Game Day Crows vs Demons, Rnd 17, Sunday July 6th, 2:45pm

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Win we go third.

Lose we could end up sixth.

We should win. The squad is fit and healthy, we're playing good football and Melbourne aren't.

We've got a pretty ordinary record against the Dees in recent times though various NT debacles impacts that ledger.

Unless Kozi has a day out I can't see us losing. Does Max take him - when he's both forward and midfield? Or do we do a Max/Berry tag team?

Crows by 25 points

 

[adelaidecrows]

Win we go third.

Lose we could end up sixth.

We should win. The squad is fit and healthy, we're playing good football and Melbourne aren't.

We've got a pretty ordinary record against the Dees in recent times though various NT debacles impacts that ledger.

Unless Kozi has a day out I can't see us losing. Does Max take him - when he's both forward and midfield? Or do we do a Max/Berry tag team?

Crows by 25 points

I predict a 10 goal win. We have too many weapons for their mediocre defense to handle and our back line should at least break even if not keep their mediocre forward line quiet. But at this stage, we have the % so im just focused on getting wins. A win by 20 points in my book is a tick in the box heading for finals. But we need to start demonstrating finals like intensity and I hope with finals getting closer, Nicks really pushes the need to attack the footy with that intensity. If we go into the game with kick and catch control tempo style footy, Id be pissed.

 

[GreyCrow]

I think 5 goals+ should be the first marker

 

[AFC979810]

Crows by 40+

 

[WeeBlake]

Danger game imo

 

[Redline]

Danger game imo

Nah, Melbourne are too slow and can't kick goals.

It has the potential to be an ugly game but we should win comfortably.

 

[Crows I Am]

Danger game imo

People were saying that last week too. We have shown we can comfortably beat the lower ranked sides. Dees are not as bad as the Tigers, but we should win this one by 5+ goals.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Melbourne have good players

They're playing inconsistently and there's clearly some problems there but they have some star power

They should be doing better than they are which makes them more dangerous than the other 10th-18th teams who mostly appear to be in their rightful spots

 

[MatthewB]

Should be a 5 goal win, no rain perfect day for footy

 

[Geoffa32]

Make it rain goals..

 

[Geoffa32]

Any truth to the rumour Goody has us by 39 plus in his multi today....

 

[FR0GGY]

Hawthorn, Geelong, Gold Coast and bulldogs keeping us honest, would not want to drop this.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Hawthorn, Geelong, Gold Coast and bulldogs keeping us honest, would not want to drop this.

This is a another test of our improvement

Old Crows would freeze up in this situation. Whereas this season we've swept almost all before us. The stakes are going up though. Pressure building, expectation building, ramifications for wins/losses building.

 

[SugarShane]

Fun Fact:
Since the last time we played Melbourne (R4 2024), we have played Sydney, Hawthorn, and Port 3 times each.

 

[Firewalker]

What even is Melbourne this year? I reckon I’ve seen 3 of their games this year and all have been the extremes of horrible and lost and looked horrible but then played a good quarter and won.

 

[Scorpus]

Crows by 40+

Agreed. Melbourne have no forward line and we are one of the best defenses in the league

Shouldn't be close or a danger game

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Not worried about this game at all, Just cannot see Melbourne's terrible forward line kicking a score today.

Also, they are genuinely a rabble. The Gawn/May incident on Kings birthday .... Lets just say there's ALOT of that going on behind closed doors between senior players. Toxic.

 

[SugarShane]

What even is Melbourne this year? I reckon I’ve seen 3 of their games this year and all have been the extremes of horrible and lost and looked horrible but then played a good quarter and won.

Decades of being a Crows fan has me so terrified of games like this. No reason they should get near us in their current state but they have a few of those players that can turn a game. Gawn, Trac, Oliver, Kozi, Fritsch.

We should win comfortably. And in general this year we have been mature enough to show up when needed. Hopefully today is just another routine 6-8 goal win where we cruise after half time.

 

[beartoo]

We got this.

 

[Cromulant]

Similar sentiments to most id say.

Should win this comfortably but they've had the wood over us for a while.

Just get it done, no injuries and move onto the bigger test next week

 

[Iridescence]

I can't see Melbourne getting within seven goals.

 

[Crow-eater]

Just win. Don't care by how much, just win.

 

[Scorpus]

Similar sentiments to most id say.

Should win this comfortably but they've had the wood over us for a while.

Just get it done, no injuries and move onto the bigger test next week

They've had the wood over us because we were a shit bottom 4 side while they were winning flags and finishing top 4

Which is not the case any more

 

[Cromulant]

They've had the wood over us because we were a shit bottom 4 side while they were winning flags and finishing top 4

Which is not the case any more

They've beaten us when we were better as well.

But they wont today

 

[Scorpus]

They've beaten us when we were better as well.

But they wont today

Up until the start of 2018 we had a 24-13 record against them