Three things I've learned-round 2 vs Sydney Swans

[Twodogs]

3 things., 3 things 3 things you've learned today.

[GVGjr]

1, 2 and 3 things.

[chef]

Sydney?

[bulldogtragic]

1. That this group of players deserve 50,000+ members. Buy them already.
2. This team has 'it'.
3. The Cloke doubters will be requesting humble pie with a huge smile.

[westbulldog]

1. Adams and Roberts worked well together.
2. Travis Cloke is a significant plus for us.
3. Picken has gone from tagger a couple of years ago to be in the elite category.

[ratsmac]

1. Sam Reid can kick straight. Plugger must be a good teacher.
2. Liam Picken has taken his game to match winner status
3. Our defence can cope without Moz. Reid got off the chain though but our KP's are still young. They'll get better

[bornadog]

1. I learnt, Travis is a bloody good contested mark.

2. Jong can play but needs to get rid of the stupid handballs to players under pressure

3. I learnt we are a really good team and just carrying on from last year and getting better all the time.

[comrade]

1. I learnt, Travis is a bloody good contested mark.

2. Jong can play but needs to get rid of the stupid handballs to players under pressure

3. I learnt we are a really good team and just carrying on from last year and getting better all the time.

Jong has the uncanny ability to do something incredible one moment, then something insanely bad the very next.

[bornadog]

Jong has the uncanny ability to do something incredible one moment, then something insanely bad the very next.


If he can overcome that part of his game, he will be a very good player. That passage of play when he burnt off his opponent and went for a long run towards goal, only to fluff his kick is a good example. I know he was doing the team thing to try and get it to Cloke, but gee just have a shot.

[Sedat]

1. Sam Reid can kick straight. Plugger must be a good teacher.
Great call - last night was also a reminder of how sticky his hands are.

[SlimPickens]

1. Jong has fantastic hands, a very dangerous forward.

2. Tom Campbell was an important addition and will be better for the run.

3.The afl are making this game a nightmare to officiate. The deliberate rules and third man up rules are just a mess.

[Twodogs]

If he can overcome that part of his game, he will be a very good player. That passage of play when he burnt off his opponent and went for a long run towards goal, only to fluff his kick is a good example. I know he was doing the team thing to try and get it to Cloke, but gee just have a shot.


He's not the only one given to bouts of confusion (I'm trying to be nice or I'd have said stupidity or idiocy or something rude like that. What the hell was Hunter thinking trying to dribble the ball through the goals despite the fact Alir Alir was standing in the goal square. KICK IT THROUGH THE BLOODY GOALS

[bornadog]

He's not the only one given to bouts of confusion (I'm trying to be nice or I'd have said stupidity or idiocy or something rude like that. What the hell was Hunter thinking trying to dribble the ball through the goals despite the fact Alir Alir was standing in the goal square. KICK IT THROUGH THE BLOODY GOALS

Yea that was a shocker.

Jong too many times handballs to a player surrounded by the opposition after making some brilliant play.

[1eyedog]

1. Even the best hunters are not good enough to catch us.
2. Liam Picken is almost our MVP.
3. Lin Jong is starting to believe he is good enough

[ledge]

Yea that was a shocker.

Jong too many times handballs to a player surrounded by the opposition after making some brilliant play.

It's how we play .. If it works it's brilliant if it doesn't it looks silly .
There are going to be mistakes . I wouldn't be to hard on him . The kick into the guy in the goals Square wasn't surprising more our forwards fault , he was exhausted he had just come from the wing after two or three huge efforts , our forward should have led up to him not sat back. Fact is we have won a flag and two games this year handballing through traffic . We take chances more times than not it works obviously.

[Flamethrower]

1. Most of the media and football fans are too lazy to actually read the rule book. The AFL umpires department clearly stated that they would be enforcing the deliberate rushed behind rule, especially in 2 specific areas.
- when a player rushes the ball from beyond 9 metres (top of the goal square, under immediate pressure or not - always a free kick.
- when a player has the opportunity to take possession within 9 metres and dispose of the ball by hand or foot before being tackled, and chooses to rush a behind = free kick. This is exactly what Mills did.

Marcus Adams did it the right way on at least 2 occasions - gathered possession running hard towards goal and quickly kicked the ball away - that is what the AFL want the defenders to do.....keep the ball in play at any cost.

2. We are privileged to bear witness to the greatness of Lance Franklin and Marcus Bontempelli.
They are the Tom Brady, the Mike Trout, the Wayne Gretzky and the Michael Jordan of the AFL (the 4 current or all time greatest players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NHL and the NBA).

3. Watching our team unfurl the premiership pennant is a lot of fun - we should do it EVERY year.

[Remi Moses]

Nailed it ^^
With a mike trout reference to
1. Longmire whinged it up again on umpiring. Personally I'd be worried about the uncontested ball flogging
2. Franklin and the Bont are freaks
3. Stringer good signs last night

[comrade]

I'm loving all this focus on our supposed 'armchair ride' with the umpires. It's distracting opposition teams from the actual reason we win: we're just a damn good unit with the best coach, system, development set up and depth of talent in the league.

Easier to blame the umpires than admit another team is on a different level.

[SonofScray]

1. I may have been foolish to join in the #freekickhawthorn stuff in recent years. Clearly they were a superior side then, as we are now. Teams can't hang in there against us without making silly decisions and infringing. They'll change even more rules to try curb our dominance because they just can't accept that this is the New World Order. Bow down before us you Pissants. Kneel Before Your premiers.

2. Fletcher Roberts is slowly getting to the level I had hoped he could. Some ways to go, but you can see the gains. If Collins can come along at a quicker rate and Adams hangs around we've plugged a bit of a gap on the list.

3. Dan hyannebury is a fraud. Faux tough guy.

[ledge]

1. I may have been foolish to join in the #freekickhawthorn stuff in recent years. Clearly they were a superior side then, as we are now. Teams can't hang in there against us without making silly decisions and infringing. They'll change even more rules to try curb our dominance because they just can't accept that this is the New World Order. Bow down before us you Pissants. Kneel Before Your premiers.

2. Fletcher Roberts is slowly getting to the level I had hoped he could. Some ways to go, but you can see the gains. If Collins can come along at a quicker rate and Adams hangs around we've plugged a bit of a gap on the list.

3. Dan hyannebury is a fraud. Faux tough guy.

Didn't he do his knee in the grand final and it was a hurclian effort to come back On the ground according to the commentators , 6 months later it's healed ?
I actually found it wierd they carried on about a bloke going back On with no knee, but had an interchange bench with 4 other perfectly fit players and chose to put a player back on with a knee injury who couldn't turn.

[jeemak]

I think he did a medial in the GF, and it was a really great effort to get back on.

[ledge]

I think he did a medial in the GF, and it was a really great effort to get back on.

Great but selfish on his part and stupid by the coaching team.

[jeemak]

Great but selfish on his part and stupid by the coaching team.

I think it was an acknowledgement that a midfield specialist around the contest was needed to keep up with us more than anything else. Not sure who they had on the bench with him, but he's a good close in player (above general league standard) who may have assisted in stemming the tide.

Clearly it didn't work, and as good has his work could have been above the waist his continued inclusion in the game only showed why it's important to play as many midfield capable players we do every week.

[westdog54]

I think he did a medial in the GF, and it was a really great effort to get back on.

Listening to Mick Malthouse in the SEN commentary of the GF, his summary was essentially "you can come back on but you can only run in straight lines".

[ledge]

I think it was an acknowledgement that a midfield specialist around the contest was needed to keep up with us more than anything else. Not sure who they had on the bench with him, but he's a good close in player (above general league standard) who may have assisted in stemming the tide.

Clearly it didn't work, and as good has his work could have been above the waist his continued inclusion in the game only showed why it's important to play as many midfield capable players we do every week.

Not with one knee he isn't . That's my point your talking about when he isn't injured . Don't care who you are. A player on one knee will not be better than an AFL player of any sort.
Commentators go on about courage but then went on how bad it was . If it was as bad as they say it's incompetent to have him on the ground when you have 3 others with 2 good knees on the bench who could run and kick .

[Torpedo]

Bob wasted no time at the break telling Lachie exactly what he thought about that kick. From the expression on his face and my basic lipreading ability, I would say it started with "WTF were you thinking about kicking at goal with that dribble"?

[jeemak]

Not with one knee he isn't . That's my point your talking about when he isn't injured . Don't care who you are. A player on one knee will not be better than an AFL player of any sort.
Commentators go on about courage but then went on how bad it was . If it was as bad as they say it's incompetent to have him on the ground when you have 3 others with 2 good knees on the bench who could run and kick .

That's your opinion, but the experts within the industry who work for Sydney thought it was worth him having a crack.

[1eyedog]

1. Even the best hunters are not good enough to catch us.
2. Liam Picken is almost our MVP.
3. Lin Jong is starting to believe he is good enough

4. Clokey doesn't know the song yet lol, but he'll learn it soon enough.

[Sedat]

Not with one knee he isn't . That's my point your talking about when he isn't injured . Don't care who you are. A player on one knee will not be better than an AFL player of any sort.
Commentators go on about courage but then went on how bad it was . If it was as bad as they say it's incompetent to have him on the ground when you have 3 others with 2 good knees on the bench who could run and kick .
Strange opinion. When you're well into the last qtr of a GF and the entire 22 is out on their feet, what Hanneberry did to contribute a few minutes on the field as part of the rotations to give one of the other mids a final rest was actually the opposite of selfish - it was brave, selfless and team-oriented.

[ratsmac]

4. Clokey doesn't know the song yet lol, but he'll learn it soon enough.

He'll learn it from repetition