Round 17 - Williamstown vs Werribee

[Bornadog]

Re: Round 17 - Williamstown vs Werribee

Nobody every talks about Goodes. Is he half decent?

A good honest VFL player

[Mantis]

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The downside to having an affiliation team. How would Hill FF and Panos HF go as a combo? Two known forwards are we developing our forwards in the right way. Panos spends most of his game time in defense and Hill in the reserves which always kicks a bag.

Where does Jones fit in?

To me it seems that he is keeping Hill in the magoos because you can't play them all.

[Bornadog]

Re: Round 17 - Williamstown vs Werribee

Seagulls win western thriller

Williamstown has continued their recent dominance over Werribee by registering a 2 point defeat over their local rivals - making it nine consecutive wins against the Tigers.

It was yet another incredibly tight encounter with the lead changing hands four times in the last quarter.

Incredibly, in a repeat of the Round 6 clash, when the siren sounded it was Williamstown up by a point.

A rushed behind after the siren saw a final 2 point margin.

The home side were able to honour captain Ben Jolley who was playing his 100th game for the Club, fittingly, it was the captain who led the way with a best on ground performance.

Williamstown were looking to register back to the back wins for the first time since Round 6 but it was the visiting side that came out of the blocks the better and dominated the early stages of the first quarter.

The Seagulls struggled to get their hands on the football as the Tigers hammered their forward 50 but failed to capitalise, kicking 1.5 before the home side had even registered a score.

Williamstown were able to respond late in the quarter through the marking prowess of Liam Jones and the hard running work from Ed Carr and Ben Jolley in the middle of the ground.

The Seagulls regained momentum to end the quarter, kicking 4 goals straight to trail Werribee’s 4.5 at quarter time.

The second term was a real arm wrestle with neither team able to gain control of the play and both teams playing tight, tough, contested football.

Defensively Williamstown was strong, with Cameron Lockwood, Stephen McCallum and Jason Johannisen nullifying Werribee’s dangerous small forwards.

Costly turnovers gifted Werribee their two goals for the quarter but the Seagulls were able to restrict the margin to just 10 points at the main break.

It was goal for goal early in the third quarter as Werribee extended their margin out to 15 points twice, but Williamstown battled hard to reduce the margin to three points.

But once again the tide changed as two quick replies from Werribee stretched the margin back out to 15 points.

In need of a goal before the final change, Williamstown turned to their inspirational captain Ben Jolley, who snapped a great goal to bring the margin back to 9 points at the final change with a big final quarter ahead of both teams.

An early goal to Werribee after the final change had the Seagulls on the back foot.

Williamstown weren’t going to give in that easily though, as they started to win the crucial contests and looked to have the legs over the tiring Tigers.

Matthew Panos, who was moved forward in the third quarter, kicked 2 quick goals and another goal to James Wall saw the Seagulls hit the front for the first time in the day.

With 14 minutes gone on the clock there was still plenty of football left, which the Seagulls learnt the hard way as 2 goals to Ben McKinley had Werribee back out to a 10 point lead as the game went into time on.

Some good work from Alex Greenwood saw him take on two opponents and hit Liam Jones lace out which resulted in Jones’ 3rd goal, bringing the margin back to just 4 points.

The Seagulls only needed the one opportunity, and it came when Zeph Skinner slammed it on his boot from 30 metres out.

Much to the delight of the big home crowd the ball floated through and once again the Gulls were in front at the 26 minute mark.

Tensions were understandably high in the last six minutes with both sides throwing everything at the contest.

Williamstown were able to apply just enough pressure to Werribee captain Robbie Castello as his shot on the run slammed into the post reducing the margin to just a point.

That was the last scare for the Seagulls as the ball remained in their forward 50 for the last two minutes, with the siren sounding much to the sheer delight of all players and supporters who had just witnessed another thrilling Western Derby.

[Hotdog60]

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Where does Jones fit in?

To me it seems that he is keeping Hill in the magoos because you can't play them all.

Maybe the idea that some posters had of having Jones at CHB might be worth a look. It will all be null and void if either of those forwards don't get a go and are delisted.

They may well not be up to it but in our current form I would think it's the ideal time to find out.

[Ghost Dog]

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Is anyone missing the bleeding obvious? Skinner! Well done lad. What an achievement.

[jeemak]

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Jones is our CHF/FF. He's very much due for a recall.

My personal preference would be to swap him for Cordy, and give Cordy a couple of games at Willy up forward to ply his trade and see how it works against lesser defenders. If he plays well, then he should be promoted for a couple of games at the end of the year.

[Eastdog]

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Any news about how Lin Jong is going?

[The Underdog]

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Is anyone missing the bleeding obvious? Skinner! Well done lad. What an achievement.

I must be. Are you referring to the fact that he kicked a goal to put them ahead 6 minutes from the end?

[Cyberdoggie]

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In the report it says Panos kicked 1 goal, but in the official review it says he kicked 2 quick goals after being moved forward. The tally adds up so they must of stuffed up somewhere if that is the case.

[Bornadog]

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In the report it says Panos kicked 1 goal, but in the official review it says he kicked 2 quick goals after being moved forward. The tally adds up so they must of stuffed up somewhere if that is the case.

Pretty sure he only kicked one.

[stefoid]

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I really like Majak as a player and he's not just a PR stunt. He has improve markedly year on year and will only continue to get better. Maybe not for us but there should be a number of clubs that seriously look at him and offer a spot on their main list if North aren't prepard to do so.

Is he a ruck or a forward?

[Bornadog]

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Is he a ruck or a forward?

Played both on Sunday. In the last quarter he was mainly in the ruck. I didn't think he played that well.

[azabob]

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Is anyone missing the bleeding obvious? Skinner! Well done lad. What an achievement.

I'm also confused, what did Skinner do?

[Hotdog60]

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I'm also confused, what did Skinner do?

Kick the goal to get the team in front and got on the radio for a interview after the game.

Skinner has some tricks but needs to be more involve for longer periods of the game, he may get there time will tell.

[KT31]

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Kick the goal to get the team in front and got on the radio for a interview after the game.

Skinner has some tricks but needs to be more involve for longer periods of the game, he may get there time will tell.

Haven't seen to much of Skinner and what I have seen has been a bit ordinary.
Could end up a decent footballer but do we have the time to spend on Skinner ?
Posters mention the X- factor, Dahl has the X-factor.
Difference is he can play.
If coaches are have to spend that much time with him, one of the other Pup's will be missing out.