Discussion Round 11: Teams & In Game Discussion

Rowsus

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Clint Eastwood had a quote for Rankine at the end there:

"Man's got to know his limitations!".

If you are going to run the clock down, when you're kicking from 55m out with scores tied, you better know you can at least score!
Never looked scoring, and potentially cost Gold Coast the win!
 

IDIG

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Rankine very selfish at the end there. Had Lachie Weller running past who would have easily made the distance but chose to go himself. Gotta love the confidence of the kid.
Said the same thing to my mate. Gives that off to Weller and they probably win there. I’m all for him taking responsibility but that would’ve taken a fair kick from him to just make the distance. Reckon he has his time again and he gives it off.
 

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Not sure what was going on in that last 30 seconds. So many poor moments.
Rankine at worst has to just land that ball on the goal line for Witts (the biggest bloke on the field) to whack it through for a point. Not 25m out the fat side of the ground where it's easy for the Bombers to defend and get boundary side.

It'll go unnoticed but Lemmens tried to take on about 6 blokes to manufacture a shot in the dying seconds, just had to get a kick or handball away much quicker, just get it closer to the goal line and continue to pressure it across for a score.
 
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