Game Day Adelaide vs Hawthorn - Adelaide Oval

[Vooligan]

Wow, it's twenty-past nine and no game day thread. Tut, tut, tut.

Big game for Eddie's 200th, Friday night and sold out match against arguably the best team in the league.

Who's confident? I'm feeling it'll be close, but we might just fall short.

I see The Pride have organised a "last minute" march. Anyone attending?

Whispers this morning that Thompson and Rutten will be late outs. Thompson will have to pass a concussion test according to FiveAA.

We need Tex to bring his game, we need Talia to stop Roughy, we need Danger to be the clearance machine.

Assuming Rutten is out, and Talia gets Roughy - Who goes to Gun$ton? Otten?

 

[hey shorty]

LT will come in and belt Gunston....... figuratively...... maybe.

Its gonna be cold, its gonna be wet and its gonna be a slog. Can we win ?? Ken oath we can win. The 3 muppets in green not withstanding I feel we are finally getting our act together. If Rutten misses itll matter, if Thommo misses it'll be huge.

However every cloud has a silver lining. If Truck missed then LT can stake another claim, if Thommo misses...... its the reincarnation of the Bash Brothers !!!

 

[OzSparrow]

There are 3 simple reasons why we are screwed tonight:

McInerney
Chamberlain
Nicholls

End message.

 

[betterthanu]

Talia - Roughy
Otten - Gunston
Brown - Bruest (is Brown tall enough?)
Rutten - Resting ruckman.

 

[robboaustralia]

There are 3 simple reasons why we are screwed tonight:

McInerney
Chamberlain
Nicholls

End message.

I think the crowd might actually riot tonight with these three Muppets.

 

[Smoooothy]

Talia - Roughy
Otten - Gunston
Brown - Bruest (is Brown tall enough?)
Rutten - Resting ruckman.

rutten - last minute out IMO - matt crouch to come in

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Rutten was the concussion and Thompson was the quad.

 

[Vooligan]

Rutten was the concussion and Thompson was the quad.

Trust FiveAA to get it wrong...

 

[Justinpa1]

Have a good feeling about tonight, the wet conditions will favour us, as the Hawks played PAPS in warm perfect conditions in May, we are used to the cold and wet at AO after the last couple of games. We need to play as well and hard as we did in the second half of the Showdown for four quarters to win.

There is a 90% chance of rain predicted between 5pm & 3am so its going to be a wet one.

Crows 10.13.73
Hawks 9.12.66
Attendance: 51,214

Crows by 7 points.

 

[Smoooothy]

just had a look at the afl preview of the game tonight. couple of surprises there

we are the no 1 contested marking side in the afl!? (average over 11 a game)

hawthorn are the 18th ranked tackling side (adelaide are 17th)

whoever wrote the preview has picked us by 17 points too

 

[daniel_4tw]

Look at those outs for Hawks. If we can't win tonight, we're not good enough.

If we win this, we make finals. Huge game.

 

[Glenno23]

Hope Crouch plays, will be right up his alley

 

[TheRoo32]

I was getting excited about this game but after reading the Hawthorn board I now realise we are actually crap and they are far too good and will win comfortably! Similar to the week we played North.

Their posters arrogance is astounding.

 

[OzSparrow]

I think their arrogance is deserved:

 

[Tex Danger]

i don't think the rain will be too bad, may get a little bit like the showdown but I don't think it will be enough to warrant people not going because of it.

I think we are better off if its drier. Our tall forwards can give us an advantage. They have players who love the contest and the more skilful side which often shows out on wet days despite what some may believe.

Got a good feeling about tonight though.

Cannot underrate the home ground advantage we are developing. I just hope those umpires don't get too caught up on not getting sucked into the crowd and go too far the other way which is quite possible.

 

[Vader]

Our chances aren't helped by the opposition fielding 20 players from the outset (Chamberlain might be borderline incompetent, but isn't biased, so I don't count him as a Hawthorn player).

 

[Smoooothy]

I was getting excited about this game but after reading the Hawthorn board I now realise we are actually crap and they are far too good and will win comfortably! Similar to the week we played North.

Their posters arrogance is astounding.

justified arrogance IMO. i look forward to the day we can be that arrogant

 

[adelaidecrows]

Adelaide by 24!

Eddie is a big game player and will be hard to stop!

 

[Owen_AFC97]

Predicting a 5 point win with Eddie to kick the winning goal after the siren from the Betts pocket in his 200th. Ahhhh can only dream I guess

 

[adelaidecrows]

justified arrogance IMO. i look forward to the day we can be that arrogant

Port had that same arrogance. I remember every Port supporter predicting 10 goal wins. Justifiable arrogance should only occur when you haven't lost the week before and 6 of your best 22 aren't missing.

 

[Smoooothy]

Port had that same arrogance. I remember every Port supporter predicting 10 goal wins. Justifiable arrogance should only occur when you haven't lost the week before and 6 of your best 22 aren't missing.

respectfully disagree. if you play in 2 GF's in a row and have won 2 flags in 5 years, you're allowed certain levels of arrogance

on paper, they should win comfortably. football isn't played on paper however

 

[OzSparrow]

Our chances aren't helped by the opposition fielding 20 players from the outset (Chamberlain might be borderline incompetent, but isn't biased, so I don't count him as a Hawthorn player).

McInerney and Nicholls were BOG for the Hawks in the 2012 Prelim!

 

[adelaidecrows]

respectfully disagree. if you play in 2 GF's in a row and have won 2 flags in 5 years, you're allowed certain levels of arrogance

on paper, they should win comfortably. football isn't played on paper however

And that's how the footy gods bring supporters back to reality! They are a good side, but you are only as good as your current form and they really haven't been super impressive. Missing a key defender against a tall forward line certainly plays into the crows hands.

 

[TheRoo32]

respectfully disagree. if you play in 2 GF's in a row and have won 2 flags in 5 years, you're allowed certain levels of arrogance

on paper, they should win comfortably. football isn't played on paper however

disagree.

 

[Smoooothy]

disagree.

they have some big outs. probably not a bad call