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June 05, 2005
Capital Punishment
What a cruel way to watch a game. Waking up two minutes into the first quarter (yes, it was that sort of day) and having to go to work twenty minutes into the third. Just farcical. Thankfully we'd already done North over by this point and it would have taken an epic collapse to undo our good work until then. So what did we do? Almost have an epic collapse. You haven't lived until you've sat there watching the AFL website while you're supposed to be listening to one briefing or another and seeing the opposition score clocking over at speed. I was almost out the door to my car to listen to the game on the radio, until I realised it wasn't even on the radio. Idiot.
The first 3/4 were delightful though. We were clearly a much better side all over the park and were it not for the icerink style surface that led to players falling on their arses every 30 seconds I feel we would have put North to the sword a lot earlier than we did.
The downside to not seeing the pre-match show became obvious when a minute or two after I turned the TV on I saw Chris Heffernan running around. Panic set in. He didn't end up playing too badly but I would have preferred Brock there any day of the week.
What else happened? F'ed if I know. I didn't really feel too much tension throughout the event but as we've previously discussed that's the only advantage to not being at the game. Ground looked full for once but that's got a lot to do with the fact that Fox Footy bought 10000 tickets and handed them out to anyone who wanted them. Hopefully the people of the ACT will have been excited at seeing R. Robertson going ballistic and will purchase memberships accordingly.
I did lose the plot momentarily at one point of the commentary. When Brad Green soccered through his goal in the 2nd quarter and we got the obvious "he once tried out for Manchester United!" angle. Am I the only one who's sick to death of that line? Clinton Grybas not only delivered that, in a direct infringement on Eddie McGuire's copyright to say it, but he also pointed out (in a cosmopolitan "we love all sports" fashion) that "Manchester United could have done with some of that this season". Some of what? If that had been a soccer shot it would have sailed over the crossbar by a mile. LAZY commentary. Clinton, I await your response.
Demonblog.com Player of the Year VOTES
5 - Brad Green
4 - Russell Robertson
3 - Nathan Brown
2 - Cameron Bruce
1 - Paul Wheatley
LEADERBOARD (updated later..)
17 - Cameron Bruce
12 - Travis Johnstone, Brad Green
9 - Brock McLean
8 - Russell Robertson
7 - Adem Yze
6 - Ryan Ferguson
5 - Brent Moloney, Jared Rivers
4 - Clint Bizzell
3 - Aaron Davey, James McDonald, Brad Miller, Nathan Brown
1 - Russell Robertson, Colin Sylvia, Alistair Nicholson, Paul Wheatley
Next week? Collingwood on Queens Birthday. Now this is an interesting one because even when we do win it we don't do it with ANY authority whatsoever, and now that they've actually decided to win again I won't be going in with as much confidence as two months ago. On some of the passages of play today we're good enough to beat anyone in this competition (West Coast included... 2pt win against Richmond my arse) but sometime we look completely average as well. I'm starting to think that we're a certainty for the top 4 but I can't get excited any further than that at the moment.
Your comments/analysis/dissection please. I think I need a guest columnist who will write match reviews that actually discuss the match. Apply within.
Posted by Supermercado in Match Reviews at June 5, 2005 08:24 PM
Comments
It was broadcast in full on 3AW.
Posted by: Tony.T at June 5, 2005 10:41 PM
When Green kicked that goal off of the ground I warned the TV "Dooonnnn't say it, fucker," but sadly Grab-arse couldn't resist. At least he had the sense to hint at the overdoing of it.
Posted by: Tony.T at June 5, 2005 10:44 PM
Awful votes, though, A1.0. Mine instead ...
5 - Moloney
4 - Whelan
3 - White
2 - Travis
1 - Robbo (Well, he did snag 6)
Apologies to Wheaters, Brown, Bruce and Green.
Posted by: Tony.T at June 5, 2005 10:48 PM
Tough call, leaving Whelan out of those votes. Because he ran all day and barely made a mistake.
He's up there in the MVP category. Every time the ball hits the deck in our back 50, he is there. Who carved us up when he was out? Farmer and Milne. Dare I say it? Damn it, yes: one of the great unsung heroes.
Chris Heffernan worries me. That's all I'll say. He worries me.
Posted by: Peter at June 6, 2005 03:34 PM
And I'm happy to be a guest columnist. Delighted. In fact, it may be the job I've been waiting my whole life for.
Posted by: Peter at June 6, 2005 03:38 PM
You want a match review from Manoooka - here it is... Crowd gathered at Kingston Hotel from about 10, hoping for the Tszyu fight which wasn't shown. Crowd derived entertainment by watching a replay of Carlton going down to the Swans on Saturday...
Crowd at the game was the 4th biggest ever at 12,500 or so (probably biggest excluding Swans games) at Manuka, with a couple of bays very pro Demons. The 9,000 free tickets meant about 7,000 freebies showed up and the 5000 reserved seats were fairly full, with the Sold Out signs were up entering the gates.
Foxtel had commandeered the hill for promotional purposes, with every Foxtel gimmick and channel on show. Who is Joe Cool anyway?
Least rewarded of all the stall operators was the poor girl from Aurora Community Television, who resorted to talking to the pissed blokes who were hitting on her to relieve her boredom.
I still don't know what the two hotties in the nurses uniforms were promoting, but they were Best on Ground for certain...
Anyway, there was a game on. Sort of.
Whelan copped crap from my Richmond mate, who won't ever forgive him for destroying his and Richmonds season in two foul snaps. Johnston, White, Brown, Bruce, Green, Moloney all great through the middle, Kangas had nothing. Well tried, not sure if any others did...
Robbo made the ladies swoon on the way to his 6, Neitz looked slow and struggled but the only time the match looked a contest was when the Kangas finally went direct to Rocca in the fnal term. However, being about 7 goals down was probably a touch late to try anything attacking or exciting.
Game was a yawn, but saving $20 on a ticket meant you had more money for beer. The cans of Carlton draft were ice cold and never ran out, so a good day had by all... Final term something of a blur really...
BOG - Probably Moloney, then Johnston, Robbo, Whelan, Green/White/Brown - choose your colour.
This Collingwood supporter hopes McLean and Rivers are both left out again this weekend. And Nicho, Holland, Neitz and Sylvia are left in...
Posted by: Bennö at June 7, 2005 01:16 PM