Tigers VS Dee's

[one-eyed]

Good team pressure. Whitey first of the 2nd qtr  . Giving Garland a bath.

23 - 19

[one-eyed]

Dees through Green get it back. Once again starting from hb.

23 - 25

[one-eyed]

Possies:

Jacko    11
Connors  8
Newy      8
Astbury   7
Morton    7
Cuz        6
Moore     6

[one-eyed]

Newy long from 60m and carries the pack for a point.

24 - 25

[one-eyed]

Tuck on the boudnary hb to Jacko to Cuz to Jack who taps it back to Cuz who gets a free for too high 20m out. Goal 

30 - 25

[one-eyed]

Frees: 2 - 8  .


Hooray we actually got a free. Rivers in the back on Gus. Goal  

Good mark by Browne earlier btw to set it up.


36 - 26

[one-eyed]

Tim Lane blaming Melbourne getting ahead of themselves in the papers rather than our good play  .

Bruce moved onto White.

LOL Gus ran to the Melbourne bench 


King finds White 55m out sets it up and Morton takes the mark 30m out. Goal 

42 - 26

[one-eyed]

Melbourne winning the cnetre clearances. Need to tighten up there.

Farmer too high on Wommarieri. Miss

Connors goes against team rules trying to take it on in defence. Thankfull another miss.


42 - 28

[one-eyed]

Another Melbourne goal starting from our forward line 


42 - 34

[one-eyed]

And they get another. Dunn 3 goals. Lids moved up forward.

42 - 40

[one-eyed]

Point to the Dees. They're on top at th moment. Tiges need to stand up.

42 - 41

[one-eyed]

Good play by King leaves bruce for dead and hard stuff by jack. Hicks to Gus  goals  

48 - 41

[one-eyed]

Farmer needed to hold onto the ball and find a short target. Kicks long to no one. Melbourne get it to Green with 10secs to go for a goal after the siren

half-time

Rich    2.5   7.6-48
Melb   3.1   7.5-47

Goals: Graham 2, White 2, Cousins, King, Morton

[one-eyed]

Possies:

Jackson   17
Newman  15
Connors   13
Cousins   13
Morton    11
Moore     10
Martin      9
Deledio    9
Edwards   9
White      8
Astbury    8
Browne    8
Farmer    8
King        7
Reiwoldt  7
Thursty    7
Webbs     7
Graham    5
Nason      5
Hicks       4
Tuck        4
McGuane  1

Total: 185 - 178

Marks:   47 - 43
Tackles: 22 - 34
Hitouts: 14 - 21
Frees:     9 - 13


Clearances: 15 - 19   (5 - 9 out of centre)
Turnovers in defensive half: 8 - 18

Just 4 marks in our forward 50 ..... Graham 2 of them. None to Jack

[mightytiges]

The positive is we've got nothing out of Jack so far. Tuck has hardly touched it either. McGuane is surplus. The concern is Melbourne are getting their goals too easily on the fast break. We're fighting better with more grunt at this stage.