Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Eagles fans would have been barracking against us. Freo probably too.
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GAME DAY Tigers V Bombers Dreamtime
- Thread starter Mr T.
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Ive never been a poster on Bigfooty , my high intellect just wouldn’t fit
Seriously though when I’ve had a look there it’s like cowardly social media keyboard warrior stuff , it’s the best thing about PRE, it’s like having a beer at the pub talking footy with your mates , no personal attacks , difference of options welcomed and a much more mature way too look at the footy, however except the game day thread , that’s just pure emotion.
I know when they were scanning the ground pre game , it appeared red and black everywhere
Someone on here who was at the ground said it was full of yellow and black.
He needs his eyes and ears checked.
On Tv it sounded like it was 80% Essendon.
I don't mind it, we building a culture now where we can block the crowd out from the Adelaide oval to the Gabba and now Optus.
I say good on them for going in such large numbers. Say Crows v Bris at MCG non finals with no fans allowed to come from interstate..... Crowd 30k?
Yep that’s what big boy Ellis said last night. Been in a good paddock.
Cotch started on the bench a bit ut was out there rallying the troops when needed, the bombers brought the heat to the centre clearances and pushed real hard when our best were up forward or on the pine. The bombers mids were good all night, good pressure, forward handball and spread. They just couldnt go with us all night particularly being one of their best down for 80% of the night. Not having a go at Chol cause he played well but with Nank in we would have been on par even with our second stringers in.
Meanwhile Oleg Markov's young legs going as fast as ever. Can take marks and compete in the air, chase and lay vital tackles too.
Oleg Markov going forwards at a great rate of knots, just at the wrong club.
I note they only go the head shot with him on TV , don’t think they’ve invented a wide shot wider enough to fit the big X in
I’ve been through the entire game. Noted every possession and time of them.
He hit his target 41% of the time overall. I’ll say that again for you: 41%.
He had 2 missed kicks and 2 that were effective - one being lace out to Chol with 15.12 to go in the third quarter.
From his 13 handballs 8 missed a team mate and hit the ground. Some were just outright hack efforts. A bunch of them hit the ground and often missed a team mate by a mile, but fortunately for us a number also bounced up and we were able to recover - which goes down as an effective stat. (One or two even resulted in a goal eg 1.25 to go in the last quarter where he handballed to nobody in particular but it bounced up for Rioli who goalled.)
But otherwise his disposal was bloody ordinary and lacked composure.
If you think having only 4 kicks for a game, two of which were balls ups and then missing 8 out of 13 handballs is a good game with good disposal, then you and I will have to agree to disagree TL.
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Pickett's disposal is often what I call "loopy" or "noodly". It's not crisp and I suspect it's some sort of mental thing where he's over-thinking it.
Well, he goes from rib eye to chuck steak with it sometimes. As TBR pointed out v Blandbane, he had a terrible game running at just 40% disposal efficiency overall. And with 15 handballs and 5 kicks. That’s real bad.
But then he can have great moments and decent games with it too. The kick to Chol last night was superb.
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The milk has been spilt clean it up, time to move on.
He wanted out we didn't want him to go but the club did the right thing by him, end of story imo.
