RaiDErNaTion wrote:West Croydon score is huge again, anyone catch the game that can give some info........did henley have a shocker or did WC turn it on?
yeah raider nation, WC are very good.
at fawk reserve the oval is laid out on an angle where the wind was blowing directly down the ground, which gave a huge advantage to the team heading with the wind. it was almost impossible to get the ball into a pocket and hold it there to kill time. WC were able to marginally outscore us in the first & third qtrs going into it, but they kicked 13.5 in the second and 10.14 in the last.
they are just so well balanced with many talls, good strong midfielders, and a more than capable defence.
it sounds funny but it didn't feel like we got beaten by 180. i don't think we'd say we had shocker. going into the wind we were able to hold up play for 5 or 6 minutes at a time, but as soon as they kicked a goal and it went back to a centre break they were able to bust it out of the centre and score 3 or 4 in a couple of minutes. we simply weren't skilful enough to capitalise when we were going with the wind.
it was a very long game - we got the final score of our Div1 a grade's game at the four minute mark of the last quarter in our game!
I don't know if there's anything in this but WC recently beat houghton by over 100 but houghton only went down by a couple to lockleys. would be interesting to hear an opinion on whether that's where the two top sides are at or if those scores are just anomalies.
I must add that overall the humility of the WC players & officials in such a big win was commendable. To be respectful to your opposition especially when there is clearly a gap in the capabilities of each is a good attribute for players and clubs to have, so well done WC.
