I was disappointed that our kick in strategy (with the freedom the new rule provides) went from a kick to the back pocket to a kick to between the back pocket and half back ... some major planning and research went into that in the off season ...

_________________
"Truth, for the tyrants, is the most terrible and cruel of all bindings; it is like an incandescent iron falling across their chests. And it is even more agonizing than hot iron, for that only burns the flesh, while truth burns its way into the soul"     — Lauro Aguirre

Whole team does it... Good tactic.. I alluded to it in my post.
FFS, how many times did the ball go over the back to free Tigers players?... No one working out how that was happening? Frustrating

Cheers

_________________
“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

"if it happened"

It happened. It was right in front us in the member zone. Rance went down - everyone thought he was staging and holding up play but he stayed down and the booing subsided a bit - then the trainers helped him up and carried him off to a new loud barrage of booing.

Poor form bluebaggers.

I think you'll find they were booing the crap non-decision by the umps that occurred just as Rance went down...that was being replayed on screen as Rance was seen to....Tigers player took possession and ran toward boundary, was pinned by our player and forced it over the line. Should have been holding the ball.

_________________
"I had to eat"

You didn't hear the comments I was hearing.

Obviously not. He really divides opinion Rance. Not justifying what was said, just an observation.

_________________
"I had to eat"

Don’t disagree with your thoughts, just think that, as my understanding is he was a mid in the VFL, adjusting to a new position at AFL level might take some time.

Hope he makes it, but I think if we’re to improve we have to ‘stick fat’ with some players and allow them time to develop. (Polson was given half a year, as an example)

I have enormous respect for Alex Rance, enormous respect.

_________________
"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

New boys Walsh and Setters with 24 possies but disposal efficiency % in the 50's - will be so much better for ToG. Guns, both of them.

Spot on they were a revelation and add Newman another solid acquisition.
Hoping Liam Stocker and Sam Fisher have a similar impact later in the season.

_________________
Go Blue Boys

Setterfield reminds me of Pendlebury....seems to have more time than others

_________________
"I had to eat"

That drum is bloody annoying. Hope thet get rid of it.

_________________
That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

The young mids getting a little bit more of it. Going from getting teens to mid and low twenties. Now to build towards high twenties.

SPS had a strong preseason. Good chance for him against Port to get more of it whose midfield isn’t as good as the Tigers.

No doubt our recent recruitment focus on midfielders will pay handsome dividends. Already I’m reading oppo supporters talking up the possibilities of a future Cripps, SPS, Walsh, Setterfield, Fisher, Dow, Kennedy midfield.

But the key will be learning to execute. To have such a young group accumulating these numbers in contested situations is a great start. But for years our inability to 2-way run, deliver the ball forward or play on the spread has undone it all. This cannot be allowed to happen in this group’s development.

_________________
WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Would be nice to see a similar campaign for the Richmond player who deliberately stomped on Fisher's leg while he was defenceless on the ground.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

I only just studied our fixture for the first time. Crazy to think we only have one more night game this season. Good to have so much support from the AFL. How many night games did * get the year the drug cheats returned?

$2k fine for Liam

https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019- ... gh-conduct

Our next game at the G is 11 May

_________________
Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

I too feel the same.

Suffer Browne, another no one that thinks his opinionated agenda has influence. dh