DiscoStu17

Harmes 3, Hogan 1, Bedford 1 🙄

Interesting that we have mentioned Xerri regarding developing rucks. I remember watching him as a young player, and not being very impressed with his positioning, intent or skills. However, after 4-5 years of development with Goldstein and TC, he is a much more accomplished player. He is now 26 of course. And his skills are still a bit 🤮 The other factor to take into account is how it affects the defence of the opposition. Shorter defenders often overreact to tall players in space. This helps to provide leading lanes. It’s also good for a bigger players to learn to legally block in marking contests – something that we haven’t been doing recently, but JVR benefited from this week.

He competed ok in the ruck. When Gawn went off, too many other players decided they also needed a rest. Cream did move around and lead, which made space for the other forwards. Should have been used more but our kicking game is still a bit of a mess. AJ competes hard but has been mauled in the last two games by Madden/Keefe (both 204cm) and Colina/Hayes (208/211cm – Close to 7 foot). Unfortunately, probably the best thing for Verrall’s development was TC straining a hammy. Verrall has dominated in the last few games, especially when TC went down, getting quite a few hitouts to advantage. Forward craft looks okay. Needs to get more marks around the ground.

Number 26 for the yellow team is a joke. He just gave a free kick to angry Agassi for blocking Fullerton. No idea.

Voice to text sometimes gives you exactly what you didn’t know you needed.

Sometimes they are trying, but it’s mostly the older players that don’t want to play fast and direct to an open player. You can see them looking, before they just vomit to the goal square.

Think it might be four, but I could be wrong.

I wish I didn’t have to say this, but these umpires are having far too much of a say in the play. Apart from calling throws when they are not and vice versa, this 15m bull – [censored] needs to be forgotten about. They have more than enough to concentrate on if they can possibly get some blocks and marks paid correctly.

Didn’t Mansell just have the [censored] ball? So that’s holding the [censored] ball then.

FCS! Kozzy penalised for a legal handball Ralph – Smith throws the ball no penalty

And what was that free kick to Taranto all about? Pfft!

First bounce. Trac needed to get the hands to Kozzy Returning to radio silence

Don’t know about that. That Kiwi singer was pretty good. Couldn’t understand what she was saying for awhile but.

so? Same as jocks then?

Watched the replay this arvo. There weren’t too many missing for the Tigers. We had more players wanting to apply pressure than they did. When we won the ball, apart from a few times, we shared it with our teammates. It was a bit like the AFL side last week. It was far from perfect, but the more they shared it the more potent it looked. It would be nice to see a repeat effort tonight.