I have no stats to back this up in any way at all BUT we seem to play a lot of 50/50 games in round one and win the majority of them.
Bring the pressure, Dons.
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The one youāve all failed to mention who I believe is their most important player is Toby Greene. Who gets him first up? I wouldnāt mind Hurley taking him.
Ambrose - Cameron
Hurley - Greene
Franga - Himmelberg
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They led with their faces.
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Have you taken enough learnings?
I think you should take some learnings.
Who have you got Oirish & Saad on?
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Any of their mediocre smalls in Daniels, Lloyd, De Boer, Reid, Langdon
I think Hurley played his best footy last year when he was given a lockdown task first and foremost.
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Oh burnnn
This is a massive factor. He knows their whole game plan barring what theyāve worked on over the last few months. The Hawks havenāt been able to beat Brisbane once since Hodge went up there. And youāre talking top 4 vs bottom 4 sides.
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How about a tripartite including STEW , fired up vfl finals styleeee (in the side after brown receives a ākickā to the calf)
Yep.
Smith is our barometer and, a few cheap niggles aside, looked nowhere near fully engaged vs the cats.
We will be a different team with the Devonstater in full flight.
Nah mate. Heās been told not to run past team mates in order to lay tackles anymore.
Expect more pointing and yelling from Devon this year.
Heāll still be a tackling machine.
??? Genuinely donāt get this post?
If, as all the analysts say, it all starts in the midfield, we have a massive advantage on paper over them.
Ruck. TBell should give us first use far more often than their ruck ( never heard of him). As a chop out SMack should be able to keep us competitive in this department.
Big Bodied Mids. GWS do not have any to put on the park. Taranto and Hopper are the closest to that, but nowhere near Myers Langford and Stringer in terms of body, but might be a bit faster, so we need to watch that.
Centre Midfielder: Coniglio is a gun, but then again so is Shiel, and if Hepp plays centre midfield he is no slouch either.
Outside Mids. Kelly is a gun, with Zaka and Delideo cancelling them out, Zerret is probably as good as Kelly. Maybe not as fast, but has lethal disposal into F50.
Mid Depth. GWS fall away rapidly. We have much better first change mids, and even at the 3rd level we have Tippa, Fanta, Langford.
We should be able to beat them in the midfield TBH, thats their weak point
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Shiel will be so competitive in this game. Heās been spoken about all pre-season as being GWS 4th/5th best midfielder which i think is a little harsh. Heāll have a point to prove.
GWS are my special bet for the weekend.
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Love zach, but he is not in the same class as Josh Kelly.
Kelly has the capacity to be as good as Dangerfield. Will be a great battle for sure.
The difference will be depth. How our 4th to say 7th best mids play. They will need to match some serious talent at GWS.
We have the edge in the ruck and I think its a damn shame we are missing our best bookends as I think thatās where our natural advantage is against the giants.
Im a bit worried about Greene or Cameron getting off the leash. But all sides would worry about that.
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I actually think Zach is in the same class as Kelly. Lets re-visit it in 12 weeks though.
Its hard to compare these 2 players ( Zach also plays on the inside having 4x more centre clearances last year ), but while Kelly is ranked as elite in more outside play stats, this gives a better picture of relative performance over the last few games. Kelly is a bit off his best, it would seem.
Physically I think Kelly is a better mover.
My view is Kelly takes the best bits of Shiel(movement in traffic) and Zach(disposal). He is a special player.
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