First Semi Final: Swans v Crows

[Nico]

The kids were great. Benny lives again. Papley excellent. Heeney has perhaps found his niche. McVeigh never looked right. Fingers crossed for Gazza. Marsh kept Lynch very quiet. Go Bloods!

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Someone did say earlier this week that a friend had seen McVeigh at a clinic for scans.

[kilroyII]

Probably. Assuming neither McVeigh nor Mills are available, he'd be a logical choice to play across half-back.

Who replaces Rohan in the forward line will be an interesting call. In terms of like-for-like, Towers is the most logical replacement but he didn't do himself many favours in last week's NEAFL GF. Rose could be the lucky one to come into the team.

I thought Towers as soon as Rohan went down, my only concern with towers is his tackling, its doesn't exist, something we will miss with rohan.

I hope Jones gets up BUT a heavy knock like that takes a few weeks to recover.

[aardvark]

Definitely, depending on how his concussion testing is going starting with the SCAT3 test

I'm sure Hanners said Jones still hasn't passed any tests.

[kilroyII]

I am still concerned at our lack of pace, shall we make it both dogs and the fluros worry me with their leg speed. A few times we were burnt tonight.

[barry]

For a game that so many struggled to get tickets to, 38,136 was perhaps a little disappointing.

But ...

Stalker. Check out 09183305's posting history. Weird.

[kilroyII]

Stalker. Check out 09183305's posting history. Weird.

who cares, lets enjoy the win!

Parker took a knock and was a bit quiet after that, hope he is ok.

[barry]

I am still concerned at our lack of pace, shall we make it both dogs and the fluros worry me with their leg speed. A few times we were burnt tonight.

Me too. With rohan out we need towers back and firing.

However i think we match up will against geelong so a big chance next week.

[Auntie.Gerald]

no ted
no reid
no mills
no sinclair
no tip
no jones
no AJ / Talia

missing second half gas and macca

amazing effort by the BLOODS

i can't think of any team in the top 8 that had 7 top 22 players out and replaced by young ones who truly stepped up to make this victory possible??

imagine GWS winning without the equivalent positional players???

no davis
no patten
no williams
no lobb
no mummy
no wilson
no hayne

[goswannies]

Someone did say earlier this week that a friend had seen McVeigh at a clinic for scans.

AnnieH

[kilroyII]

You know the narrative is all about the bulldogs but heck to rebuild on the run with new young players should be tlked about a lot more!!

And yeah the bont is good, but heeney is better.

[goswannies]

who cares, lets enjoy the win!

Parker took a knock and was a bit quiet after that, hope he is ok.

agreed!

[kilroyII]

Me too. With rohan out we need towers back and firing.

However i think we match up will against geelong so a big chance next week.

I think we will beat cats and if gws beat the dogs i rekon we win BUT if dogs win they will be riding on such a massive wave of emotion and huge support and they seem to have the resilience to deal with it, they win. They have the contested footy and speed to beat us.

[goswannies]

I think we will beat cats and if gws beat the dogs i rekon we win BUT if dogs win they will be riding on such a massive wave of emotion and huge support and they seem to have the resilience to deal with it, they win. They have the contested footy and speed to beat us.

Think back to 1996

[Buzz80]

Yeah we were given the option for the fri nite final due to being the higher ranked team but apperently we declined. Not sure why as crows would have had less break and would have given us 7 days lead in to the prelim. Seems strange now that we have a 6 day break v doggies with 8 day break.

6 day break may hurt us next week. Is it true that we were given the option to play last night? But it would have meant we would have only had 6 day break for the semi.

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[stevoswan]

You know the narrative is all about the bulldogs but heck to rebuiled on the run with new young players should be tlked about a lot more!!

And yeah the bont is good, but heeney is better.

The Bont is very special, but Heeney will be more special.