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PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Sydney

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2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Great post but I feel sorry for Tommo. 

I’m with you. I thought he played far too well to be dropped.

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    T Mac Dropped

    Hibberd in with McVee still in the side, Gus into the middle to take Harmes' minutes presumably?

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    Why no team changes threads this year? Feels weird 

    Either way I love the decisions from the brain trust this week

     

    Wow.. didn't see tmac getting dropped especially with Gawn going down.

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    It will be interesting to see if Tom McDonald lines up for Casey. Word is his foot has come up sore after each match. Not sure why the club aren't just being honest with supporters if this is the case. Rumours that May will be a late out too.


    1 minute ago, pewpewpew said:

    It will be interesting to see if Tom McDonald lines up for Casey. Word is his foot has come up sore after each match. Not sure why the club aren't just being honest with supporters if this is the case. Rumours that May will be a late out too.

    Surely if May is any chance of being a late out Tomlinson would be an emergency,

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    They've named him as an emergency, so definitely dropped not rested or soft dropped.

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    Just now, pewpewpew said:

    Rumours that May will be a late out too.

    You'd think Tomlinson would be an emergency if May's in doubt, but who knows??

    Having only Petty and Lever to take on the three pronged attack of Buddy, McDoanald and Amartey would be fraught with danger if May's out but no cover from Tomlinson.

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    I know the positions here dont mean much, but Hunter on HB is interesting. I dont mind it actually as it creates a reason to get Gus off HB and can help setup our transition. Also means JJ gets a run on the wing. Harmes will find it hard to get back in i think. 

    No cover for May if he is a late withdrawal make me think he is fine as id expect Tommo on the emergencies ahead of TMac in the backline. 

    Wow Tmac dropped. That’s a big statement or he’s literally buggered and they don’t want to tell us. 

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Wow Tmac dropped. That’s a big statement or he’s literally buggered and they don’t want to tell us. 

    I feel like the public statement of dropping to make him an emergency is worse than telling us about an injury, don't you?

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    3 back half players on the interchange bench and Brayshaw notionally listed at HFF

    No Chandler

    Strange composition

    PS Sorry they hid Chandler on the HBF

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    On 3/30/2023 at 10:24 AM, mandeelorian said:

    Absolutely stoked that JVR is getting a call up.

    I saw someone comment on the Demonland facebook page that the call up might be at the expense of Tommy Mac being out with a foot injury. Yep it was on Facebook so it must be true. I know, I know. But if there is some truth to it we need to cover him and Max being out. Another tall needs to come in otherwise it will leave Benny Brown the lone tall in the forward line at times.

    There was no proof in that post It was pure conjecture that he might miss. Let's see anyway JVR will play any way that's a surety. 

    19 minutes ago, adonski said:

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    T Mac Dropped

    Hibberd in with McVee still in the side, Gus into the middle to take Harmes' minutes presumably?

    If that is the side, then Tom has to be the sub, as if Grundy goes down, are we really going to throw a first gamer key forward into the ruck?

    Why the silly naming of Chandler on the hbf, when everyone knows it’s not happening?

    Not sure why clubs do this.

    Last, our forward line has gotten smaller with Max and Tom out and JVR only in.

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    1 minute ago, 58er said:

    There was no proof in that post It was pure conjecture that he might miss. Let's see anyway JVR will play any way that's a surety. 

    Might have to take that back. Sorry but unless Tmac is injured put him to the backline and let Harry have a go up forward.  It's Goody's opportunity to show his dare for this year and attacking moves. 


    4 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

     

    Geez the compassion shown here is off the [censored] charts. You don’t know why Harmesy’s not available. Nor do I. But how about erring on the side of he may’ve suffered a personal loss, for example?

     

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    Going in with a very short forward line not sure why we think this will work...?

    The Pies and the swans share a simlar game plan (as do we now too for that matter) - ball in motion, get it forwad quickly, agressive kicks and use the corridor.

    In many ways that game plan was a reaction to ours - it became obvious the only way to beat us was to play fast so our defence can't get set.

    The way to beat their game game plan is huge pressure on every disposal, but in particular kicks.

    Press up to deny space, corall, chase from behind, harrass. Add clogging up the corridor as much as possible.

    The Swans' game plan fell apart under the Cats pressure in the GF. The Pies did well to almost beat the Cats in the prelim - but ultimately lost it because their kicks to the corridor in the last quarter came unstuck. 

    My tip is that scoring will go down now as the early season fast ball movment trend will disapate because if teams can't go with teams like the Pies, swans and the dees  - and by that i mean literally leg speed but also conditioning -  they will get dismantled. And coaches dont like that.

    So i expect to see more games like last night where teams look to take the speed out of the game and make it a kick to kick, stoppage based slugfest and clog up the corridor as much as possible.  

    I suspect that trend wil start tonight because the Pies will cut the Tigers up if they just go head to head fast footy. The slippery conditions wil help the tigers turn the game into a scrap.

    As for our game, the key will be how much pressure we can apply.

    Pressure, pressure, pressure. 

     

     

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    not a fan of only having two forwards and one ruck in the starting 22, but that's just my preference of team balance

    fingers crossed we smash em with ball movement

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    8 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

    Tmac has been very poor, cant be surprised

    I am.

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    17 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Wow Tmac dropped. That’s a big statement or he’s literally buggered and they don’t want to tell us. 

    I worry it is the latter

    26 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    he’s literally buggered

    Not literally, I trust.

     

    Edited by Demonstone

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    14 minutes ago, binman said:

    The Pies and the swans share simlar game plan (as do we now too for that matter) - ball in motion, get it forwad quickly, aggresisve kicks and use the corridor.

    In many ways that game plan was reaction to ours - it became obvious the only way to beat us was to playt fast so our defence couldn't get set.

    The way to beat their game game plan is huge pressure on every disposal, but in particular kicks. Press up to deny space, corall, chase from behind, harrass. Add clogging up the corridor as much as possible.

    The Swans' game plan fell apart under the Cats pressur einb the GF. The Pies did well to almost beat the Cats in the prelim - but ultimately lost it becuase their kicks to the corridor in the last quarter came unstuck. 

    My tip is that scoring will go down now as the early season fast bvall movment trend will diappate because if teams can't go with teams like the Pies, swans and the dees  - and by that i mean literally leg speed but also conditioning -  they will gte dimantled. And coaches dont like that.

    So i expect to see more game like last night where teams look to take th speed out of the game and make it a kick to kick, stoppage based slugfest and clog up the corridor as much as possible.  

    I suspect that trend wil start tonight because the Pies will cut the Tigers up if they just go head to head fast footy. The slippery conditions wil help the tigers turn the gamne into a scrap.

    As for our game, the key will be how much pressure we can apply.

    Pressure, pressure, pressure. 

     

     

    Absolutely cannot play anything like last week or will get smashed 


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