Mickstar wrote:
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.
Like your work Scott.............too lazy to come up with something myself but i reckon your summary is spot on.......................except i would like to add that you could exchange Kennedy with Jack.We seem to have a fascination with big midfielders at the moment..........Jack given time could fill this void.
I too like this summary. Fisher was impressive. The Crows are quality and Fisher showed quality. He can only improve which is a lot to look forward to. Its something I've always noticed about good players, they seem to have that nanosecond more time with the ball in hand than the average player. You know what I mean?
Big Harry up forward is what I'm excited about the most. How long has it been since we've had anything up forward? Fevola? Has it been that long? I think it has. At last a target up forward. Add Curnow to the mix, I'm very excited about our forward options at long last.
If things continue to suck for the rest of the season we might do even better at the draft and that should be the last top up we need to have a real crack at September action. Dare I say dynasty? ...