how it looked from where i sat

[Ed from WA]

Pavlich won the toss and kicked to the esky side of the tv room,also included in the toss apparently was the approach to goal,freo chose the guts,pies got the flanks.

MM always one for a surprise has disguised didak in the no 23 jumper,fat lot of good that did,he played pretty shitty to my eye.
may go better back in the 4.

umpires in red is a worry,dont need hyperactive umps.
hope they keep off the red cordial.

Boing!! game starts,sandilands wins the tap,we shark it and head fwd via the cape thru JC lica then leon and then the obligatory t/o as no one was home when leon left the square.

leon has another chance,snaps on his left and its a point only.

we go fwd 2 times in a row for no score,dockers go fwd josh repels then $^% up supreme with a woeful pass and the docker shoot from 60 for a superpoint.

Not to be outdone young harry battles well and starts a chain of boundary chalk passes and leon kicks a supergoal from 60 that bounced thru.
seconds later haselby goals as a result of sandilands 10th tap for the qtr

Balls in dispute in the guts,johnno steals it and passes to leon,he gets a free and goals,but the dockers get it back straight away,then we go fwd 5 times for no score dockers go fwd once and goal

20- 17 down at the break

we hit the front after josh goals from a free,then i changed to sky channel for 2 minutes to watch the pinjarra cup,my bet sir viv runs 29th,and when i switch back its 34 -23,luckily i didnt see how they snagged 2 sausages while i was at the races.

Thomas passes to a leading leon and its a goal.
Davies is pinged and the dockers goal,5 seconds prior medhurst was tackled with the nut and flung to the ground the ball spilled and that wasnt a free.
umpires are still stoopid,think ill have a nother can.
Then lica does something very silly,im sure MM was aghast.
he ran straight thru the guts and passed to a leading taz at CHF.
Taz goaled.
The runner came out to remind him that we have the flanks.
just before half time heath shaw runs the ball down our flank,banana passes to taz who goals from the chalk.
siren goes 48-42 down at the half.

ive long held the theory that if you man the dockers up all day they cant score,looked for the number of the change rooms on google and yahoo to pass on my theory but unfortunately i couldnt get thru.

In fact we were lucky to be just one goal down at half time.
The difference was in the use of the ball.

I think MM wanted us to come back when it was dark after the break as we almost missed the bounce down.

taz marks at 55 has a shot and kicks a superpoint.
we then are under siege for 5 minutes but battle well,then thomas passes to taz who marks and goals.
Taz looks to be back to his running game,leading all the way down field,but his passes are not great,needs to work on them.
except for his next one which was a handball backwards to lonie at 55 and lonie sunk a soopergoal!
only 2 points down...make that 8,dockers goal from the bounce,then Taz puts in a bid for bump of the year as he knocks a docker into fremantle bay.

Chad goes for a soopergoal,thomas the tank engine flies high and marks and goals,then Taz makes a liar out of me with another handy handball and johnno goals we hit the cows!!
then i switched to sky for the last at pinjarra,my horse is listed as missing in action,while the search party looks for him i go back to foxfooty and the dockers are again ahead 78-71.
Both times i switched to a race they got 2 goals.
I have to give up the punt when footys on.
we make very hard work of getting a point at the end of the qtr,taz and TC mark together on the siren,ump gives it to TC on his wrong foot,no score. 79-72.

feo have had 30 more ruck taps and 60 more disposals,somehow we are only a goal down.

2 frees a mark and a pt start the final qtr
we battle hard and obree snaps a goal to keep us in the game.
bugger!! lica goes off limping,ankle injury accordin to carey.

pavlich gets the worlds softest free 2 mtrs out and we are 8 down again.

we dont give up but our system up fwd is letting us down,battle our guts out for no result then the dockers goal thru farmer,then again,20 down
josh snaps a goal
taz marks,a goal will get us within a lonie of victory,
oof

our last 2 attempts fwd are turnovers after both times lonie had to use his wrong foot

good try pies but no cigar
siren we go down by 16.

leon,maxwell,taz,fraser when up fwd not when in the ruck.tarks early was good,thomas looks ok.

lonie doesnt do enough,didak was disappointing for mine.

my first look at the pies for 06,i think we may have a squad that can be competitive,the system still needs a lot of tinkering.

[Cuthbert Collingwood]

very entertianing post mate! put it in the post match in general discussion and it won't just be me reading it

cheers!

[Johnson#26]

Up on the NCP site now.