{"id":414,"date":"2025-07-17T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:00:34","slug":"giants-def-dons-match-review-dustin-fletcher-hangar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants def dons match review &#8211; Dustin Fletcher Hangar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decent effort by the boys<\/p>\n<p>              3 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>Meh. Better than i expected<\/p>\n<p>                <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/discourse.bomberblitz.com\/u\/Scotty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    July 17, 2025, 12:11pm<\/p>\n<p>              5<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026 it was better than last week<\/p>\n<p>              2 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>Another perfectly scripted game for us.<\/p>\n<p>Never really a chance of winning but not a complete smashing, remained competitive for much of the game, one game closer to the end of this shitful season and a decent shot at the draft and trade period.<\/p>\n<p>No 4 points tonight but winning in other ways. Unofficial tank with nearly half the list injured or about to be imminently traded or delisted. Glass half full.<\/p>\n<p>              7 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>I think Blakiston is going to be by far the best of the MSD selections.<\/p>\n<p>Effort great, skill yuck. But can live with that given everything.<\/p>\n<p>              9 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care.<br \/>Its a great story we\u2019re about to witness<\/p>\n<p>Effort let down by really poor kicking at goal.<\/p>\n<p>We make it so hard for ourselves with where and how we kick the ball into the forward 50.  We should back ourselves by kicking it more central and not leading to the pockets.<\/p>\n<p>              3 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>                <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/discourse.bomberblitz.com\/u\/JimmyT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JimmyT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    July 17, 2025, 12:13pm<\/p>\n<p>              11<\/p>\n<p>Jade Gresham had to be one of the first choice midfielders\u2026\u2026so an 8 goal loss seems ok.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking 100 and there\u2019s a number of kids showing signs so can\u2019t be upset with that, really should\u2019ve been closer to 20 point margin with average kicking on goal<\/p>\n<p>              2 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>Some better signs from smart, wright was pretty decent all game as was mcgrath. Merrett a bit off<\/p>\n<p>              1 Like\n            <\/p>\n<p>That match was nowhere near as bad as a 48 point margin tries to suggest.  And nowhere near as bad as I feared.<\/p>\n<p>Pension off the right guys , move forward with the kids.<\/p>\n<p>              14 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>                <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/discourse.bomberblitz.com\/u\/mrjez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mrjez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    July 17, 2025, 12:13pm<\/p>\n<p>              17<\/p>\n<p>Good intent. Kids were up and about. Gresh surprisingly solid. Liam Mc\u2019s two beauts.<\/p>\n<p>              1 Like\n            <\/p>\n<p>Well it was a 9 goal loss.<\/p>\n<p>But we won i50 and looked like an afl football team tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Anything was going to better than last week and I\u2019m glad we got it.<\/p>\n<p>              7 Likes\n            <\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re being positive, it was only 8 goals <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/wink.png\" title=\":wink:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":wink:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              1 Like\n            <\/p>\n<p>Had a crack.<\/p>\n<p>How many games are left of this crap season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Decent effort by the boys 3 Likes Meh. Better than i expected Scotty July 17, 2025, 12:11pm 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}