(09-03-2024, 11:18 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:People are forgetting you need match fit players and Brisbane are at full strength on their quick home deck.

(09-03-2024, 10:07 PM)Baggers link Wrote:I bet even the MC doesn't know our final side as yet. Especially considering there's another training run tomorrow!

My real concern is all the marketing and attention given to the sentimentality of Doc's selection. A wonderful feel good and good news story, and no doubt will lift the lads, momentarily... but... how much of a distraction might it also be? Apologies for being a wet blanket, but there's a very real risk associated with a bloke who hasn't played in heat for so many months.

Hopefully the coaching group is more than aware of the risk of distraction and the risk of limited exposure to game day pressure and expectations for Doc. After five minutes on the field, it's no longer about the romance but about hard-nosed delivery of the job at hand; the harsh reality of the huge task ahead of Doc and the rest of us.

Brisvegas is the red hot favourite for this game, for good reasons. Reality. We're the deserved underdogs.

Selection will be a real balancing act. You can't risk taking too many injury prone blokes into a final. There are in form kids who've delivered over the past few games and deserve inclusion, and a number of blokes lacking match fitness who are susceptible to breaking down, regardless of reputation.

(09-04-2024, 12:09 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Whilst they might be raging favourite, Bris have a poor record against top 10 teams. Saw something this morning on it, cant find it.

(09-03-2024, 09:42 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:The important training session was yesterday not Sat.

(09-04-2024, 12:20 AM)Baggers link Wrote:I'm far from giving up on us, in fact I'm strangely optimistic, but a lot of things need to go right. And it starts with the MC. I strongly believe our culture is superior to Brisvegas, but we need right people on the paddock on Saturday night... blokes who can and will last for 120 minutes of relentless pressure; blokes whose bodies are up for the challenge... we know their hearts and minds are up for it.

(09-04-2024, 12:46 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Right now, I have faith the MC will pick the side that will give us the best chance of winning and they will have reasons and data to back the selections (they we simply aren't privy to). Of course after the fact (ie hindsight) it wont stop us from professing to have known better.

(09-04-2024, 01:12 AM)Professer E link Wrote:I hope you're right, but my faith in the MC has been sorely tested to the point where I don't have much left

(09-04-2024, 01:49 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Thats my point Prof, our faith is tested but its on face value without knowing all the facts and data the MC have in front them.

(09-04-2024, 01:49 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Thats my point Prof, our faith is tested but its on face value without knowing all the facts and data the MC have in front them.