Game Day Preseason Match: West Coast V Fremantle, 6/3/14

[Eaglemaniac]

I wouldnt worry about the clearances, we didnt have our tackling machine The Hutch on the park.

 

[nameless]

Might no longer be the case but weren't Essendon the only club that ran their own website rather than leaving it to Telstra - such that it was no surprise that their site was the best club one going around

Not sure.

Adelaide are also streaming their game.

Richmond streaming the same game on their site as well.

 

[nameless]

I can give you updates on my game instead if you want.. "Eaglemaniac picks up the ball on the wing, puts on the afteburners and gets passed by a snail walking, trips over his bootlaces, loses the ball and falls flat on his face


See, i hear people saying that like they're automatically going to just get into the gf and i disagree. I think they had a reasonably helpful draw last year and although they were awesome to beat Geelong at SS, they ended up having half a sydney side to beat to get into the GF. This year i think Sydney and Hawks are the two big teams to watch and Freo might find it a bit harder. They still dont have very good tall forwards, and rely a lot on Walters to kick 3 or 4 and mayne to snag a few along with thier mids.
I am of the opinion they will not make the GF this year at all.

I'm not saying automatic selection.

But that's their goal, it has to be.
While ours would be to make finals.

 

[Prem87]

That clip of JK kicking to Sheed, who gets crunched and bounces off Spurr before breaking away and delivery a left-foot dart over 40m to Sinclair, hitting him on the chest?

That's a thing of beauty.

Sheed is built for finals football, oozes it like Kerr/Judd did when they were young.

 

[Prem87]

I wouldnt worry about the clearances, we didnt have our tackling machine The Hutch on the park.

Interesting that our clearance numbers sucked with Hutch out and Priddis in.. Coincidence???

 

[SpaceClef]

Interesting that our clearance numbers sucked with Hutch out and Priddis in.. Coincidence???

No, because Mundy.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

No, because Mundy.

Last time we played Freo in a full season game with Hutch playing he had 16 tackles and stopped Mundy a few times..
Does anyone know why we wasnt played last night? I thought he would of been perfect for that game.

 

[INSANE]

Interesting that our clearance numbers sucked with Hutch out and Priddis in.. Coincidence???

Selwood and Hutchings in is about a dozen clearances.

 

[SpaceClef]

Last time we played Freo in a full season game with Hutch playing he had 16 tackles and stopped Mundy a few times..
Does anyone know why we wasnt played last night? I thought he would of been perfect for that game.

We still lost and probably lost the clearances too.

 

[SpaceClef]

Selwood and Hutchings in is about a dozen clearances.

Depends if you value blind snaps around the body as effective clearances...

 

[Eaglemaniac]

I'm not saying automatic selection.

But that's their goal, it has to be.
While ours would be to make finals.

Yeah i get that you're not saying that, i just hear it a lot these days and i wonder why. I think they will be very lucky to make it that far this year.

 

[Prem87]

Last time we played Freo in a full season game with Hutch playing he had 16 tackles and stopped Mundy a few times..
Does anyone know why we wasnt played last night? I thought he would of been perfect for that game.

Most likely rested. Will play the intraclub next week. Also a few players like Masten and Darling who have played 3 games would most likely be rested for the intraclub I would think

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Depends if you value blind snaps around the body as effective clearances...

Priddis was playing..

 

[INSANE]

Depends if you value blind snaps around the body as effective clearances...

He said clearance numbers. Not efficiency.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Most likely rested. Will play the intraclub next week. Also a few players like Masten and Darling who have played 3 games would most likely be rested for the intraclub I would think

Cheers. I hope so. I'd rather him and Selwood in the team than Priddis.

 

[i am a logo]

My Prediction -
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West Coast (101) vs (83) Fremantle - Crowd: 15k
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Quoted for truth, only 1 point and 3k off

 

[boondy]

Tazmania said: ↑
I had some west coast ladies with blue rinse hair in front of me standing and dancing every time west coast scored a goal or nicnat touched the ball. Could have sworn from that there was a spot in the finals up for grabs from that. that would be marj simpson and her sisters

 

[boondy]

My opinion of cripps changed after he took that bump font on in the marking duel .. seemed to fire him up and he played with precision after that .. Dom sheed looked good i agree with all the comments how good his game was , priddiss was the odd one out to me looked slow and looked like a liability

 

[SpaceClef]

Priddis was playing..

I don't think Selwood is a better clearance player than Priddis. He's more versatile though.

 

[SpaceClef]

He said clearance numbers. Not efficiency.

Efficiency can be a number!

 

[Spoon_Man]

That clip of JK kicking to Sheed, who gets crunched and bounces off Spurr before breaking away and delivery a left-foot dart over 40m to Sinclair, hitting him on the chest?

That's a thing of beauty.

Ditto Priddis lace-out to JK. LACE OUT!!

 

[Ochre]

Similarly - the tackles Ben Graham used to lay in the NFL weren't anything special - it's just no one expects a punter to do it.

Shupe

 

[Eaglemaniac]

I don't think Selwood is a better clearance player than Priddis. He's more versatile though.

Agreed, though i dont think we see Selwood bomb it 30m over his head as much.

 

[INSANE]

Efficiency can be a number!

No, only numbers can make a number

 

[INSANE]

Fine. The addition of Selwood and Hutchings would have added about a dozen clearances and 6 more efficiencies