Toe-poke Thursday
Here at The Terrace, if someone had said to us that, in the dying minutes of the Grand Final, with the scores level, that Scarlo would toe-poke the ball into the hands of one G. Ablett, who would then kick long to the square, where Chappy would crumb and kick a match-winning goal, we would have said: “Scaaaarrrrrrrllllllooooooooooooooooooooo, Scaaaarrrrrrrlllllloooooooooooooooooooooo, Scaaaarrrrrrrlllllloooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”
How good was the toe poke – aka the ‘stab of brilliance’!? How good is Matthew Scarlett?
Your Scarlettfully,
The Terrace
p.s. we still feel good!
Tags: scarlo, stab of brilliance, toe poke
It was not the “hand of god” akin to Maradoona
It was the “toe poke to son of god”
So do I boys! Just returned to Holland with my Max Rooke badge still proudly pinned on the left breast. Gee they were good.
Keep up the great work in 2010.
Not Steve Johnson’s best day but it was his centring kick that set up the play. Scarlett also didn’t just do the toe poke, he kept running with Ablett and you can see the hesitation in the two St Kilda players as they realised that should they interfere with Ablett it would be sometime before their remains would be excavated from where Scarlett buried them. Next Mad Max dives into the pack momentarily unbalancing the St Kilda defenders whose access to the ball is then blocked from one side by Byrnes allowing Varcoe to do a lightning gather and perfect handpass to the perefectly positioned Chapman. (Varcoe had executed a similar gather and handpass previously allowing Geelong to clear after what was Riewoldt’s final attempt to mark in the goal square.)