Blues fan here, I come in peace. I’ve got a soft spot for GCS. What are everyone’s thoughts on the play on call on Collins? Honestly I Thought it was inexcusably bad for a few reasons:
-stand hasn’t even been called, so the actual mark location wasn’t set.
-he was about 30 degrees off centre from goal. It’s very common for players kicking from FB towards to a wing to line up off the centre line of the mark and same when lining up a kick from wing to FF, the field is an oval, not a rectangle, some variation on the line people take to make a kick from the mark is common. The line behind the mark is not always parallel to the goal but angled towards/away from the goal line.
-he was running casually backward from the mark, hardly trying to take on the player in the mark.
What’s worse, is besides gifting a goal, it gave momentum and a flurry of three goals in as many minutes was kicked off the back of the call. I don’t think it was necessarily game defining, but it changed the trajectory of the game for sure.
