OMG, another nightmare to relive!

THE TEAMS

GEELONG

B: Jake Kolodjashnij, Tom Lonergan, Andrew Mackie
HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Mark Blicavs
C: Cameron Guthrie, Joel Selwood, Scott Selwood
HF: Jimmy Bartel, Rhys Stanley, Mitch Duncan
F: Steven Motlop, Tom Hawkins, Lincoln McCarthy
FOLL: Zac Smith Patrick Dangerfield Sam Menegola
I/C: Josh Caddy, Josh Cowan, Daniel Menzel, Tom Ruggles
EMG: Jed Bews, Shane Kersten, Darcy Lang

IN: Jimmy Bartel, Josh Caddy, Daniel Menzel

OUT: Shane Kersten (omitted), Lachie Henderson (knee), Darcy Lang (omitted)

MELBOURNE

B: Sam Frost, Tom McDonald, Neville Jetta
HB: Jayden Hunt, Oscar McDonald, Tomas Bugg
C: Billy Stretch, Bernie Vince, Dom Tyson
HF:  Sam Weideman, Jack Watts, Aaron vandenBerg
F: Christian Petracca, Jesse Hogan, Jeff Garlett
FOLL:  Max Gawn, Nathan Jones, Jack Viney
I/C:  Angus Brayshaw, Dean Kent, James Harmes Christian Salem
EMG: Matt Jones, Cameron Pedersen, Jack Trengove

IN: Jeff Garlett, James Harmes, Christian Salem

OUT: Viv Michie (omitted), Alex Neal-Bullen (omitted), Clayton Oliver (omitted)

Another nightmare to expunge. We can hit an early season trifecta.

Edited April 2, 20178 yr by america de cali

Don't remind me.

That was: last game of season; we ran out of puff; drank own bath water; on their home deck with 95% of crowd their fans.

This time: we are fresh; we just got another reality check vs Blues; a neutral ground and a more even crowd.

Geelong aren't the fastest team going round - Play our fast, get the ball forward by any means game with players running to overlap and we have a very good chance of getting the W.

And Viney has previously stitched up Selwood and Vince stitched up Danger.  If they do that again it is in the bag, said more in hope than true belief...

Edited April 2, 20178 yr by Lucifer's Hero

Disapointed, relieved, satisfied, frustrated or like me all of the above. It doesnt matter how you feel about yesterday's performance. This game here is how we should judge our start to 2017. I'll go into the game thinking a win is a bonus. What i want is for us to push the cats all the way to the final siren. Do that and even with a small loss we can label the start to this season as a success. If we win then our start goes from good to outstanding. But, get smashed by them again and, well... we'll cross that bridge if we come to it. 

We seem to play well at Etihad, Dees by 31. Oliver bog with 37 touches, a goal and 11 tackles. 

Edited April 2, 20178 yr by Ethan Tremblay

19 of last times 22 played against Carlton. Only Lewis, Milkshake and Hannan newbies. 

Frost, Bugg and VDB not in v Blues, I think. 

And Clarrie

We have a serious score to settle here.

I think we'll get up.

I can never remember which one of the Scott sooks coaches Geelong but I'm spewing he gave Tom Hawkins a public spray this week. Oscar was good yesterday but I hope he doesn't end up 1 on 1 with Hawkins too often on the weekend.