jnrmac

Used to matter as they had to print the Footy Record. Doesn't matter anymore.

When you play a team game throwing around the magnets takes away from the strategy. Players become confused about who goes where and who is minding who etc. It becomes self defeating. Better off using Grundy or Gawn to be the floater fwd or back to assist the defence or frwards To counter teams attacking frm their D50 Goody has used tactics like Petty on T McCartin and Thommo on McKay. Or ANB /Kozzie shadowing Saad. I fully expect JSMith to shadow Moore with Gawn/Grundy floating fwd. And I expect to see ANB or Kozie shadow the kick ins and follow up running from Daicos Our wings when we are attacking usually run fwd of the ball, particularly at centre bounce. We rarely have our wings coming in to the defensive side of the centre scrimmage. They like to keep their width and are often used as an exit if we are in trouble.

If you think that you weren't watching the Carlton game closely enough.

This is one post worth revisiting on Monday evening.

Given Melb and Coll hold the record for the biggest ever H&A game ever if this one eclipses it we will have the two biggest ever H&A games.

MIxed marriages never work

Embarrassment? 2022 rd 13 they beat us after we had no May, lost, Petty & Turner during the game and Gawn went down with a foot and knee in the guts from Cox. We were 24 pts up 2021 we lost by 17pts 2020 we won by 56 pts. Hardly embarrassing

Blakey was not concussed. He passed all the tests. They subbed him out because a a toe issue he took into the game. From the Horse's mouth

That was my assessment too. We changed the way we set as a dress rehearsal for Monday. Will be a very tactical game but one I am increasingly confident of winning.

You would be mad not to. There will be 90000 people there. The noise will be a major factor.

Carlton are a highly ranked centre clearance side and we smashed their midfield. We'll be OK

It's a blister. He'll be right,

I presume he's on an IV to ensure that any infection is nuked well in time for the game.

He plays well in the wet [Ah, beat me to it!]

How does this scoring system work? Petracca gone from 125 to 143 Gawn gone from 50 to 53 May gone from 17 to 30 Round 11 v Freo 127. Clayton Oliver 125. Christian Petracca 50. Max Gawn Jack Viney 40. Brodie Grundy 38. Angus Brayshaw 33. Trent Rivers 30. Jake Lever 23. Lachie Hunter 19. Jake Bowey 18. Ed Langdon Kysaiah Pickett 17. Steven May 15. Tom Sparrow

Sparrow? LOL.

And if we do watch the commentators say " oh they were due for a loss, they have been up for so long, you can't keep up that pace all season, De Goey missing has cost them" blah blah blah.

You can really train for finals type game. You have to experience them. We want to play in big games and we train as best we can for big games. Thats why I think they set themselves for this.

He is banned for life after his comments on both Freo and Collingwood.

No way they drop Smith. Goodwin is primed for Collingwood and bringing Smith in as a defensive fwd on Moore is what will happen. It's the same role he has used Petty for previously. And they won't let Daicos take the kick ins and run and receive the hand off either.

I am sensing this game is similar to the Melb v Geelong game last year. Geelong were traumatised by Melbourne in 2021 and set about revamping their game plan to combat Melbourne. Everything about the changes was designed to combat melbourne who Chris Scott thought had changed the game and that Geelong would inevitably play in a finals game. So they went about putting huge pressure on Gawn when May kicked to the left hand side of the ground. They made Lever accountable and chip kicked their way through our defence. They revealed their plan to have Stanley take the ruck contest and then drop back to support their defence. The had Blix tag Petracca and take the ruck contests in the middle of the ground with Hawkins taking the ruck in the fwd half. They then parked that combination until finals and the rest is history. Goodwin has set us up for this game. He knows they are the benchmark and they have had the wood on us (although last year's game was more a case of our injuries mid-game costing us big time). As visually poor as our game was against Carlton, Our defensive work and stoppage work was first class. It was a whole of team performance and goes a long way to how we are planning to beat the Pies. The Pies swarm the contest and then run and carry the ball. We won't allow that to happen. they will be put under pressure and will have to kick sideways and backwards in order to maintain possession. But they are not used to having to backtrack and will be out of position everywhere. And if we can get the ball out of the congestion or turn the ball over, they will be way out of position and outnumbered down back. I think this will be a very tactical game and the Dees will come out on top. We have let Oliver rest up and even rested Hibberd to be cherry ripe. Grundy will be fired up. I am excited for this one and starting to get very positive about our chances.

True but its no coincidence he popped up last year when Petty when down, May was missing, Gawn injured his foot and Turner went off concussed. Our defence was hugely compromised.

Simply cannot let Cox run and jump at the ball. Must get body on him.

Its a garbage award, who cares. The players nominated after about round 10 have zero chance of winning the award. It started as a rising star award now its a best first year player award which is totally different. And genuine stars sometimes dont get nominated because of the ridiculous rules around nominations.

Let me introduce you to Brittany Higgins....