Preview Preliminary Final: Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions - 7:50 PM Friday the 16th of September

[3KZ is Football]

Mate, why don't you put your hand up? I'll give you a thumbs up refrence.

 

[Elixuh]

Jezza's biggest opponent is his hamstrings.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Just watched the Jeremy Cameron segment on AFL360. Damn he’s good. Do we play Starcevich on him when up the ground and Andrews when deeper? Can’t have Harris chasing him all day long - too slow and will get tired easily.

Assignment for McStay.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Dunno if you guys know this but Berry's had his one match ban quashed, so he's free to play this Friday. Good luck Lions!!

Not sure if people are aware, but our win at the MCG last week against Melbourne broke something of a hoodoo at that ground.

 

[SizeMatters]

Jezza's biggest opponent is his hamstrings.

Wouldn’t mind someone giving him a few deep tissue massages on the hammies during the game.

 

[BuntonRules]

Just watched the Jeremy Cameron segment on AFL360. Damn he’s good. Do we play Starcevich on him when up the ground and Andrews when deeper? Can’t have Harris chasing him all day long - too slow and will get tired easily.

The bloke that was our best endurance runner last week?

 

[SizeMatters]

The bloke that was our best endurance runner last week?

Different type of running. Jezza for lack of a better word is a ‘burst’ Player. Overworks his opponent by going on many sharp 50m to 75m runs And throw in a few directional changes I honestly can’t see how Andrews would keep up. It will take a team effort to limit jezza influence.

 

[bato]

The bloke that was our best endurance runner last week?

It’s a much harder task taking on Jezza when he’s dragging his opponents into the midfield these days. We had Rich and Gardiner both try and go with him to allow Harris to stay in his natural position. Didn’t work. What do we do differently this week?

 

[lioninthesand]

I’m bored without having the hoodoo to break this week, winning to get into a granny seems small fry in comparison.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Didn't see you anywhere in sight when the club and Zorko were getting an absolute kicking.

As far as I recall I was about the only one who stood up for both. For 5 long days. As everyone else spat the dummy.

Sheesh.

Cough cough……

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Can we not call him “Jezza” please- doesn’t deserve a nickname. I think ‘that A grade ex-giant flog who dog shotted Harro’ is more appropriate. Never disliked a footballer more.

 

[McIvor]

Would it be ridiculous to ask whether Jerry could go to Jeremy Cameron

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Jeremy Cameron

Age

31

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.5

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.4

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.6

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.0

5star

and lock him down? Jerry has the endurance and height to go with him, but may get exposed if they then play Cameron across the full forward line.

 

[vic_LION]

I hear they're going to start Jacob Berry on Cameron

 

[On the quiet]

If it is wet, Payne needs to be replaced by Lester or McStay playing in defence. Payne’s work on the deck and his physical presence do not warrant selection.

I am not as good as you 3KZ on the computer, but found this write up on AFL.Com.au from yesterday.

Final teams, subs in for Cats-Lions prelim. LIVE from 7.50pm AEST

A Grand Final spot is up for grabs when Geelong takes on Brisbane at the MCG on Friday night

www.afl.com.au

I don't think Payne was 'excellent' but thought he was OK last week, seen your edited clip of Payne errors, could do that for any back in most games, and including last week's semi. Lever, Petty and May looked ordinary at times throughout that game. Dizzy made errors, arguably Starc could have marked Kozzie a little tighter. Rich was pretty loose especially in the first Q etc etc.

Payne or Starc IMO are the only two bigger bodied backs who can get close to Rohan's speed, it certainly is not Lester, wet or dry.

We all know stats: are not the only measure of performance, but have a comparison of Lester 2022 AFL Fantasy Points (35.3)and Gardiners (50) against Payne's. (56.5)
Gardiner also has given away 19 Frees this year from 20 games. Payne has given away 2 from 11 games.

The McStay proposal I can see some merit, as IMO we have looked better with the two talls and Cam playing deep forward at times.

It could be argued McStay on Cameron, Payne on Rohan and Andrews on Hawkins, is a slightly more mobile and taller backline structure. What I think will happen is that Fort will miss out and that is a shame, first half was Ok, but I thought his second half was good last week.

Really looking forward to the game, just pleased with have made the PF, I did not think we would, and like all here I dare to dream of the last Saturday in September.

 

[briztoon]

soooo…..

Mighty Lions is Leigh Matthews.

Who’da thunk it.


Sometimes it’s good to have a little break from here, and not get caught up in things.

 

[mpal6]

I think Mighty Lions was being pretty sarcastic in his post and I think most on here would agree with you, including me (I was quite vocal in calling for Lyons to be dropped).

The part we don't know is did Fages + crew time their changes perfectly (eg was is by design that Lyons got dropped on the eve of finals). They clearly knew he was injured for some time, gave him lots of opportunities to recover from, but then ruthlessly dropped him for our first final to bring in Dev.

I'd be so curious to know what changed to actually cause them to pull the trigger, especially considering Lyons then played in the VFL that same week. He hadn't been any worse in round 23 then any previous week, he was just bog average for months.

I reckon the round 23 Melbourne loss was the catalyst.

The way we lost it and the narrative aftermath sort of pushed some of the hard conversations forward in my view. We went in with a nothing to lose attitude to Richmond EF, made the changes and things sort of started clicking for us from there.

Coaching tweaks have been pretty refreshing to see, Berry in the middle is something we've added to the list now. The other bit I've seen is Rich pushing forward from D50 and being influential in midfield traffic. His little hit up kick in Q3 to Starce or McStay was fantastic. Pure skill.

 

[mpal6]

I’m bored without having the hoodoo to break this week, winning to get into a granny seems small fry in comparison.

Move the game to GMHBA !!
Let's knock another one over !!

 

[CarterS]

Talking more about twitter than the Geelong board as I haven't really looked by man aren't a lot of the Geelong supporters very confident. Good on them I guess!

 

[mpal6]

Talking more about twitter than the Geelong board as I haven't really looked by man aren't a lot of the Geelong supporters very confident. Good on them I guess!

They've won 14 straight. I guess they should be.

We could also argue they're due for a loss now, coming off 2 bye weeks, injury concerns on some players and potentially lacking match fitness. Ripe for picking !

 

[nup]

 

[rusty08]

Can we not call him “Jezza” please- doesn’t deserve a nickname. I think ‘that A grade ex-giant flog who dog shotted Harro’ is more appropriate. Never disliked a footballer more.

Clayton Oliver ,"hold my beer", although I still think Cameron has him pipped.

 

[haystark]

Harris will be on SEN at 8am.

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

You're my favorite poster Phil.

At least some one still loves me.

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

Nothing - tongue in cheek!

Was just pointing out my post (265), I backed in Gardiner to take Cameron. You stated no-one had in your post

Oh good, now JoBiltz doesn't love me it is good to have someone who agrees with me.

The posts on the match ups generally ignore Gardiner for some reason. I,ts the obvious one to me.

It does prove I am a bit thick though.

 

[Thomasno]

Clayton Oliver ,"hold my beer", although I still think Cameron has him pipped.

Jeremy Cameron bare minimum I can acknowledge as a great footballer even if he seems like a s**t person.

Oliver is a stat-padder extraordinaire who has convinced the footy world he’s a future triple Brownlow medallist