Sydney vs West Coast - Statement Game Friday Night SCG 15th June

[The Gong]

No worries Buddy can go free then, who should we double team? Ronke?

Rohan. If you can restrict his number of touches...oh wait. He does that himself.

 

[SloppyJoe]

What a grim point of reference.

It was a different time back then. 9/11 changed everything.

 

[PerthBoy86]

For some reason i feel like WCE will come crashing down in the 2nd half of the year. That last quarter against the saints was as bad a footy as has been played this year. Darling has gone down and Kennedy still isn't 100%.

At this point i see us beating only the Dons/Dogs/Freo & the Lions for the remainder of the year. 50/50 on the Crows in Adelaide given their recent troubles. No chance againstt Sydney at home, Collingwood at home, North in Tas or the Giants/Power/Demons. Even if we have beaten the Giants/Power already this year.

Teams who win the first 9/10 straight invariably come crashing back to earth.

One thing to be overconfident, but geez that's pretty pessimistic lol. Yeah it was ordinary but consider the circumstances - we took the pedal off and were far from 100%. So the potential is there. It'd be more worrying if we tried our heart out and scraped over the line. Richmond were pretty flat too, are they gonna fall off a cliff too? I'm not greatly concerned, personally. I mean, even if we do drop off a bit, and win say 5 out of 10, 15 wins is still a decent result and beyond expectations. You don't get to 10 and 1 and suddenly fall off hugely - or rarely, aka North in 2016, but the holes were very evident in that North side. I don't see any gaping holes in our side this year. It remains to even be seen how we cover for Darls.

 

[PerthBoy86]

If both teams play at their absolute best, syd will win by 5 goals...however thats easier said than done

If JK and Buddy are firing it'll go down to the wire.

 

[PerthBoy86]

For some reason i feel like WCE will come crashing down in the 2nd half of the year. That last quarter against the saints was as bad a footy as has been played this year. Darling has gone down and Kennedy still isn't 100%.

At this point i see us beating only the Dons/Dogs/Freo & the Lions for the remainder of the year. 50/50 on the Crows in Adelaide given their recent troubles. No chance againstt Sydney at home, Collingwood at home, North in Tas or the Giants/Power/Demons. Even if we have beaten the Giants/Power already this year.

Teams who win the first 9/10 straight invariably come crashing back to earth.

And no, historically teams that win the first ten usually go on to win the minor premiership.

 

[Bollox]

I think its Heath Grundy's 250th. ???
Wouldnt expect much from JJK as usual. Never seems to do much against us anyway. Plus he's travelling.
Darling would be a concern. Had a good game Rnd 1. Playing or not ?

 

[Bollox]

Luvvin the draw. We get ranked as having received the toughest draw after the first 10 games, and now i just noticed we play 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th as our next 4 games.
How does that happen ?

Still, its fantastic for us. The perfect draw.

 

[Jiggyman]

I think its Heath Grundy's 250th. ???
Wouldnt expect much from JJK as usual. Never seems to do much against us anyway. Plus he's travelling.
Darling would be a concern. Had a good game Rnd 1. Playing or not ?

Love Grundy. Absolute champ.
I'm sure you'll be taking the JJK threat very seriously. We'll see if he can get going.
Darling is out for the next month. Likely that Ryan comes in and we play a little smaller (he's strong overhead, though).

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[Bollox]

Love Grundy. Absolute champ.
I'm sure you'll be taking the JJK threat very seriously. We'll see if he can get going.
Darling is out for the next month. Likely that Ryan comes in and we play a little smaller (he's strong overhead, though).​

Pity about Darling. Stepped up bigtime this season. Nothing worse than a good season getting interrupted.
Ryan had a good game also in Rnd 1 from memory. I doubt he would have had many the class of Nick Smith on him yet though. If Smith goes to LeCras which is normal from memory, it might be an advantage for WCE going smaller up fwd.
Its all about rebound on the SCG. Big proportion of the scoreboard comes off fast rebound compared to other grounds. Get the Half Back mix right and thats half the game on this ground.
Hurn is the bloke we will put time into i'd say.

 

[avishka5]

Love Grundy. Absolute champ.
I'm sure you'll be taking the JJK threat very seriously. We'll see if he can get going.
Darling is out for the next month. Likely that Ryan comes in and we play a little smaller (he's strong overhead, though).

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Brander has been confirmed to debut so We are going with a similar set up.
Ah chee didn't travel but could travel tomorrow. I guessing Ryan would come in for Ah Chee.

Pity about Darling. Stepped up bigtime this season. Nothing worse than a good season getting interrupted.
Ryan had a good game also in Rnd 1 from memory. I doubt he would have had many the class of Nick Smith on him yet though. If Smith goes to LeCras which is normal from memory, it might be an advantage for WCE going smaller up fwd.
Its all about rebound on the SCG. Big proportion of the scoreboard comes off fast rebound compared to other grounds. Get the Half Back mix right and thats half the game on this ground.
Hurn is the bloke we will put time into i'd say.

Our defence as unit has been reboundig well and it not all Hurn even tho Hurns killing it. Jetta has been pure shite since coming back in and hopefully does something week. Would like to see Mcgovern kicking back to its best as he can and does tear zones with his penerating kicks.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

No, im just saying its not a statement game.

Calm the mental gymnastics, champ

But you used mental gymnastics to come up with your assertion that it’s not a statement game. Why can’t anyone else if they want to contest your claim?

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

What a grim point of reference.

But one that tends to lodge in the mind, so, pretty effective!

 

[halalsnackpack]

How good to have two decent non-Victorian teams on a Friday night though. Well done to the AFL for once

 

[DieSwans]

But you used mental gymnastics to come up with your assertion that it’s not a statement game. Why can’t anyone else if they want to contest your claim?

It's a statement game if we win.

Not a statement game if we lose.

 

[DieSwans]

Sydney pretty lucky though....missing Jk round 1 and now in form Darling.

 

[W.C. Fry]

How good to have two decent non-Victorian teams on a Friday night though. Well done to the AFL for once

The cynic in me thinks the AFL saw the world cup was starting this weekend, and decided to not play their precious Vic sides because of that.

 

[WCE Wizard]

How good to have two decent non-Victorian teams on a Friday night though. Well done to the AFL for once

Yep still bewilders me how Cartlon get 7 friday night games.

 

[HBF]

Hope this game lives up to the hype. Could potentially be the game of the year.

 

[WCE Wizard]

Pity about Darling. Stepped up bigtime this season. Nothing worse than a good season getting interrupted.
Ryan had a good game also in Rnd 1 from memory. I doubt he would have had many the class of Nick Smith on him yet though. If Smith goes to LeCras which is normal from memory, it might be an advantage for WCE going smaller up fwd.
Its all about rebound on the SCG. Big proportion of the scoreboard comes off fast rebound compared to other grounds. Get the Half Back mix right and thats half the game on this ground.
Hurn is the bloke we will put time into i'd say.

Hurn will be pivotal if gets of the chain then west coast are a huge chance. However Sydney will play someone on him to make him accountable

 

[WCE Wizard]

One thing to be overconfident, but geez that's pretty pessimistic lol. Yeah it was ordinary but consider the circumstances - we took the pedal off and were far from 100%. So the potential is there. It'd be more worrying if we tried our heart out and scraped over the line. Richmond were pretty flat too, are they gonna fall off a cliff too? I'm not greatly concerned, personally. I mean, even if we do drop off a bit, and win say 5 out of 10, 15 wins is still a decent result and beyond expectations. You don't get to 10 and 1 and suddenly fall off hugely - or rarely, aka North in 2016, but the holes were very evident in that North side. I don't see any gaping holes in our side this year. It remains to even be seen how we cover for Darls.

Def very pessimistic lets take one game at a time. We can beat Melbourne and the Giants at home. Geez Melbourne are not unbeatable they were well smacked by Collingwood. Lets take the Sydney game first and go from there.

 

[Coaster2012]

Luvvin the draw. We get ranked as having received the toughest draw after the first 10 games, and now i just noticed we play 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th as our next 4 games.
How does that happen ?

Still, its fantastic for us. The perfect draw.

Eagles were destined for the bottom 4. This was meant to be a gimmie game.

 

[OK Computer]

Sydney pretty lucky though....missing Jk round 1 and now in form Darling.

We won by like 5 goals. I don't think having JK wouldn't changed the result.

 

[Corkintheocean]

The cynic in me thinks the AFL saw the world cup was starting this weekend, and decided to not play their precious Vic sides because of that.

Also West Coast host Essendon at Optus on Thurs night next week when Aus v Denmark kick-off is at 8pm WST.

 

[DieSwans]

We won by like 5 goals. I don't think having JK wouldn't changed the result.

Eh, we were warming up.

Lucky Swans, as usual.

 

[Coaster2012]

We won by like 5 goals. I don't think having JK wouldn't changed the result.

The eagles you played in round 1, weren't the eagles your playing this week.