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2014 Discussion Thread
Welcome one and all to the 2014 edition of our AFL discussion threads. As per tradition I've started up the 2014 thread on new years day as I do most years.
:clap sando. once again outcoached by a team who does something a bit different.
no desire, just outworked by a melbourne team who wanted it more. big question marks over sanderson haven't gone away. but at least our inept board gave him an extension in pre season!
Game was over in the first quarter. Well done to the Suns, they were clearly the better side. Once again, we are very inconsistent even after beating Fremantle in Perth only just last week. Brad Scott has to be questioned as that first quarter was woeful. Very frustrating.
i think it's a severe overreaction to start calling the game soft or anything. for me, anything to gets rid of head high clashes is a positive. brad symes had to retire after he was lined up and elbowed in the head. it was something like his 11th concussion. he was getting concussed as a schoolboy ffs. if the afl can show to kids that it's not okay for you to hit someone in the head, hopefully it's a safer place for players in the future.
the bump is not dead. just don't bump them in the head.
The question in the viney case isn't damage. Did head contact take place? Was it via a bump, no. Simples. I'm one who can never understand peoples confusion with the bump. If you bump high, you get suspended. Simple. The viney case was one of those where head contact got made but it wasn't because he bumped him?he merely turned to his side to absorb the collision. It really isn't hard to understand that surely.
Yeah, we were lucky to be so close at quarter time, and then even better at half time. With that said, I was still disappointed we let Sydney breeze the majority of that final quarter so easily. Taking them close without Hodge, Mitchell & Lake, and then losing Rioli and Gibbo playing with one weak arm in the final quarter, it was a damn good effort.
It's only his second game back, but Schoenmakers reminded us of how poor he is in a marking contest. He looks like a scared kid afraid of going to get an autograph. It's no coincidence we won the flag last year and beat Geelong with Lake at CHB. In the big games in 2011 & 12, Schoenmakers regularly got torn a new one by Hawkins, Cloke & Tippett. We can get away with it against the poorer sides but we need Lake for the big ones if we're going to win the flag, or even get to the grand final.
True but he doesn't give you any confidence where Gibson does and makes a real tussle of it. Schoenmakers just looks completely intimidated and doesn't relish the contest. We need to strengthen that area badly with the lack of cover for Lake. As shown last year, it can be the difference in winning a flag or not.
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