ScottSaunders2 wrote:
adelaide are a very good side, with a huge amount of depth with the right age group having the right amount of game experience ... they have a few injuries as well ... if they can get their heads right (a.k.a. get over the grand final loss of last year) they should be playing in a gf this year.
lets not underestimate just how good adeliade as i side is. they could easily go 2 gf's in a row. id suggest they played their worst game in two years against the tigers in the gf too, so we could very easily be talking about this side going back to back.
their first quarter was superb. just about the perfect quarter. one of the best exectued quarters of football i have seen for sometime.
i thought our second quarter was the best quarter of football we have played this year. we play like that for four quarters and we will win more games of footy than we lose.
its there. we have it, we just dont have the consistency from quarter to quarter let alone week in week out.
soem of the moves and players from dow/fisher/cripps where outstanding, mckay shows plenty in the forward line. Weitering is going to dominate the AFL, he jsut needs to believe. Hopefully he starts to build the confidence up (getting 17+ marks in the VFL should help)
its been an interesting process this year, but for the first time in a long time i feel like we have an actualy spine that we can build around.
weitering - marchbank - cripps - curnow - mckay thats 5 names that will play footy for 10 years! and now we have to build around that and we are.
i dont think its anywhere near as bad as the 0-7 sounds, but its going to be a tough year. Losing Docherty and Gibbs as hurt more than i thought it would.
Good summary. We have so many of our best 22 either out injured or returning though VFL...Pickett, Williamson, Docherty, Cunningham, Murphy would all give us much needed leg speed and skill. Shame Lebois apparently got injured yesterday too, as he could be the zippy forward we desperately need to add pressure to the opposition's defence.