Prediction Round 9: Changes Vs Gold Coast + pre-match discussion

[CapitalA]

First game without Walker since…the saints game

Gonna laugh when Rankine/Ainsworth kicks a bag on us.

 

[StingBitten]

Gonna laugh when Rankine/Ainsworth kicks a bag on us.

7-1 and quality players can't get in the team and this is the way we're thinking?

Cobbler is right there's some real Indian scarcity mentality on this board.

 

[Sweetback]

7-1 and quality players can't get in the team and this is the way we're thinking?

Cobbler is right there's some real Indian scarcity mentality on this board.

What’s an Indian scarcity mentality?

 

[sdfc]

What’s an Indian scarcity mentality?

Maybe it's a fancy name for Freo PTSD.

 

[Quazar]

Danger smanger.
What’s with all the soft knobs about the place?

The only question you need to ask is can Freo score more than 50? Because GC sure as hell won’t be scoring more than that.

I don’t think it will be a ‘comprehensive’ win as such but rather a comfy 25 point win in terrible conditions.

67-42 to Freo.

Pull away in the 3rd when we put our go to work pants on.

I'm not laughing at your post - it's the 'soft knobs' remark that induced my reaction, hahaha

 

[JunglistPosse]

Unsung hero of the 2006 premiership.

I think our version has done way more rowan though

 

[Sweetback]

Maybe it's a fancy name for Freo PTSD.

I think it refers to this:

www.npr.org/2017/03/23/521195903/how-the-scarcity-mindset-can-make-problems-worse

But I’m interested in how it applies to Freo fans.

 

[Dirty_banchez]

Freo supporters need to start being brave and believe. Like me.

 

[King Huskii]

Freo supporters need to start being brave and believe. Like me.

I'm a believer

 

[Sweetback]

Until Sean Darcy

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Sean Darcy

Age

25

Ht

203cm

Wt

111kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

3.4

1star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

2.4

4star

HO

28.8

5star

D

6.8

1star

K

2.0

1star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.8

4star

HO

20.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

6.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

32.0

5star

is making angels in the confetti after the granny, I’m not getting too carried away

 

[CapitalA]

7-1 and quality players can't get in the team and this is the way we're thinking?

Cobbler is right there's some real Indian scarcity mentality on this board.

Did I say we're gonna lose? I just stated that our only good small lock down def got dropped against 2 good small forwards.

 

[StingBitten]

I think it refers to this:

www.npr.org/2017/03/23/521195903/how-the-scarcity-mindset-can-make-problems-worse

But I’m interested in how it applies to Freo fans.

How do you not read that and see how it applies to Freo fans?

We are staring at our first genuine premiership and it's coming latest by 2025.

Ffs just believe everyone!

 

[MadEyeEmmy]

 

[Cobbler]

I'm not laughing at your post - it's the 'soft knobs' remark that induced my reaction, hahaha

Haha.
Last few weeks it’s been the same from some supporters. I’ve maintained my belief throughout.

Essendon - ‘bogey side. We better turn up.’
Result? We flogged them. I predicted 44 point win.

Carlton - ‘Wah wah Curnow… circle jerk McKay. Yada yada Cripps.’
Result? We flogged them. I predicted 30+ point win.

Geelong - ‘Bigger bodies. Key players out. I sleep with the lights on’
Result? Nervy, yet had them buried win.
I predicted 16 point win.

North - ‘We can’t take them lightly! They have a decent midfield’
Result? We flogged them.
I predicted 83 point win.

Gold Coast - ‘They’re actually not too bad. Metricon is a bogey stadium. My mum still packs my lunches’
Result?

 

[pK75]

Haha.
Last few weeks it’s been the same from some supporters. I’ve maintained my belief throughout.

Essendon - ‘bogey side. We better turn up.’
Result? We flogged them. I predicted 44 point win.

Carlton - ‘Wah wah Curnow… circle jerk McKay. Yada yada Cripps.’
Result? We flogged them. I predicted 30+ point win.

Geelong - ‘Bigger bodies. Key players out. I sleep with the lights on’
Result? Nervy, yet had them buried win.
I predicted 16 point win.

North - ‘We can’t take them lightly! They have a decent midfield’
Result? We flogged them.
I predicted 83 point win.

Gold Coast - ‘They’re actually not too bad. Metricon is a bogey stadium. My mum still packs my lunches’
Result?

What’s your prediction then? Just for posterity.
I’ll go first, Freo by 36 just because it will be wet.

 

[Cobbler]

What’s your prediction then? Just for posterity.
I’ll go first, Freo by 36 just because it will be wet.

I made the call previously.
Freo 67-42
Pull away in the 3rd.

 

[Vintage]

Damn it. Really wanted to see Amiss play again. That kid is as classy as they get

Was never going to play this week, would be a deadset liability in the wet.

His time will come, he’s going to be a serious player for us, but hopefully for everyone’s sake including his he only plays a couple of games in 2022 and 2023 - means that Lobb and tabs are healthy. (Or Lobb‘s replacement)

 

[Sweetback]

How do you not read that and see how it applies to Freo fans?

We are staring at our first genuine premiership and it's coming latest by 2025.

Ffs just believe everyone!

Hmm yeah: ‘people need to recognize how not having enough of something can make us so maniacally focused on short-term solutions that we lose sight of our priorities. In those moments, they say, it's important to look up, to notice we are inside a tunnel.’

So not having enough premierships is making Freo fans quibble over minor details, such as whether Brandon Walker (he of the amazing closing speed and perfectly timed fists) plays, will mean we lose this game and regress back to mediocrity, when in fact we need to take a wholistic view and see the improvement of the side as a whole, and know that Brandon’s role can be done by someone else?

Look, I’d like to believe these things, but Freo has damaged me, and although we are doing many things to break convention this year: winning games after big wins, beating the cats in Geelong, winning all our away games, having the best defence, having elite pressure in the front half, etc, it’s going to take a lot to undamage me.

 

[rgauci]

Prediction … Ryan late out, Walker In.

 

[King Huskii]

Don't believe... we aren't allowed to

 

[BigRang]

Freo supporters need to start being brave and believe. Like me.

Comment to Avatar correlation good.

 

[Deveraux]

Yeah not a fan of the 3 talls down back unless we're versing an attack with two tall threats (e.g. calrton geelong). I don't trust that griff has improved his ability to play on smalls. He's literally taken a KPF in every game he's played since being dropped.

Pearce on Casboult, Griff on Chol. Cox is becoming a genuine utility and floating interceptor.

 

[purplerunsdeep2]

Prediction … Ryan late out, Walker In.

Lukey Ryan just getting those ff points up


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[Mr Cheese]

Gold Coast - ‘They’re actually not too bad. Metricon is a bogey stadium. My mum still packs my lunches’
Result?

What's in the packed lunch? Hope it's not sandwiches. Supposed to be wet up at Metricon, don't want them going soggy.

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[StingBitten]

Hmm yeah: ‘people need to recognize how not having enough of something can make us so maniacally focused on short-term solutions that we lose sight of our priorities. In those moments, they say, it's important to look up, to notice we are inside a tunnel.’

So not having enough premierships is making Freo fans quibble over minor details, such as whether Brandon Walker (he of the amazing closing speed and perfectly timed fists) plays, will mean we lose this game and regress back to mediocrity, when in fact we need to take a wholistic view and see the improvement of the side as a whole, and know that Brandon’s role can be done by someone else?

Look, I’d like to believe these things, but Freo has damaged me, and although we are doing many things to break convention this year: winning games after big wins, beating the cats in Geelong, winning all our away games, having the best defence, having elite pressure in the front half, etc, it’s going to take a lot to undamage me.

I know I've been a doubter and have suffered since those first few home games held at the WACA at the age of 7.

It's a good system and the coaching, senior and conditioning staff are all mint. The culture and passion is high.

We may even drop a game against GC and I'd still back us in to get the W's back elsewhere.

As you've mentioned it's the constant fretting that we lose because just one player is missing and hence we are exposed to have a bag kicked against us. It was on full display prior to North and the fears vs reality was incomparable.

Humility is always good though, it should be tempered with confidence and a sense of direction.