big-whopper wrote:Disappointing loss by the tigers on the weekend but with so many people missing was a good effort. It's hard to cover the loss of your 1st and 2nd ruck and all 3 starting midfielders. Expect a more aggressive fired up tiger outfit from now until seasons end
Understand they had players out, but I know that they were expecting an easy game from us based on the first round result and we have improved a lot since that game. I didnt play this week but from what I saw and heard Broadies are very confident that they have the flag in the bag this year, WILL beat SMOSH next game is what I was told. Not saying they are not a good side, the results have spoken for themselves but as I noted a few posts back, the first half of the season all sides beat the sides below them and lost to the ones above. As we have been told for many years when we were cocky and though we had it in the bag, flags are not won until August.
We won on the weekend and to be honest couldnt care less who they had in or out. A win is a win for us, we have beaten a side placed above us which SHOULD get us into the finals now and that is all that matters. You have to be able to cover the loss of good players each week, we do when they go up to the B grade, the B grade will never take our worst player up. Thier ruckman who I know is normally a bench player in the D grade was fantastic, battled all day and I would say won his position. I have a few mates out there so I know who they had out and the quality of them also, but before the game I was still told they would smash us, so they really cant now say it was them out that cost them the loss, maybe took us easier than they should have.
I personally love beating Broadview, having come from Kilburn and now at GG the rivelry at Kilburn was great, I even shared a house with two guys from there when we played against each other, made saturday nights fun after a game! Lucky for me we actually won more in those two years than lost.
