by The Bedge » Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:13 am
Congrats to HT and TOS - in both grades. Obviously a disappointing way to end the season for us, but I think when we look back over the season as a whole, and the game as well, we really only have ourselves to blame for the situation.
In the B grade, Trinity had a lot of leg speed across the ground - Siciliano, Williams, Collyns, Dahlgren were the main catalyst's for TOS forward movement, and not having a genuine ruckman for us hurt more than I had expected, and Ebert had a day out.
The first quarter proved the difference - 4.0 to 2.3.. from there it was a real arm wrestle, but we continued to burn chances I50, and to TOS credit every time we challenged they were good enough to respond to keep the buffer. The last quarter I felt was our opportunity to win it, but again we just couldn't finish in front of goals.
Overall I think it was a pretty good game of football over the 4 quarters - I had a lot of spectators comment on how good it was.. high pressure, high speed, physical.
Good luck to TOS from here on in, think they're a genuine chance to account for Brahma and West Croydon.
In the A grade, really two things I felt were the major difference -
a) obviously our inability in front of goals to put TOS away - kicking 11.18 over the game - bad kicking is bad footy.. Break at 3/4 time was around 3 goals, but should've been more and not given TOS a sniff.
b) Cotter. Where we failed he did not, and his 2x last quarter goals from the boundary were the difference in the end.
TOS took the lead with 3min remaining - Ingle Farm then kicked 2x points in the remaining time but just couldn't wrestle back that goal.
As I said if we look back over the season and the games, we only have ourselves to blame - lost games we should have won, burned opportunities in games and produced some inconsistent results - both grades should've really finished top 3 and secured a double chance, but we didn't.
Think the lop-sided nature of the A grade comp, and the one sided matches in D6R helped mask these deficiencies over the latter part of the year.
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