Round 6 Central v Sturt

[knowledge]

Saw Anzac Lochowiak playing reserves yesterday, Mihail is injured. Anyone know about the younger brother, Jacob?

[goddy11]

Great result for Sturt. Centrals rarely lose at Elizabeth.

[Big Phil]

Saw Anzac Lochowiak playing reserves yesterday, Mihail is injured. Anyone know about the younger brother, Jacob?

Played for Kapunda in the BL&G League yesterday.

[locky801]

Saw Anzac Lochowiak playing reserves yesterday, Mihail is injured. Anyone know about the younger brother, Jacob?

Played for Kapunda in the BL&G League yesterday.

Bit of pocket money perhaps

[northerner]

Question for the Sturt supporters...
Sturt use of the open spaces was most impressive considering they train on the smaller deck.
Have the losses that Sturt had thusfar been on the smaller ovals? Cos it seems to me they are playing a style better suited to bigger grounds (which is beneficial come September).

[knowledge]

We’ve been ‘Jeckyl and Hyde’ this year. Pumped South at Noarlunga, thrashed Glenelg at Glenelg (which is similar in size to Unley) Dropped a game last week against WWTFC after being 4 goals up 12 mins into final 1/4. Lost to North by a goal. All to do with quick movement into our forwards repetitively, which we’ve done in the three wins and a 2/4 against Eagles. I don’t think ground size matters…..

[knowledge]

We’ve been ‘Jeckyl and Hyde’ this year. Pumped South at Noarlunga, thrashed Glenelg at Glenelg (which is similar in size to Unley) Dropped a game last week against WWTFC after being 4 goals up 12 mins into final 1/4. Lost to North by a goal. All to do with quick movement into our forwards repetitively, which we’ve done in the three wins and a 2/4 against Eagles. I don’t think ground size matters…..

[PatowalongaPirate]

We’ve been ‘Jeckyl and Hyde’ this year. Pumped South at Noarlunga, thrashed Glenelg at Glenelg (which is similar in size to Unley) Dropped a game last week against WWTFC after being 4 goals up 12 mins into final 1/4. Lost to North by a goal. All to do with quick movement into our forwards repetitively, which we’ve done in the three wins and a 2/4 against Eagles. I don’t think ground size matters…..

Beat us hands down, won well, but "thrashed"? The margin was 38 points. Maybe I have missed the thrashed memo, I always thought a thrashing was 60+.

[Ronnie]

Sam Conforti a good addition for Sturt from Essendon VFL. A bit of pace and very good left foot kick. He and James Mathews gave the forward line a bit more zip. To restrict a side like Centrals to 41 points on a fine day at Elizabeth was a commendable defensive effort.
Sturt's best is very very good but they have had lapses where they get the balance wrong and go too slow and cautious. Need to try and get some consistency now.

[mots02]

Sam Conforti a good addition for Sturt from Essendon VFL. A bit of pace and very good left foot kick. He and James Mathews gave the forward line a bit more zip. To restrict a side like Centrals to 41 points on a fine day at Elizabeth was a commendable defensive effort.
Sturt's best is very very good but they have had lapses where they get the balance wrong and go too slow and cautious. Need to try and get some consistency now.

Really good assessment - our good is very good. Our balance of speed on the ball v tempo style needs some tweaking. Played the tempo style too much against the Eagles (1st and 4th qtrs) and got burnt. Played it for periods against Centrals and turned the ball over in some dangerous spots - we were able to win it back most times though so it didnt hurt.

[Doddy]

I know Sturt fans will be cranky about the free kick count and I would be too, but your players didn't let that phase them at all. Played a cracking running game which we couldn't seem to get on top of. And Snelling, 17 tackles!

I think we met a perfect storm, a day when the umps made very few calls on tackles and called a lot of ball ups instead, and our 1st choice ruck and magarey medallist rover out injured. The clearance stats favoured Sturt but not by as much as I would have thought, my guess is that when we cleared we lost the ball under their midfield pressure pretty instantly.

Also, and I haven't checked the stats on this one, Sturt have recenty caned us via a few big dominant forwards, but it felt like the small forwards were doing the damage this time. I'm surprised there didn't seem to be a change of tactics from Thommo to arrest their momentum and their running game. We only stopped them when we won the one on one's. Would be nice to see a plan B occasionally.

Hated losing, but entertaining footy to watch.