General footy chat Finals Week 3 (includes Cats v Lions)

[Maltopia]

Place holder to discuss the Geelong vs Brisbane game, and other general preliminary finals stuff, not related specifically to our game vs Port.

Not sure who I want to win out of Geelong and Brisbane, should we win our preliminary. If we lose ours, I would be backing Brisbane.

If we win...

While it might be good to beat Geelong to make up for 2022, they will be fresher than Brisbane, and full of confidence they can beat us, and I don't know that we can pull off another come from behind win if we have a slow start against them and they build a big lead.

Brisbane will have have the AFL fairy tale backing, after losing by a goal to Collingwood last year, and the biased coverage will be insufferable, and who knows what the umpiring will be like...

[imuninformedtwo]

I hope like hell Brisbane wins, as Geelong is stacked and ready to go.

They’ve put back together a terrific midfield with Danger, Holmes, Bruhn, Bowes, Stewart, Atkins and reckon I can see them playing De Koening back to let Blicavs go back in there to tag a Heeney or Gulden. That’s beyond their first rate small forwards.

Nothing about 2022, it’s what they’re doing this year that bothers me.

[Sandridge]

I hope like hell Brisbane wins, as Geelong is stacked and ready to go.

They’ve put back together a terrific midfield with Danger, Holmes, Bruhn, Bowes, Stewart, Atkins and reckon I can see them playing De Koening back to let Blicavs go back in there to tag a Heeney or Gulden. That’s beyond their first rate small forwards.

Nothing about 2022, it’s what they’re doing this year that bothers me.

Completely agree. Geelong were awesome in their QF win and would be very, very hard to topple if we were to make the GF. Even if they were to defeat Geelong, I reckon Brisbane are quite beatable.

[The Great One]

From my experiences as a player in a few sports, the hardest team to beat in a Grand Final is the one that lost the GF the previous year.

[Hotpotato]

We seem to need more contributors back on this site , they are taking ages to realize its back up.
Would an email blast to them all help.
Wheres Ludwig ?
We are in another PL, where is everyone !

[Sandridge]

Well, we're in the Grand Final!

I much prefer our chances of beating Brisbane but I can't see them getting over Geelong. Hope I'm wrong!

[mcs]

I think Brisbane have to start well and get Geelong on the back foot. Like we did in 2016 - do that and the old age pensioners will melt away.

Would prefer Brisbane, not because I think they are an easier opponent, but because it would be great to have an all interstate grand final again!

[Nico]

We seem to need more contributors back on this site , they are taking ages to realize its back up.
Would an email blast to them all help.
Wheres Ludwig ?
We are in another PL, where is everyone !

I watched the game with Ludwig in Thailand yesterday. He has posted a couple of times on the new site but his computer eye sight is not that good at the moment. He'll be back.

I agree, not many of the regulars have hopped back on.

[dejavoodoo44]

I'll certainly be barracking for Brisbane. I harbour no ill will towards them, but that isn't the case with Geelong. Plus, if Brisbane make it to the GF, then they're more likely to be feeling the negative effects of a tough finals campaign.

About the only drawback, is that if we beat them next week, then I'd feel slightly sorry for them, as they would have lost two GFs in a row.

[imuninformedtwo]

A high pressure game so far. If they can’t pop McInerney’s shoulder back in and getting back out there it’s a massive loss.

[dejavoodoo44]

Tough first quarter. Brisbane started to wear Geelong down, but their chances might depend on whether big McInerney can come back on after a dislocated shoulder.

[dejavoodoo44]

Geelong small forwards are starting to worry me.

[imuninformedtwo]

Geelong small forwards are starting to worry me.

it’s the way they use them up at the contest and to link back that worries me more than around goals

[dejavoodoo44]

Uggh, looks like the end of McInerney for the game.

[Sandridge]

Turning into a ripper game. Tough, too! Handy for us!