GWS wrote:
Crusader wrote:
GWS wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
Kicked 3 goals in a row to win the game.
Pitto was on the bench so can’t blame him.
I know you want to keep beating this drum and I haven’t bought into it until now but that’s the point.
We were one man down for speed compared to the first four rounds.
Losing Saad early made it two.
Rucking is massively overrated when the ruckman can’t play as a midfielder after rucking.
Bad selection.
Six clearances for Pittonet.
Five score involvements.
So tell me about the opportunity cost?
Because if we’d gone with TDK and Harry we still get some of those but with Pitto in we don’t get any of the benefits of an extra runner.
If Harry was rucking we wouldn’t have kicked 3 goals to hit front.
Look a lot of IFs. Point is …look at the scoreboard 28 shots. There lies the issue. We were the better team.
The speed you’re looking for we don’t have. Saady is express. But you may get one extra runner but limit the opportunities he would get from an extra ruckman like Pitto gives you. Conundrum.
Add time on ground for both rucks and look at that output compared to one ruck in previous weeks.
Our team is super fit. We’ve got huge runners but speed is different. We make up for that limitation playing a different way: running harder than the opposition end to end, effectively playing with a couple extra runners. You can only have 18 on the ground. It’s 18 v 18.
The ruck is really important, the game starts there as do every CB. Our clearances from the rucks was huge, nearly Walsh huge.
I said before the game, before Pitto was official, the Crows have more speed than us on the outside. Lose Saady and we lose raw speed. In the end it was Berry and the speed he bought in the game and compare that to the return from our sub and the speed he brought to the game which made a bigger difference.
Blame game on Pitto me thinks. 28 shots to 20. Lost by 2 points. 8 more shots. Set shots. Misses. Happened last year too.
Crows played their GF today and kicked 16.4. 16.4. That’s rare too. But we kicked ourselves out of the game in the end.