Blue Vain wrote:
Blue4ever wrote:
Don't carried away with the 57 inside 50's, most of them were long bombs giving our talls very little hope, I'd rather have 30 quality inside 50's giving our forwards the best chance to mark the ball or at least a 50/50 one on one contest.
We have no idea, kept kicking the ball favoring the Port defenders who often had 2 against Harry, why not look for another option? make the Port defenders accountable.
Ok H had a shocker but the real damage was done further up the field.
Port are well drilled, their backs are very solid.
You are spot on and that is my point. Harry is decent value when he's being laced out on the lead. And even then he's not a reasonable chance to convert. When he has to work hard for his kicks, he's found wanting. Not from a lack of talent but a lack of commitment.
Even if the ball is kicked into the air to no ones advantage, I expect our players to win 50% of their contests.
yes we had 57 inside 50's and many of them were shit entries but he won 4 possessions from those entries. Yet his opponent had no trouble winning contests. In our last 4 games, his opponents has twice been in the best 5 players on the ground.
Twice. That's not a coincidence.
If he's only going to get a kick from lace out service, it's going to limit his potential and our future prospects significantly.
Fair call, the other issue that was disappointing last night was the amount of players trying to mark the ball from behind when the opposition were in a better position to mark the ball, under age stuff, punch from behind and at least halve the contest.
It was evident early that Port were going to have 2 against H and block his run. H should have been instructed to lead away from the ball and have another player make the lead. We are so predictable. Move him the the HFF line and play wide opening up the forward line for McGovern or Casboult to lead.
SPS kicking of one step and turning the ball over - not for the first time, lazy and lack of concentration. I know we are limited with small/medium options down back but get SPS out of the defence.
Weitering is all class, the way he reads the ball, positions himself in the contest and basically the way he goes about it. Deserves success, hopefully he gets it with us.
Walsh - love watching his efforts and gut running, similar to Weitering we would be stuffed without them.
Cripps is becoming hard to watch, every week the opposition with assign a player to play close and then spread when they have the ball, he can not keep up. When he does get a shot on goal we all know what happens.
Fogarty is lively and shows promise.
Docherty still does some good things but making errors we have rarely seen before, he looked pretty down last nigh after a few costly mistakes - looked tired and defeated.
Port are a very good side and the game really reflected where both sides are at.