Braithy wrote:
lol ... this is nowhere near a 50-50 game, old mate. take the blue blinkers off and take a deep breath. i think if we brought in 3 or 4 at most players and went with a couple of kids that never put a foot wrong in the final rounds, and made ourselves as mobile as humanly possible, we would have been a chance.
don't laugh at st kilda & their form. they had a top 4 profile in the final 4 weeks of the season, and killed the cats and beat the swans. and we took them to within 12 seconds of beating them - and we did it with pressure and turnover. which incidentally has been the lions kryptonite all season long
the dour possession, slow build up to contests, long bombs onto forward's heads doesn't work, and doesn't win games. cats showed what does, hard running both ways, speed and pressure on the ball and clever forward entries into space.
maybe youth was the wrong word for the cats. mannagh, lawson humpheries, max holmes, Gryan Miers, Brad Close etc
no hawkins, guthrie, de koning, tom stewart and rohan.
of them, hawkins, guthrie and sam could have all played, and if it was a prelim or gf they coulda risked tom stewart as well. but they had faith in their system and the players coming in to play their system, run hard both ways and tackle all night long.
... meanwhile at carlton, it's bring in 6 changes of varying underdone players to go with durdin and his dislocated shoulder and cross your fingers and shut your eyes and hope for the best.
pittonet and tdk are all out rucks; and other than the one game Vs the giants where tdk kicked a few (by clunking a few lucky marks that landed on his head) in all the other games he's shown he has little forward craft and isn't a forward.
H and tdk and kemp will apply very little ground ball pressure and turnover, and motlop and durdin aren't that much better in that department. lord have mercy, durdin is one bump from a dislocation and having his night ended.
according to everyone we're making up the numbers, and other than you, i haven't met anyone who thinks we're a show with this selected team. if we lose, i'd have rather gone down swinging with fit players under no injury clouds, applying pressure until the final whistle like we did against the saints.
instead, we're staring down a blowout of hawks magnitude, if one or two go down before HT.
i just wanted us to go into the game with less risk on big names with injury clouds, back our system and swarm & hunt.
a question for you - the cats backed their system and allowed underdone players another week. does voss and Co bringing in the big guns who may or may not finish the game, mean they don't have the same faith in their very own system? bcos that's how these selections read to me.
thanks for the response.
I thought you were exaggerating about the Geelong youth, just as you are suggesting I'm the only one who thinks its a 50-50 game. I'm sorry to tell you mate, but outside of the dark clouds within TC the feeling is its a 50-50 game for many reasons. Its our system vs their system. They gave speed we have grunt. I've seen underdogs with grunt, desire and hunger beat speed in Finals plenty of times to know, that in Finals, form during the season counts for nothing, like percentage. I know they are favourites for good reasons. Its still a 50-50 game. I dont know how to explain that.
Do you really think 10000 Carlton fans have travelled all the way to Brisbane paying $500 one way and $1000 a night accomodation to watch a team who has zero chance? There's plenty of confidence and plenty to look forward to. If our players dwell on the negativity spruiked on this site, they will lose.
Ive read enough articles and heard many footy commentators tell their audience what it will take for Carlton to win this game. Why? Because its possible. Evenb Dwayne didnt say we are making up the numbers and said we have the list and coach to go all the way. But you choose to have Kane Cornes as the voice of SEN and the people and respect his voice as the only voice. I don't. I keep my eyes and ears open, and we will se. Win or lose, its a cut throat final I just want our boys to give it their best and hope Nathan umpires fairly.
90% of the game is above the shoulders. Brizzy will shit thei pants if we have the momentum. We can only wait and see.
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