Where did that 2nd half come from?
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Where did that 2nd half come from?
While we up at half time, I thought the game was very even. Not after half time though, just complete domination. Five more like that and we will be home (I can dream!).
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Re: Where did that 2nd half come from?
Not the sort of performance we are accustomed to.....if only that was a normal performance we could ALL be optimistic...perfectionist wrote:While we up at half time, I thought the game was very even. Not after half time though, just complete domination. Five more like that and we will be home (I can dream!).
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Re: Where did that 2nd half come from?
It was Collingwood-like domination.bobmurray wrote:Not the sort of performance we are accustomed to.....if only that was a normal performance we could ALL be optimistic...perfectionist wrote:While we up at half time, I thought the game was very even. Not after half time though, just complete domination. Five more like that and we will be home (I can dream!).
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Re: Where did that 2nd half come from?
It was standard for the first 15 rounds of 2009.bobmurray wrote:Not the sort of performance we are accustomed to.....if only that was a normal performance we could ALL be optimistic...perfectionist wrote:While we up at half time, I thought the game was very even. Not after half time though, just complete domination. Five more like that and we will be home (I can dream!).
Unfortunately that now needs to be retained until the last final to bring home the Holy Grail, starting with Caaaarrrllton.
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Re: Where did that 2nd half come from?
I gotta be honest - as much as we played great footy, north just completely stopped. I thought it looked like the last 10 minutes of the game instead of the 1st 10 minutes after half time. Couldn't believe how insipid North were. We had 43 tackles to 3/4 time - I just reckon we played really well BUT they played terribly. We should have won by over 100 points. Missed about 10 sitters in the 2nd half.kalsaint wrote:It was standard for the first 15 rounds of 2009.bobmurray wrote:Not the sort of performance we are accustomed to.....if only that was a normal performance we could ALL be optimistic...perfectionist wrote:While we up at half time, I thought the game was very even. Not after half time though, just complete domination. Five more like that and we will be home (I can dream!).
Unfortunately that now needs to be retained until the last final to bring home the Holy Grail, starting with Caaaarrrllton.
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Rapt with the win, but I reckon the Kanga's poo-ed their pants when the heat went up round about the time of Armo's goal. Insipid effort thereafter that could well undermine them for quite a while.
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lets hope we're peaking at the right time , our running of the ball was impressive all night , and we played very little shut down footy.
always amazes me how in games like tonight we have 30+ scoring shots ,yet when we play more shut down footy we're lucky to have 20 , after all you have to be able to score to win most games .
always amazes me how in games like tonight we have 30+ scoring shots ,yet when we play more shut down footy we're lucky to have 20 , after all you have to be able to score to win most games .
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His name is Brendon Goddard.SainterK wrote:In the middle though, something shifted 1/2 way through the second.BigMart wrote:They were playing well early....the guns
Dal, bj led the game in possession in the first half.....roo's goal halfway through the second started it....but he set up the first two also...
He was clearly the one who took it up a couple of notches halfway through the 2nd, when he was playing in the middle and from then on we partied like it was early-mid 2009.
He grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck, with a couple of brilliant attacks on the ball (including one where he just charged through a pack) and some other telling touches (before half time) and we never looked back from there. If he keeps going like that in the next few weeks, anythings possible.
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