Cazzesman wrote:
https://www.afl.com.au/video/883281/full-post-match-r1-blues?videoId=883281&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1678970111001&references=AFL_MATCH:4787
Well worth a look. It all makes perfect sense when he says it
Regards CazzesmanI like the part when he said, the same game last year and we lose by 6 goals.
100% and was what I was expecting, maybe he was too at one stage of the game.
We've gone for a more contested game by the looks of it, which is great.
However, as I've said before we needed to add more skills to the team for cleaner transitions and delivery to the forwards.
But in saying that, it's only RD 1 and both teams were sloppy.
Ed may well be the other inside mid I was hoping we traded in last year, not as quick as I felt we needed but he did some good work in the second half.
Great to have him back.
And as one of the "peanuts" watching the game on TV, I think some perspective on the LOB passage of play is required.
He outrun Daniel Rioli, that's right Daniel Rioli......end of the game or not that was pretty impressive.
And he was going full tilt up until the last bounce, so to expect him to kick it earlier at full pace (not backing off steps to kick) is a bit rich for me.
Not many players in the league can hit targets on the lead at full pace, especially not a "bottom 6" player.
And as you said Cazz, he still managed to hit the spot between 3 defenders after that running effort.
It's just a shame that it didn't work out, if the bounce didn't tumble or McKay didn't slip we would've been singing the kids' praises.
Either way it was one of many many things that made the game a draw.
Plus it's lucky he came on for 1 quarter or we'd have to find another whipping boy.
Both the kids had a good first game, a little out of their depth.
Both still had poor disposals but they were not alone in that department to be fair.
Cowan needs to be more damaging by foot if he wants to play HBF.
Hollands needs to get more meterage if he wants to be damaging on the wing.
He tracked the most k's if I recall but only gained 155m with 11 disposals.
Still not bad for first gamers but not Walsh like either.
Acres was a huge disappointment for me, especially as he was supposed to be a senior upgrade on LOB and Cottrell.
He's more contested which is good, but that's where it stopped unfortunately, especially when we required more skills.
But keeping things in perspective, it was only RD1.
I hope next week we pull it all together for the Cats game.