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Adam The God

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  1. Was it that successful though? They still lost that prelim doing it. I reckon we need to play our game. If we're on, we play a pretty bruising game, so that will take care of itself.
  2. I think their talls are a bit like ours. Their number one priority is bringing the ball to ground for their smalls. As Naughton and Scache did last week. Ground balls will be massive. Really hoping it's a dry night.
  3. I wouldn't be so sure on this. I have a feeling Schache will need to play the Bruce second fiddle role to Naughton and they'll use English or even Hannan as the decoy on Lever. They'll know they have to occupy Petty, May and Lever. They won't be able to leave one free, although they may decide Petty is the lesser of three evils and allow him to zone off. As @Dwight Schrute says, their problem is goals. If they don't get them from midfield, they're going to need Naughton, Schache and Hannan kicking goals and if English can keep Lever out of the game and maybe even snag one himself, they might see that as a win. The Weightman match up will be really vital too. He did kick half their score against Essendon after all. So is that Hibberd or Rivers or even Bowey?
  4. Totally mate. As for the contested possession stuff, with Bontempelli's fitness questionable, they may have to go back to Libba at the coalface, which makes them more one dimensional and brings a tagger into the game. @Lucifer's Hero you don't happen to have CBAs for the Port v Bulldogs game do you? Was Libba back in there more? Without Drew starting on him in the first quarter, he was certainly controlling things from the stoppages. When Drew went to him at the end of the first, I wonder, and I didn't notice this, but I wonder if Libba then moved to half forward to throw the tag. He certainly didn't have the same influence after quarter time.
  5. I tend to agree with the line of thinking that @binman has pushed on the podcast. He said that Champion Data had that Round 19 game as being a draw, and that those who want to read into that game too much will be misled. Our win over them in Round 11 was far more convincing and IMO a greater predictor of the sort of game we're likely to see in the GF. We were off that night in Round 19 and still got within 4 points late on. I think had we taken our chances earlier in the game, we'd have won the game. But given the loading regime the players were going through at the time, we seemed to be struggling to break out of a jog. I remember Langdon in particular, who usually looks like he's running on top of the ground, seeming like he could barely get out of a stride. He's looked back to his best since about Round 22 against Adelaide. But on the Round 19 game, Bontempelli kicks 2 stoppage goals through poor marking and that's essentially the game. Everything went right for them, including the umpiring. I, like others, can't see us letting them get easy stoppage goals like that, nor allowing Daniel to run around without frontal pressure, they've now got no Bruce which limits their forward structure, and there also has to be a question mark over Bontempelli with that knee. Port didn't test him at all. I think you're right though. Scoring accuracy is absolutely crucial in the modern game. We need to kick straight and take our chances, but if we bring 22-man heat, their game doesn't stand up. It's a bit like the Geelong methodical kicking model and how it breaks down under pressure, the Bulldogs' handball game has to be precise, even their kicking game (as we saw with multiple turnovers at Marvel when they tried to switch in Round 11) has to be precise. At the other end, we have the best intercepting midfield in the game and could cut them to ribbons again if they don't get it right. Unlike the Bulldogs, our game doesn't rely on perfect footy. It relies on structures and work rate. Even if the work rate is slightly down, the structures compensate for this and keep us in games. The commentators have been big on this during the finals series and I think to a degree they're right. We don't need to finesse our possessions by foot. It's winning the contest, having a solid structure behind the ball if we do lose it, and slowly grinding opponents into the ground. They may beat us if we have an off game, but if we bring our best game, their game will breakdown and ours will grind them into the turf.
  6. It was interesting opposition players not really rating or wanting to rate Clarry.
  7. Yep, go back through my posts. You won't find me wanting my team to relocate. I drag it up now because the thread was brought up again and having read through it now your comment was still just as a foolish and defeatist as it was then.
  8. A lot of meat and potato footballers have won Brownlows. Wines is a good player, but he's not in the class of Oliver or Bontempelli or even Petracca. Still, when you've only got Boak to take votes off you, it helps. Wines seems like a nice guy though. Glad Bontempelli didn't win it. Barrett won't know what to do with himself.
  9. That was a quiet game for Clarry. Sure he got 28, but he didn't have his usual influence. Eh?
  10. He was quiet in that game.
  11. Because the likes of Barrett froth over him in the media too. This influences. Gives me the [censored].
  12. My brother in law is kindly Facetiming me his TV screen haha.
  13. Wifey just checked for me as we're Apple TV as well and the GF is on 7+.
  14. Great listen. Thanks mate. PJ started the wheels in motion, but once those wheels were in motion, many others have carried the load as well.
  15. He played on Callan Ward for 58% game time, 22 possessions and took a great contested mark on Ward on the wing. You could tell he was a special player then.
  16. What a rubbish post this is.
  17. Indeed. And the Bulldogs have shown if they don't win clearance or contested possession they struggle to remain in games. Providing we take our chances and it's not too wet, we should win.
  18. No, I was going by those in red tops. Hunt, Melksham and Jordon. May mean little of course. Nope, no scans done as far as I'm aware. It's a risk playing Smith as the medi sub off a hamstring injury. His body is unreliable.
  19. Interesting. So I wonder if Smith will be the sub...
  20. Langdon and Gus will remain our wingers. If Cerra comes he'll be part of our midfield rotation to add more polish in there.
  21. You missed Lever's renegotiated contract earlier in the year. Then there was Petracca's long term deal, which you would assume would be for less money in exchange for more years. The club has been repositioning its TPP for 2022 all year.
  22. Had the place had a building permit, we'd have got a lot more from this, likely north of 30 mill. But if the club is happy, I'm happy.
  23. Further on this point, Salem plays a sweeper role, whereas Bowey can sweep, but usually uses his leg speed to break away off half back. He usually takes hand ball receives. Bowey also adds legspeed to our back 6/7 that we miss without Hunt, but provides elite ball use and decision-making. I really think Hunt could be on the outer from here onwards.
  24. Interesting and as has been wondered on this thread, I wonder who instigated this or was it potentially even mutual? The club has something up its sleeve RE Cerra and I'm not saying Melksham is it, but I'd expect a few more surprises in the coming weeks I reckon.