Yep worst effort I can recall from our backline in years. They were all at sea when the ball hit the deck.Biggest disappointment for me was the backline. Comprehensively beaten.
Thought Dimma sounded both tired and pretty pissed off in the presser. Did have a little dig at umps paying Dixon free's but nothing for Jack or Lynch....
Good to be challenged now, give us something to work on.
Whats did Hinkley say?Wow - great presser from Hinkly - very generous. Well done by him i say. WOW just *smile* wow - one *smile* reporter actually says that from where they sat Port got the rough end of the umpiring..
I think the disappointing thing tonight for me was the number of fumbles, number of players going up for the ball leaving Port smalls to feast at ground level. Never seen Grimes fumble so much. Vlastuin kept flying and completely missing the ball. Our backline was just well off their game.
It was a cracking Satdy arvo game of midwinter footy, Haz. Their big men were too big. Dixon and Ladhams were both enormous and Georgiades is a young Dermie.We were spent in the last.
Also I'm sick of being smashed in contested marks. We get beaten all over the ground.
Tigers are a great team a resiliant team off a 4 day break - did'nt have their captain. Credit to Richmond and the way they played etc etcWhats did Hinkley say?
i love my kayo if you have a crap internet connection you cant blame them
A bye?
Port played the day before we did - they had a one day longer break.
With a rolling draw like they now have (many days with only one game on it), it's simply not mathematically possible to make it any more even than that, otherwise you'd be playing the same team every week.
Think about it.
Right now, the team Port played (Bulldogs) are playing the team we played (Lions). The two pairs of teams have crossed over.
So for each game, the breaks the two competing teams are coming off are four and five days. One different. Not possible to be any less.
Given the limitations involved, I think the AFL are probably doing as well as they can.
Game has changed. Shorter quarters & compressed schedule mean contested ball & clearance is even more important. Hardwick now has to address this issue. Not negotiable anymore. Nank will help but time to try different midfielders. Pickett & Stack especially disappointing. Castagna out of form amongst others. Defence was under siege due to clearance differential.
My streaming Foxtel (which is what KAYO essentially is) is always dropping out, and lags behind to the point where I read what’s happening here before it happens on my tv.Closing Kayo account on Monday, streaming is *smile*. Dropped out 10 times
Looking at Hickley after the game, he is.
True. Tempany.
Maybe it’s my internet.