samoht wrote: ↑Thu 05 Jul 2018 2:36pm
Who was that Melbourne midfielder, who as soon as he went into the centre (and stopped tagging Steven), had something like 15 possessions in the last quarter. Was it Viney?
Billy kept hitting it to him in the last quarter - and he just kept clearing the ball with ease. They only needed 1 quarter to wipe away our significant lead.
All I can say is lucky Viney wasn't played in the guts from the start of the game - we have the incompetent Melbourne coach to thank for that.
Gawn was 2 cuts above ... "a cut above" would be an understatement.
Yep had a great game as a defensive outside midfielder, because they're crap on the outside. He had to play like that because we polaxed them on the outside. They were never going to beat us in those circumstances. If we hadn't lost Brown, we won by 5 to 7 goals.
Our lead was 20 points (would've been more if we hadn't lost Brown) not significant. You're right about Viney, except he wasn't fed by Longer, he just did some great work and is a gun. Still we rebounded often enough to keep them at bay. If Gawn wants or needs to play as an outside mid Melbourne are in trouble. Billy was more than competitive at stoppages, his knee thumping into Gawn's midriff most contests and Gawn had minimal influence at stoppages.
When we played Melbourne earlier in the season, Gawn smashed us around stoppages and was a large part of the reason they touched us up. Not this time. We played the way we wanted to play and that started from Billy and the midfielders.
Gawn best on ground my arse. Better than Gresham, Steven, Steele, Armitage and even Viney? Bullsh*t.
EDIT: Sinclair, Carlisle and Brayshaw had better games than Gawn as well.