Jase wrote:Brave effort by the Blue Boys today...
Having lost the main target man early and having Kruezer and Cripps injured throughout the game just heart and bravery got us through that. ..
I agree Jase. It gave me an opportunity to see Rowe in attack, which might be a semi permanent fixture given Casboult's long'ish term injury.
Rowe and Jones did well up forward and despite not being a focal point, Everitt did well again.
We were lucky in that Dixon and Westhoff couldn't quite hold onto marks up forward because the scoreline would've been a bit different. Our undermanned defence (given Rowe was either forward or rucking) held up well despite looking more fragile than it has for the past few weeks. For some reason they cut quite a few holes in our defence, yet couldn't get the score on the board. A few misses in close, especially one to Boak assisted greatly.
Port are a good ordinary side, so to win over there is great for us. My father in law texted me after the game to say "are Carlton a top 8 chance". I said that we're no chance in hell. We've beaten 4 good-ordinary/ordinary sides and the heavyweights of the comp are yet to come.