wristwatcher wrote:Not one post about the football itself just 3 pages of BS and pissing contests.
I was impressed by Norths ball movement and apart from some late soft goals Norf could have won by 12 goals. Andy Read on debut was excellent across half back getting 21 touches and blanketing his opponents and Amato looks like he is going to have a real break out year.
As for the Crows I assume they will improve as a unit but had a few lads who looked a fair way off it. Any news on Porps, I was right behind him when he got his hit and it was brutal. Was it a report. Looked pretty nasty.
I thought the crowd was pretty decent and a good atmosphere. There seemed like there were a good smattering of people mainly kids in Crows guernseys but the novelty may wear off real quick if they don't improve and the idiotic abuse they will cop being the away team every week.
Overall I thought it was a good day and North look like a top 3 team to me.
Fair Point Wristwatcher.
Wedgie we have a whole thread dedicated to slagging of the Reserve sides and everything about them which seems a pretty good idea.
I listened online and thought the Life FM call was pretty good. Liked Slattery's expert comments too.
As for what I heard I thought O'Keeffe was outstanding as was Todd Miles who took 10 marks, most of which sounded contested.
Adelaide were never in and even Lewis Johnston seemed out of sorts kicking only 3 behinds, one of them was definitely gettable from his standard last year, before he was move to HB.
Radio said North had a spare man I the 1st QTR which allowed them to move the ball so freely into the forwards. Mitchell sounded big and strong and will give North another option up front and if Obst (my spellchecker keeps changing it to Obstacle
), can stay injury free will make a good partner for Mitchell.
Considering we lost our forward line at the end of the season I don't think anyone expected 20+ goals first time out, even against the Crows Reserves.
It seems to me that North have got a good blend of experienced recruits with some good youngsters to add to the retained list. O'Keeffe was good,as was O'Brien and Obst, along with some good performances from Amato, Stokes, Read and Boles. We still have some key players to return but it is nice to have some depth for a change. All the radio boys were surprised how good North looked with their handling, passing and kicking. They also mentioned how ferocious North were at the man and the ball and the tackle stats back that up.
Good gameday for me. Keep it going North
