AFL Round 18

[Wedgie]

Wish dates and times had been set but have to wait till tomorrow as the AFL are negotiating with St Kilda to play their final in Adelaide.

[Wedgie]

Finishing 4th has turned out quite well[emoji3]

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Wish I was as confident, with our recent form I wouldn't be confident against anyone except maybe North Melbourne and Essendon.
Hopefully we got our usual ordinary September form out of the way to turn it around in October.

Super confident. Port don't worry me.


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Port dont worry me either.
Geelong worries the heck out of me though.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Good point but we have JJ in the squad now

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[The Bedge]

I rate Bruce commentating from Adelaide - don’t know why, just feel it adds a different dynamic to the whole broadcast.

[Wedgie]

Good point but we have JJ in the squad now

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Crikey, I forgot about him, thanks for putting me at ease, we're home.

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Good game of footy.

Is Marshall under the pump form wise or is he too important for their structure?

I'd play Westhoff over him and Georgiades if fit too

Bonner for Butters will be an easy decision for Ken

Kenny is saying Butters, Clurey and Burton to come into the side.
Butters for Woodcock
Burton for Bonner
Clurey for Lienert? Thought Lienert was good tonight.

[tigerpie]

Let's see if Kenny puts clurey on Hawkins again.
I'm thinking not.

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Let's see if Kenny puts clurey on Hawkins again.
I'm thinking not.

I reckon he will. There aren't many options .... just have to stop supply.

[tigerpie]

Let's see if Kenny puts clurey on Hawkins again.
I'm thinking not.

I reckon he will. There aren't many options .... just have to stop supply.

If he does they'll lose just like earlier in the year.
Jonas has to play on Hawkins.

[Lightning McQueen]

Good game of footy.

Is Marshall under the pump form wise or is he too important for their structure?

I'd play Westhoff over him and Georgiades if fit too

Bonner for Butters will be an easy decision for Ken

Kenny is saying Butters, Clurey and Burton to come into the side.
Butters for Woodcock
Burton for Bonner
Clurey for Lienert? Thought Lienert was good tonight.

Same, he tried to get a bit cute at times but was pretty solid in general, Dan Houston was brilliant.

[Lightning McQueen]

Let's see if Kenny puts clurey on Hawkins again.
I'm thinking not.

I reckon he will. There aren't many options .... just have to stop supply.

Will he try McKenzie? Does he go for a bigger body up against him? Does he try and model last night's plan of interception between half back and the goals?

Who stood him last year in round 14 when they were flying and we were going poop?

Yes he flogged us last time round and we need to attend to him but we need to make sure we don't lose our scoring ability either.

[The Bedge]

Clurey stood him, but Hawkins was running hot that night and Jonas was dragged away and couldn’t intercept.

Geelong switched the ball wide and got around the zone easily, deep forward entries generally to a 1v1.

Ports entries were generally shallow and dropped high on Dixon’s head, the Cats back 6 mopped up, and Dangerfield was very good.

[Lightning McQueen]

I rate Bruce commentating from Adelaide - don’t know why, just feel it adds a different dynamic to the whole broadcast.

BT was as annoying as an ingrown hair, Rockliff got ridden like a shetland pony and BT says "Great umpiring to let that one on Rockliff go".

Seven and Fox would get far better public perception if they had neutral commentators for games, most are just blatantly obvious.

[Lightning McQueen]

Why do players double fist balls they could easily mark?
See it more and more these days

Been watching too much hub.

[Lightning McQueen]

Good game of footy.

Is Marshall under the pump form wise or is he too important for their structure?

I'd play Westhoff over him and Georgiades if fit too

Bonner for Butters will be an easy decision for Ken

Kenny is saying Butters, Clurey and Burton to come into the side.
Butters for Woodcock
Burton for Bonner
Clurey for Lienert? Thought Lienert was good tonight.

I think Marshall has to go.

[Lightning McQueen]

Kudos to SPP, had a set shot from greater than a 45 degree angle and opted for the drop punt, guess what, the ball went straight and it was adjudged a goal.

[Booney]

Why do players double fist balls they could easily mark?
See it more and more these days

Been watching too much hub.

Bonner shit himself, he was expecting contact and didn't want a bar of it.

[Wedgie]

Apologies if mentioned before but the top of the ladder ended up eerily similar to 2004.
Port 1st, Brisbane 2nd, Geelong 4th.
Port smashed Geelong in the first final and went on to win the flag.
The major difference is Richmond in 3rd this year who scare me a lot more than St Kilda would have in 2004.

[Lightning McQueen]

Apologies if mentioned before but the top of the ladder ended up eerily similar to 2004.
Port 1st, Brisbane 2nd, Geelong 4th.
Port smashed Geelong in the first final and went on to win the flag.
The major difference is Richmond in 3rd this year who scare me a lot more than St Kilda would have in 2004.

I think it's interesting that the two better sides are the away teams (or 3rd and 4th if you prefer).

We match up well with Richmond but Geelong and Brisbane have our measure, it could be a different story with no Harris Andrews.

Brisbane are bolstered by having 3 home finals if they're good enough, getting beaten comfortably by both Geelong and Richmond will make them very nervous, Brisbane haven't beaten Richmond since 2009, before that it was 2004, they defeated Geelong last year by 1 point but hadn't beaten them for 6 years prior.

Richmond are proven big game performers and have the best all-round balanced team, they are also the form side of the comp at the moment after dismantling Geelong with relative ease, the return of Ablett and Selwood could prove otherwise though, I don't think they'll meet unless they both make the GF.

West Coast are a strange one, they've done well despite being decimated by injury, they are shit house in Queensland though so far this season.

St. Kilda and the Dogs are basically the same, can look a million dollars one week and scrubbers the next, anything could happen though.

Collingwood are just looking forward to getting home.

[mots02]

Apologies if mentioned before but the top of the ladder ended up eerily similar to 2004.
Port 1st, Brisbane 2nd, Geelong 4th.
Port smashed Geelong in the first final and went on to win the flag.
The major difference is Richmond in 3rd this year who scare me a lot more than St Kilda would have in 2004.

What was it like at the end of the 2007 H & A?

I'd much prefer that history repeating than 2004