just got back from watching the intra club match.
overall impressions- they played 15 minute quarters with a short 2 or 3 minute break between each, was very hot and humid down there 37 in the direct sunlight and very sticky. the first quarter and a bit were very scrappy as you would expect then the boys got into it. the intensity and talk was very good, lot of yelling "move it on quick", "get it in there" with a few expletives thrown in there, i noticed mitch robinsons voice a lot.
few points of interest.
1. very few contested marks, i counted 4, might have missed a couple, of those schache took 2, andrews took 1 typical intercept mark in defence.
2. schache kicked 3 goals and looked solid, kicked 2 set shot goals that went straight as a dye from around 40.
3. very few running bounces as well, nick robbo a couple and bastinac 1, again might have missed a couple.
4. if i was giving a BOG i would have went for lewy taylor followed by nick robbo- great intensity and run from both and talk.
5. thought allen christensen delivered some nice ball and got a couple of his usual head high shot frees for.
6. matheison pretty quiet, but did a few classy things.
7. i didn't mind the look of jackson paine in defence, looked pretty solid.
8. of the more experienced guys i thought bewick, hanley, walker and rich were pretty quiet, richy a couple of good kicks.
9. josh walker copped a bit of a knock and was limping, i think it was in the second quarter, can't remember seeing him out there again. a few boys got up sore a couple of times though nothing serious in it, just getting used to the physical impact again.
10. marco paparone looked solid as usual.
11. rocky solid, but nothing special.
as you would expect they all looked very spent after the game, but they had a short rest and came out again for a roughly 20 minute kick mark and run session under fatigue although they all kept pushing. all in all i think a pretty good first hit out in difficult conditions.
if you have any questions i will attempt to answer, didn't take notes so just relying on my short term memory abilities.
overall impressions- they played 15 minute quarters with a short 2 or 3 minute break between each, was very hot and humid down there 37 in the direct sunlight and very sticky. the first quarter and a bit were very scrappy as you would expect then the boys got into it. the intensity and talk was very good, lot of yelling "move it on quick", "get it in there" with a few expletives thrown in there, i noticed mitch robinsons voice a lot.
few points of interest.
1. very few contested marks, i counted 4, might have missed a couple, of those schache took 2, andrews took 1 typical intercept mark in defence.
2. schache kicked 3 goals and looked solid, kicked 2 set shot goals that went straight as a dye from around 40.
3. very few running bounces as well, nick robbo a couple and bastinac 1, again might have missed a couple.
4. if i was giving a BOG i would have went for lewy taylor followed by nick robbo- great intensity and run from both and talk.
5. thought allen christensen delivered some nice ball and got a couple of his usual head high shot frees for.
6. matheison pretty quiet, but did a few classy things.
7. i didn't mind the look of jackson paine in defence, looked pretty solid.
8. of the more experienced guys i thought bewick, hanley, walker and rich were pretty quiet, richy a couple of good kicks.
9. josh walker copped a bit of a knock and was limping, i think it was in the second quarter, can't remember seeing him out there again. a few boys got up sore a couple of times though nothing serious in it, just getting used to the physical impact again.
10. marco paparone looked solid as usual.
11. rocky solid, but nothing special.
as you would expect they all looked very spent after the game, but they had a short rest and came out again for a roughly 20 minute kick mark and run session under fatigue although they all kept pushing. all in all i think a pretty good first hit out in difficult conditions.
if you have any questions i will attempt to answer, didn't take notes so just relying on my short term memory abilities.
