Prediction Round 9: Changes Vs Sydney Swans + prematch discussion

[FreoRicci]

Tough for away teams at the SCG but Sydney are out of form, would love to pinch this one.

Both McCartin brothers out. No Rampe.
No time like now.

 

[freodog]

Who will be playing in Sydney’s backline?

Sydney will be short down back

 

[freo_leo29]

Think everyone is getting a bit too confident after we beat up a terrible hawks who were missing both jiath and breust

Could be a back down to earth moment on Saturday


Swans get Hickey back who is better than ladhams and if they were to ever miss a kpd, it's this week against us

 

[freo_leo29]

Lobb has been our key in the past few wins against the Swans, they hate his height and he loves playing them


Unfortunately we won't have him

 

[Perfect Purple]

Lobb has been our key in the past few wins against the Swans, they hate his height and he loves playing them


Unfortunately we won't have him

Keep the faith. In the 2022 Round 18 game against Sydney which we, lost Lobb kicked 1.4

Amiss will do better than that.

 

[Grape Bear]

Hey GB. Hope you are well. I bought a ticket too. When you go into ticketek and open the match to book. Click “find tickets”, and then when it asks what category of ticket, select “opposition supporters”. And I think it’s bay 2 from memory


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hi, simmo! I was thinking of getting the interstate membership as they are coming again for the gws game. If I do that, does it allocate to the opposition bay automatically? Haven’t done this before as in Adelaide, I got free tix with the cheer squad.

 

[FreoRicci]

Johnson serves his two week ban after this week. Hoping Erasmus has a great game, because predictable would be dropped for Johnson next week

 

[Kram]

Lobb has been our key in the past few wins against the Swans, they hate his height and he loves playing them


Unfortunately we won't have him

We have Amiss now >>>> Lobb.

 

[Bastyy]

Lobb has been our key in the past few wins against the Swans, they hate his height and he loves playing them


Unfortunately we won't have him

Given their outs, they’re going to hate any height that we have

 

[Righteo]

Think everyone is getting a bit too confident after we beat up a terrible hawks who were missing both jiath and breust

Could be a back down to earth moment on Saturday


Swans get Hickey back who is better than ladhams and if they were to ever miss a kpd, it's this week against us

Sydney are backs against the wall atm and this Buddy Boo saga likely energises them in a big way. imo we'll get jumped in the first qtr and spend the rest of the game futilely playing catch-up, but if we turn up in the first then I suppose anything is possible. If it's close when fyfe comes on we'll win

 

[Grape Bear]

Sydney are backs against the wall atm and this Buddy Boo saga likely energises them in a big way. imo we'll get jumped in the first qtr and spend the rest of the game futilely playing catch-up, but if we turn up in the first then I suppose anything is possible. If it's close when fyfe comes on we'll win

Don’t say that, I have a 2-2 win loss record when I watch live games away (includes 2x 89 point drubbings at AO during the Ross era), i don’t know if I can brave the rain for a thumping.

 

[Sweetback]

The Swans were pretty good against the Pies for three quarters so we just have to start well and keep the hammer on, if that’s at all possible

Edit. Or what Righteo said

 

[DQ 4EVER]

Well that's brutal.....

I won't be surprised if Sam Sturt kicks 5 or 6 goals vs the eagles WAFL club.

Per quarter

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[Docker82]

The Swans were pretty good against the Pies for three quarters so we just have to start well and keep the hammer on, if that’s at all possible

Edit. Or what Righteo said

Shots on goal for Sydney against Collingwood:

• Q1 - 3 (1 goal) -
• Q2 - 10 (4 goals)
• Q3 - 2 (0 goals)
• Q4 - 3 (1 goal)

For Collingwood

• Q1 - 10 (4 goals)
• Q2 - 2 (1 goal)
• Q3 - 5 (2 goals)
• Q4 - 7 (5 goals)

They were well beaten in three out of four quarters but smashed it in the 2nd quarter. They weren’t really in the game otherwise - Their second quarter was so good it papered over the cracks that was the 1st and 3rd quarters.

Can’t let them control the game for a quarter. They’re genuinely one of the most underperforming teams in the league the last month - there’s no reason we shouldn’t be competitive. Having said all that this season probably prepares us all for disappointment.

 

[Big Animal]

unsurprisingly we beat the weakest team in the league last week and we looked good doing it. Swinging between pragmatic and expecting to be shown this week we are off the pace, and glimmers of hope that the win got us back into synergy and form like WC and Hawthorn did for Geelong in the early rounds.

 

[royale with cheese]

The Swans were pretty good against the Pies for three quarters so we just have to start well and keep the hammer on, if that’s at all possible

Edit. Or what Righteo said

They were good for a quarter against Collingwood

 

[Scham]

We've picked the strongest team we possibly could and our sub is fitter than he was last week so we're improved. Playing away and against better opposition will obviously make it harder to win, but we've at least given ourselves the best chance at the selection table.

 

[freo_leo29]

We've picked the strongest team we possibly could and our sub is fitter than he was last week so we're improved. Playing away and against better opposition will obviously make it harder to win, but we've at least given ourselves the best chance at the selection table.

Swap Sturt for Banfield and I agree

 

[Purpleheart_56]

I think We are good chance to win...

 

[StingBitten]

Lol at the overinflated confidence after a soft win.

Never change Freo BigFooty!!

 

[royale with cheese]

We’re going to annihilate them

 

[Sweetback]

Shots on goal for Sydney against Collingwood:

• Q1 - 3 (1 goal) -
• Q2 - 10 (4 goals)
• Q3 - 2 (0 goals)
• Q4 - 3 (1 goal)

For Collingwood

• Q1 - 10 (4 goals)
• Q2 - 2 (1 goal)
• Q3 - 5 (2 goals)
• Q4 - 7 (5 goals)

They were well beaten in three out of four quarters but smashed it in the 2nd quarter. They weren’t really in the game otherwise - Their second quarter was so good it papered over the cracks that was the 1st and 3rd quarters.

Can’t let them control the game for a quarter. They’re genuinely one of the most underperforming teams in the league the last month - there’s no reason we shouldn’t be competitive. Having said all that this season probably prepares us all for disappointment.

They were good for a quarter against Collingwood

They were competitive in all three quarters without being damaging on the scoreboard. We still have to compete first and from the get-go. If we can’t match them they will get enough inside 50s to build scoreboard pressure

 

[royale with cheese]

Sydney after Fyfe is subbed on

 

[Rob]

If anyone thinks Sydney are going as poorly as we are this year then they haven't been watching the Swans. They could easily be 5 and 3 but for a couple of kicks, and they weren't that bad last week. We have a chance, but it's more about Sydney's confidence being shot as opposed to us playing good footy - we haven't really done that all year so i'm not holding my breath.

 

[Docker82]

Swap Sturt for Banfield and I agree

Like it or hate it Banfield gives us a better chance of winning this week that Sturt does.

Realistically Sturt outside his debut and a five minute burst against the Bulldogs hasn’t really shown he’s belonged at AFL level.

He has more potential to be a better player than Banfield which is a completely different argument.