Preliminary Final Sydney v North Pre Match Discussion Thread

[ShockOfHair]

Last night's game resembled the SCG match against Port, where we smothered them in the first half and they smashed us in the second. You know that eventually Port will get on the outside.

Interesting stats on the Swans vs the Roos. A bit surprised to see we are 8th for contested possession differential, 15th for disposal efficiency.
Also: North have only beaten us once in the past seven years.
Sydney should be too consistent for the Roos in preliminary final

[Ampersand]

It looks to me like Ross Lyon is doing his typical act of running a good team into the ground with poor recruiting and drafting and development. Pav, Sandilands et al will be gone within a year or two. Their "replacements" Taberner and Clarke look like complete spuds. Pearce is absolutely shocking. Crowley is such a poor offensive player that his tagging role effectively adds no net positive to the team. Like the Suns with Abblett, Fyfe is such a good player that he might drag the Dockers kicking and screaming into the Top 8 over the next 5 years but apart from a few shining lights (namely Neale and Walters) it's tough to see a bright future for Freo.

[ugg]

If you think about the possible reasons it's probably not as surprising. Losing Mumford and having to survive with Derickx for about 8? games as the leading ruckman our contested possession numbers conceded would have risen. Disposal efficiency is also related to how contested a style we play, it's much harder to hit targets out of a pack.

The big stat for me in that little blurb is our scores from intercepts. It's been mentioned a few times amongst the various TV footy shows but we generate a lot of our scores from turnovers in our forward 50.

[aardvark]

I reckon they'll go, 'insufficient force' , and let him play.

I hope he gets to play. No excuses!

[liz]

I think insufficient force. He might have drawn blood but that doesn't take much contact really. He didn't cause Selwood to even go to ground, let alone need to leave the ground with a sore head (just the blood rule). If you compare to the instances where Buddy was let off (pretty fortunately) or Goodes not even cited, it looks pretty tame. Would be upset if any of our players was rubbed out for something so minor.

[Ludwig]

I think insufficient force. He might have drawn blood but that doesn't take much contact really. He didn't cause Selwood to even go to ground, let alone need to leave the ground with a sore head (just the blood rule). If you compare to the instances where Buddy was let off (pretty fortunately) or Goodes not even cited, it looks pretty tame. Would be upset if any of our players was rubbed out for something so minor.

Gillon McLachlan's love child and Protected Species, respectively.

[Meg]

I think insufficient force.

You might be right, as you say Selwood didn't go to ground. But he did have stitches inserted during the half time interval so the impact was a bit more than negligible I would have thought. Will be an interesting decision after the controversy over the Fyfe head clash suspension.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Chose to bump, feet left the ground, caused the head clash , player needed stitches. If there any shred of consistency to the MRP he has to go for 1. There isn't though so he'll get off.

[Jeynez]

Not sure how you can possibly argue insufficient force in this case. The fact it was off the ball as well doesn't help his case, MRP always comes down harder on those

[bloodbrother]

swans `40 plus game .as usual Melbourne media talking up north ..the boys will crush these pretenders ..hawks in for a much rougher prelim

[Swanstubbs]

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[DamY]

Anyone know if all categories will be half off with the Telstra offer?

[ugg]

Anyone know if all categories will be half off with the Telstra offer?

Definitely no, it's a certain area like a bay or two which happened to be a Category 2 bay in the Freo final.

[DamY]

Thanks ugg! Ok, cat 2 at half price is like $60 :/ will just go with cat 5 and sit at the members bar.

[Xie Shan]

I really hope we get to 50,000, anything less for such an important match, while understandable, would be a shame.