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Yes they have. Which is no knock on Petty, he's no Steve may. His go is to out read and use his body to out manoeuvre. And of course use his pace to zone off ans take intercept marks. We don't want him in a wrestle with McStay. May on McStay is the go, and has the benefit of rhyming. I could actually see Smith take Daniher. One on one Daniher has his measure but he is not a stay at home forward and takes most of his marks up around half forward. So Smith would likely not get isolated against him very often and has the leap to negate his height. Daniher gets up the ground, which suits Smith because he can easily go with him. And daniher is over rated and not fit enough. Smith could expose that lack of fitness by running off him at every opportunity and pressing up high to help trap the ball inside our 50. That would leave Petty with their third tall and Lever to float as the intercept player.

I have exercised my demons. My demons is the name of my poodle.

Or Smith

Let's say it was cats we beat in the gf. We could cos play with the equivalent cats footy forum. Though they may be less keen in the event of a loss. Wimps. Maybe Andy should put the challenge out prior to the gf.

Kozzie has finals performer written all over him. And to add to that he will be playing at home,in front of friends and family. And just like he did against Port he give them a show. Pitt he can't stay and spend some time with family this time as that port game was no doubt tbe last time he was allowed to stay in Adelaide.

Rivers yes, Salem no at this stage in his career. And there is a good chance bowey will end up as a mid, given that’s where he played as a junior. And we have captain Jack sparrow and Jordan in rhe mix too

Good points.

No, i don't think so. Hunt has taken SFA intercept marks this season, which is ok as it is not really his go. And Hibberd might take some in one on one situations where he out marks his direct opponent, but is pretty slow, so struggles to zone off and cover ground to the marking contest, and has no leap so is not really an intercept marking threat in the way Petty and even Smith is. And both are way shorter than Smith, so that doesn't help the intercept marking cause - or impacting aerial contests for that matter

This is my take too. Creates real dilemma for the opposition i think. When we played the Lions they basically tagged Salem and Lever. Which makes sense given their importance, particularly in terms of how we transition the ball from defence and create scoring opportunities form the back half. But lets say they do that this week. Bowey gives us the option to play through him instead. Like Salem he is a brilliant kick, has good spatial awareness so doesn't get pinged often and probably has more toe than Salem. And a defensive forward on Salem is not a great offensive threat. So another win for us. Same goes for Lever. The Lions tagged him too, and that was pretty effective, in the first half at least. But again it is another forward looking to defend first, score second. So another win for us. And in Lever's case we had Petty to take intercept marks. And this week we will likely have Smith too. So sure negate lever, but what about petty, Smith and May? Clever selections i reckon.

I see the logic of Hibberd in for Smith, both in terms of hibberd's experience and the fact he is way, way better one on one than Smith. But i think they will keep Smith in. Against the cats, at various times Smith took Rohan, Cameron and even Dangerfield. May was free to lock onto Hawkins (who he struggled a bit against in the first half it must be said) and Petty took the third tall. So i think Smith gives them some real flexibility to cover one of the Lions talls, meaning Lever does not have to. That said i had in my mind that the Lions had replaced Hipwood with another tall, to join Daniher and McStay and make three talls. But now that i think about it i'm not sure they have.

Though we did very poorly after the lightning

Was just about to post the same thing. I would 100% keep him if there is a chance we can. But I suspect he is going to want to play more senior football than he is likely to play with us next season if Brown and tmac are not injured. So he is likely to want out. His potential sweetens the pot a bit but I don't think his record is such that he has much trade value.

PSA. Maxy just about to do his fortnightly slot on rsn.

https://www.afl.com.au/video/666764/hey-coach-make-this-rule-crystal-clear-name-a-medal-after-him?videoId=666764&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1629347831001

Way too much of that peanut darcy

Decidedly yes.

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Agree with every comment. Reciting ststs isn't analysis. Lazy Montagna uses them to stats to illustrate an observation he is making. I rarely watch any of the afl video shows. But watched the round previrw daisy does this week. She was talking about the dogs decline. Fantastic. Intersting. And above all informative. Which is what you want.

One of my favourite shows. But only because of montagna. I love his analysis and ability to explain it. One example tonight was matching their extra at the stoppage in the first half (which is something we have only done once i think). And then going back to no extra in the second hslf. Brilliant coaching he said. King is totally random. Mixes some genuinely interesting points with bizarre bulltish. What the hell was king on about when talking up the cats? Sure they were brilliant in that 15 minute patch. But montagna is right we had the better of the rest of the match. And we matched that 9 goal run, with 8 unanwered goals to win the game. They had their 3 talls up and firing. Perfect conditions. And in a must win game they could only manage two goals after half time. Two. Where is the critique of that dismal effort? Or the acknowledgement of how brilliant our defence was. And where was his critique of their three most senior players - dangerfield, sellwood and Hawkins. None had any impact in the last quarter. Danger didnt have a possession! Star power indeed. Their controlled kicking style gets it done in the home and away season. As demonstrated by how phenomenal their home and away record is under scott - who i agree with King is a terrific coach. (albeit bolsterd by the incredible home ground advantage they are gifted on a stupidly narrow ground they get to train on - are they the only club who get to train on the ground they play home games on?) But as their finals record shows it simply does not hold up in finals. When we turned the wick up in the last quarter to finals like intensity their game style fell apart. They were desperately trying to play tempo and control the ball. We simply didn't let them. We have beaten them twice this season. The first time we were clearly the better side, despite losing may early. Tbeir chip mark style wasn't up to it. And in this game tbey had a 44 point lead with 7 minutes to go in the third quarter. On their home ground. And we won. And if we play them again we will beat them again. We are a better team.

I thought you went to bed at half time!

@Lord Nev i was wrong about smith's role and you were right. Not even a hint of playing the hunt overlap run role. Ad you suggested he still ran off a bit but really played as a key tall defender. Took Rohan, Cameron and even danger at times. Played them all pretty tight too. He makes me nervous one on one, but to be fair didn't lose many contests. Beat danger brilliantly on one occasion when he found himself isolated on him (that hit forward along the ground). He has some toe and physically look different from a couple of years back. Its an interesting move actually because all the contenders have at least three genuine talle in their forward line, including us. Smith taking one of them means lever can play his intercept role.

I'd add the replay showed that we were on top in that second, until about half way throught it. They started to get on top in clearnces and contested ball, but even after they got a goal in front our pressure was right up there. Then it was four minutes of madness where we couldn't stop them winning it straight out of the centre- and they had so much space goal side of the bounce.

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Brilliant. He was in tears. And so was I. And I loved how at the end he thanked them for having him. And then before the team sung the song, and they realised they needed mask (which might have been tracc?l he was the one tbst grabbed a bag of them and handed them out. All class.

Bill gates?