Smallest team in the league

[TheMase]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
We have:

C Bolton 188
Dempster 189
Goodes 193
Hall 194
James 191
Jolley 200
Kennelly 190
O'Keefe 187
O'Loughlin 188
Roberts-Thompson 196

Injured
Doyle 203
Saddington 194
Schauble 193

That puts us a few behind on height.

Ball 200cm

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by cruiser
Far superior? You wanna justify that statement?

Watch some of our games with both eyes, not just one...

[cruiser]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Watch some of our games with both eyes, not just one...

That's not an answer, just your usual arrogant rudeness. You make similar demands of other people when they make posts like this, so I'd suggest you practice what you preach and explain your statement.

[Sanecow]

Anyone have clanger statistics for the two teams this year?

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by cruiser
That's not an answer, just your usual arrogant rudeness. You make similar demands of other people when they make posts like this, so I'd suggest you practice what you preach and explain your statement.

Don't take things so seriously. It was just my opinion. But if you prefer to indulge in rudeness then I can oblige...

[Sanecow]

Does the Age still (I thought they used to) report clangers?

[ugg]

I thought it was the herald sun that used to do it but they took it off their website 2 years ago.

[JohnnyNova]

Height doesn't matter when you're chowing down on deep fried Crow.

Redundant

BTW: Wasn't it Yoda who said:
"Size matters not. Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the footy and a powerful ally it is!"

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Originally posted by ugg
Hope it rains on Sunday!

I hope it doesn't because we're crap in the wet.

[DST]

Originally posted by ugg
Hope it rains on Sunday!

You can't be serious Ugg.

We are generally regarded as the worst team going around in the AFL in the wet, only probably SnDon & Eagles are worse.

Adelaide on the other hand have been in the past and still are today one of the best sides in the comp for using the ball by hand or foot.

One thing is for sure, if you have good skills in the dry they tend to hold up well in the wet as well.

It does not mean we can't beat the Crows in the wet, but if it was to rain it will shorten our odds considerably.

DST

[Go Swannies]

Every time I see this heading I think of a tiny band of munchkins running onto the field.

And that's not quite what I'm thinking if I'm ever caught between Ball and Hall at a Best & Fairest dinner.

[cruiser]

AAMI Stadium is often cold, wet and windswept (the bleakest ground I've been to - I've not been to Geelong to compare it). The Crows should take to wet weather football like ducks to water. After the final against West Coast last year a lot of us (me included) were fooled into thinking Sydney could play well in wet conditions. The following weekend against St Kilda proved us how wrong we were.

[DST]

Originally posted by cruiser
AAMI Stadium is often cold, wet and windswept (the bleakest ground I've been to - I've not been to Geelong to compare it). The Crows should take to wet weather football like ducks to water. After the final against West Coast last year a lot of us (me included) were fooled into thinking Sydney could play well in wet conditions. The following weekend against St Kilda proved us how wrong we were.

Yes we got thrashed in the wet against St Kilda, but honestly it was not the wet weather that beat us.

St Kilda were stronger at the contest, ran harder, had more midfield rotations which meant they could go the 4 quarters and we had no match-up for Reiwoldt who took us to the cleaners.

That is why we lost, not the wet weather.

DST

[ugg]

Originally posted by DST
You can't be serious Ugg.

Okay, I should clarify my statement. It was in reference to the point made that Adelaide has a much bigger team than us. Maybe I should have used the 'wink' instead of the 'smile'. In any case, I don't think our skills by hand or foot are significantly worse than the league, its just that our game plan of running hard out of the backline with many handballs to teammates in tight situations just doesn't hold up well in the wet.

[Snowy]

The recent trend has been towards bigger types, some recruiters won't select anyone under 180cm these days. Most flags are won now with very few really short players.