Game Day Game Day: Crows v Pear, Round 8 2024

[arrowman]

I can't believe there's no GD thread yet!

Dan Curtin debut.
Matt Crouch

5

Matt Crouch

Age

31

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

28.4

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

16.4

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

24.9

5star

K

9.7

4star

HB

15.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

4.4

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

2.0

4star

150.
Rory Sloane

9

Rory Sloane

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

11.9

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

6.6

5star

CL

5.7

5star

D

15.3

4star

K

7.3

3star

HB

8.0

4star

M

1.3

1star

T

3.3

4star

CL

4.2

5star

D

22.2

5star

K

8.6

4star

HB

13.6

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

6.0

5star

CL

4.6

5star

send off.

Let's GOOOO!

 

[Pugsley]

I can't believe there's no GD thread yet!

Dan Curtin debut.
Matt Crouch 150.
Rory Sloane send off.

Let's GOOOO!

Bring it!!!!

 

[MsTopG]

A Crows win and a Spurs win later thanks.

 

[BACCS]

Tonight is the first of a 5-game stretch of Crows games that I will see live, as also heading to our two MCG games. 6 wins on the trot heading into the bye has a nice ring to it...

No excuses tonight, everything has lined up well for us to win this and possibly win comfortably.

 

[Crow till I die]

Crows by 19 points

Soligo for the showdown medal

Curtin to have a fairly uneventful game on debut and will get between 10 and 15 possessions

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Wait... we didn't play well last week just to get our hopes up did we? And are going to revert to slow, sideways chip or useless bomb football and lose pathetically? With a late, futile rally in Q4?

Right...?

 

[GreyCrow]

No excuses tonight, everything has lined up well for us to win this

I think this as well but under 10 points

dogs105

 

[Scorpus]

Will Hinkley or Carr be coaching this one? Or is that only determined after the game?

 

[CrowBloke]

Dan Curtin debut.
Matt Crouch 150.
Rory Sloane send off.

Good reasons (above) and more to win this one well.
However, it's the Crows .

This is the kind of game under Nicks where all of the pre-game portents indicate a win is on the cards, especially with PA injuries (GrubPepper and Aliir),
ie a game the Crows should win but, you know, Crows/Nicks /.

Don't get me wrong; I'd love it if we belted them, in fact I'd take any win but the last 4-and-a-bit years have worn me down not to expect too much.
It's going to depend upon:
--- the players' mindset (whether they play run-on-overlap attacking footy or Nicks' defensive garbage game)
--- how they start
--- not dropping off when ahead.

HOPE: a win, any win, and a strong game from Curtin.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Pop quiz... without looking it up, who is the Crows' current most consecutive games leader?

 

[Scorpus]

Pop quiz... without looking it up, who is the Crows' current most consecutive games leader?

It's gotta be Ben Keays, can't remember the last one he missed. Either him or Dawson

 

[BACCS]

Will Hinkley or Carr be coaching this one? Or is that only determined after the game?

Ken apparently only left Finlayson out because the crowd will boo him too much... never mind that they would then be playing 4 tall forwards and Sweet. They just don't have much depth in the small/medium forward area with SPP out. It is an average list outside of the midfield.

Burton maybe plays on Tex? I'm sure he might hate us genuinely after tonight

 

[BACCS]

Pop quiz... without looking it up, who is the Crows' current most consecutive games leader?

Keays I think, has played something like 90 consecutive games with us

 

[Freshj]

After everything points towards a real opportunity to win it, I think port get up. We will leak too many goals and port after being inaccurate will kick straight all night. Port by 22.

 

[Betts are off]

Still think Rozee might be a late out. If he was a Crow I wouldn't want to play our star mid after a 6 day hamstring into a Showdown on a cold night.

If he does play i wouldn't be surprised if he re-pings it before half time

 

[robboaustralia]

A Curtin first career goal would be nice early on. That normally gets everyone up and about.

 

[Ciao Giacomo]

The Pear are clear favourites with the bookies and deservedly so. Their form is a bit patchy but we are playing like a 1970s Datsun, running on three cylinders.

They have three best-22 players missing, Soldo, Aliir and PP. I rate Sweet higher than Soldo but clearly Kern doesn’t.
We have four best-22 players missing, Murray, Milera, Thilthorpe and Pedlar.

I prefer our forwards to their forwards and our defenders to their defenders. They clearly have the edge in the midfield. I expect Rozee to play and play well (soo brave). It seems like he just had a cramp in the hammy last week and pulled a Dangerfield. Rather than admitting they were a bit cautious last week, they prefer to go with the soo brave theme.

I have tipped Poort by a point but I hope I have been 2 points too generous to them.

If we continue with our 3 cylinder game plan we could be smashed

 

[Smoooothy]

bit of light entertainment for your thursday morning

https://v.redd.it/qfi96vm5kwxc1

 

[FR0GGY]

Curtin’s afc career on the line here.
Win, he stays long term, lose, he goes.

 

[crows dude]

Sloaney doing a lap of honor as well after SANFL match

 

[Golumless]

This one has the smell of Adelaide getting pummeled.

A showdown, paired with Rorys retirement announcement (which I assume was planned weeks ago) and Matt Crouch

5

Matt Crouch

Age

31

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

28.4

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

16.4

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

24.9

5star

K

9.7

4star

HB

15.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

4.4

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

2.0

4star

150th? Seems like we've made too big of a deal about this one and the football gods tend to punish that hubris in big matches.

 

[Crow_Magnon]

This one has the smell of Adelaide getting pummeled.

A showdown, paired with Rorys retirement announcement (which I assume was planned weeks ago) and Matt Crouch 150th? Seems like we've made too big of a deal about this one and the football gods tend to punish that hubris in big matches.

Yeah...as soon as I saw it was Crouch's 150th, I shuddered! We are terrible in milestone games. I cannot recall the last time we won one (anyone got the stats on that?). That said...I predicted before last week's game that we'd get our season on track with a win over Nth and we'd get over the line against Port as well.

 

[Pugsley]

Pop quiz... without looking it up, who is the Crows' current most consecutive games leader?

Keays would have to be around 88 games.

 

[Pugsley]

bit of light entertainment for your thursday morning

https://v.redd.it/qfi96vm5kwxc1

I'm not opening that

 

[Golumless]

Yeah...as soon as I saw it was Crouch's 150th, I shuddered! We are terrible in milestone games. I cannot recall the last time we won one (anyone got the stats on that?). That said...I predicted before last week's game that we'd get our season on track with a win over Nth and we'd get over the line against Port as well.

I do think that's a survivorship bias thing, seeing the genuinely memorable milestone games are the ones that are stuffed up. I.e. we're 1-2 in milestone games this year with us winning in Hinge's 50th (against North) and losing Smiths 250th (Fremantle) and Murphy's 100th (Geelong).

That said, combined with Sloane retirement, it's got serious potential that we've made this game more than it is. After all, Sloane retirement isn't going to mean the players are up to it here - they already were, seeing it's a showdown and the biggest game they'll play for the next few months. It's just going to add to the mental fatigue by making a big week bigger. Typically, the team who has done well in games like the Showdown have been the one that's managed to keep their cool, treat it like another week and not let it get too big on them. Port fell for that trap recently with their forced "We hate them and would love to beat them" quotes. We've fallen into it in the past with our SA state jumper stunt being a great example.