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Hit the nail on the head there joffaboy...joffaboy wrote:Isn't it funny what individuals seeSaintBot wrote: joffa i notice you said raph had a fair game. honestly i thought he was terrible. had countless clangers and was constantly putting his teammates under pressure with his disposals. im afraid he wont ever make it imo...i dearly hope he can
and otiman...im pretty sure McEvoy wasnt out there. #5 was a medium height player - i think it was ben fraser. I thought Raph was good. Took numerous uncontested marks due to good positional play, and generally held the backline very well. Possessions a bit sloppy, however will improve with a full PS and will definately make it.
Blake was as ordinary as ever. Kick out on the full from about 30 metres out, dropped marks and generally was the same old Blake, and I am a rap for Blake and am not critisising him, just that he wasn't very good, in my opinion of course.
McEvoy didn't play.
Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel to appear, run down there and light the bloody thing yourself!
Otiman wrote:Red team (the more senior team) won easily in the end. It was a free flowing game for the first three quarters, and the last quarter was a black team flood.
Kosi (Red team) was magnificient, against not much defense, but his kicking for goal was mediocre at best.
On rookies and new players, if Khan was the one that played in #46 (edit: No, it wasnt him) , then he's quite a bit smaller and shorter than I expected, but played well on Gehrig in the first half. Miles had a good run in defense too, with Allen and Chivers up forward. Van Rheenen had less than a handful of ruck contests, and mostly played up forward where he did quite well for the black team, and kicked the intra-club goal of the century, a 40m sprint to the ball, pickup off the ground and over the shoulder snap from deep in the pocket, easily the highlight of the day. Eddy and Armo both did well without being spectacular, Armo played most of the game on Dal Santo and kept him relatively quiet, Eddy saw a lot of the ball but found it in not so great situations and spent most of the day being tackled. Jack Steven didn't do much, and Geary played well in the second half. The best of the rookies (and in the top 5 on the ground) was Clint Jones, who kicked at least two goals and looked dangerous whenever he got it. Michael Gardiner looked the goods too, beating Rix more comprehensively than King did, and also did quite a bit of work around the ground. Dempster did some good things but wasn't too exciting. Charlie Gardiner is more slimly built than Howard, and he (Howard) played quite well as a defensive mid/wing/half back. James Wall (playing in #7 at the start) was one of the better players for Team Black and easily the best of the scorps listed players (who was the guy who looked like Mick Dwyer?).
Here's a list of players that didn't play.
Gram
McEvoy
L. Fisher
Hayes
Hudghton
Riewoldt
Schneider
Ball
Goddard
Gilbert
Ferguson
Maguire
Gwilt
Connors
Attard
Haretuku
there were thousands bratty, the news reporters dont know what they are talking about, they are just reading a peice of paper someone gave to them, that was passed on by someones friends friend!saintbrat wrote:crowd numbers- fox reported hundreds- vision shows few on the far side,
you all say thousands- I'm guessing somewhere inbetween as I guess no one was counting.
fugazi wrote:The little #6 for the black team was excellent....I think it was him who kicked a 60m torp for a goal wasn't it....
I'm still not sold on Goddard as a midfielder, seems to me to struggle a bit in traffic. looks better with a bit more space, where he can use his kicking skills to greater advantage.Armoooo wrote:With Raph....because if he could develop strongly into that role we would be able to play Goddard in the midfield more often
i agree that this match was the best intra club match i've seen in a couple of years. skills much better, even in the swirling windyipper wrote:My observation was that it was the best intra-club game I've seen for a few years. The skills were actually quite good - but it was the pace of the game that was impressive. They seemed to move the ball very quickly up and down the ground. Stand-outs were Geary - who is a ball magnet and quick, Raph was very steady down back, Armitage was good, Joey excellent, Kosi just looked in awesome shape and looms as a real power forward for us in 08'. Both Gardi and King in the ruck has given us some structure at last to build an attacking game plan around. They looked both big and talented. All in all - we are seeing a fit, strong and keen squad ready to deliver on many years of promise.
Pretty hard to tell. To many out last night to make any real comparisions.ben_fff wrote:So how does that game shape up to the 04 intra club? HD you said that our skills were better, did the intraclub get you a bit more excited coming into the Preseason cup?