Pre Match. Pies v. Cats. Semi-final

[Pies4shaw]

Saturday, 10 October. The Gabba. 7.40

Collingwood v. Geelong.

B: Jack Crisp, Jordan Roughead, Jack Madgen
HB: Brayden Maynard, Darcy Moore, Isaac Quaynor
C: Chris Mayne, Adam Treloar, Josh Daicos
HF: Will Hoskin-Elliott, Brody Mihocek, Josh Thomas
F: Jamie Elliott, Mason Cox, Jordan De Goey
Foll: Brodie Grundy, Taylor Adams, Scott Pendlebury
Int: Jaidyn Stephenson, John Noble, Levi Greenwood, Darcy Cameron

Emerg: Will Kelly, Tyler Brown, Travis Varcoe, Mark Keane

Let's hear ya !!

[Pies4shaw]

So, the "reward" for beating the 5th-placed team on their home ground is that we play the losing 4th-placed team on a 2-day shorter break (them 9 days, us 7). This seems to me to be an extraordinary advantage to give for a match that one would ordinarily expect to be played between two teams that finished next to each other on the ladder.

Great effort by Collingwood to make it to the second week of the finals - but the fixturing just doesn't get any fairer.

[What'sinaname]

Would you have preferred us to play Friday night?

What other choice given Geelong played Thursday?

[Cuthbert Collingwood]

A 7 day break is better than 9 after the week off

[Pies4shaw]

Isn't the answer that Geelong should never have played Thursday? West Coast and Collingwood had the longest travel to their game and, inevitably for the winner, back. No team should get such a huge advantage in an important final because they lost. You expect this game, in most situations, to be 4th versus 5th. It looks to have been fixtured with a view to giving Port Adelaide a huge leg-up into a prelim if they lost. Instead, Geelong, by dint of finishing 4th, somehow reaps an advantage from being out-classed by the top team. Meanwhile, the winning team in the 6th v 7th shambles doesn't travel and only has one-day less preparation than its next opponent. The winner of 6 v 7 should not get a better run than the winner of 5 v 8.

[Pies4shaw]

[RudeBoy]

No changes this week. Stick with the same warriors who won last night. Pies by 23 points!

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

Don't know about, might be one tall too many for the humid Gabba conditions....

[woodys_world69]

horses for courses.

the putty tats dont have nic nat.

and Cox did look better without having to go in the midfield. I dont think bucks is overally happy with his engine capacity this year.

Geelong do have good defenders as well that know when to zone off and intercept.

tough choices this week i suspect. but taking 1 less ruck gives us 1 more midfielder rotation during the match.

and what if we get an injury during the game...


but we did smash geelong earlier in the year without cox or cameron, and de goey kicked 5...

[tbaker]

[tbaker]

[Leggie]

https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/geelongs-tom-hawkins-cited-for-striking-port-adelaides-tom-rockliff-ng-b881683463z

So from what I understand, Hawkins has been charged with striking and Selwood may need surgery.

On closer reading, he copped a fine for the strike but Selwoods injury could be interesting.

[think positive]

i believe Selwood has had surgery on the tendon already hasnt he? that will be sore even with drugs.
as for the thug :"Hawkins can accept a $1500 fine with an early guilty plea and is free to play next weekend." bugger!!! thats a cup of coffee to these tools.

in saying that we can take the cats. i know we can. And if we play like last night, it could be the 1st 1/4 of the 2010 prelim all over again. That is my favourite of all time games, and i have watched that quarter so so many times!! No guarantee's, but im a lot more confident than i was 5 min before ball up yesterday! thats not saying much though!! i mean im still like, PINCH ME!!

cmon Pies, this would just make my year!!

[piedys]

[Cam]

Shame Sidey couldn't come in for a JT for example. Much might depend on the Gabba night air humidity over the next week. Despite losing to Port I think we got renewed belief that we could mix it with the big boys, and a chain reaction might have started the week before with big Coxy's bounce. That mentality has permeated our gameplay since.

After a team win like that it's harder to get dropped than get included as every guy on the field contributed something special at some point of the game to tip the balance back our way.

Grundy is a victim of his own 2018-19 form and now, his contract. He had a solid game with many important wins but we can all see he is not impacting full-game like he was over the last couple of years. The guts of our coaching team to allow Cameron that last bounce... significantly will do alot for Cameron. Brodie though.

Importantly we still have more upside, hopefully we showcase some more of that. Render Dangerfield ineffective by giving him touches in non-key parts of the ground like we did earlier this year could go a long way to winning this game.