2017 Non Crows AFL Discussion Thread part 2

[PCORF]

Freo will need to probably kick their highest score of the year to beat us next week

I can't see it happening

They (Freo) might not score big, but they play with heart every week. No easy game for Adelaide next week.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Expect Ballantyne to be around the mark for next week having played WAFL

And reportedly very ordinary in a Peel Thunder side that absolutely dominated the Perth Demons 123 - 33. interestingly SA draftee Brennan Cox had an enormous game in the same game.
http://www.wafl.com.au/games/view/10937

I hope Ballantyne plays, I reckon he's cooked

not just cooked, probably boiled or flambayed

Done a hamstring, so he is flambayed...

 

[Glenno23]

Signpost Week!

If we win in a tight tussle, i suppose we'll be the worst team ever though right? "Should've smashed em"

 

[GreyCrow]

Will be happy just to win. Fremantle are rising

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Will be happy just to win. Fremantle are rising

Lyon is also capable of getting them to play a tight, hard game with a very strong midfield.

If we can overcome, then things looking better

 

[MRB37]

Hopefully we play Freo smarter than we have most sides. Lyon will leave multiple numbers back again to slow down our scoring attempts, if we go for the mindless bombs inside 50 we're gonna have a bad time.

 

[Roovolution]

Freo best second half team in the comp and like us get off to slow starts. Should be really interesting.

 

[RePete]

The battle will be:
Jacobs, Sloane, Crouch, Crouch, Douglas, Smith
vs
Sandi, Fyfe, Mundy, Neale, Hill, Hill

Break even through the midfield, we will outclass them elsewhere. Play smart when kicking forwards, watch their outside pace.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Signpost Week!

A football tradition, exclusive to Bigfooty.

 

[Sanders]

You're a nutter

No he's a well known troll

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

The battle will be:
Jacobs, Sloane, Crouch, Crouch, Douglas, Smith
vs
Sandi, Fyfe, Mundy, Neale, Hill, Hill

Break even through the midfield, we will outclass them elsewhere. Play smart when kicking forwards, watch their outside pace.

Agree

Freo's strength is their midfield in particularly their inside work however they can burn the ball. Both ends of the ground will be their challenge as they have been wimning ugly with moderate scores and have been struggling to kick 100 pts a game

A fast start by us and Freo will struggle to play catch up and kick a winning score

 

[Geoffa32]

We won't be surprised with Freo using weight of numbers defensively. It is a well known oart of Lyon's gameplan.

Will be a good test to see how Pyke and the boys plan for such a game. It has caused an issue twice thus year but we could argue somewhat they were two sides who don't use such tactics most weeks.

Freo do.

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[Iron]

Hopefully freo bring every defencive trick in the book and pressure us like there's no tomorrow. How else will we get better at it?

 

[Geoffa32]

Hopefully freo bring every defencive trick in the book and pressure us like there's no tomorrow. How else will we get better at it?

Might be easier to win playing the Freo Port played. But in terms of development and fixing some major flaws in our system and method we need to face the Freo of the last few weeks.

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[SugarShane]

Sydney primed to make the 8 now. They have the Hawks twice, saints, Carlton, Essendon, freo, suns and bombers at home as well as the hapless dees and Richmond at the mcg

That's why all the talk about their season being done at 0-6 was such an over reaction. Fortunes can change on a dime this year, especially a team filled with Sydney's quality. This year is so even that teams could scrape into the 8 with fewer wins than normal. Percentage will be huge, and Sydney are already back above 100 while only being 3-6.

 

[Scorpus]

Hopefully freo bring every defencive trick in the book and pressure us like there's no tomorrow. How else will we get better at it?

Last year they implemented a full flood of the contest and our forward 50. Was ugly viewing

 

[6BTS]

That moment when you realise Freo are 5th on the ladder.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

That moment when you realise Freo are 5th on the ladder.

Apart from their first 2 games, they've been very good.

I'm not confident at all this week.

 

[PrideOf]

Freo best second half team in the comp and like us get off to slow starts. Should be really interesting.

"And going around the grounds it's half-time at the Adelaide Oval and the score is Adelaide nil, Fremantle nil."

 

[Jars458]

Smashed them last year at Subi (game where we were late for the plane and sang the song in record time)

Beat them by 33 at home too

But they were shit last year. Had some good tussles with them no doubt

My Fave Freo memory? Keeping them to 1 goal for a whole game.... then the guy who kicked their only goal was dropped the following week!

Fave memory has to be the final where Walker kept us in it before half time and we went on to win!

 

[Jars458]

Now, Danger and Geelong, you have one job...................

 

[Geoffa32]

Now, Danger and Geelong, you have one job...................

Geelong need the win more than we need to see Port lose for troll value. I expect Port to get soundly beaten.

Top four could be quite valuable for them if they are allowed to play Finals at Kardinia Park. Especially given no other non Vic club look likely to be top four. Bulldogs are the only other Vic club who could finish top four.

Would the AFL allow a Final at KP between Geelong and WB?

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[aneale]

Apart from their first 2 games, they've been very good.

I'm not confident at all this week.

Me either. They will stick 2 behind to clog up the corridor and our forward 50 and then hope their much bigger bodied midfield gets them enough of the ball, which it probably will, to counterpunch some goals.

We desperately need a fast start and get scoreboard pressure to make them open the game up and give us space. Otherwise it will be a 2 hour shitfight like the Melbourne game.

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[Geoffa32]

Me either. They will stick 2 behind to clog up the corridor and our forward 50 and then hope their much bigger bodied midfield gets them enough of the ball, which it probably will, to counterpunch some goals.

We desperately need a fast start and get scoreboard pressure to make them open the game up and give us space. Otherwise it will be a 2 hour shitfight like the Melbourne game.

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Exactly.

I am looking forward to see how we deal with this. As a coach Lyon is fairly predictable. So Pyke should have his plan set to combat this tactic, which is our biggest flaw.

We won't go far this year if we can't deal with this.

Massive game for us this week.



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[footy4ever]

Agree

Freo's strength is their midfield in particularly their inside work however they can burn the ball. Both ends of the ground will be their challenge as they have been wimning ugly with moderate scores and have been struggling to kick 100 pts a game

A fast start by us and Freo will struggle to play catch up and kick a winning score

A Crows-fast-start is a bit of an oxymoron though.

I'm continually amazed at the number of times we get ambushed. It happens so often you'd kinda think....well lets not get ambushed today, but clearly we never think that.