Tigers vs Freo game thread

[aetherunknown]

Awesome game, blood was bled and the response was estatic.

[TigerLand]

Id like to thank Hayden Ballantyne for his brain fade and going pn the ground to early.

Thanks midget.

[Ox]

Daniel Connors played the game of his career with 35 touches and a goal with Brett Deledio (29 possessions), Chris Newman (26) and Shane Tuck (30) all important

 
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[TigerLand]

The roar when Collins ran in to kick the goal on the goal line was one of the loudest Ive heard.. Probably since 2005 when we beat Hawthorn and Deledio kicked a goal from 60 to put us in front.

Enourmous noise for 25-30k crowd. Just massive.

[Francois Jackson]

The best win in years

Was so much more satisfying than even last week.

After Farmer's mistake on the win we were severely threatened but we kept coming back and never gave up.

Unbelievable win.

I know understand how Dimma wanted Connors back so much. Along with Lids and Newman we have our best players across half back.

Newman for mine was BOG. The pin point passes were some of the best deliveries you will see.

[Ox]

The roar when Collins ran in to kick the goal on the goal line was one of the loudest Ive heard.. Probably since 2005 when we beat Hawthorn and Deledio kicked a goal from 60 to put us in front.

Enourmous noise for 25-30k crowd. Just massive.

man,i'm ecstatic.
Was in tears end of game

[TigerLand]

Nason gone for game in 2nd qtr
Griffith gone for game in 2nd qtr
Graham brusied/cracked Ribs in 2nd and last qtr
King corkey could hardly walk after half time
White lost an eye


Amazing..

[mat073]

I have almost forgotten what its like to lose.

[mightytiges]

The funny thing with this team at the moment is you don't care if we're down a couple of goals because our second halves have been strong. I mean 8 goals to just 3 after half-time with a reduced bench in this age of mass rotations is amazing.

I think a lot of credit should go to our senior players (the 23+ group). They are playing their best footy and leading by example. The cubs are following suit which in turn helps the senior players even more to play their own game.

We're still nowhere there yet as we still lack size, class over the park and make too many dumb decisions (thankfully freo did too) which will get exposed and punished by the top 3 sides but the foundations in terms of workrate and teamwork have been laid and we play footy which is great to watch. We actually play better and look more dangerous playing old school footy - long kicking and contesting. It's when we hesistate not going first option or try to be too cute handballing too much ring-a-rosy style we often stuff up.

[Ekto]

How good was it to hear the crowd ROAR and BOO at the Maggots as they left the ground?

It was damn good to beat the other two teams on the park tonight - Freo and the Maggots.

Those bloody maggots should be investigated by the Police for impersonating AFL officials and for ground invasion during a major sporting event.

[cub]

P.S. I hope someone breaks Ballantyne's face as well.

Ditto.  I'm very quickly coming to dislike him as intensely as I dislike Milne.

He has shot past Milne with a bullet, at least Milne can play.
Last night he wimped out when he heard the footsteps at one contest, real Rhyse Shaw effort.

[Penelope]

The funny thing with this team at the moment is you don't care if we're down a couple of goals because our second halves have been strong. I mean 8 goals to just 3 after half-time with a reduced bench in this age of mass rotations is amazing.

I think a lot of credit should go to our senior players (the 23+ group). They are playing their best footy and leading by example. The cubs are following suit which in turn helps the senior players even more to play their own game.

We're still nowhere there yet as we still lack size, class over the park and make too many dumb decisions (thankfully freo did too) which will get exposed and punished by the top 3 sides but the foundations in terms of workrate and teamwork have been laid and we play footy which is great to watch. We actually play better and look more dangerous playing old school footy - long kicking and contesting. It's when we hesistate not going first option or try to be too cute handballing too much ring-a-rosy style we often stuff up.

Shows how far the club has come MT when you say the top 3 side will expose and capatalise on our errors. Wasn't that long ago that every side would done that.
 

How effing good was that win?
 

[Tigermonk]

The funny thing with this team at the moment is you don't care if we're down a couple of goals because our second halves have been strong. I mean 8 goals to just 3 after half-time with a reduced bench in this age of mass rotations is amazing.

I think a lot of credit should go to our senior players (the 23+ group). They are playing their best footy and leading by example. The cubs are following suit which in turn helps the senior players even more to play their own game.

We're still nowhere there yet as we still lack size, class over the park and make too many dumb decisions (thankfully freo did too) which will get exposed and punished by the top 3 sides but the foundations in terms of workrate and teamwork have been laid and we play footy which is great to watch. We actually play better and look more dangerous playing old school footy - long kicking and contesting. It's when we hesistate not going first option or try to be too cute handballing too much ring-a-rosy style we often stuff up.

 

[Penelope]

Game is available to be downloaded as a torrent

[yellowandback]

A bit of a quirk that the 5 wins have all come against interstate sides - if we beat the Crows it becomes a clean sweep of beating interstate teams.

Not sure if we have ever done that since the competition had a 6th interstate side in 1997.