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April 24, 2005
Swans vs Demons
Well we lost YET again and we lost YET again because Roos is too stupid to think that maybe attacking football is a good IDEA. I don't know why I put myself though this week after week, but heck if I'm going to do it I might as well give you lot a report of the match.
Basically the Demons got out to a quick 3 goal lead which they never really gave up all night thanks to some quick work from their forwards. Once we managed to get a goal on the board though Nick Davis thanks to a lighting handpass from Magic, I though we might put in a good show, but alas for the next ruck duel the Dees get a goal thanks to great sharking effort from BOG Brock McLean.
From then on everytime we got on top of the play the Dees got a few lucky goals that we couldn't answer back and thus any good work was ruined. Going into the last quarter we again had hope, but a quick goal was let down by two killer blows from Russell Robertson and Aaron Davey and I finally gave up and went to bed.
So why did we lose??? Is it because the Demons are that much better than we were or was it because we were shit? I say a little of both, take out the shit from our guys and the match could of gone our way, but alas Roos gameplan isn't allowing us the freedom to play at our best and with the defence once again over matched and lacking ANY drive, the forward set up suffered and the Dees had player after player spoiling Barry Hall who played too close to goal to make ANY impact. Life is like that I suppose.
Good game from Jolly, but when he went off to rest we fell apart because of the lack of back up. Goodes would of done even better if allowed to settle and Jude Bolton is putting together a nice series of form, just a pity no one else is.
Anyway next week its off to Perth and the Eagles and basically I think we'll be having our arses served back to us on nice sliver plates.
MELBOURNE 14.10 (94)
SYDNEY 7.18 (60)
Goals:
Melbourne: D Neitz, R Robertson 3 A Yze, B McLean 2 B Green, M Jamar, J White, A Davey 1
Sydney: R O'Keefe 2 B Hall 2 N Davis A Schneider M O'Loughlin.
Umpires: B Allen J Schmitt M Head.
Official Crowd: 29,099
INRBIP BOG: Jude Bolton
Posted by robbieando at April 24, 2005 06:44 PM
Comments
Bugger about the loss, I think our problem is we are lacking talls down back to help when the ball is pumped i there by the opposition.
Posted by: Ben at April 25, 2005 01:18 AM
I was disappointed to see that the Barassi Cup was handed over but there was no sight of the Nettlebeck Cup. Well done on Brock McLean for winning the Wayne "Moose" Henwood Medal for BOG.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 at April 25, 2005 12:07 PM
I think that was done in some back room somewhere. Either that or the medal's in the mail. Still good game from him.
On the match itself, we were shit and our tactics are killing us, I guess you guys got us at the right time because its going to take a while to turn this ship around
Posted by: Robbie at April 25, 2005 03:51 PM