bondiblue wrote:
I watched the game again.
Great to see the boys win.
Nourishment, and good signs from the kids:
Hollands, Cowan, Carroll were absolutely awesome.
Ison and Wilson gave us some spark and some speed and prove they belong.
Smith was amazing in the middle: elusive and the glue in the midfield.
Dean is pretty quick for a big fella. Marking and spoiling a feature.
Kids on every line.
That was after watching the VFL game and kids like Moir Byrne Charleson and Walker shine, and O'Keefe nearly clunking them.
Loved seeing the genuine smile on Weitering when Ison he kicked his first.
Weiters even smiled when singing the song.
Prior to those moments, I thought maybe Weiters is just a Doull type introvert, and we are reading too much in him.
Loved watching Harry pull the forward line group together in the last, and direct.
The forwards were such a great pressure group.
I'm not a huge fan of Kemp, but he competes everything like his life depends on it.
Gov was quiet. I thought he presented but didnt quite click for him.
Loved Crippa and Walsh leading the charge with a never say die attitude, blanketing Bont & Co.
Florent Hayward Ainsworth have really turned their games around, and look like sound additions now.
The Saints game was the nail in the coffin for me. If we couldn't lift and win that game, we couldnt lift for anything.
After watching the Tigers and Bumbers play well in recent weeks, I really didn't think we would win another game this year.
In fact, I thought we didn't need to try and tank to end up bottom of the ladder.
The word Tanking was a good excuse for our inability to play 4 quarters, rather than say we are a weak team
Calling it Tanking would also give the AFL the shits proving the new Draft rules encourage Tanking.
Ending on the bottom of the ladder would be no disgrace given we end up with Pick 2 & 3 players in the Draft.
A lot of unrewarded hard work from Hewett proved letting go Kennedy instead of him was the right decision.
Kennedy looked really slow. That made me feel good too.
Proves we don't plan on Tanking with 13 games left to play for 4 points, pride and image.
I am under no illusion we were kissed on the dick playing the Dogs with their No 1 ruck English out, along with the unicorn Darcy, Libba, Weightman and Vandameer. Bont and Richards on one leg, and Williams taken off with a Hammy. We got lucky on the injury front this week.
We could still end up bottom of the ladder, and brag we tanked on purpose

but then again, we are only 3 games shy of making Finals with a 13 games to go and last 8 games played in Melbourne.
Feels great to win. Might watch the game again. In fact might watch both our games to see Derksen and Lewis Young dominate the air again.
Go Blues.
Good balanced summary Bondi.
Pretty hard to find anything to disagree with that.
We definitely got the kiss.
I'm glad Cripps came out and said he was pretty flat this week and then he delivered this kind of performance.
Shows he's still a leader, some others could learn from him.
And it was good to see him actually trouble the scoreboard when they rest him up forwards this week, very Bont like.
Also a good win from the Eagles yesterday.
Good interview from Fraser also, glad to see coaching backed themselves in and are happy we finally put the 4 quarters together without any obvious or drastic changes to the game plan.
It was also a good point about how momentum changes are a lot faster now than before and having a team that has played a lot more games together are able to stop those swings a lot quicker. As many said at the start of the season, it might take a while for the team to gel (maybe not this long).
Also good to hear he said we still have an issue with our centre to forward connection and it is still a focus for them.
I think the last half last week set them up a bit better mentally to run games out and it is amazing what can happen when players can actually hit their targets.
The only concern I still have, is that now we had no pressure to win, we played better football, it says something about the groups mental fortitude.
Clearly something that needs to be worked on, especially against a tougher opponent.
Baby steps.
And yes, I was pumped with some of those kicks from Ollie. 92.9% KE
Good to see he is trying to hit more difficult targets and actually getting them.
2 weeks in a row now, I could be swayed...................but not yet.
And a shout out to Carroll, geez it makes a big difference having a genuine gun winger killing it and it seems to have lifted Ollie also.
100% KE for Carroll from 11 kicks.
Florent also deserves another mention, he killed it and was in everything defensively.
11 defensive half pressure acts with 89.5% KE from 19 kicks.
Go Blues!