Game thread vs Dogs

[Fidelis]

No access here.

Any details welcome.

[bigcarl]

Bulldogs go forward once for one goal, while we dominate for 10 minutes for one goal

[matrix]

polo kicked the first

[Sainternist]

Way to go, Mac!

[Sainternist]

Roo - a hand injury?

[kalsaint]

Roo - a hand injury?

Play sounds like Saints having more possesion with good pressure from the forwards.

Armo playing well.
Goddard has 7 possessions.

Roo has a problem with his knuckle not the webbing as first thought.

[Con Gorozidis]

big rhys mark and goal

[desertsaint]

Great defence by Blake stops a goal. Simpkin kept at his man when out positioned, holding it up til Blake's arrival.

[Stillwaiting]

big rhys mark and goal

I like yto hear that

[desertsaint]

Stanley unlucky not to get a free and certain goal. Dal hits the post.

[desertsaint]

Dempster gifts a goal, but the young mop misses.

[desertsaint]

Ouch! Roo sets up Stanley, who drops a sitter.

[desertsaint]

Lovely hit out gather from Lenny, who handballs to an undr pressure dal, but he ignores the tackle and scores a lovely goal from the angle.

[desertsaint]

Roo takes a nice contested mark. Tight out on the left. Going for it..beautiful goal!

[Con Gorozidis]

Saints 29
Dogs 8

Best players - all the big names

[desertsaint]

Nice defensive work by Roo - someone should tell him the siren goes in 5 seconds to save his legs - he's already running back to our attacking fifty.
Good, but scrappy quarter. The dog'sll scrag all day but have no real option up forward.

[Stillwaiting]

Keep the detail coming, I don't have vision of the game again

[bigcarl]

Ouch! Roo sets up Stanley, who drops a sitter.

He's gotta do better. I would have taken that

[Con Gorozidis]

contested possies equal
but saints kicking efficiency and clearances way ahead.
sam fisher 9 possessopns at 87% effiency.
hes killing em.

[Ralphy]

How good is sam fisher, one of my favourites at the moment...

[desertsaint]

Stanley wins a soft one and kicks a bomb - kosi out marks the pack - still on halfway. Bj claims a free from kosi's kick, but we'll have 1,2,3 ball ups no -we'll have four. Mac gets it and roosts a 80 kick - straight up. Milne collects and roosts into the square. Stanley takes a great mark. But shanks it after a massive run up.

[desertsaint]

Simpkin and newnes help hold up the dogs - but the ump, keeping his arm to show a saints free for ages while calling a dog free, confuses everyone. Saints get it out from the kick in.

[desertsaint]

Gilbert marks well in defence, we go forward but a poor kick finds a doggie. Ball again held up, yet another ball up - and another.
No score yet this quarter eight mins in.

[desertsaint]

Nice stevens chaes and tackle saves a goal by conoey.
It comes out via armo to kosi - who boots it straight into roughhead's head!

[desertsaint]

Game being played in the middle. Saints waltz it out but can't get into the fifty. Dogs continually under pressure all over the field.