Pray for Rain?

[TGTOA]

Watching the game today makes me think that our best chance come finals could be wet weather. With our strong-bodied experienced (but slightly slower) players, a slog in slower muddier conditions could be ideal. So should we be praying for rain this September?

 

[Topper]

Ive thought for quite a while we're by far the best wet weather team.

Rain check on foxtel has rain predicted for next thu, fri, sat, sun, mon, tue. So all days predicting rain, hopefully it does fall on saturday.

 

[SJ]

I thought the same today. Hardened bodies, slightly suspect defence currently, other sides relying much more heavily on key forwards than us. Would make it a very interesting game against Collingwood however, I think they wouldn't mind it either.

 

[Linx]

Agreed. Our main weakness in defence is against small/medium forwards (which is why we struggle against Collingwood and the Doggies). The rain definitley helps out the defence. With Otto back, the extra stoppages with be a strenght because of our big bodied midfielders and our clean skills. Also Hawkins and Mooney seems to be great wet weather KKP.

 

[True Blue Cat]

Agreed. Our main weakness in defence is against small/medium forwards (which is why we struggle against Collingwood and the Doggies). The rain definitley helps out the defence. With Otto back, the extra stoppages with be a strenght because of our big bodied midfielders and our clean skills. Also Hawkins and Mooney seems to be great wet weather KKP.

I would say we would struggle more against small forwards in the wet. If it is extremely wet it would be rather hard to take a mark so their smaller forwards being there to crumb would give them an advantage.

 

[hamG]

Our guys play in rain more than any other team, but at the same time we play dry weather footy no matter the conditions so I dunno all that precision handpassing under pressure might fail a tad against a great team.

 

[CF]

Lets hope the wet weather continues through September. 3 wet games at the MCG could see us home

 

[InnocentBystandr]

I generally agree - a wet MCG would definitely be advantageous against the 'Dome' teams (Dogs, St Kilda), not so sure against Collingwood.

 

[True Blue Cat]

Our guys play in rain more than any other team, but at the same time we play dry weather footy no matter the conditions so I dunno all that precision handpassing under pressure might fail a tad against a great team.

If we had of played against a good team today we would have struggled. Geelong have always been very good in the wet but since we started handballing so much we haven't been quite as good in the wet as the handballs can get messy very fast when the ball starts to get slippery.

However at the same time any other team that is decent at the moment really has the same game plan when it comes to handballing a lot. Even if not as much so as Geelong. I suppose of 2 teams that handball the same amount in wet weather Geelong will come off on top simply because of the level of talent we have on the field.