Now I hate to criticise the Anzac Day preparations , but there is no need for us to go all, “sentimental” over the build up.
Our players just need to be told a simple message:
The Anzacs went onto the battlefield and had to fight for their lives, as it is in all war.
This cant be stressed enough.
I think our players will also be fired up after their pathetic first half against Adelaide. Expect a tough game. It’s make or break for both teams.
We’re so ■■■■■■ this game.
Elliott and fassolo will have a field day. Their midfield is better than ours and also apply some defensive pressure, something ours does not. Our forwards will smash their defenders but won’t get enough supply
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Aaron Francis played both forward and in the middle, finishing with a goal, seven tackles and six marks
Craig Bird was also busy with 23 disposals.
Worsfold needs to make this as a statement game If you are not prepared to tackle and run both ways you get dropped.
To be fair, the media have already had a crack at our “returning players” and said they’re letting the team down. If that doesn’t fire them up, I don’t know what will!!
Nothing the Pies do at the moment is comfortable. They have beaten a bunch of young Swans by one point. The same Swans that haven’t won a game yet. Pies are in a deeper mess than we are right now.
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I agree and I think he will
Hey if Hartley get punched in the nose again well be able to get a better view if his missus 
As posted in the review thread, I’d make these changes.
IN: Dea, Stewart, Gleeson
OUT: Baguley, Brown, McKenna
Send Hooker back to partner Hurley & watch them both flourish in this back six: Dea, Hooker, Ambrose, McGrath, Hurley, Kelly.
Stewart comes in to play key forward, strangely enough the role we recruited him for. Dea to match up on Fasolo or Elliott.
P.S. I’d also consider bringing Hocking in for Stants purely to play on (and hopefully nullify) Pendlebury or Sidebottom.
We need more Hartley.
In: Hartlet, Dea, Gleeson, Francis
Out: Stanton, Baguley, Brown, Langford
Watched a bit of the pies today & their forward line looked terrible. Having said that it has to be the worst game Treloar has played for them & even Pendlebury was well down - I don’t think we are even capable of putting that level of defensive pressure through the middle so I can easily see their mids having a field day & feeding guys like Moore (who’s only kicked 1 goal this year) & making their ordinary forward line look world class.
After it rebounds off his own arm and the goal review strangely misses it.
Out: Z. Merrett off a back flank.
In: Z. Merrett in the guts at least 85% of gametime.
Pies were seriously poor today and I can’t imagine that Pendelbury & Treloar would be that quiet again. Also Elliot will be better for the run.
However, Saints should have won that by 100 points. At one point during the last quarter they had had 20 of the last 21 I50s in the game and I think only kicked 1 goal that whole time. Saints did a complete number on them after quarter time.
It was the Saints non stop running, set up by Collingwood kicking to their spare defender for most of the game that set the win up. Saints were trounced 40-22 in clearances and 152-138 for contested possession but Pies simply kept turning the ball over to them and then the Saints would set up from behind and use their fleet of runners to cut a swathe through the Pies’ zone.
We have to hope the Pies are just as poor by foot on Anzac Day else we could be touched up due to our very poor clearance and contested ball numbers this year.
Out: Pissweak bruise free footy (I mean FFS, 16 tackle to fuckung half time).
In: Manic attack at the ball and opposition player.
Its all about the midfield, if we break even in the middle we win easy. There fwd line and backline are ordinary, but if there mids are walking it out of the center, they only have to be ordinary to win easy.
Ten day break, so basically see who pulls up ok. Nothing to do with how they played (which was poor) perhaps one or two of Hepp, Watson, Stants, Hurley or Kelly. But if they are all fresh they all play.
My biggest worry is the ruck. Broodie Grundy is in form and playing very well. Id actually think about playing smack before Luey at the moment. Luey has been very average around the ground, winning the taps is not enough. We have not lost a game that Smack has played in this year. He adds much needed speed to the midfield. Just setup to loose the taps. If you watch the last two games Lueys ruckwork was doing nothing for us to win us the clearances despite winning the knocks.
We need speed, speed, speed on the ball, it made a world of difference from midway through the second onward once we introduced some speed. I think the coaches are onto this now, and despite been smashed have learnt heaps from it.
We also need to setup better in the center. I don’t care if they win the clearance just as long as its not a clean one. Quality of clearances matters more then quantity. Speed combined with a better setup should ensure this.
This game will be won or lost in the center.
Our backline holds up well if there is pressure on the ball carrier. Our fwd line is fine when we move it quickly like we have been.