It’s a fair call.
I hope they are wrong of course.
Fact remains, GWS have played a couple of very tough Finals and expended emotional energy fighting for those wins by under a goal margin (on top of the first final where they went at the Dogs physically).
What do they have left ?
That’s the Million Dollar question…
Geelong did push Richmond - so they are gettable.
And I missed the start of the GWS vs Collingwood game - did either side do the power stance?
Giants will win it. Nobody can match their physicality and intensity. Taylor and Davis are perfect match ups for Reiwoldt and Lynch, Haynes perfect for Martin. GWS keep extremely good defensive structure and put heaps of pressure on handballing teams - Tigers game plan.
Lets not forget how badly GWS smashed them this year.
I also watched a 16 year old Cognilio kick 4 in a WAFL grand final too, winning swan districts their first flag in 20 years by a point. If he gets up, back him for the norm smith.
He hasn’t played footy in 10 weeks.
Remember the last time Hardwick and Caracella were together and encountered an interstate team in the big dance, looking for their first flag?
I hope this ends the same way.
Yep, it’s a big call to play him.
I know they probably will, and if I was a selector I possibly would also, but you are disrupting a team that has won 3 Finals against very good opposition.
This isn’t any way comparable to our situation in 2001 when we played Hird and Mercuri injured.
Their replacements would have been Cory McGrath and Bolton.
Hardly inspiring INS.
GWS actually have depth though and all these guys are playing a role.
Personally think it might be a mistake to play ALL of Whitfield, Cogs and Davis under duress.
Sheeeds
Not sure about Whitfield being a certainty, recovering from appendicitis in < 10 days?
Yep. But with the way players like to just up and leave GWS you’d be cautious of not selecting those bloke to play in the Grand Final. Dev left GWS because they didn’t play him in week 1 of finals.
McIntosh and Ross left out of VFL GF in case needed next week.
Please be Adam Treloar or Taylor Adams
Or both…
Will Hoskin-Elliott? Jed Lamb?
Former Bombers: Jonathan Giles and Shaun Edwards?
Serious note: How about Callan Ward or Stevie J?
Already confirmed sheedy
GWS would have won in 2016 as well had they got over the Bulldogs in the Prelim. They had beaten Sydney 3x times already that year. Twice easily.
I understand he had a key-hole type operation which creates the least amount of disturbance. From the sound of things he should be right unless he contracts an infection.
Pfft. Watever. Cotchin is a gun. Wish we had a player like him.
So how do you feel about Long’s head high hit in the 2000 Grand final? You play tough in finals or you ■■■■ off. Cotchin is twice as tough as our toughest player
Or perhaps how do you feel about Dean Wallis vs Mil Hanna in 93. Cotchin plays the perfect finals brand of football. So do all the Richmond players. I’d kill for any of our players to have their toughness and ferocity
Long’s shirtfront was terrible and a low point of his career.
That was a different time, but jeez he could have done serious damage to the spine of that player.
Luckily he didn’t.
We do have a player like Cotchin, it’s Heppell.
I have a particular disdain for Mitchell and Cotchin because I do not believe they should have accepted the Brownlow Medal.
That’s just my personal opinion, and it will never change until such time that proof becomes available that Jobe was given a prohibitive substance.
Given the rules in place in 2017, Cotchin was lucky to play in the GF, though I concede that in isolation it would be unlucky to miss a Granny solely on that incident.
You can’t blame him for accepting it. He hasn’t bragged about it and said Jobe didn’t deserve his. You can be angry at Hawthorn and Richmond supporters who might say that. Cotchin is not to blame. He didn’t want to be on the AFL’s wrong side by taking a stand and embarrassing them. He had and has a lot of responsibility to do the right thing for his club who were a joke until blokes like him turned their culture around.