He may have tried hard ( I know I found it very trying ) MT but I thought he was pretty ordinary yesterday.
He was given a job and that was in part to stop Goodes. IMV he gave Goodes (granted terrible match up) far too much freedom and it was very costly early in the game. ANd there was one instance in the 3rd where I almost jumped the fence (and this happened right in front of me) when he should have given off a h/ball straightaway (to Foley I think) and instead he tried to turn and weave (for what I'll never know) and ended up being tackled and as a result all the momentum we had in that play was gone because the h/ball came as he was being bought to the ground.
It was actually interesting to hear some of the comments from people around me - let's just say I wasn't the only one who was about to jump the fence
As well as our Krak critics lol, we had our Cogs critics near us too but most of the comments were about his poor passing - "you're better than that Coughlan". No feelings of jumping the fence though as we were up by the edge of the 3rd tier
. As for slowness in moving the footy on, he wasn't alone there. All day we went back to the old rule for the kick-ins so everyone was manned up
and the classic one was Hyde being awarded a 50m penalty then just walking slowly down to the new mark allowing all the Swans to flood back when Richo was one out
. Geez we're a thick slow-thinking side
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I can forgive Cogs for Goodes as you would never do that mismatch-up normally. Missing 5 key defenders meant we were robbing Peter to pay Paul from the start as our entire structure was out of whack. Normally a job like that would have gone to one of them or Joel but Joel had to play FB in another mismatch on Barry Hall.