For mine, burn em with pace:
McGrath Hurley Saad
Ambrose Goddard McKenna
Parish Zaharakis Myers
Stewart Daniher Stringer
Smith Hooker Walla
Bellcho Heppel Zerret
Baguley Green Begley Long
Emg: Langford Brown McKernan Hartley
Was at last game, ended up being impressed by Adelaideâs precision kicking through our players and just felt they were a class above. If we can not let them get easy uncontested disposals weâll go a long way to winning. Also recall we had a big out that game but canât remember who. We mounted a slight comeback as well if I remember correctly.
Merrett
Fixed
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Really need numbers back in the forward line - crowd it up, just like so many sides have done against us previously. Crowd up Betts, and congest the âairspaceâ in their forward 60-70. Get them on the counterattack. Give Adelaide too much space in the forward line and for many it will be off to Southern Cross to get the earlier train. Without Gleesonâs âinterceptâ, surely they have to entertain putting Hooker back there to do exactly that. Wasnât he the AFLâs leading intercept mark back in '14 or '15?
So you want to play on the Crows terms?
They got pantsed in the Grand final, not by crowding the backline, but by harassing their mids and half backs into poor delivery.
Few of their tall forwards are good at chasing.
They are also very much confidence based ( to put it politely)
When things didnât start well in the GF more bundles were dropped and fingers pointed than ⌠( insert demeaning metaphor here)
Pressure, contested footy, and maintaining a threatening forward line on our behalf is the obvious key.
Things did start well for them in the GF. They were well on top.
Then Richmond started to pick up some free kicks, and Adelaide never recovered.
Needless to say, we cannot rely on the free kick part giving us back the momentum.
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The last 2 premiers were heavily aided by the umps, almost like they wanted them to win.
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This is a very winnable game. Sure Adelaide made the Grand Final last year, but they were suspect all year away from home and I wasnât at all surprised that Richmond took them apart. And then Port took them apart this weekend.
As always, the key will be pressure all over the ground. No team likes continuous pressure, and Adelaide like it less than many.
Iâll be at Docklands expecting us to come out firing and keep on firing till the final siren. Iâll be disappointed if we donât win, and very disappointed if the reason we donât win is that we didnât go hard enough at them.
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Will Adelaide do an Eagles post 2015 GF where they were strong at home but struggled a bit away? Mind you they were unlucky winning 16 H&A and finishing 6th on the ladder!
Interesting to note the previous 3 seasons they finished with 13, 16 and 15 wins so theyâve been consistent. Essendon will need to bring the heat/pace to get over the line. Not as bullish about the result as I was in â17
Go Bombers!
Speculation in Sun saying Fogarty to replace Walker, and Doedee to come in for Lever.
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ED SHEERAN may have wowed a quarter of a million Melburnians last week, but his four mega concerts have done no favours for the surface at Etihad Stadium.
Ground staff are in a race to replace 4000 square metres of turf to have the oval ready for the seasonâs first premiership game on Friday week between Essendon and Adelaide.
Most of the work is being done at the Coventry end of the venue, where the stage was in place for the concert series which ran for four consecutive nights, ending last Sunday.
âFollowing Ed Sheeranâs incredible record-breaking series of four concerts at Etihad Stadium, we will be replacing approximately 4000 sq m of turf, with works already underway,â Etihad Stadium chief executive Michael Green confirmed to AFL.com.au.
The AFL-owned Docklands venue will host two games in the opening round of the season, beginning with the Bombers-Crows Friday night clash followed by a Saturday twilight contest between St Kilda and Brisbane.
Stadium management has assured clubs the arena will be ready to go.
âThe turf will be in great shape and ready for round one,â Green said.
Damn I was just about to post my own photo, here for other reasons.
ha - well I just updated it for accuracy.
If they do play Fogarty, Lynch, Jenkins and McGovern weâre definitely going to have to play one of brown or Hartley
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Crows officials very concerned about the state of the turf at Etihad, still a chance of a venue change.
Wowee.
That would be some ballsup. Has to be a better way of doing these concerts without ruining turf everytime.
Yeah right. Itâll be at Etihad. Every time this gets spoken of, never happens
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Everything the AFL touches turns to â â â â .
You think they would protect the game first rather trying to line their coffers.
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