Round 1 V Essendon

[penga]

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Gold!!

[AnnieH]

So are the Essendon firsts allowed to play or not?
Send us the ressies!!

[ugg]

Looks like we're playing Watson, Stanton, Zaharakis and Fletcher instead of Marcus Marigliani, Clint Jones, Sam Michael and Josh Freezer

[Scottee]

Looks like we're playing Watson, Stanton, Zaharakis and Fletcher instead of Marcus Marigliani, Clint Jones, Sam Michael and Josh Freezer

Tough game coming up!

[Scottee]

Interesting. I always think that Lloyd is fairly soft and virtually disappears in hard games (twice last year v the Hawks). I'd definitely rate Lloyd as less aggressive than Cunningham, but obviously neither are in the league of say Benny McG. Jarred Moore is testament to the fact that you need pace, not just aggression.

Jarred had enough pace, just not enough tank.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Well they got off. The only reason appears to be because Essendon failed to keep records of what their players were being injected with. Therefore, there was insufficient evidence. This means that all clubs can now cheat as long as they don't keep any records.

[Flying South]

For me....
1) Jack out, I don't want to see a repeat of last year, where he plays(for him timidly) with injured ribs week after week. Get him right, then unleash him.
2) Goodes to be sub,he's best suited as a cameo man these days.
3) Let Heeney settle in with a full game. I hate it when debutantes have to wait on the bench, then try to prove themselves in 1 quarter....rarely gets results.

So:
B: Smith - Richards - Rampe
HB: Jetta - Grundy - Shaw
C: Lloyd - Mitchell - Hannebery
HF: Rohan- Franklin - Cunningham
FF: Heeney - Tippett - Bird
Fol: Pkye - Kennedy - Parker
INT: Reid - McVeigh - Towers
SUB: Goodes

Can't deny the logic there Ernie. I like that as a Rnd1 team. I could see Goodes replacing Tipp at half time. Give each a solid 60 minutes of game time.

Though I would rather see Heeney in a HF role with Towers playing deeper in the forward line. I.e where Goodes would normally play of late.

[Zlatorog]

There's a NRL match the night before (the GF rematch of all things!) and there's possible rain on the Friday and the Saturday so there's a fairly good chance the ground might not be in great nick on Saturday afternoon.

The NRL GF re-match on Friday is played at the SCG not the ANZ Stadium. So the surface should be OK.

[CureTheSane]

This is actually a good thing for the Swans.
A second tier team would have been pummeled by some of the opposition.
We now face a team who is not match fit, but they will be well back on track by round 4 vs Collingwood.
We have a great chance to give them a smacking, as does Hawthorn and to a lesser degree Carlton.

[ernie koala]

Given this will be the first game of the year for most of the Bombers lineup....

The blueprint for winning this game should be pretty simple....

Full on pressure, especially in the early stages, hit them hard, hit them often, be relentless....

They should be rusty, and the turnovers should flow....Unless of course they've been taking something to counter that.

[ugg]

The NRL GF re-match on Friday is played at the SCG not the ANZ Stadium. So the surface should be OK.

I hope you're not going to the NRL game, you might be disappointed if you turn up at the SCG on Friday night.

Andrew Pridham tweeted a few hours ago the SCG had just put up the AFL goalposts.

Well done @ScottFitzG on spotting the annual goal post installation @scg. All ready for @sydneyswans 2015 @AFL Season pic.twitter.com/FVrAUhw9ox

— Andrew Pridham (@Pridhamhq) March 31, 2015

[CureTheSane]

All we need to do is play it out hard in the last quarter and there should be no problems.
The lack of fitness for the Bombers will catch up with them.

[dawson]

I agree with the Bombers playing at full strength being a good thing for us.
Playing Port away in Round 2, we want a good hitout here.

[jono2707]

The NRL GF re-match on Friday is played at the SCG not the ANZ Stadium. So the surface should be OK.

Doggies vs Bunnies is at 3pm on Fri at ANZ - they should get a good crowd there too....

Not good for the state of the ground come Saturday though - gee wouldn't it be good if sometime in the near future we didn't have to play there anymore???????

[Zlatorog]

I hope you're not going to the NRL game, you might be disappointed if you turn up at the SCG on Friday night.

Andrew Pridham tweeted a few hours ago the SCG had just put up the AFL goalposts.

You're right. I thought it was at the SCG, because I saw a TV add for NRL games and it looked like they were playing at the SCG not at ANZ stadium. Well, in this case the ground will be @@@@.