dead. 

46 minutes ago, Binmans PA said:

I'm just loving how we are defending the ground and setting up to defend space. It's going to become very difficult to play against.

It's very noticeable that we block outlets by hand and then sag our zone back to our half back (when defending from our own half forwardline), which creates space in behind for us and enables us to turn the ball over, usually in the corridor.

This means we're starting attacks from in the corridor in the centre square, and then moving the ball either to our forwards running back into space towards our goal, or to leading forwards with much more space in front and around them to work in.

You can see the result of this tonight. We were devastating on turnover, and most chains seemed to start through the middle of the ground. 

Being happy to lose the territory battle can mean we are defending from quite deep inside our own D50, but it eases our forward connection, because we're not kicking to a crowded A50.

I'm loving the coaching and the discipline from the players to execute this.

I think it's a bit of an evolution of how we tried to play Collingwood on KB last year. We sat deeper and allowed Collingwood to run into our zone, and then closed in around them. 

Well done, Goody and team.

It seemed to me that we lacked numbers at contest. when the ball hit the ground no one seemed to be there

Were we waiting for them to turn it over and thus conserving energy?

Were players TOG drastically different tonight?

21 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Max held around the waste / pulled away from the ruck comtest by the guernsey on at least 3 to 4 occasions and nada zilch ignored!

Was it Howes pushed square in the back in the square for Dawson's goal in the last?

That was an amazing win given the bias of the yellow fellows tonight.

Rivers. It was blatant and disgusting.

Edited April 4, 20241 yr by Left Foot Snap

If you're winning in Adelaide 5 days after winning in Adelaide with a free kick count against you, then you must be doing something right.