Any loss is going to be a bad loss losing at same venue twice in a row. It's not really an option dropping four points here but would make up for the disappointment if the lads put on a performance that we mean business this year
Jack Carroll has been developing quietly past three years and deserves a good early run at it with Walsh out; his contract is up this year and makes sense to give him a chance to shine.
No team is invincible, and particularly if the opposition has a plan and is ruthless in its execution.
Missing Weiters, Walsh, Martin, Silvagni and Motlop hurts, but premiership teams are able to cover injured players, no matter how important they are. Think of Richmond losing Rance.
Vossy and his assistants would have spent a fair amount of the off season replaying our prelim loss and figuring out how to reverse the result. If they’ve got that right, and the players can execute the plan, we’re a good chance to knock the cocky blighters off their perch.
Exactly - lets see Cripps, Cerra, Hewett, Kennedy, Acres and Docherty at their brutal relentless best.
I cant help but think we need Pitto AND TDK to really work OMac over. It worked well in the PF for a large part of the game. Im sure one day TDK will be the solo big dog in the Ruck for us like OMac and Gawn. From what I have seen of Tom to date, he isn't there yet and the 1-2 combo of him and Pitto is what works best for us right now. We'll know by roughly this time in 3 nights.
Daniher will ruck and fully expect Harry to relieve ruck against him as .. TDK needs to beat Oscar around the ground and give him a 5-7minute spell every quarter. Our big worry is their run and ball players if we cant keep up with their ball movement and limit the supply to our backline then we are good as done... game will be won on the ground with run imo.