Hoppers put their pedal to the metal in today’s games, but the Cockies are trying to keep up! Progress scores before tonight’s games: Hoppers 972/10/97.2 Cockies 757/8/ 94.3
OMG, McCluggage and Neale Added to Grundy, Dawson, Mills and Rankine, these Hoppers are hard to beat! Saturday night progress scores: Hoppers 1271/12/105.9 Cockies 819/9/91.0 Hoppers only have Saad, Zuthrie and Patty Cripps to play, and the Cockies have 6 more including Sweet, Darcy, Holmes, Farrell, Drew, & Byrnes. We’re gonna need all six to have big performances if we want to catch the Grasshoppers!
@snoz as a Pies supporter, it was probably bitter sweet seeing these guys cut apart the Pies tonight. I watched the game and they were so good, especially Bags!
Whoever said the importance of defense increases during the finals forgot to pass the message on to the Cradle Mountain Devils and Mount Beauty Uglies with both teams on 1,500+ pace at the start of time on in the second quarter of their ORFFA quarter final. An undermanned 14 player Mount Beauty outfit maintained a high standard of football for close to a half despite being a defender short. Nathan Broad was out of Mount Beauty’s team due to illness and defender emergency Jayden Hunt didn’t take the field. Throughout the first half Cradle Mountain at home utilised their numerical advantage by moving the ball quickly and stretching the Uglies defense by rotating one of the three CMD rucks deep in the forward line to great effect. With two minutes and 40 seconds left in the second quarter the Devils had opened up an 86 point lead, 841 to 755. The frenetic pace of the first half caught up with the undermanned Uglies with the Devils dominating either side of the main break to extend their lead to 277 points, 1,117 to 840 with seven minutes left in the third quarter. Progress score Cradle Mountain Devils1,276/12 Ave 106.3 lead @Bama’s Mount Beauty Uglies 840/10 Ave 84.0 More than half of the 22 players to take the field so far have registered tons with CMD leading this count 7-5 against MBU. Both teams best player has been a ruck who is a Les W Medal winner, the Devils English with a phenomenal 202 and the Uglies Gawn with 131. Devils to play on Sunday: J Steele, R Marshall & S Mannagh Uglies to play on Sunday: Z Butters, B Hill, C Zurhaar, H Young & O Hollands