We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

[Dry Rot]

WTF? We got murdered.

[Scraggers]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

And still got up

[lemmon]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

No Crossy and Griff really hurt us in there, Ryan wins a deceptive amount of hard ball and clearances.

[LostDoggy]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

No Crossy and Griff really hurt us in there, Ryan wins a deceptive amount of hard ball and clearances.

Sums it all up in one sentence!
Hopefully they come back in time for our Qualifying final! =]

[The Coon Dog]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Sums it all up in one sentence!
Hopefully they come back in time for our Qualifying final! =]

Rocket said they got some good news today with both training well. Rates them both about 90% to play next week.

[Bornadog]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Have a look at their Stats for disposals and they still got beaten

Gary Ablett - 40
Joel Corey -39
Joel Selwood - 33
Cameron Ling - 31
James Bartel - 31
Corey Enright - 28

[The Coon Dog]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Have a look at their Stats for disposals and they still got beaten

Gary Ablett - 40
Joel Corey -39
Joel Selwood - 33
Cameron Ling - 31
James Bartel - 31
Corey Enright - 28

To me it says that the better players for Geelong are clearly top drawer, but there's a lack of depth at the bottom end.

[LostDoggy]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Talk about negative spin, nice work dry rot... we beat Geelong, gained a top 4 spot but we lost the clearances, we should hang our heads with shame.

Ken'oarsum! We usually smash teams in clearances on Crossy's back and he and Griff trained well today. I feel warm n fuzzy.

[Dry Rot]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Talk about negative spin, nice work dry rot... we beat Geelong, gained a top 4 spot but we lost the clearances, we should hang our heads with shame.

We got smashed in the clearances tonight, but obviously you're too simple to realise this is of concern and question how and why this happened against a fellow top 4 team.

And what it might mean if/when we meet them again.

[AndrewP6]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

When we were getting done in the clearances, Geelong came back... need to improve this.

[boydogs]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

To me it says that the better players for Geelong are clearly top drawer, but there's a lack of depth at the bottom end.

Perhaps, but they really over possessed the ball trying to handball out of pressure and just turned it over. Those Gary Ablett one-twos are just predictable now. Possession count was 373 to us and 438 to them, more touches to go around

[LostDoggy]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

We got smashed in the clearances tonight, but obviously you're too simple to realise this is of concern and question how and why this happened against a fellow top 4 team.

And what it might mean if/when we meet them again.

Too simple? You dont know me or what I do for a living you idiot, who do you think you are? We were missing Cross and Griff, we will struggle in the centre. Fool.

[Dry Rot]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

Too simple? You dont know me or what I do for a living you idiot,

No I don't, but I assume whatever it is it doesn't involve your eyes. Or your brain.

? We were missing Cross and Griff, we will struggle in the centre. Fool.

Ah, that explains the dominance of their ruckmen tapping to their guys.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

We got smashed in the clearances tonight, but obviously you're too simple to realise this is of concern and question how and why this happened against a fellow top 4 team.

And what it might mean if/when we meet them again.

We lost the clearances because they are a very good side.


As supporters we often feel everything has to be perfect. Today was a wonderful result. We have some things to work on, certainly, and Eade will have the tapes during the week and we will look for reasons.

It is an area that we can improve on even further.

[Dry Rot]

Re: We usually win the clearances, but tonight?

We lost the clearances because they are a very good side.


As supporters we often feel everything has to be perfect. Today was a wonderful result. We have some things to work on, certainly, and Eade will have the tapes during the week and we will look for reasons.

It is an area that we can improve on even further.

My concern is that this really an area we have improved in this season (eg doing well vs the Saints) but tonight against a team we will most likely meet in the finals we got smashed.

Maybe a one-off and we still won, but still an area for concern IMO.

FWIW it was a great win, and after many beers I'm now still celebrating with a Seppelts rare Rutherglen muscat (or two).