Freo or Dee`s

[PerthSwannie]

Who do want to play in the prelim, Freo or Dee`s? Just heard on the news that Freo have NEVER played at Telstra Stadium! Could be handy!!

[swantastic]

Re: Freo or Dee`s

Originally posted by PerthSwannie
Who do want to play in the prelim, Freo or Dee`s? Just heard on the news that Freo have NEVER played at Telstra Stadium! Could be handy!!

Freo by a mile.

[dawson]

Re: Freo or Dee`s

Originally posted by PerthSwannie
Who do want to play in the prelim, Freo or Dee`s? Just heard on the news that Freo have NEVER played at Telstra Stadium! Could be handy!!

Don't care. Whoever we play, we have to be 100% switched on for, or we will lose.

[adnar]

Re: Re: Freo or Dee`s

Originally posted by dawson
Don't care.

[Schneiderman]

Freo for mine.

[573v30]

Freo. Like West Coast, they'll get confused and probably go the wrong way...

[barry]

Either is fine with me.

Freo - Probably happy just to make the prelim. Never played TS, inexperienced in finals. Travelling across the country.

Melb - Backing up from Perth trip (you can see how much it took out of us last year v geelong). On the road 2 weeks in a row. Will need to record 3 finals wins in a row to beat us.

[SimonH]

Agree with barry. Both pose completely different problems, and have different strengths and weaknesses. Both would have to make history in their way. Even making a PF would be history-making for Freo, let alone making the GF (not to mention being the first team since Carlton 1999 to make the GF after having missed the last 2 finals series), and Melbourne would be the first team in the modern structure of the finals to make the GF from outside the top 4.

For any argument there's a counter-argument. For example, Freo have never played Homebush, but in 2006 have for the first time had a string of consistent wins on the road (some very tough road trips like Collingwood and Adelaide) for the first time, rather than just causing a shock one week and losing to a mediocre team in Melbourne the next. Melbourne won in Sydney in 2006 and have a smaller distance to travel, but brought relatively mediocre form into the finals. Etcetera.

So they all more or less cancel each other out in my book, and we just need to concentrate on our own game. The one thing we know for sure: if we don't come out and play with the intensity we showed last night, we're likely to lose.

[graystar]

I don't care. So long as their semi is hard contest with extra time!!!

[anniswan]

I'll take Freo as my best friend is a Demons supporter.

[Goal Sneak]

I think Freo would suit us better. I'm not sure which Freo player usually plays on Hall, but he can't be any better than Carroll, who IMO, is one of the best defenders going around. Freo has Pavlich as a key forward, but the D's have Neitz who is just as good.
Also Melbourne can tackle!.

[punter257]

not fussed either way

travelling to the west will hurt the dees and freo have never even been to telstra stadium

[ScottH]

Who cares, as long as we win without our hearts in our mouths for the last quarter!!!

[Pommie Swannie]

Originally posted by ScottH
Who cares, as long as we win without our hearts in our mouths for the last quarter!!!

I'll second that!! Would be nice to be comfortably in the lead by 3-quarter time!

[timthefish]

freo would have to get about a quarter or a third of the supporters that melbourne would to sydney.