Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Morris is likely to play on as club talking about a 1 yr extension. Boyd will retire and Murphy is possible to retire.

I hate to bang on about it, and I hate seeing ageing champions struggling, but Morris needs to rethink his position.

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

I hate to bang on about it, and I hate seeing ageing champions struggling, but Morris needs to rethink his position.

Sadly I agree. There have been signs already. He is too much of a champ to end up in reserves - none of us want that for possibly our greatest ever defender.

[S Coast Simon]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Anchors

Our poor forwards. Was painful to watch us kick to the advantage side for Adelaide. How many kicks all over the ground went to the wrong side of a two man contest.

Playing to much wet weather footy of getting the ball forward at all costs. Adelaide managed to move the ball around with ease. But we just blazed away.

Thought we got the raw deal with the umpires the first half. The crows just dropped the ball at will. And even just placed the ball on the ground at one stage.

Talk of us trying to get Lever. Then him dominating with a best on ground performance. Was pretty dam good last night.

AFL. . Prime time games 7 away 2 at home. Gee thanks AFL for finally giving us Friday nights but still screwing us at the same time.

Bankers

Macrae. Working hard
Dale. Getting better
Cordy. Going to be a great medium to small defender

[Eastdog]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Bankers

Our 1st half - great effort Bailey Dale's goal I loved

Cordy - liked his game

McLean played very well


Anchors

The 2nd half - not good enough

Our goal kicking, forward line and defence all very poor last night

JJ get knocked by Tex.

[westdog54]

Re: Bankers And Anchors - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Bankers

Macrae - Geez he's a hard worker.
McLean - So glad to see him running through the midfield, he's slippery in the clinches. Helps that he has a great leap and hands.
Dale - He's just so composed for such a young player.

Banchors

Redpath - Leads up well and knows how to protect the drop but needs to halve more contests when he's under pressure.
Huter - Works hard as well but can be just so wasteful.
Suckling - That was better, but kick the easy goals Matthew!!

Anchors

Morris - Its been really sad watch his rapid decline this year.
Stringer - Was disinterested and lazy at times.
Picken - Speaking of declines...

Two sidebars:

I'm not going to bang on anymore about Honeychurch as he's the last of our problems but surely he doesn't retain his spot next year.

Yes, Tex's push on JJ was crude, and yes, Seven's fawning over him was cringeworthy. BUT... I'm in no doubt that pushing him into the post was the last thing on his mind.

As far as I'm concerned, if he actually wanted to hurt him he wouldn't have gone running to check if he was ok.

Easton Wood was livid and rightly so, but Tex was barely even remonstrating when challenged by our players.

When I watch it at full speed the push is marginally late and should have been a free kick, but the MRP will have bigger fish to fry than Tex this week.

Edit: Again reaching into the Rule book

15.4.5
Prohibited Contact and Payment of Free Kick
A field Umpire shall award a Free Kick against a Player where they are satisfied that the Player has made Prohibited Contact with an opposition Player.

A Player makes Prohibited Contact with an opposition Player if the Player:

(b)
pushes an opposition Player in the back, unless such contact is incidental to a Marking contest and the Player is legitimately Marking, attempting to Mark or spoil the football;

You cannot push in the back while shepherding. Its a free kick.