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Not sure what fans what. We are in a do or die interstate final against last years runners up. Do you really think the likes of lord carroll moir binns can get the job done?
Yes we are risking heaps by ‘maybe’ bringing in underdone players or players with long histories of soft tissue injuries but the reality is we fans dont ever really know the condition of injured players and how ready they actuallt are and our only chance of causing an upset is if our best players perform close to their best not running with 4 kids with less then 10 games.
Its our only chance and i understand the need to take risks to have a tiny chance to cause an upset.
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I wonder why footy clubs insist on naming teams on the Thursday evening that are nothing like the line ups that run out on game day. Footy fans seem to be the only ones taken in.
Unless the club is prepared to wear a fine, the only thing we can be sure of is that 23 of the 26 players named will run out on Saturday.
Hopefully, that 23 will include De Koning and we’ll be able to match up on and apply genuine pressure to Brisbane’s talls.
If we get the combination right, and Jack Russell has got the rehab right, I reckon we can do the same kind of number on Brisbane as Geelong did on Port.
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(09-05-2024, 12:28 PM)shawny link Wrote:What about the other 19-20 selections or just focus on 1-2 you dont agree with.
Surely they know a hell of a lot more then us.
Bite your tongue Shawny. At last count there were 893 coaches on here who know more.
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
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(09-05-2024, 12:00 PM)kruddler link Wrote:Not sure what you are attempting to show me.
We had 12 players with 12 touches or less.
We were smashed all over the ground.
They ran around us like we were witches hats.
We burst out of the gates and barely got a score afterwards
We couldn't catch anything that night.
reckon the week off played a bigger factor, but the point is that our talls vs theirs weren't the issue.
You know what the issue is? A small forward like who contributes 6 possession from 70% game time not hitting the scoreboard laying 0 tackles. In itself not an issue, but when your other smalls have similar numbers, that's the problem.
That's why the rest struggle. Not because of the talls who have typical tall stats. You play a man down (sometimes 2) carrying a player like that. Last week against the saints it happened with durdin, motlop, Fantasia and owies and we only lost by a couple of points because combined they gave us a 2 player game.
That's the problem. Not the talls. We carry no more than others, and don't tell me the other teams have blistering run in their mids. They all have a few one paced players who aren't quick but the only ones who have non contributors end up putting in a performance like port did tonight.
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