05-09-2019, 08:14 AM
(05-09-2019, 07:32 AM)shawny link Wrote:Probably stating the bleeding obvious but reckon if we get a fully fit McGovern and Kruezer in for Phillips and Casboult and then they lose Adams and now Beams and Cox is already out....and if and its a very big if, we can recapture the form we had against the Hawks (excluding the 3rd quarter) this game could be a lot closer than many expect.
Or Kruezer wont get up, we could start poorly be down by 5 goals at quarter time and lose by 90.
I'm hate blaming injuries but do think last week losing the 4 players we did really unbalanced us and forced us to field a team that was just too young and lost 2 leaders out of defence 1 leader in the middle and another up forward...left many lines too light on for games played.
The ins this week IMO will determine if we can be very competitive or whether its likely to be a smashing.
Collingwood have a lot of depth in the midfield and like I said before I expected them to manage some players(ie Beams), like Essendon we always seem to lift for these traditional rival games
and I expect us to be competitive, they are ultra cocky and might come in with a lazy attitude so there is hope.
We need a real crape standard game with plenty of contests where we can slow them up, frustrate them and hopefully our players who can win us games like Cripps, Harry, Charlie, Mcgovern fire upand take us to victory. Its not likely but there is some hope given the backs to the wall nature of the game for us and the players must know every loss is a nail in the coffin of Bolton.
Collingwood to lose the game rather than we win it...Blues by 5 points over a very cocky Collingwood and their equally cocky big mouthed Prez.....