thylacine60
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We just don't start or finish seasons well.
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We just don't start or finish seasons well.
We just don't finish seasons well when nothings on the line!.
I wanna say we should give 100% effort every single game but reality is players can switch off when there is nothing to play for. Probably why our recent final games have been poor. This time it coincides with a blue champs last game so I’m hoping they will dig deep and make it memorable for simmo.So at what point of the match (and margin) will the boys quit for the year? 3rd qtr, 20min mark - 40pts. Then they will go into 'kick it to simmo' mode with smiles on their face.
I wanna say we should give 100% effort every single game but reality is players can switch off when there is nothing to play for. Probably why our recent final games have been poor. This time it coincides with a blue champs last game so I’m hoping they will dig deep and make it memorable for simmo.
Not sure there's any point managing players in Round 18, ODN. If it is to be Betts last game, he'll play hell or highwater. Curnow won't be sitting out his mate's final game either.Marchbank and Silvagni are clearly not available as per advice from the club previously, so not sure why some are inserting them into their sides for this game.
If Martin is ready, he comes back in. If Betts is retiring, he should be selected. If he's not, I'd rest him. Murphy will play because it's Simmo's last game.
I'm not looking to throw a whole team of youngsters to the wolves so wouldn't rest any of our prime movers, but I would make changes.
Out: Docherty (injured), Fisher (injured), Betts (managed), Curnow (managed), McGovern (omitted)
In: Martin, Philp, Ramsay, Kennedy
Plowman Weitering Simpson
Williamson Jones Ramsay
Walsh Cripps O'Brien
Casboult Setterfield Cuningham
Philp Kennedy Martin
Gibbons McKay De Koning
Murphy Newnes Petrevski-Seton Curnow
I want Casboult to be first ruck, with De Koning a forward ruck. I want Levi to get his hands on the ball in the middle of the ground and make the opposition ruck accountable. TDK can jump but our midfield doesn't win it anyway, so we can set up to win it off their ruck and Levi can use his bulk to hurt.
I'm looking at a more mobile forward setup by playing smaller across half forward. Kennedy has strong hands and is a dead eye kick for goal. People worried about his defensive running don't have to worry as much at half forward and he's in for McGovern who hasn't exactly been racking up the miles either.
Philp is quick and can play a defensive half forward role and apply forward pressure when the ball hits the ground as well. Ramsay is also quick and has a good kick. The knock on him is that he often doesn't lower his eyes. He played a lot of junior footy across half back so if he can be smarter, his pace and kicking is an asset.
I've started LOB where he belongs, on a wing, but I know his fitness base is not there. Fortunately 3 of my bench players can rotate on to the wing so it's not such a huge deal.
The last big change is Cuningham on to the ball. Everyone wants to see it again, there's no better opportunity than a dead rubber.
Brisbane have nothing to play for in ladder position and so we will either get a hiding because they are just overall better or win by 3 goals and still finish 11th.So at what point of the match (and margin) will the boys quit for the year? 3rd qtr, 20min mark - 40pts. Then they will go into 'kick it to simmo' mode with smiles on their face.
Brisbane have nothing to play for in ladder position and so we will either get a hiding because they are just overall better or win by 3 goals and still finish 11th.
How can teams that seemed down and out like Brisbane rebound so quickly, whilst Carlton stay bottom 4 year in year out.
Not sure there's any point managing players in Round 18, ODN. If it is to be Betts last game, he'll play hell or highwater. Curnow won't be sitting out his mate's final game either.
The combo of Simms’s last game and Lions having top 2 locked in works in our favour.I wanna say we should give 100% effort every single game but reality is players can switch off when there is nothing to play for. Probably why our recent final games have been poor. This time it coincides with a blue champs last game so I’m hoping they will dig deep and make it memorable for simmo.
Mathematical hypotheticals......
If we win by couple of goals, Freo lose, & GWS lose by same margin, we go to 10th on ladder.
If we get beaten by Brisbane less than what Dockers get beaten by Western Bulldogs, we will overtake them on the ladder. 12th to 11th. (There is only 1.1 difference in percentage.)
If we lose and * beat Demons. (* overtake us) We go to 13th on ladder. So, pick 6 or 9 up for grabs. What do we prefer?
So at what point of the match (and margin) will the boys quit for the year? 3rd qtr, 20min mark - 40pts. Then they will go into 'kick it to simmo' mode with smiles on their face.
The combo of Simms’s last game and Lions having top 2 locked in works in our favour.
We did beat them last year, a win is not impossible given this yr the “good Carlton” has beaten Cats, hammered Dogs and Port nailed us after the siren.
Before Cats game I posted reasons why a win was not “impossible” (was fed up with the surrender monkeys finding a reason that we we’d be flogged), just hope I’m right this time too.
Hard, yes of course, impossible, no. Playing a night game also suits, our day games not so great this year.
Brisbane by eleventy million
We storm home to reduce the margin to only seventy million and call it an honourable lossWhat happens in the 2nd half
If we go 5 goals down... the boys will start thinking about post game brewskies guaranteed
Hi,One last preview for 2020. Unreal how time flies.
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I wonder if the Lions might rest some players given they have now locked up a spot in the top 2.
So at what point of the match (and margin) will the boys quit for the year?
Yeah clearly weren't trying in that 1.2 to 0.2 third quarter.Half-time in the Collingwood game.