05-19-2022, 02:24 AM
Sydney's only injury at present is Naismith while we have our usual ten to twelve unavailable. Delaney is important to them and it is interesting when he doesn't play how much they struggle. However he is not the sort of ruckman that De Konning has problems dealing with. The key to Sydney is Franklin, Papley and Heeney and Heeney has really killed us over the past few years though we have had problems with Toby Green in the past and we were able to manage him fairly well last week. Sydney is a very disciplined structured term which comes from having a stable game play for the past 15 to 20 years. My big tick for Voss so far is that he hasn't changed the game plan all that much, the greater use of the forward handpass is one innovation, but the real performance improvement has come from the playing personnel we have had available and the selection of a team rather than players. Dow isn't being selected because because the position he would play is not available, not because he isn't in good form. We are also playing quicker players in the forward line like Durdin and Owies rather than Murphy and Betts so therefore we are able to slow the ball movement down that is coming out of our forward line which helps midfield to defend and makes our backline more effective. I see no reason why we cannot win this week, particularly if we win the midfield battle. Paddy McCartin has been a good get for them as he has given their defence better structure but if our forwards can apply pressure we could disrupt their system and actually exploit their structure. So I think victory by up to five goals.