CENTURION wrote:funnily enough, a number of the roosters ended at the Princes Berkeley on Sunday night with our mob & no hard feelings were apparent at all.
*BumP* Apologies, but missed a couple of days
That's just how it should be CENTURION. IMO it wasn't the best game of footy, and no doubt not the best GF.
North needed to get the hop on Centrals and hope they had a big enough lead at half time, but we had some pretty wayward kicking and Centrals were a lot more fired from the bounce up than I expected. We have had the hop on them for the last 4 games before dieing away but they were just to hard into the tackle.
Agree with another poster (somewhere), that they manned up from the ruck and pre-empted North's play too many times. Especially when Budgie and Wakes had the ball, they knew that both would try to lay it off rather than taking the kick and turned it over nearly everytime.
The third qtr was the killer, IMO, and North just ran out of steam, and some key players didn't put their usualy game in, possibly because of the tough finals (23rd round really), possibly the 16 years of finals absence against an experienced finals team or possibly, they were over-awed by the whole occasion.
We needed CD to have an off day (or be a bit rusty), and we needed to play above ourselves and unfortunately neither happened.