Wow, what a game. Absolute ripper.
Grats to Carlton.
MCCLEANNNNNNNNNN
Best match I've gone to this year. It was pretty crap for 2 and a half quarters, but dat finish. Casboult can take a mark, and that's about all he can do. He did unintentionally shepard McLean's pass for a goal, so I gotta give him that. He's underdone, much like the Carlton team in general, so for them to pull off the win was great. A team largely unchanged that took the Kangas to 4 points, versus a team worse on paper than the one that lost to the Kangas by almost 10 goals. No Walker, Henderson, Robinson, Judd. Gibbs is eternally soft (and if he showed the courage of our harder nuts, then that 'behind' wouldn't have been in doubt), but McLean has really stepped up. Thornton's tap assist to Garlett was genius. Really really wondering why he didn't get the call up till now. Congrats to him and Carrazzo for their milestone games tonight.
Bitter tiges fans yelling out that we won't make the finals this year as they walked past. I don't really care anymore. The injuries to key players, and the damage that's done to our structures is a valid out. We've beaten the Tiges twice, the Pies twice, so I'd like to see if we could muster up enough of an effort to at least beat the Bombers.
Edit:
Non-game moment of the night. Richmond kick away to a 13 point lead. Drunk Carlton fan loses it. Takes the chair he broke off when they went up by 7 and chucks it a couple of rows. Runs to the opposite side of the seating area and runs down the steps. Security goes up the side he was originally on. Just as he gets to the exit, he yells out to security and gives them the bird, and then leaves. Even if we lost, that would have been entertainment enough. Much better than those annoying richmond fans who kept yelling ball every time a richmond player laid a tackle. There's a thing called prior. A ruck tapping it down to a player who immediately gets tackled is not a time to yell out ball into my fucking ears. Ugh.
