BamBam7 wrote:
Where was the mongrel they showed tonight all season?
Harry almost choked some cauliflower at the end, I've never seen him that aggressive.
They were going into bat for each other all night.
dunno but my guess is that it’s playing more kids and now the seniors are playing the fast play-on at all costs style we’ve been seeing most of the season from the VFL team (well until Voss pinched the beat half the Blues VFL players for the seniors).
playing that way and earning success (admittedly against weaker teams) seeds confidence and a bit of flow and freedom. maybe they feel like they have more licence to fly the flag if they aren’t worried so much about getting their (overly complex?) role executed. i think Cripps or another player said a week or two ago they’d be keeping it a bit more simple and be all about bringing the energy and contest with more inexperienced players in the team.
who’d have thought that the best way to build the chemistry was not to leave the Senior team
as unchanged as injuries allowed for but to bring in players with a little form. to be fair Moir was a bit lost in his early games at AFL and VFL level and a bunch of them have come on leaps and bounds this season.
Voss seemed to have thirty kegs pulled from his shoulders a few weeks ago. was more easy and smiling in game previews and pressers, win or lose he wasn’t too phased, partly bc we were playing with more freedom and flair out of the back half when we took possession in our D50. and we have been more able to deliver quality kicks for uncontested and contested marks in goal kicking positions.
just feels like some kind of burden was removed a month or two ago could it be that old chestnut of the old Navy-Blues-won’t-make-finals-this-year-blues followed by a couple of shockers and then some more relaxed players and play making? a few kids playing for their elevation to senior players at the expense of older players who will be traded or delisted at seasons end? feels that way. just hope we’ve all taken some life lessons and don’t have to experience this mediocre cauliflower soup next season.
one quality tall defender short and losing TDK won’t help, but if we recruit again as well as last year or two then plenty of upside even with the loss of JSOS (just doesn’t feel right, who’s going to play the fart trumpet in the locker room now with JSOS fart trumpeting his way into pies folklore?) and TDK (Saints must have cash to burn offering that kind of money for TDK, but we can expect to see some TDK-Naz stoppage magic in 2026).
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