Game Day AFL R2 vs Gold Coast @ Metricon 5:40pm AWST 13 June 2020

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How do you guys play in wet weather?

There's a 70% chance of rain forecasted for Saturday night at Metricon.
 
There’s a scratch match on Saturday between the two clubs.

Assuming Allen for Hickey is the only change, the following players should be available for us:
Watson, Edwards, Cole (if his thumb has healed)
Johnson, Schofield, Rotham
Treacy, Ainsworth, Foley
Jones, Vardy, Reid
Williams, Waterman, Jamieson
Hickey, Brayshaw, XON

Boy that midfield seems light on
 

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There’s a scratch match on Saturday between the two clubs.

Assuming Allen for Hickey is the only change, the following players should be available for us:
Watson, Edwards, Cole (if his thumb has healed)
Johnson, Schofield, Rotham
Treacy, Ainsworth, Foley
Jones, Vardy, Reid
Williams, Waterman, Jamieson
Hickey, Brayshaw, XON

Boy that midfield seems light on
KPP is stacked though, some depth at HB and HF too. We know where to focus our efforts in upcoming drafts and trades. Fortunately there are always plenty of depth midfielders available, gun mids - not so much. Makes the Kelly trade all the more important.
 

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We did win that slog against Hawthorn at the MCG last year. Hopefully Kelly helps us too, with a bit more inside grunt.

Yet lost to Brisbane convincingly in the dewy conditions and stopped in our tracks against Tigers when the rain came.

I think we are getting better at playing in the rain, but I'd stop short of saying it suits us. I don't think GC are the sort of side who will bully us in the wet though, so it doesn't concern me in this case. It's a good practice run for Lions.
 

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Yet lost to Brisbane convincingly in the dewy conditions and stopped in our tracks against Tigers when the rain came.

I think we are getting better at playing in the rain, but I'd stop short of saying it suits us. I don't think GC are the sort of side who will bully us in the wet though, so it doesn't concern me in this case. It's a good practice run for Lions.
I don't put much stock in that Brisbane game, we had a lot of underdone players who couldn't handle the conditions (some said in the media afterwards that they were throwing up a 3/4 time). Brisbane had also been talking during pre-season about how they were really gearing up to beat the reigning premier in rnd 1, so they definitely jumped us.

Richmond is a good reminder. We were unbeatable until that rain came down. A real sliding doors moment - win and we finish 4th, Richmond 5th. Makes me so angry just thinking about it!
 

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I don't put much stock in that Brisbane game, we had a lot of underdone players who couldn't handle the conditions (some said in the media afterwards that they were throwing up a 3/4 time). Brisbane had also been talking during pre-season about how they were really gearing up to beat the reigning premier in rnd 1, so they definitely jumped us.

Richmond is a good reminder. We were unbeatable until that rain came down. A real sliding doors moment - win and we finish 4th, Richmond 5th. Makes me so angry just thinking about it!
I was at the Richmond game, don't get to many games so it was going to be a treat. We jumped them ok but of course they came back. The rain was a factor, but the moment things started to go downhill was when we lost Hutch to an injury.
 

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I'd say it's traditional, but (to use a cliche) we're in unprecedented times.

Haggers did his scheduled run on "JK is injured" this morning. Normalcy is resuming.
Jaggers has been prefect on our injuries quite often in the last few years. What did he say?
 
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