Changes for 1st Semi Final vs Crows

[Untamed Snark]

I think the #sobrave dogs will outrun the dawks. The hawks have been playing like a 7th-8th placed side all year.

I'd love to see the doggies win tonight!
Especially against the dawks

[kilroyII]

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I'd love to see the doggies win tonight!
Especially against the dawks

Same as I think they can beat GWS.

What a brave effort it will be. Can you imagine the commentary if GWS and Dogs play? Oh lordy ch 7 and the AFL will have their script writers working over time.

[longmile]

doggies v swannies gf, now that'd be an awesome game

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Also I genuinely believe we are the best team in the comp, but I don't think we have enough "big game" players that can rise up when the pressure's really on

[Triple B]

Also I genuinely believe we are the best team in the comp, but I don't think we have enough "big game" players that can rise up when the pressure's really on

The first part of the sentence contradicts the second part of the sentence

[longmile]

The first part of the sentence contradicts the second part of the sentence

Bit of a rushed sentence
But not really, when things fall into place for us, which they do 95% of the time, we win and usually win comprehensively. But when the heat is truly applied to our ball carriers our whole team seem to crumble under pressure and structure is lost. We have hardly had any players this year that have stayed composed under "finals-like" pressure. Have we even come from behind to win this year? We have lost 3 times in the dying minutes because of this as well.
But this has only happened 2-3 times this year because we are such a good and well-drilled team, but when it happens it appears we have no plan B or big game players who really rise up when the chips are down.

[mcs]

doggies v swannies gf, now that'd be an awesome game

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Also I genuinely believe we are the best team in the comp, but I don't think we have enough "big game" players that can rise up when the pressure's really on

By far my choice for the grand final as well. I'd be happy enough even if we lost in that circumstance - just to see the joy on the dogs fans face for breaking a huge drought, like we got to experience the thrill of in 2005.

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Only 48k? We really need to look into an option for bigger crowds... come to think of it, I have a grand old idea of somewhere that would really be thumbing our noses at GWS!

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For umpires we have Farmer, Meredith and Jeffrey. Schmitt is the emergency - phew.

Are these umpires ok for us?

Hawthorn has Stevic, Nicholls and Donlon. Can't see the doggies winning with whorethorn having 2 extra players.

In my opinion, that is the best we could have hoped for umps wise - certainly compared to the motley crew we got last week. No surprise Hawks have called up Stevic again however.

[RogueSwan]

By far my choice for the grand final as well. I'd be happy enough even if we lost in that circumstance - just to see the joy on the dogs fans face for breaking a huge drought, like we got to experience the thrill of in 2005.

No way.
Would rather we lost the PF than another GF.
If it isn't us, I would like to see the Crows win.
Really put off by GWS after last week.
Dawks - obvious reasons.
Doggies - still remember the way they hunted Paul Kelly, bastards.
Cats - I don't like how they have "bought" their current team and there is already too much Dangerfield love any more would be nauseating.
which leaves the Crow

[goswannies]

No way.
Would rather we lost the PF than another GF.
If it isn't us, I would like to see the Crows win.
Really put off by GWS after last week.
Dawks - obvious reasons.
Doggies - still remember the way they hunted Paul Kelly, bastards.
Cats - I don't like how they have "bought" their current team and there is already too much Dangerfield love any more would be nauseating.
which leaves the Crow

Noooo! RogueSwan ... WHY?! ... I live in SA ... they are intolerable enough when they win a regular season game ... if they win the big one, I'll have to move states! The supporters & media are insufferable!

[wolftone57]

I guess the selection committee thought McGlynn was a better option than Rose or Towers.
If I was on the coaching panel the message to Benny would be 'Don't ever leave our forward 50. Your job is to closely mark any Crows midfielder who runs into our forward 50. You can also be the crumber from the marking contest and kick goals.

Benny didn't leave the forward 50 last week. His man did on multiple occasions. benny was knocked up before the centre chasing him. at one stage he was 80 metres behind. Williams is fast but if you give him a 20 metre start he is even faster. Benny was too interested in directing other players to notice his man was always 20 metres away. Unforgivable. Kizza, Macca & Rohan have to be aksed if they have the ticker for finals footy. They all looked @@@@e the other day as they did in 2014. Benny was crap that day too.

too many players directing other players but not paying attention to what their own man was doing. I'm sick of all the directors out there, why don't they all get jobs in theatre if they want to direct. I want players not directors. players do, directors give sometimes unwanted advice. Too much pointing from three of these four. I wonder who?

I'm a bit worried Crowes will pick Benny out as being as slow as a barrel laiden barge and put Smith on him. If they do he will carve benny up and carve us up. VERY worried about that. If Longmire is smart he'll play Benny under the resting ruck with instructions 'GO NOWHERE!STAY PUT IN THE :POCKET! JUST @@@@ING DO IT!' But he won't.

Mills was an impediment last week. As far as I could see he was tender from the first play. He wasn't making the contest and seemed to be limping off the ball in the first. Smithy had a pretty ordinary game for him and geve his player far too much room. Ramps was dreadful, his delivery was a disgrace and he allowed Cameron to fudge him every time like a @@@@ing amateur.

In all we played like a bunch of bottom liners from the district leagues. No protection for the player with the ball as everyone was too busy trying to get a cheap kick. our tackling has been down since the bye & was way down last week.

My point here is we had better bring our A game or we will get slaughtered. No players backing off the back of the contest looking for an easy ball. No player stopping straight after giving off, what about protecting the player you just gave to? Run, Run run and do it until you throw up. The crows are succeptable in the backline. If you exploit their weakness by getting the ball in quickly you can make them pay quickly. The Eagles did that really well. We have to have our mids going forward far quicker than theirs and every time because their mids start to drop off after a while which leaves them open. We need to exploit that laziness. They only have two mids that are great defensively, the rest are sometimes a bit lazy.

Back wise this is the perfect match for us as we match up very well on their forwards and even more so with Laids there. I know Mills is a star rada rada.

Our forwards need to lead up and our mids need to deliver the ball not waste it or bomb it. We went back to that dreadful old game plan last week. We also tried to play the GWS style of game and beat them that way. you know the one play on at all coists, well it cost. We can't fall into that this week. Play our own pass and kick game. set up the play. I'm a bit worried that a few of the older players aren't up to that game. Macca couldn't hit one player on the chest last week, he put at least 8 deliveries at player's feet. Most of the older more experienced players were dreadful and the mids were ordinary. Psarks has to really stand up and say I'm a big game player because he hasn't yet.

This is the last chance saloon. We need to wein and our attitude has to mirror that. If we go in like last week it will bwe all over red rover by quarter time. We need to play like there is a death sentence if we don't win. Our experienced players need to watch some other players;

Hodge; the way hwe never gives up, encourages, motivates and leads by example

Burgoyne; When the tough get going this bloke kills them with skill. He is the best spot fire player in the AFL. He makes every player stand up and be counted just because of his actions

Mitchell; What can you say about a bloke who had three disposals in the first quarter of a GF & 18 in the second leaduing to around 40 for the day. This bloke is a play maker.

Selwood; Leads by example, tough, never say die, at it all the time.

Voss; The best motivator in the history of the game. Tough, uncompromising, skilled, lead by example and directed traffic just like Hodge.

It would do our players good to look at the premierships these blokes won and take from them the key ingredients to what makes to great leader and premiership player.

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Noooo! RogueSwan ... WHY?! ... I live in SA ... they are intolerable enough when they win a regular season game ... if they win the big one, I'll have to move states! The supporters & media are insufferable!

I totally agree. Rather Doggies win than them. I don't want any of them to win of course I want us to win.

[kilroyII]

No way.
Would rather we lost the PF than another GF.
If it isn't us, I would like to see the Crows win.
Really put off by GWS after last week.
Dawks - obvious reasons.
Doggies - still remember the way they hunted Paul Kelly, bastards.
Cats - I don't like how they have "bought" their current team and there is already too much Dangerfield love any more would be nauseating.
which leaves the Crow

Out of all the teams sans swans to win the flag my support goes with the cats. Their fans and club are on the same level of professionalism and class as ours. The times I have gone to the cattery I have never ever had any issues nor has the banter been nasty like the other teams supporters, especially hawks and bombers. The 2005 flag I watched at a pub in Richmond full of swans fans and their were 3 cat supporters who kept me calm all game from the anxieties, cheered every goal with us and after the siren went they bought us all a round of drinks and celebrated with us like the cats won the flag.

Plus my arab neighbours are all massive cats fans.

And who could forget the respect they showed for McVeigh and then Goodsey.

Also they seem to be the only club in Vic who like us.

[wolftone57]

For umpires we have Farmer, Meredith and Jeffrey. Schmitt is the emergency - phew.

Are these umpires ok for us?

Hawthorn has Stevic, Nicholls and Donlon. Can't see the doggies winning with whorethorn having 2 extra players.

Our umps are pretty good actually. The standard of AFL umpiring has dropped to the worst since the one umpire era and they were only undermanned not incompetent like this mob. This team of umps are quite good.

the Hawks are going to get done by the umpies. Nichols was a Bullies supporter. When they had umpire profiles there was some interesting answers the umpires gave and his are telling. He hardly ever gives Bud a free, never has even when he was at Hawks. In Nichols last four games umpiring the western Bulldogs he has given the bullies an average od 10/1 frees. Last week he gave GWS plenty but even managed to miss marks for us. He doesn't like Sydney or Hawethorn. Hawks are in trouble. Stevic is a dreadful umpire too.

[stevoswan]

Out of all the teams sans swans to win the flag my support goes with the cats. Their fans and club are on the same level of professionalism and class as ours. The times I have gone to the cattery I have never ever had any issues nor has the banter been nasty like the other teams supporters, especially hawks and bombers. The 2005 flag I watched at a pub in Richmond full of swans fans and their were 3 cat supporters who kept me calm all game from the anxieties, cheered every goal with us and after the siren went they bought us all a round of drinks and celebrated with us like the cats won the flag.

Plus my arab neighbours are all massive cats fans.

And who could forget the respect they showed for McVeigh and then Goodsey.

Also they seem to be the only club in Vic who like us.

I agree. While they're pretty much my second team (Dad barracked for the Swans, Mum went for the Cats....I like them), when I attended the Swans-Cats game at Simmons in round 15(?), their fans were all class, at least in the Members Stand where I was, and took the loss with good grace. It may have been different in other areas of the stadium, but when I was walking back to my car a fair distance away, adorned in red and white, I was surrounded by Cats fans all the way and they were fine. I see them as sort of like a Victorian version of the Swans, good core values, play the game without malice, and a team of largely likable blokes.........and they're not from Melbourne.:tongue.....but if we win this weekend, I hope we smash then next week!

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Our umps are pretty good actually. The standard of AFL umpiring has dropped to the worst since the one umpire era and they were only undermanned not incompetent like this mob. This team of umps are quite good.

the Hawks are going to get done by the umpies. Nichols was a Bullies supporter. When they had umpire profiles there was some interesting answers the umpires gave and his are telling. He hardly ever gives Bud a free, never has even when he was at Hawks. In Nichols last four games umpiring the western Bulldogs he has given the bullies an average od 10/1 frees. Last week he gave GWS plenty but even managed to miss marks for us. He doesn't like Sydney or Hawethorn. Hawks are in trouble. Stevic is a dreadful umpire too.

But Stevic is a Hawk fan.....he and Nichols might cancel each other out. Who's the third ump?

[barry]

Mills came in injured. Start of the game had no bandages , looked tentative. With 10 minutes had his calf bandaged . Then "hamstring" same leg.

[mcs]

Our umps are pretty good actually. The standard of AFL umpiring has dropped to the worst since the one umpire era and they were only undermanned not incompetent like this mob. This team of umps are quite good.

the Hawks are going to get done by the umpies. Nichols was a Bullies supporter. When they had umpire profiles there was some interesting answers the umpires gave and his are telling. He hardly ever gives Bud a free, never has even when he was at Hawks. In Nichols last four games umpiring the western Bulldogs he has given the bullies an average od 10/1 frees. Last week he gave GWS plenty but even managed to miss marks for us. He doesn't like Sydney or Hawethorn. Hawks are in trouble. Stevic is a dreadful umpire too.

Stevic is well and truly enough to get the Hawks over the line.... see 2012 PF and 2014 PF for evidence.

I completely agree wolfy that umpiring is at a really low standard at the moment. But again it all comes back to one point - in a sport awash with ridiculous amounts of money, why the hell are the umpires still only semi-professional. Surely the investment needed to make them full time umpires would be worth it.

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No way.
Would rather we lost the PF than another GF.
If it isn't us, I would like to see the Crows win.
Really put off by GWS after last week.
Dawks - obvious reasons.
Doggies - still remember the way they hunted Paul Kelly, bastards.
Cats - I don't like how they have "bought" their current team and there is already too much Dangerfield love any more would be nauseating.
which leaves the Crow

I'd prefer to lose tomorrow or a prelim to a grand final, but if we had to lose on grand final day, the Doggies by far would be my choice of whats left on that side of the draw. At least a loss could be sullied a little by the thought that the Doggies got to enjoy the breaking of a huge premiership drought like we did. Not that I've ever forgotten what they use to do to Paul Kelly either!

[Maltopia]

Swans need to make GF for the club to make a financial profit this year, so I'd rather lose the GF than PF for the club not to be in the red.