Prediction Round 12 Changes vs Brisbane

[hoss]

Thought the pressure applied from Switta Friday night was pretty good actually. Don't see him getting dropped.

 

[Jezzitizle]

Thought the pressure applied from Switta Friday night was pretty good actually. Don't see him getting dropped.

Thought the same, was important in creating a lot of the turnover kicks back to our defenders.

No chance he is dropped.

 

[BStaff17]

I wont write Brisbane off as the team to beat until I see them literally on a flight to Bali in September. Us being "due" a loss, Brisbane off two terrible performances is very annoying because as far as Im concerned, short of us somehow falling apart (and we are what, 23 of 27 or something stupid), this is one of three home and away games that have any meaning the rest of the year.

Id love to win 2 of the 3 against Brisbane, Geelong and Sydney and really stamp out any doubt that we are half a step off a genuine contender THIS year (I expect with a good finals series, one more preseason and the 22 extra games under the belt we'll be an absolute monster for 3 years from next year).

Those 3 sides are the only sides we havent beaten last year and this year.

Its not end of the world stuff if we do lose.

Its the longest road trip in Footy.

Lions beat us up last year at Optus late in the year.

But i reckon the moment got to us more as our set shot kicking kicked us out of it in that first half.

 

[Purple Pills]

I'm not fussed about the Brisbane game. It is at the Gabba. The Geelong and Sydney games however are at home and after going 10-1 so far we just need to get shit done at home..

They all count for 4 points, equally important. If you think there's some mental edge in beating them now, just look at brisbane vs Geelong last year.

 

[malpaso]

They all count for 4 points, equally important. If you think there's some mental edge in beating them now, just look at brisbane vs Geelong last year.

Yeah okay Captain Obvious. Not what I was getting at, of course I/we want to win the game.

 

[cactuscall]

Would be satisfying to win and really put a stamp on the season. The pressure is on!!(on Brisbane!)

 

[Superkoops]

Nope, before the saints it was 55%, 49% and 48%. It was, however, 80% against the blues for some reason

The reason for higher game time against Blues was Voss was a late out with gastro - replaced with Jez Sharp - so Cox played a decent bit up forward.

As for working out who is better - Darcy wins that hands down comfortably. I do agree that we can afford to have Darcy get some weeks of conditioning and form in WAFL. Not dissimilar to JOM. Once they are up and running showing top form in WAFL then they can come in.

Once that has been done - Darcy is absolutely better than Cox.

Cox’s field kicking drives me insane. Pointing à la Michael Johnson except where he is going to kick the ball and then proceeding to kick straight to oppo unopposed. Just handball to a runner. Also the number of times JL and others have said he had an almost game with some marks he would have liked to have clunked. Let’s face it he isn’t taking many of those marks.

Darcy started to show a few good signs before injury.