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[SUPEROO]

Here it is.

Back Blakey Martyn Archer
Half Back Pike McCartney Picket
Centre Colbert Stevens Clayton
Half Forward Grant McKernan Abraham
Forward Harvey Carey Dhurrkay
Rucks Burton King Bell

Interchange: Lange Motlop Simpson Capuano

Emergencies: Scott Sholl Hewitt Makepeace
Chandler Calthorpe Anderson Pagan Watt Rawlings Woodley
Lasscock Kingsley Cochrane

 

[SUPERGLUE]

One injury to a W.Carey and goodbye to that dream!!!!!!!!

 

[SUPEROO]

He is very good isn't he, could you say that about any other player in the league? I don't think so.

 

[Rooboy 96]

I would like to see Hewitt and Makepeace in the team, who to drop is the question.

Maybe Dhurrkay (sometimes lazy) and Burton if his form drops away, but I hope not he has been in the best 3, three times this season, very impressive recruit.

 

[Rooboy 96]

sorry duplicate post.

[This message has been edited by Rooboy 96 (edited 19 May 2000).]

 

[Shinboners]

Super-roo

So, let me get this right. Spider Burton has two good games and gets first ruck ahead of Capuano. Not only that, with McKernan there, we have three ruckmen, which is one ruckman too many. Adam Simpson who leads us in centre clearences starts on the bench. David King who plays between half-back and the wing goes into the following division while Brent Harvey who has been terrific playing between the centre line and half forward gets tucked away in the forward pocket.

But apart from those minor quibbles (and the bit about annointing us as this year's premiers....call me a pessimist, but I want to see the 2000 Premiership trophy adorned with royal blue and white ribbons and held by Pagan and Carey before saying you-know-what), the team is pretty much spot on.

 

[SUPEROO]

Shinboner, they will move around during the course of the game, and I hope Spider's form continues.

Simmo was a problem but he would be first on.

Shinboner, Have a great day.

 

[Arch]

cant slip anything past you huh shins ????
LOL.

A.

 

[Shinboners]

Superoo

Yeah, I know. But I like to see the players start the game in their best positions.

Spider has been in great form, but at the start of the season when we had Spider, Capuano, and McKernan all in the team, we appeared to be one mid-sized/small player short. I guess Pagan will decide what will happen because you couldn't drop Burton when he palms the ball down to the likes of Harvey, Bell, and Simpson with the regularity he has in the past couple of weeks. I hope he keeps up his form because the problem of Capuano vs Burton is a great one to have.

Getting Stevens in will be the other problem. Bell, Simpson, and Harvey as the starting players in the centre have done well, and they rotate with King, Motlop, and Pickett. What do you think of Stevens as a back pocket minding the resting rover before and taking turns in the centre? It would allow Grant to go forward again.

Oh, I was in Pelligrini's today and saw Denis Pagan having a long chat with Tim Watson....would've loved to have listened in on that one, but one of the 'grini's guys tells me that Pagan and Watson are good friends and often chat there.

 

[Shinboners]

Arch

I only learn from you, man.

 

[sainter]

Shinboner,

Apart from being good friends, Watson is a huge fan of Pagan and the Kangaroos game style. He even brought a handful of our young players to watch your team train a few weeks ago.

Lets hope it rubs off, TONIGHT!

 

[The Dutchman!]

Jeez and they say we Essendon supporters are arrogant premature cup-kissers.....

Incidently, no way should Carey play at FF.

 

[Razza]

Can you imagine the abuse if an Essendon supporter had started this one??

 

[colley31]

Shinboner,

I don't think it's a problem having 3 ruckmen playing in the same team. I'd leave McKernan on the forward line for 2 reasons:

a) It stretches the opposition backline.
b) It allows Pagan to play the bloke, wherever he likes. On occasions, especially this year when McKernan has fired, Carey hasn't been on the forward line (Adelaide game being the exception, when they were both on fire early).

With this flexibility, you can run Capuano and Spider off the bench. The only thing I can critical of Spider is that for someone so tall, he doesn't take enough marks around the ground.

 

[Fibula]

After the effort against Carlton it follows:

No Carey No North
Carey plays bad, No North
Martyn is too slow
Spider?????? Marks, not enough
What Kouta is on, I want some.
Good to see some free kicks againt the octopus of the Century
Whitnall is the worlds greatest fall guy

 

[Fibula]

Premature Cup Kissers sounds about right

 

[gocatsgo]

Real Premiership form Roos,

a 17 point win over the second last side a scoreless first quarter against the top.

I stick to my original point, Richmond will be higher than North at seasons end.

I agree, If Essendon supporters had have started this topic, imagine the abuse.

Anyway, Here is the Premiership side

THE TEAM THAT BEATS ESSENDON!!!

It certainly won't be the Marshmellow throwing Kangaroos based on Today's performance. Essendon supporters like all teams supporters have long memories, after calling Essendon soft, the Roos will very rarely beat the Bombers ever again and it certainly won't be this year, Kevin Sheedy will se to that!

PS: By the way, I don't think it will be Geelong who beats Essendon either!!!

 

[Dan26]

The first quarter confirmed my suspicions about the Roos.

They are easy to score agaisnt. Very easy.

Lat year, they had the WORST defence (statistically) in the top 8. This year, only Port, Freo and the Saints have worse defences. That doesn't put the Ros in great quality, having to share the mantle of "worst' defence in the league with Freo, St.Kilda, and Port.

But, the Roos make up for it in other ways, and in the last three quarters, they impropved siginificantly.

Even though people wil say, "Essendon took the foot off the gas against North after the 47-0 quartertime scoreline", This is not true.

Essendon wanted to build on their lead, and pulverize North. Essendon didn't want go easy on them. North, to their credit, scored more goals than Essendon in the last tree quarters.

Norths defence, though shaky, at least put some pressure on, which resulted in some Bomber misses, and they started to win the ball a bit too.

It was a pretty willing game in the last three quarters. I think both coaches wanted their players to ignore the score, and just go hard at the footy. This happened and the match was very competitive in the last three quarters.

The Roos are still a huge chance, if they meet us again. We have more talent, but they possess the ball less, and hence, are more efficient. Sometimes, when we get the ball, we should just "kick it" like North do.

North have a sensational, simple, efficient game plan, which they stick to, no matter what the score. And, because they play the percentages, it works for them nearly all the time.

Unfortunatley for them, if they are a bit loose in defence, it means they get scored on heavily, because they don't play "possession" football (witness the first quarter)

But, I'd never write of North. Talent-wise, they have never been one of the top teams, even over the last two years. They have good playera at the top, but they lack depth. Their depth has always been questionable.

But, like I said, they make for it in other ways.

But the end result is what matters, and as a Bomber fan, let me put my "barrackers' cap on and say "GO BOMBERS.....we annihilated ya"

 

[Shinboners]

Dan24

Well, thanks for putting some sort of positive spin on the game for North, but that last line said it all, we were annihilated.

Simply, Essendon were hungrier, ran faster, chased more, were more skilled......the only thing I couldn't take was the piss-taking by the Essendon players when they tried to do the flashy things (neat little taps and stuff). It was like a cat playing around with a half dead rat, the cat wasn't quite willing to kill it, it was just content to play around with it.

I really don't know where North go from here. Maybe we're a bit like the post-94 Eagles where you saw their team and saw all the name players and you knew they could do the job but maybe, the hunger wasn't quite there and that other teams had superceded them. But the names alone are there to keep the fear in the opposition.

Well, the optimist in me says that we've still got another 9 rounds to get things right. The pessimist says that isn't enough time.

Oh well, congrats to Essendon.

 

[Rooboy 96]

Dan24,

We were very ordinary in the first quarter and your boys were sensational, I think it would be a great Grand Final, these two teams hate each other with a passion.

PS you don't happen to be an attendant at the G, do you?

 

[Fibula]

Right on Dan except for one thing. North did not score more goals than Essendon in the last 3 qtrs. It was ONE goal...... hehehe