Looking into that, if it wasn't for Gardy, I reckon we would have been further behind. He ran his guts out and was wherever the ball went.dragit wrote:In that half though we stank, either the set-up wasn't working or we weren't applying ourselves properly…Superboot wrote:+1HSVKing wrote:Gardiner can't be dropped.
If he wasn't in Ross' finals plans, he would not have played on Saturday night. If he didn't play, I reckon we may have had a press conference announcing his retirement already.
On top of that, the time he spent on the field, I thought he was magnificent. He could be the X factor we are crying out for this finals series.
Stark reminder, in the course of just half a game, of how much we've missed him.
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Considering we got by with possibly the tallest backline in history last week, even though they had Betts and Garlett forward, I see less need for Geary this week. Not sure where Geary played last week, but every time I looked at our defensive set-up, at centre bounces, he wasn't in there. It was usually Zac, Blake, Fisher, Raph, Gilbert, and Dempster/Goddard.St Chris wrote:It will come down to matchups. I think with guys like Jetta and Rohan playing forward, we will still need Geary in the side.
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Who played on Betts and Garlett?AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:Considering we got by with possibly the tallest backline in history last week, even though they had Betts and Garlett forward, I see less need for Geary this week. Not sure where Geary played last week, but every time I looked at our defensive set-up, at centre bounces, he wasn't in there. It was usually Zac, Blake, Fisher, Raph, Gilbert, and Dempster/Goddard.St Chris wrote:It will come down to matchups. I think with guys like Jetta and Rohan playing forward, we will still need Geary in the side.
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Every time I looked at them it was someone much taller. Gilbert was on one of them most of the time, from what I saw and others were rotating on them, like Raph, Fisher, Dempster and at one centre bounce we had Blake starting on Betts! I was really surprised and was concerned we would be too top heavy down back, going in to the game, but it worked out OK this time. After Gram did a good job on Garland the week before, I expected him to get one of Betts or Garlett this week, but it didn't seem to happen. I imagine Geary and Polo would have spent some time in the back 50 at some stage, but I don't remember seeing either of them start there at any centre bounces. For one I think Carlton only had 5 in their forward line, most, if not all the time. So they may have been playing on the extra one, around the wings.
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