Phantom Gossiper wrote:Q. wrote:Clearly, I need glasses!
Q, given you seen both sides 1st hand last season, interested to know your 1st impressions of both sides from what you seen yesterday, where do they sit compared to last year do you think?
I saw the game and I thought the two teams looked pretty even. Ingle farm were a little bit behind on the fitness side,that is why they got run over in the last quarter!
To me it looked like the small ground with small wings did not suit their style of play, particularly Ingle Farm. They tried to play on quickly as they moved out of defence, the on ballers took the game on and tried to run to space however it's hard to find space on Houghton Oval and they found themselves running into trouble! There were a lot of stoppages and ball ups and the game did not flow as quickly as I expected.
When ML strung a few passes together and hit their targets they moved the ball quite well from defence to attack and looked pretty good.
The red head guy mentioned in a previous post was good in the first half of the first quarter then I didn't think he carved it up too much after that, he played well in patches! He was swapping on the half forward flank and seemed to get bypassed when he was there probably because of the small oval!
All in all I didn't see anything from either team that suggested they are red hot favourites for the season! Not sure who was missing but I guess it is only a trial game!
This is my opinion only based on what I saw so bare that in mind before drilling me if you don't agree!