Rd 11 South v Norwood Post Game Chat

[Adelaide Hawk]

Were South unlucky or Norwood lucky

Norwood kicked 1 more point than South over 100 minutes of footy. Luck has nothing to do with it.

[Adelaide Hawk]

I bet the Norwood coaching staff have them doing some goalkicking practice during the week.

I would have hoped we'd had some last week .. and every week for that matter.

[SABRE]

"one swallow doesn't make a summer"...
ST...

Or a future wife.

Tough luck Panthers. Do you want ya' kitchen sink back? They threw everything else at us.
From my point of view Norwood made too many changes from last week. Players & positions.
Norwoodians can say we had the cattle & control to get over the line when it mattered.
If Panther fans had bothered to come out to training Wednesday night, you'd be able to say
that the players had nothing left in the tank, for last the quarter, after being flogged at training.
Just my opinion of course. South are improving and teams not taking them seriously, do so at
their own peril.
The whole Norwood league team might go before the tribunal this week on a new charge...
...Grand Theft Redlegs !

[blueandwhite]

"The whole Norwood league team might go before the tribunal this week on a new charge...
...Grand Theft Redlegs !"

Dont know about the whole Norwood team, but maybe one Norwood player should be..........?

[phantom57]

this is the reason why Norwood are the only team in the league that begin with the letter "f"......?

[Sojourner]

How do Norwood fans feel having to admit that their coach handed out a lesson today from the coaching box in how to coach at SANFL level?????????

[JK]

How do Norwood fans feel having to admit that their coach handed out a lesson today from the coaching box in how to coach at SANFL level?????????

For those of us that weren't there can you elaborate a bit on that mate?

[Sojourner]

Old school attacking football in the last 1/4 blew the Panthers out of the water. Clay went to ground and went defensive and Trevor showed him how its done......

[southee]

Old school attacking football in the last 1/4 blew the Panthers out of the water. Clay went to ground and went defensive and Trevor showed him how its done......

Well said Sojourner......totally outclassed. Too try this defensive AFL "run down the clock" crap blew up in their faces.

[scott]

To south's credit - they held on for an impressive amount of time. But as time passed, Norwood slowly got closer, and closer, and closer. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, but once those rush of behinds began, surely the alarm bells were ringing in the box? They were their own worst enemy. They still had a 14-point lead with six mins of actual game time left, so the match was there to be saved with better tactics.

I can only remember one occasion in the last quarter where they went inside 50, and that was a string of about five short kicks maintaining possession and Cockshell took a contested mark just outside 50, but it was wasted with Norwood outnumbering South about 3:1 in the forward line. Forward entries were like gold in the final quarter but surely there was no way Clay and co were content with a three-goal at three quarter time? Norwood were down by 40 and pegged it back to 20 after they had the wind.

[Jars458]

Were South unlucky or Norwood lucky

Norwood kicked 1 more point than South over 100 minutes of footy. Luck has nothing to do with it.

Luck or chance can do a fair bit over 100 minutes of footy. Not saying it did in this game but your confidence that there was no luck involved is a bit rich. Perhaps an umpire was unsighted by a segull in his direct line of vision and missed a free in front of goal. That would not count as luck?

[spell_check]

Were South unlucky or Norwood lucky

Norwood kicked 1 more point than South over 100 minutes of footy. Luck has nothing to do with it.

Luck or chance can do a fair bit over 100 minutes of footy. Not saying it did in this game but your confidence that there was no luck involved is a bit rich. Perhaps an umpire was unsighted by a segull in his direct line of vision and missed a free in front of goal. That would not count as luck?

You make your own luck is what I say. The ball bounces in your favour, play in front and get more frees is what happens when you are going well in a match. It just seems to be that way.

[Jars458]

Luck's a fortune

[prowling panther]

Luck's a fortune

How much of a fortune does 'Luck' cost?

[The Sleeping Giant]

Luck's a fortune

How much of a fortune does 'Luck' cost?

"Luck" cost you $4.50, with pineapple.

[Adelaide Hawk]

Were South unlucky or Norwood lucky

Norwood kicked 1 more point than South over 100 minutes of footy. Luck has nothing to do with it.

Luck or chance can do a fair bit over 100 minutes of footy. Not saying it did in this game but your confidence that there was no luck involved is a bit rich. Perhaps an umpire was unsighted by a segull in his direct line of vision and missed a free in front of goal. That would not count as luck?

Well, you can go on believing in luck, I'll place my stock in working hard and making things happen to win games. Luck means bugger all.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Norwood would of been UNLUCKY to have 30 to 19 scoring shots and lose.

[SABRE]

this is the reason why Norwood are the only team in the league that begin with the letter "f"......?

Sorry 'phantom57', I've lost ya mate. What's the reason & why the 'f' ?

[Adelaide Hawk]

Norwood would of been UNLUCKY to have 30 to 19 scoring shots and lose.

No, that would have been bad football, not bad luck.

[Rik E Boy]

Norwood would of been UNLUCKY to have 30 to 19 scoring shots and lose.

No, that would have been bad football, not bad luck.

I agree that hard work is a bigger factor than luck but you can't entirely rule out good fortune when it comes to winning matches, or even flags. I know you'll point to player management here but St Kilda's fortunate run with injuries this year is a significant factor in why it is finally putting its best football together. Another example of the Saints being on a bit of a roll that has little to do with workrate was the long range spectulative shot that was a goal from Milne that bounces truly through the big sticks where the same hopeful punt at the goals from the Blues a couple of minutes later bounces the wrong way for a point. Two goal turnaround in a nine point result.

The game we love is played with a funny shaped ball that can bounce any which way at times so I don't think you can entirely dismiss luck as a factor...espcially in close games.

regards,

REB