Game Day AFL 2019 Round 17: Gold Coast v Adelaide, 7:25pm AEST Metricon Stadium

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Gold Coast area


Partly cloudy. Winds west to northwesterly 15 to 25 km/h tending west to southwesterly in the late morning and early afternoon.
Where and when: Metricon Stadium, Saturday July 13, 7.25pm AEST
TV, radio and online: Click here for broadcast guide
What it means for Gold Coast: The Suns need to regain credibility. A win would be incredible – and snap an 11-game losing streak – but at a minimum they need to show some spirit for themselves and their fans after last week's horrendous loss to Richmond.
What it means for Adelaide: A chance to regain some form and confidence. Although they can't take Gold Coast lightly – remember the Suns beat Sydney at the same point of 2018 – this is a chance to solidify a spot in a tight top-eight race.
The stat: There's one team Gold Coast is yet to defeat in its AFL history – Adelaide. The Crows are a perfect 12-for-12 against the Suns, with eight of those victories by a margin in excess of 50 points. The closest Gold Coast has come is 28 points in round 14, 2013.
The match-up: Jarrod Harbrow v Eddie Betts. While the Suns might try another player (Jesse Joyce) to man Betts, Harbrow (ranked 220 overall in the Official AFL Player Ratings) would love a chance to atone for the round five contest where Betts (No.109) bagged six majors, including a miraculous left-footed banana Goal of the Year contender.

SIR EDDIE#AFLCrowsSuns pic.twitter.com/t4OlAnCX6S
— AFL (@AFL) April 21, 2019

It’s a big week for: Jack Hombsch. The former Port defender has been forced to play on bigger opponents most of the year following a ruptured ACL to Rory Thompson and season-ending hip injury to Sam Collins. He'll again likely be fighting out of his weight division against either Taylor Walker or Josh Jenkins.

Jack Hombsch may be in for another tough day at the office. Picture: AFL Photos

Big call: Gold Coast fights like crazy and within two goals late in the fourth quarter.
Prediction: Crows by 22 points
Source: AFL Website

 

[Billy ray]

How many crows fans have flown over?
Bit worried about the crowd number tonight.... could be 8-9k

 

[Power Raid]

Carn the crows!

 

[PAFC_1870]

Crows to be investigated for tanking and draft tampering if they lose lol

Should be an easy win. Though I do hope GC shows some ticker.

 

[Billy ray]

Windy cool evening at metricon. About 7k in the house atm

 

[Sir_Loin]

Geez is someone in Stewie Dew’s ear about dropping a keg or two?

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

Geez is someone in Stewie Dew’s ear about dropping a keg or two?

It’s called comfort eating

 

[Sir_Loin]

It’s called comfort eating

Yeah fair enough

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Geez is someone in Stewie Dew’s ear about dropping a keg or two?

In addition to sacking coaches, we might lose one through heart disease!

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

EDDIEEE

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

Every f50 entry is to a pack.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Umps better call the mark like that all night now

 

[Billy ray]

Who was that 50m against?

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

FFS Brodie

 

[kozi]

Crows will gutter stop GC and Pyke will be up for another contract extension.

 

[Hobbes]

Who was that 50m against?

Comms thought MacPherson, for running across the mark.

 

[MattyB_76]

How was that HTB against Knight? GC players didn't even tackle him.

 

[sobrave]

Windy cool evening at metricon. About 7k in the house atm

2k crows fans, 1k curious holidaymakers

Big crowd for the suns

 

[Billy ray]

Comms thought MacPherson, for running across the mark.

Hmm. Radio comms had no idea.

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

What’s the record for broken tackles?

 

[Billy ray]

our forward setup is broken

Hold my beer

 

[MemoryLane]

The umpiring is a joke.

 

[Thedeftouch]

Pearce Hanley might be the worst player in the AFL at the moment

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

FFS take the game on and lose by 20 goals. How some of these Suns players are on 400K is bewildering. The lack of skill is frightening

 

[Billy ray]

These friggen crow throws not being called