Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

[GVGjr]

Lets give this another try.
Posts your thoughts and opinions after the game or for the interstate guys and girls they can post away as they are watching.

Spoilers = A (One) player that did not quite measure up to expectations and the reasons why?
Guns = 3 players that stood out on the night and the reasons why?
Money = Someone who's skills stood out in the game? This can be one particular passage of play.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers = I think a Team effort here, too many loose Collingwood players on there own

Guns = 1: Boyd, tried hard all day. 2: Higgins, did some nice things but drifted in and out of the game. 3: Murphy, battle hard.

Money = DaDruid, he was the standout giving Fraser a spray on the boundry.

[jazzadogs]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

I hope it was in the form of a rhyme DaDruid!

Spoilers - Minson. Did a lot of dumb things, seemed very slow.

Guns - Boyd, Murphy and Hill. All three tried very hard. I watched Hill intently throughout the game after reading some comments on here that people don't see the hard running he does. I am converted.

Money - Boyd's quick hands on the defensive 50 which freed up Griff to run through the middle, resulted in a goal to Higgins.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers = I think a Team effort here, too many loose Collingwood players on there own

Guns = 1: Boyd, tried hard all day. 2: Higgins, did some nice things but drifted in and out of the game. 3: Murphy, battle hard.

Money = DaDruid, he was the standout giving Fraser a spray on the boundry.

I was sitting near Da Duid and saw that unfold - rhymes about us 'being crucified' and a Collingwood player being a 'garden gnome' amongst the entertaining gems on offer - well played good sir

As for Josh Fraser.......

[LostDoggy]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoiler: Minson's hands - someone please teach him to take a mark!!

Guns: As stated above Boyd, Murph and Higgins...

Money: Razor Ray... Baffling decisions, he should hand back his paycheck
Sorry Boyd wins for mine

[AndrewP6]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers - A collective vote for the team's efforts throughout the afternoon. Not good enough. OK, one player, I'll say Williams - looked lost.

Guns - Hall - tried to get us going. Murphy - moving well, creative as ever. Boyd - got a bucketload of the ball.Imagine if he hadn't done that for us.

Money - The bloke next to me (Pies fan) cheering for us in the fourth, ended up winning 800 smackers on the game.

[GVGjr]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers - Harbrow kicking in was a constant source of frustration
Guns - Boyd, Murphy and Hill.
Money - Some of Murphy's work ethic was great. Not one thing but a combination of a few.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Guns - Boyd, Murphy and Hill.

Really? You're not going to like this then.

Spoilers - Hill. I don't like setting aim at a young kid but seriously the guy needs to work much harder. Every opponent he had seemed to do damage to us. I wouldn't play him on the wing. I'd rather him as that secondary target in the forward line were those weaknesses are not as damaging.

Guns - Murphy and Boyd, clearly our best players today.

Money - Murphy again. The guy is all class.

[Max469]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers - Harbrow kicking in was a constant source of frustration
Guns - Boyd, Murphy and Hill.
Money - Some of Murphy's work ethic was great. Not one thing but a combination of a few.

Fully agree.

The only thing I would do is add Tom Williams to the Spoilers.


Hurry back - Dale and Callan Ward

[jazzadogs]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Really? You're not going to like this then.

Spoilers - Hill. I don't like setting aim at a young kid but seriously the guy needs to work much harder. Every opponent he had seemed to do damage to us. I wouldn't play him on the wing. I'd rather him as that secondary target in the forward line were those weaknesses are not as damaging.

Guns - Murphy and Boyd, clearly our best players today.

Money - Murphy again. The guy is all class.

Completely disagree, and I have been one who has said this about Hill in the past.

A number of times he had second, third and fourth efforts, or chased from a long way back. I was quite impressed after watching him closely.

One passage in the 3rd quarter (I think), ball got kicked in long to the forward line, Hill one-on-one. The ball got knocked to the ground, Hill got knocked over in the contest but got straight up, chased one player, chased and harrassed the next player, chased again, then they kicked it away and he chased that guy too.

He might not have done this every time, but he did his best. Their defence killed every one of our forwards, and their 'cheats' (staying at the back of the play hoping for a turnover) hurt us more than anything.

[GVGjr]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Fully agree.

The only thing I would do is add Tom Williams to the Spoilers.


Hurry back - Dale and Callan Ward

You can only have one spoiler though

[LostDoggy]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers Harbrow - he is my favourite player, but gee he made some shocking errors.

Guns: Murphy - he looks in really good shape, moving very well.
Boyd - was just everywhere again, hands on everything.
Everitt - thought it was one of his better games for us, tried hard all night.

Money: Aker - he gave out a handball in a tight pack situation up the opposite end of the cheer squad, resulted in a Boyd goal. (i think it was Boyd?)

[GVGjr]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Money:[/b] Aker - he gave out a handball in a tight pack situation up the opposite end of the cheer squad, resulted in a Boyd goal. (i think it was Boyd?)

I don't know how I missed nominating that. It was a terrific effort.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoiler: Higgins - on at least 2 occasions in the 3rd he just did not go hard enough and cost goals.
Ditto for Gilbee

Guns: Boyd - must be the eveready man - keeps on keeping on
Murph all class
Hudson Just a great worker and had the better of Jolly clearly.

Money: Boyd

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Spoilers, Guns and Money - R1

Spoilers = Cross. I thought he was equal worst on ground. Fumbled, turned it over, got out muscled and spent more time on the ground.

Guns = Murphy was our best by a long way. Great hands, good disposal and thought his way through things unlike 21 others. Hudson helped get us back into the game at one point and was competitive whilst Everitt did OK.

Money = Everitt's fantastic change of direction and pass to Giansiracusa on the other side of the ground. Might have been the second quarter? It caught Collingwood off guard, which we rarely did.