you'd think sporn would have the job on hird, however, there has been word around the campfire that sporny is carrying a slight knee injury sustained in the wizzer G/F. this would explain his poor form last week. he may be nearing 100% fitness, but may not be able to run with hird for the entire match.
wouldn't mind cory going with hird. he has a lot more pace than hird so might be able to hurt the bombers going the other way. he would make hird more accoutnable than sporny would. i think this is the key to playing on james hird. not only do you need to shut him down, but you need to make him accountable. too many times hird as allowed to run around without any accountability to his direct opponent because all his opponent is interested in is stopping hird from getting it. i feel that it is something that could be exploited, and cory could well be the man to do it. this would particulalry get up the nose of Essendon* supporters as well
i'm looking for a big effort from barney. this is Essendon*'s major achilles heal. their ruckstocks are (i can't believe this) a mile behind ours. just need to make sure that he gets his taps to our advantage (somewhere in the general vacinity of kouta would do nicely). i have no doubt that the likes of johnson, solomon, and hird will be trying to rove to barneys taps, so he must be aware of where they are.
our mids should get the job done against theirs. and with quick clean supply i'm hoping that fev and whitnall can get on top of fletcher and bradley. the fletcher V fev atch-up will be fascinating. hopefully the coaching staff have come up with some decent strategies to get fev away from fletcher's gadget arms. Fletcher has ahd the wood on fev, so it would be great to see fev get a bag against him. what i do hope is that our mids realise taht if fletcher gets on top of fev, that there are other avenues to goal. we need the likes of deluca and davies to stand up. we need a player to help fev out this week. if he is going to get on top of fletcher, he will need other players to give him some assistance providing blocks etc so fev can just get that couple of yards break on him on the lead.
the bombers have got definite issues with goal kicking ability. Lucas is their obvious threat, and without T-bird and Livo, Diggers and Norman will have to be on their game.i think Norman will get the job on Lucas. Karl has the ability and seems to play his best football when he is assigned a definitive task. i have faith. the CFC has kept the faith. it time for Karl to show that the faith was deserved.
a week ago i would have thought we'd belt the bombers tonight, however after last week's debacle, the confidence has been a bit lessened. still think we should win, but it may be a little closer than first thought. don't care what the margin, but it is vitally important that the blues chalk up win #1 for 2005. if we are seriously going to be around the cusp of the 8, it's games like these ones taht we simply cannot drop. no excuses this week boys. go get 'em. GO BLUES!!!
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