Live Scores State Game 2009

[Wedgie]

Alleway loses footing...turnover...

Alleway doesn't get rid of it...holding the ball...turnover...

Alleway = North Adelaide hack...

mm how many Cenals ferals in the side

Maybe thats where we lost it.

Agreed, Williams was ordinary, there should have been none.

In all seriousness I would have had the 2 Gowans boys up forward, our midfield was tip top today and didn't need any adjusting but the Gowans lads would have been handy up forward, at least one of them.
Rucks should have been different and a few young blokes shouldn't have been selected.
All in all with the amount of mistakes made at selection and the unexpected conditions as well as some shocking umpiring it wasn't a bad result!

[am Bays]

Who'es going to get the medal?

Allen?
Backwell?
Sheedy?
Chambers?

Chambers?

White did well I thought too.

[scott]

Credit to WA - struggled to win the ball out of the centre in the first three quarters but won the centre breaks (5-3) in the last quarter. SA's only OOF was that pivotal one at the end when a score would have grabbed at least a draw.

[Wedgie]

Fos Williams medal is won by Sheedy, deserving winner, great captain's effort, led our dominant mid field with 29 possies.

[southee]

Umpires = Disgrace!!!

[whufc]

I guess thats what happens when you ignore the 7-0 top of the table side.

Im looking forward to watching the dogs next weekend and there midfielders kicking the ball long and scoring some goals.

Today is further proof that just because you get 30 possesions doesn't mean you have been effective or you have hurt the other side

[FlyingHigh]

Thanks for the scores fellas. Very disappointing. Sounds like we were a bit unprofessional in our selections and on the field.
What was the official crowd in the end?
Does any know if the game will be replayed on ABC2 during the week?

[am Bays]

I guess thats what happens when you ignore the 7-0 top of the table side.

Im looking forward to watching the dogs next weekend and there midfielders kicking the ball long and scoring some goals.

Today is further proof that just because you get 30 possesions doesn't mean you have been effective or you have hurt the other side

Spot on

[The Apostle]

Alleway loses footing...turnover...

Alleway doesn't get rid of it...holding the ball...turnover...

Alleway = North Adelaide hack...

mm how many Cenals ferals in the side

Maybe thats where we lost it.

Agreed, Williams was ordinary, there should have been none.

In all seriousness I would have had the 2 Gowans boys up forward, our midfield was tip top today and didn't need any adjusting but the Gowans lads would have been handy up forward, at least one of them.
Rucks should have been different and a few young blokes shouldn't have been selected.
All in all with the amount of mistakes made at selection and the unexpected conditions as well as some shocking umpiring it wasn't a bad result!

Nice point regarding crumbing. How many times did the ball hit the deck in the forward line and was quickly run out by W.A.. If that was at a Centrals match you would of had a queue of Dogs players ready to crumb and goal.

[prowling panther]

The umpiring didn't cost us the game IMO, our lack of forward 50 pressure did.

on bays you werent looking...of cours it was the umpires that cost us, it had to be, they always do, they dont make to many right calls when the pressure is on blah, blah,blah.

[mighty_tiger_79]

next year we better have centrals play instead

[mighty_tiger_79]

The umpiring didn't cost us the game IMO, our lack of forward 50 pressure did.

on bays you werent looking...of cours it was the umpires that cost us, it had to be, they always do, they dont make to many right calls when the pressure is on blah, blah,blah.

i really would love to know why a 50m penalty was in place when Panozzo had his head ripped off and was pinged for holding the ball

[whufc]

next year we better have centrals play instead

or at least more than 1 player.

[Wedgie]

Nice point regarding crumbing. How many times did the ball hit the deck in the forward line and was quickly run out by W.A.. If that was at a Centrals match you would of had a queue of Dogs players ready to crumb and goal.

Agree fully mate, they're experts at it (North are crap at it), I wouldn't have changed 1 thing about the midfield today but I would have had a different set up in the forwards and down back.
Admittedly they did select the original squad knowing WA hadn't had any rain for 18 months but as AM alluded to before there was no reason they couldn't have changed their pics this week but I suppose the argument that the others had already trained together was there.
To lose by 1 point away from home in those conditions, with that umpiring and being 2 down on the bench for most of the game (especially with someone as important as our best ruckman) and it really wasn't a bad effort.
The midfield was nothing short of sensational, Sheedy, Allen, Backwell, etc were awesome.
If it wasn't for our midfield today we would have lost that game by close to 15 goals.

Anyway, Im signing out, thanks for those that joined me online today, time for some World of Warcraft action, I'll pretend the Horde is WA.

[am Bays]

My point is if we had better forward 50 pressure we would have a) put greater pressure on them coming out and caused turnovers and b) we would've scored more therefore making those decisions immaterial.

<edit> and as I alluded to on p1 of this thread there is a strong case to answer that we actually lost this game last Sunday when the team was announced.

[whufc]

Alleway loses footing...turnover...

Alleway doesn't get rid of it...holding the ball...turnover...

Alleway = North Adelaide hack...

mm how many Cenals ferals in the side

While i do disagree about his comments towards Alleway (Alleway=best CHF in comp)

I'll take our 7-0 start to the year, while the state loses with their stars from all the other clubs.

[Gozu]

We probably could've used the Gowans boys, shocking result.

[The Apostle]

Alleway loses footing...turnover...

Alleway doesn't get rid of it...holding the ball...turnover...

Alleway = North Adelaide hack...

mm how many Cenals ferals in the side

While i do disagree about his comments towards Alleway (Alleway=best CHF in comp)

I'll take our 7-0 start to the year, while the state loses with their stars from all the other clubs.

I'm only joking about him btw. Just baiting North supporters.

[locky801]

We probably could've used the Gowans boys, shocking result.

at least one of them FFS its State footy where it gets tough and rough and who are the best at the both, the Gowans boys and as well as being tough and rough (fairly rough) they get the hard ball, why they were not there is a total disgrace

[whufc]

Alleway loses footing...turnover...

Alleway doesn't get rid of it...holding the ball...turnover...

Alleway = North Adelaide hack...

mm how many Cenals ferals in the side

Maybe thats where we lost it.

Agreed, Williams was ordinary, there should have been none.

In all seriousness I would have had the 2 Gowans boys up forward, our midfield was tip top today and didn't need any adjusting but the Gowans lads would have been handy up forward, at least one of them.
Rucks should have been different and a few young blokes shouldn't have been selected.
All in all with the amount of mistakes made at selection and the unexpected conditions as well as some shocking umpiring it wasn't a bad result!

Thats fine if you don't like midfielders like O'Hara and O'Sullivan who have starred in a Grand Final, kick the ball long regualry and kick goals every week. In O'Sullivan's case he is in the top 6-7 goalkickers this season.

Oh wait a sec they don't pick up 35 useless possesions every week, not good enough to be in that midfield ha ha ha.

While they were disappointed to miss out, the rest will do them the world of good this week.