#bleedredandblue wrote:whufc wrote:It was a shame Dartfish had the work experience kid on camera duties for the Salisbury vs EP game
Wasn’t the game everyone expected it to be anyway mate, pretty average skills from both sides all day.. Salisbury definitely spread better and worked harder! You would have witnessed the umpires absolutely FU***** EP though which isn’t a surprise! Few EP lads getting injured real early hurt, think we even finished off the game with 17 players.. Pretty shit day all round but we took plenty from it and think a few of the lads have come back crashing down to earth which is good
Yeah was still a decent watch, give me local footy over the AFL any day haha.
Just observations and thoughts and no disrespect to anyone.....
-As you said Salisbury spread really well especially off half back, made the EP forward line work hard. When the forwards didn't work hard Salisbury were able to rebound effectively.
-Thought the EP forwards got a bit lost on the big oval, played a half a kick away from probably where they should have been especially when EP had the ball in their defensive 50, almost looked the EP forwards were playing the traditional HF line. They had to push up higher imo.
Other than that it was a tight contest with both teams getting a few favourable match ups in their forward lines Hard to tell on the video but Gameau looks a big unit. Both teams will still be confident they can do the job at the business end of the season. EP wont be losing any sleep and Salisbury wont be printing any t-shirts.
Really liked the move of James O'Loughlin into the ruck. Thought he was decent, in particular around the ground where he could use his body well and then almost be a fifth mid at ground level.
Both teams will have fingers crossed for the grand final destination hoping the size of the oval suits them. An advantage to EP is you could all but rule out either Elizabeth Oval (or whatever it's called these days as i doubt they will have two local sides play there) or Salisbury Oval two of the bigger ones getting around. I'm guessing however it won't be the smaller parade as that seems to have been saved for the higher divisions in previous year (or am i just making that up in my head haha)
