Autopsy Suns v Cats - AFL Rd 10, 2024 - Thursday May 16th 7:00pm - (TIO Stadium)

[The Casey Cat]

They have been playing home games there for three years now and are 5-0 so far. Not sure how it is an advantage for Geelong. Ball is like a bar of soap up there.

Fair enough. If they're winning up there and it's working for them then is worth it.

 

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[Art Vandelay_]

A little more confident now with no Witts.
Suspect the Suns win % with and without Witts would be a large gap.

 

[Footy Smarts]

Only 4 players 30+ named for Geelong (Blicavs, Guthrie, Rohan and Stewart).

No Hawkins, Tuohy, Dangerfield, Stanley, Duncan, Cameron or Bews.

7 players under 22.

What is this weird new world we're in?

 

[STPer18]

Only 4 players 30+ named for Geelong (Blicavs, Guthrie, Rohan and Stewart).

No Hawkins, Tuohy, Dangerfield, Stanley, Duncan, Cameron or Bews.

7 players under 22.

What is this weird new world we're in?

Geelong are too young and too inexperienced.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Geez cats changes see a lot of experience go out.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Only 4 players 30+ named for Geelong (Blicavs, Guthrie, Rohan and Stewart).

No Hawkins, Tuohy, Dangerfield, Stanley, Duncan, Cameron or Bews.

7 players under 22.

What is this weird new world we're in?

We'd have a 23 with an age lower than the average for the round I'll bet. Been a long long time

 

[CatToTheFuture]

A little more confident now with no Witts.
Suspect the Suns win % with and without Witts would be a large gap.

They don't need Witts the best is in the ruck division. Even with Toby holding his own I'd expect him to be out of gas early then it's neale blitz

 

[Mr Meow]

They don't need Witts the best is in the ruck division. Even with Toby holding his own I'd expect him to be out of gas early then it's neale blitz

Conway 50% game time all in ruck (half of each quarter approximately, or a bit more then sub him around 3QT). Blicavs 35% in ruck, 35% elsewhere. Neale the last 10% in ruck.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Only 4 players 30+ named for Geelong (Blicavs, Guthrie, Rohan and Stewart).

No Hawkins, Tuohy, Dangerfield, Stanley, Duncan, Cameron or Bews.

7 players under 22.

What is this weird new world we're in?

Our average age from last round to this round has dropped nearly 2 full years

Something like 27.6 to 25.8....

 

[PerthBoy86]

Suns to turn the heat up in Darwin and win by a kick.

 

[GC2015]

GAME DAY

Plenty to play for the Suns and I'd like to think the boys understand the opportunity they have tonight. We're yet to be a top 8 team this year so this would be a confidence booster for the lads, even if it is against a compromised Geelong side.

Ultimately, I think it's going to come down to which team adjusts to the conditions better. It won't be pretty and there's going to be plenty of mistakes but we were able to adjust at quarter time last week and really punished the Roos in the second half. The heat and humidity is likely to be very sapping for the Cats and could see them really fade in the second half if they can't adjust the way the Suns did last week.

Let's f'n go! Suns by 16 points.

They don't need Witts the best is in the ruck division. Even with Toby holding his own I'd expect him to be out of gas early then it's neale blitz

Day will chop out Moyle in the ruck. Day was decent two weeks ago with 17 hitouts and a goal so it won't just be Moyle that will be doing it all on his own. Although these aren't prolific rucks, it could still be an interesting battle between the four lads. The Suns definitely have the better midfield on paper so the ruck battle could be really influential in who wins this game.

 

[FootyLad0]

Geelong are too young and too inexperienced.

Can't wait until that becomes the new thing lol

 

[geoffneverflies]

1) Suns win and its all to play for in 2024

2) Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

will have a proper Darwin game plan

3) No Hawk No Jezza no problem

4) Young rucks should be fun before they start blowing

5) Rotating the young'uns = good big picture move

Cats by 2 goals....

https://eyesonthesuns.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/2024-darwin-game-2-the-real-darwin-game/

 

[CatToTheFuture]

GAME DAY

Plenty to play for the Suns and I'd like to think the boys understand the opportunity they have tonight. We're yet to be a top 8 team this year so this would be a confidence booster for the lads, even if it is against a compromised Geelong side.

Ultimately, I think it's going to come down to which team adjusts to the conditions better. It won't be pretty and there's going to be plenty of mistakes but we were able to adjust at quarter time last week and really punished the Roos in the second half. The heat and humidity is likely to be very sapping for the Cats and could see them really fade in the second half if they can't adjust the way the Suns did last week.

Let's f'n go! Suns by 16 points.


Day will chop out Moyle in the ruck. Day was decent two weeks ago with 17 hitouts and a goal so it won't just be Moyle that will be doing it all on his own. Although these aren't prolific rucks, it could still be an interesting battle between the four lads. The Suns definitely have the better midfield on paper so the ruck battle could be really influential in who wins this game.

If the ruck battle is the deciding factor then enjoy singing the song

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Can't wait until that becomes the new thing lol

Today is the day

 

[Jirik13]

Are Suns able to back it up after 6 and 5-day breaks? Not sure if it was ever done in Darwin. These are sapping conditions. For that reason, Cats for me.

It should be fun watching young promising rucks going at it.

Humphrey was electric as sub. Can he produce again, probably in starting line-up?

Mac Andrew - joy to watch.

Suns secret weapon - coach Grigg. He knows Cats plan inside out.

 

[Jirik13]

Our average age from last round to this round has dropped nearly 2 full years

Something like 27.6 to 25.8....

Yet, Suns are still 1 year younger with 17 less game experience. Suns have 9 players < 50 games, Cats 5. It just illustrates where Dimma is with his list build.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Yet, Suns are still 1 year younger with 17 less game experience. Suns have 9 players < 50 games, Cats 5. It just illustrates where Dimma is with his list build.

Yeah but your important players are under that age bracket. The numbers don't matter for you, whereas they do for us because they're indicative of who we have on the park.

We're near on 1000 games of experience down on the side that was smashed in the first half against Port at home. Less again I think than the side that lost to Melbourne.

 

[juss]

Tipping the Suns because Cats will be without Hawkins and Cameron.

They are 7-2 so they can afford to gamble on managing some key players (they might still win though which would be a big result).

When was the last time Cats played without either of those two and how do they generally go without them?

 

[schmuttt]

Despite how mentally weak the suns are surely they win this.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Tipping the Suns because Cats will be without Hawkins and Cameron.

They are 7-2 so they can afford to gamble on managing some key players (they might still win though which would be a big result).

When was the last time Cats played without either of those two and how do they generally go without them?

Don't think we can afford the gamble, we just don't have a choice

 

[JackFlash]

Good to see Bruhn and Bowes back and the Neale/Conway combo could be good? It will be tough without Cameron and Hawkins, but you never know.