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Skids wrote:Great win against a desperate oppostion.
Take those 4 points.. phew
THIS !!!!! yes, a win is a win, we had 3 games in 12 days, we looked stuffed but we hung on, ground it out, got the points, so we take it and run, get the hell outa Brisvegas, with 4 precious points. I feel our team is learning something every week, learning to win, again, against the odds, like today. I'm pleased we got outa gaol, now we reload for handbag Cats. !!!!
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qldmagpie67 wrote:I don't know what that looked like on TV but live at the game we looked spent in the 3rd term. Our usual runners looked leg tired and we never really tried to handball and run at all for the whole game.
There smalls seemed to run in waves forward of the ball all day. They actually played fairly well considering how shit they've been all season. They played like this was there GF and they had everything at stake.
At the end of the day the class difference showed when it was needed.
Sidey in the last term was important
JDG really stepped up
Cox took a couple really important grabs in the last 10 minutes
Any news on Pendles ?
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They haven't been shit all season. They've played a few teams where they've been pretty close in a few in the last quarter.
We were ripe for the pickin' as others have noted due to:
3 games in 11 days
Interstate travel
Unsettled line up
Backline with first year players like Murray and Appleby and as you noted they treated this as a GF.
The 4 points is wonnerful
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swoop42 wrote:I haven't got Foxtel, thought I'd download the game later confident in victory and decided to use the time instead to give my unit a much needed clean.
Fired up the computer, went to the AFL site and FMD we're only 8pts ahead half way through the last quarter.
Critical that we hung on for the win but boy oh boy some spots in the team must surely have opened up on the back of that performance.
I look forward to watching it.
Swoop, you may have to turn off the commentary like I did. Dwayne Russell was so pro-Brisbane it was infuriating. I sent an email of complaint into Fox Footy. I go without fundamental necessities to get their telecasts and I don't expect to put up with such rubbish from them. Channel 7 commentators maybe, but I expect unbiased commentary from Fox Footy, because I bloody well pay heavily for it.
Whew,what a relief.I hate losing to this mob,because i have family members up in Brisbane and they always give me grief when they beat us.
As for the game,i wouldn't read too much into as the players were clearly fatigued after playing 3 games in 11 days.You can tell that by the way the players kept losing their feet and falling over,it's a tell tale sign of fatigue.
There was a lesson to be learned from DeGeoy's performance today.He was clearly a match winner,and it highlights the need to have your best players playing in the seniors.If he had been wasting away in the reserves this week-end then we would have lost that game.You need to have your best team to win these close games,it's as simple as that.So there's a lesson there for the likes of Wells and Fasolo who are far better than some of the players who were running around in the seniors today.
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swoop42 wrote:I haven't got Foxtel, thought I'd download the game later confident in victory and decided to use the time instead to give my unit a much needed clean.
Fired up the computer, went to the AFL site and FMD we're only 8pts ahead half way through the last quarter.
Critical that we hung on for the win but boy oh boy some spots in the team must surely have opened up on the back of that performance.
I look forward to watching it.
Swoop, you may have to turn off the commentary like I did. Dwayne Russell was so pro-Brisbane it was infuriating. I sent an email of complaint into Fox Footy. I go without fundamental necessities to get their telecasts and I don't expect to put up with such rubbish from them. Channel 7 commentators maybe, but I expect unbiased commentary from Fox Footy, because I bloody well pay heavily for it.
I too turned off the commentary.
It was beyone reasable. It was "Press Red for Brisbane Commentary" esque.
Tough hard win. Well done boys. Well done. Credit to Brisbane. They took it right up to us. They are not as bad as the ladder shows and they will hurt some good teams.
Rapt. If ever a game was there to lose, that was it. But we came through.
Great work DeGoey, Thomas, Treloar, Sidey, Stephenson. Great battling from our rucks Grundy & Cox who both stood up in the last quarter.
Not our strongest team, not our best game...but a win.
The 12 games in 3 days stretch is over.
Mayne & Crocker on thin ice.
