Unofficial Preview Semi Final Saturday 7:35pm vs Gold Coast @ GABBA

[Kernel Kurtz]

Looks like a sell out.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Reville in for Neale and Marshall to play full game.

Witts killed us last time and Big O and Fort both played.

Was that Oscars last game ?

 

[ColdWarWarrior]

Looks like a sell out.

Yeah, thats what Ticket Master are saying. "All Tickets Exhausted" I don't know if any seats were available to the general public or not but I would not be surprised if they were all presold to members

 

[RoyBoy17]

Was that Oscars last game ?

I think so. Smith came in for Collingwood game

 

[3KZ is Football]

Hey 3KZ is Football can you do an 'OPERATION: Get Draper' thread?

Would be good to get up ASAP.

Tom14 I thought the Mods had an EMBARGO on Operation Threads.

What about a “SAM DRAPER - MISSION POSSIBLE THREAD”?

 

[M Malice]

What sort of allocation of tickets would the Suns have been offered, the same as us or does the home team in finals get allocated most of the tickets.

Just wondering if there will be 1 or 3 busloads of Suns supporters convoying up the M1.

 

[Bucking Beads]

We need to consider what the Suns did to our Midfield at Carrara. Alex Davies ran protection for Rowell allowing him and Anderson to dominate. I would like Bez to play Centre and Clugga out to the Wing. This would provide some negation of the Davies effect Our Centre Bounces would look like. Fort Bailey Dunkley and Bez or Fort Wash Dunkley and Bez. Wingers Clugga and Fletcher.
Reville in for Neale and Oscar in for Gallop and McKenna in for Marshall.

We need to focus on Bez for his running while his shoulder is still crook. Plus we're not putting McLuggage on the wing when we've just lost Neale. That's absolutely nuts.

 

[Elixuh]

Tom14 I thought the Mods had an EMBARGO on Operation Threads.

What about a “SAM DRAPER - MISSION POSSIBLE THREAD”?

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[3KZ is Football]

2003 Qualifying Final

Collingwood 9.12 (66) def Brisbane 7.9 (51)

2003 Grand Final

Brisbane 20.14 (134) def Collingwood 12.12 (84)

 

[GenericUsername202]

Looks like a sell out.

Of course it would. I know there's a lot of jokes about GC not having any fans, but they do. And they took about 10k lions fans with them in 2011.

 

[GenericUsername202]

What sort of allocation of tickets would the Suns have been offered, the same as us or does the home team in finals get allocated most of the tickets.

Just wondering if there will be 1 or 3 busloads of Suns supporters convoying up the M1.

There was actually quite a few gold coast fans at optus last saturday. There was even a whole bay in red. Given its only a trip up the road for them, they would probably get a decent allocation. Let's not forget finals are different and we had to endure Carlton fans taking 35% of the capacity during last years finals.

 

[SizeMatters]

Hopefully the team and Fagan can perform better this week or else the Lions may as well book mad Monday now.

Outplayed. Outcoached. Pathetic performance.

 

[Section 5]

Yeah, thats what Ticket Master are saying. "All Tickets Exhausted" I don't know if any seats were available to the general public or not but I would not be surprised if they were all presold to members

7 news mentioned it sold out after going on sale to the general public at 3pm

 

[Mooch]

Got my tickets but my mate didn't (let's call it a schoolboy error on his part and leave it there). Any ideas on where one might be able to pick up a ticket or two? Maybe from Gabba members or QCC members?

 

[Mooch]

There was actually quite a few gold coast fans at optus last saturday. There was even a whole bay in red. Given its only a trip up the road for them, they would probably get a decent allocation. Let's not forget finals are different and we had to endure Carlton fans taking 35% of the capacity during last years finals.

2yrs ago I sat 6 rows back from my regular seat and there was me, one other Lion and 998 Carlton fans in that bay. It was a horrible start to the game but got better and better

The two seriously hammered Blues beside me were balling their eyes out at the end, apologising for giving me shit early in the game, and wishing us luck for the GF. Beautiful.

 

[braddsey]

2yrs ago I sat 6 rows back from my regular seat and there was me, one other Lion and 998 Carlton fans in that bay. It was a horrible start to the game but got better and better

The two seriously hammered Blues beside me were balling their eyes out at the end, apologising for giving me shit early in the game, and wishing us luck for the GF. Beautiful.

Every supporter wants the team that knocks them out of the finals race to go on to win it. At least they can then hang their hat on "well we got done by the best team in it".**

**Except if they're knocked out of the finals by Collingwood. Collingwood can GAGF!
Edit: and Geelong this year. It going to grate me that we had the hardest fixture ever, while they got the golden run. So they can GF'd too.

 

[Jirik13]

What sort of allocation of tickets would the Suns have been offered, the same as us or does the home team in finals get allocated most of the tickets.

Just wondering if there will be 1 or 3 busloads of Suns supporters convoying up the M1.

Apparently Suns club reported that 8K members secured tickets today. Also Suns will wear pink.

 

[wantok]

We need to focus on Bez for his running while his shoulder is still crook. Plus we're not putting McLuggage on the wing when we've just lost Neale. That's absolutely nuts.

Lining up with the same midfield structure that got absolutely smashed by the GC last time would be the definition of insanity. Dimma would be ecstatic. They will be focussed on tagging Clugga after the Geelong success. If they put a hard tag on him on a Wing they at least negate one of their own attacking and switching options. It is less damaging for us. Back at the centre bounce Dunks goes to Rowell and Berry to just get in Davies way. Hopefully Ashcroft or Bailey when it's his turn can match it with Anderson.
If they get fast clean ball out of the Centre we will not be able to go with their tall forwards. That Carrara game was one of our worst efforts in recent memory. We were outplayed and out coached. I do not want to relive that torture.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Lining up with the same midfield structure that got absolutely smashed by the GC last time would be the definition of insanity. Dimma would be ecstatic. They will be focussed on tagging Clugga after the Geelong success. If they put a hard tag on him on a Wing they at least negate one of their own attacking and switching options. It is less damaging for us. Back at the centre bounce Dunks goes to Rowell and Berry to just get in Davies way. Hopefully Ashcroft or Bailey when it's his turn can match it with Anderson.
If they get fast clean ball out of the Centre we will not be able to go with their tall forwards. That Carrara game was one of our worst efforts in recent memory. We were outplayed and out coached. I do not want to relive that torture.

Dimma doesn't tag

What about the midfield lineup that smashed them earlier in the year?

 

[Jirik13]

Lining up with the same midfield structure that got absolutely smashed by the GC last time would be the definition of insanity. Dimma would be ecstatic. They will be focussed on tagging Clugga after the Geelong success. If they put a hard tag on him on a Wing they at least negate one of their own attacking and switching options. It is less damaging for us. Back at the centre bounce Dunks goes to Rowell and Berry to just get in Davies way. Hopefully Ashcroft or Bailey when it's his turn can match it with Anderson.
If they get fast clean ball out of the Centre we will not be able to go with their tall forwards. That Carrara game was one of our worst efforts in recent memory. We were outplayed and out coached. I do not want to relive that torture.

Dimma refuses to tag to my frustration. Davies big body protection in the middle made a big difference in the last QClash.

 

[010203]

Berry had his colors lowered which does not happen too much.
He returned from that shoulder issue and did not appear hampered by the injury. No way for us to know though.
Hopefully he blew out the cobwebs and will put in a better effort next week.
He still got the 18 disposals but struggled to get back into defense in time which is one of his best attributes.

Berry didn't look right to me. There were a couple of occasions where it looked like he was worried his shoulder would pop out again which I can understand.

 

[DevRoboGun]

Besides our injuries, at this exact point of the year we are still ahead of where we were last year. Home semi final versus an away semi final… all it takes is a bit of magic from here!

 

[3KZ is Football]

Besides our injuries, at this exact point of the year we are still ahead of where we were last year. Home semi final versus an away semi final… all it takes is a bit of magic from here!

I think we can do it. We just need to take it one week at a time.

 

[Elixuh]

Berry didn't look right to me. There were a couple of occasions where it looked like he was worried his shoulder would pop out again which I can understand.

Yep, think I said it in the review thread. Berry looked about 70% of his usual self. Just no confidence in that shoulder, which is very understandable.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Lining up with the same midfield structure that got absolutely smashed by the GC last time would be the definition of insanity. Dimma would be ecstatic. They will be focussed on tagging Clugga after the Geelong success. If they put a hard tag on him on a Wing they at least negate one of their own attacking and switching options. It is less damaging for us. Back at the centre bounce Dunks goes to Rowell and Berry to just get in Davies way. Hopefully Ashcroft or Bailey when it's his turn can match it with Anderson.
If they get fast clean ball out of the Centre we will not be able to go with their tall forwards. That Carrara game was one of our worst efforts in recent memory. We were outplayed and out coached. I do not want to relive that torture.

The players openly said they couldn't even review the game because effort and pressure was so low.