29 minutes ago, brendan said:

Even if danger gets up round 1 he won’t be 100% and has played no full games, bodes well for us 

My Geelong mate (not a good mate) is saying possible groin.

32 minutes ago, brendan said:

Even if danger gets up round 1 he won’t be 100% and has played no full games, bodes well for us 

He could still sit in the goal square at 60% fitness and kick 7.

only 71 frees in the end (45:26). umps lost their nerve in 2nd half

We’ll start favourites if Dangerfield is out 

1 minute ago, sisso said:

We’ll start favourites if Dangerfield is out 

Noooooooooo I don’t want to be favorites!!!!

Hamstring won’t play round 1 

We have moved from $2.35 to $2.00 in 10 minutes on Sportsbet 

Scott Gullan reports in the Herald Sun:-

Patrick Dangerfield likely to miss Round 1 after sustaining hamstring injury against Essendon

Also says G Ablett trained strongly this week and should play in Round 1 and the Cats also lost ruckman Rhys Stanley early in the game with a calf injury.

10 minutes ago, Daily Dose of Demons said:

Hamstring won’t play round 1 

Source?

(Posted as I posted)

 

Big news.

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by TeamPlayedFine39
Simultaneous post.

Duckwood managed to con his way to 8 free kicks today. I just went through the stats for all JLT games this round and the closest anyone got to Duckwood's free kick count was 5. Are the umpires really that naive? You'd think they would have woken up to his antics by now....By the way, Geelong had 45 frees today to Essendon's 26. It must be a cultural thing with the Cats...

50 minutes ago, Buffalo said:

Duckwood managed to con his way to 8 free kicks today. I just went through the stats for all JLT games this round and the closest anyone got to Duckwood's free kick count was 5. Are the umpires really that naive? You'd think they would have woken up to his antics by now....By the way, Geelong had 45 frees today to Essendon's 26. It must be a cultural thing with the Cats...

Sorry, but who won in the end?

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I wouldn’t be relying on opposition injuries to help us win games. It doesn’t work that way. A few years ago now, we played Hawthorn in Round 1 and they had several of their top players missing. It didn’t help us at all.

Besides, Danger off no previous game time had 12 disposals in the first quarter. If he manages to get up to play against us,  he’s still the danger man.

Nonsense.

Every year there are teams who are both strengthened and weakened by injury to individuals. Are you suggesting we wouldn't have fared better last season with full years from Viney, Hogan and Gawn?

Any side playing Geelong without Dangerfield will be naturally better off. The bloke is the best player in the competition.

Richmond last year had one player injured for the back-half of their year which was clearly a contributing factor to them winning the premiership. Does that make it any less sweet because of their injury luck? No.

Referring back to when we played Hawthorn a few years ago is a pointless exercise as we were the laughing stock of the competition with a seriously poor list and Hawthorn were at the top of their powers. 

I'll take any advantage possible going into this home and away season. Dangerfield missing round 1 would be a major plus for us.

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by stevethemanjordan

2 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Nonsense.

Every year there are teams who are both strengthened and weakened by injury to individuals. Are you suggesting we wouldn't have fared better last season with full years from Viney, Hogan and Gawn?

Any side playing Geelong without Dangerfield will be naturally better off. The bloke is the best player in the competition.

Richmond last year had one player injured for the back-half of their year which was clearly a contributing factor to them winning the premiership. Does that make it any less sweet because of their injury luck? No.

Referring back to when we played Hawthorn a few years ago is a pointless exercise as we were the laughing stock of the competition with a seriously poor list and Hawthorn were at the top of their powers. 

I'll take any advantage possible going into this home and away season. Dangerfield missing round 1 would be a major plus for us.

What I was warning against is the complacency that comes from underestimating your opposition because they might have certain players missing from the side or coming back from a limited pre season. I gave the example of a round 1 match where Melbourne took that attitude into a game against Hawthorn that had a few star players missing. We were thrashed. 

I note that even today, Mitch Duncan stood up in the absence of Danger and Ablett to pick up 38 disposals.

That was the point I was making.

2 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Nonsense.

Every year there are teams who are both strengthened and weakened by injury to individuals. Are you suggesting we wouldn't have fared better last season with full years from Viney, Hogan and Gawn?

Any side playing Geelong without Dangerfield will be naturally better off. The bloke is the best player in the competition.

Richmond last year had one player injured for the back-half of their year which was clearly a contributing factor to them winning the premiership. Does that make it any less sweet because of their injury luck? No.

Referring back to when we played Hawthorn a few years ago is a pointless exercise as we were the laughing stock of the competition with a seriously poor list and Hawthorn were at the top of their powers. 

I'll take any advantage possible going into this home and away season. Dangerfield missing round 1 would be a major plus for us.

He was obviously talking about a "mindset".

You overthink things.

On 10/03/2018 at 7:06 PM, daisycutter said:

siesta?

restoration

Tyson Goldack did his ACL . Gone for 2018.

The Eagles are missing a couple of players, but they look absolutely putrid tonight.  Freo are making them look like a local league side at the minute.

6 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

The Eagles are missing a couple of players, but they look absolutely putrid tonight.  Freo are making them look like a local league side at the minute.

Beautiful hit by that kid on that other kid though. 

I have no idea who any of these players are. 

1 minute ago, Deestroy All said:

Beautiful hit by that kid on that other kid though. 

I have no idea who any of these players are. 

Me either.

All I know is that Josh Kennedy isn't playing and the Eagles have no idea what they're doing without him.

2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

What I was warning against is the complacency that comes from underestimating your opposition because they might have certain players missing from the side or coming back from a limited pre season. I gave the example of a round 1 match where Melbourne took that attitude into a game against Hawthorn that had a few star players missing. We were thrashed. 

I note that even today, Mitch Duncan stood up in the absence of Danger and Ablett to pick up 38 disposals.

That was the point I was making.

Apologies for slight digression but I do believe it was valid for that particular example.

I don't believe it was entirely a mindset thing all of those years ago against Hawthorn. It was as much a difference in list quality/class. We simply weren't anywhere near them, even if they had a few key players missing. We were both mentally frail and skill-less going into every game. And the Hawks seemed to play even harder when missing any of their stars against all teams.

I understand the complacency warning in general. 

 

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by stevethemanjordan

1 hour ago, ProDee said:

You overthink things.

 

One of many great qualities I possess.

Gee wiz the Eagles were boring to watch. Way too many little lobbed chip-passes to each other going back and forward. 

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by Ethan Tremblay

The final JLT LADDER at the end of the two rounds of relentless football:-

Richmond 2 - - 252 95 265.3 8
Gold Coast 2 - - 134 71  188.7 8
Sydney Swans 2 - - 177 111 159.5 8
Melbourne 2 - - 243 164 146.9 8
Carlton 2 - - 191 164 116.5 8
GWS Giants 1 1 - 167 118 141.5 4
Fremantle 1 1 - 182 130 140.0 4
Port Adelaide 1 1 - 152 128 118.8 4 
———————————————————
Western Bulldogs 1 1 - 180 191 94.2 4
Adelaide 1 1 - 163 179 91.1 4
Collingwood 1 1 - 149 176 84.6 4
Essendon 1 1 - 138 221 62.4 4
West Coast Eagles 1 1 - 87 155 56.1 4
Hawthorn - 2 - 175 202 79.2 0
St Kilda - 2 - 160 208 76.9 0
Geelong - 2 - 126 186 67.7 0
Brisbane - 2 - 82 142 57.7 0
North Melbourne - 2 - 129 252 51.2 0

Interesting the 3 clowns (22, 7 and 6) umpiring WC vs Freo are Western Australian. OK for a “derby” but I raised this point in round 23 last year when I am sure at least 2 of the clowns (22 and 6) officiated in the critical WC vs Adelaide game which, of course we had a significant interest in. Is there just a whiff of an integrity problem here, especially at grounds or states where the home crowd is the 19th man.

second highest scoring, equal 7th best for lowest scores against across the course of the two games

one of the things i really liked is that we were scoring with a really strong spread of goalkickers