Match Report of the London experiment

[Ed from WA]

Pies win toss and kick to the vauxhall end.
is the other end the vanguard end? they didnt say.

Freo get first goal after a few minutes sizing each other up.
Daks gets our first goal after marking on the wing, playing on and sinking a long bomb from 70.
We go fwd Ant,leads,falls arse over tit like a drunken sailor freo clear and Ant is dragged.
cam Cloke comes on.immediately in the action marks at 40 but his kick is astray Pt only.
we are getting flogged at the centrebreaks and most of our attacks are started from the back pocket.
Lokan runs us out gets it to willo who turns it over,kinnear fumbles twice but we keep possesion.
Cheesy somehow marks behind sandilands and goals.

sandilands 6 ft 43 cheesy 5ft and BIT its hard to imagine how he did it but he did.

cam cloke gets a shove in the back at 50 and slots thru his first goal in anger for the pies.
cheesy gets on the end of a run from defence and kicks a point as the qtr ends.20 to us 6 to them.
Shaw,Didak,Obree ,Holland and Wakes have been good.

As the game continues it looks like we are trying to set a world record for the most handballs in a game.
wether its a plan of attack or MM has given them the free rein to do what they like im not sure but after the 2nd qtr began we never looked anything like a top side.
daks centres to the square on his rt foot,kinnear completely mucks it up and freo dash fwd and goal.
They goal again a minute later directly from the ctr break
and then again from the next bounce lokan is caught napping and medhurst goals.
We dash fwd but t/o at CHF,all of a sudden loose dockers are everywhere and medhurst makes easy work of lokan again and goals again.
On one of the rare occasions we actually win the ctr break we bomb fwd,swan roves pack and slams thru a sausage roll.
Shaw is showing plenty of dash,but his kicking isnt great,a slack shot is roved by swan who snaps a minor score.
From the kick in willo gets a slick handball from lika but (mates with) it up supreme,then works hard to regain possesion and then re (mates with) it up.
Shaw gets on another run,kicks poorly again and freo are loose all over and score another rebound goal.
Lika passes to Ant who falls over again,nixon crumbs well but kicks into man.
freo go fwd LONIE screamer!!!
plays on bomb long,great tap by cameron cloke to a half asleep willo who snaps a goal on the siren. 34-36 at half time.

Dockers win first clearance and goal after kingy fumbles.
seconds later its a repeat of that last sentence.
CRUNCH!!!!!!!!!!! down goes sandilands on end of ANTS shoulder.
5 minute delay while they find enough men to carry the big bloke off.
Theres a blue behind play!!
game on,freo loose all over the place..Polak marks and goals.
Its uglier than Barb in a bikini.
we look like third raters.
We are running out of defence but not manning up,its like end to end at training.entry into fwd 50 is slapdash at best.and jason cloke is down fwd not getting much of a chance.
Wakes is pinged 50 for a late tackle and they finally kick a point after 9 straight goals.
KIng is down fwd,gets on the end of some good running from daks but snaps a PT.
From the kick in Daks takes the british mark of the year.Running away from the ball he goes the spoil but the ball hits his hands bounces over the opponent and back into his hands and he holds it.
grinning like a cheshire cat he passes to LIka who marks and goals.
Kinnear steadies has a shot from 25 and kicks into the man near him.
Lika is playing his guts out and seems to be in charge.
our fwd system is now apparently criss cross and then ****
it up.
Kinnear gets a soft free on the siren 40 out and doesnt make the distance.

I begin to wonder just how many days on the grog have some of these had? 41-55 down at 3 qtr time.

Before you could say we are in strife!! we are in more strife, as pavlich marks in front of Lonie and goals.

Ant falls over again but gets afree this time misses from 50.
25 goal umpires run out to signal the point.
score is security 25 goal umpires zip.
game continues,crowd is going silly,mexican waves abound,idiots jump on the field to the roar of the mob and the delight of security who bring the fools down.with terrific tackles.
game peters out into a farce as the crowd will not stay off the ground.
too much sun and grog i fear,probably too much hot piss more likely.
anyway apart from a daicos special by josh we never look likely and go down69-50

I liked the work of young mullins at times and Swan was a good trier,cam cloke showed a bit.
I think ANt was still pissed from the day before and dont know why he bothered.
sadly willo and kinnear were sober as a judge but they played worse than ANT.
votes split the 10 votes between Lika,Didak,Shaw and Cheesy.

looking fwd to next year
no more match reports now for 4 months.
see ya next year.