The selected team vs Norf (2019 round 17): no change, but shenanigans with the VFL team naming

Fairybread · July 12, 2019, 4:08am

Ha. Looks like a snapchat filter has been used.

Stallion · July 12, 2019, 4:11am

It’s on there website, tomorrow is not a replacement game.

Stallion · July 12, 2019, 4:12am

SO IN LAV WITH LAV

handypoint · July 12, 2019, 4:16am

North smashed Collingwood…

On form very capable of doing the same.

We wont have the free kick count Saturday like we have enjoyed the last two weeks to stifle momentum.

Hard match.

Lance84 · July 12, 2019, 4:25am

Most bookies are on us. Although there must be some money going on North because the odds are getting very close.

choppsuey · July 12, 2019, 4:28am

There’s been a stack of money on North. They’ve come in from about $2.20 earlier in the week. They’ve been smashed. Be good to make a bunch of idiots lose a stack of money.

Genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they started favourites.

handypoint · July 12, 2019, 4:32am

We just announced two coaches to go.

Put the house on us.

Lance84 · July 12, 2019, 4:45am

They timed it better for finals this year!

Anabelle · July 12, 2019, 5:01am

Good ya going in underdogs

darkknightpheonix · July 12, 2019, 5:03am

choppsuey:

darkknightpheonix:

it’s not about tipping your favourite team to win, that’s fair enough.

it’s the total lack of acknowledgement that they’ve done anything, or that they are playing well that is the issue, and just assuming we will roll them easily.

like i said, there seems to be a theme when that sort of attitude pops up on here, that the team inevitable have a poor game.

is it a 25-1 game probably not. would you have any issue if it was the opposite way around and last year in the back half of the season ?
or would you have thought that tipsters had every right to back the most inform team at present ?

The point I’m making is that folk saying we’ll walk it in are the same ones that haven’t got any awareness of how well anyone else is playing and say the same thing constantly. Grain of salt for that stuff.

As to North’s form… Form is about more than just the number of wins and losses. Everyone keeps sighting the Pies and Tigers results as pointers to North Melbourne’s form but the quality of those wins is dramatically over stated by the form of the sides they beat. They beat an injury depleted Tigers at a ground where they struggle and the Pies are genuinely on the precipice both on field and off.

I’ve maintained that North will be far far far better than the last time we played them but are eminently beatable and I think that our strengths very much set up well against them. We match up well against them, even without Heppell. This is a genuinely 50:50 game and the lopsided tipping against us is the best example of bias at work.

would you say the same about us ?
is the GWS win overstated cos they’ve lost 2 in a row and aren’t in good form ? plus having injuries galore yet again ?
or is it offset cos we have injuries and so on.

yes they beat an injured depleted richmond, we couldn’t. yes they beat a iffy collingwood, but again i’m betting if the tables were reversed and it was us that had of won the games, people around here would be using it as a fine example of how well we are going.

hell we have people doing that now, running around like it’s an achievement to be 4th form rated team since rd 11, having played 3 teams below us.

I’m not having a go at you fwiw, you seem to be balanced enough to see both sides.
I agree it’s a 50/50 game, but i also think if essendon play with the same poor skill level as the last few weeks, and north are even just 10% better than last time, it could get ugly.

all comes down to norths skills, if they have a good day, IMO we are ■■■■■■. if they have a iffy day then we probably win.

Anabelle · July 12, 2019, 5:04am

Heart Bombers as he is a fan

Head North

Where I’m at

Lance84 · July 12, 2019, 5:06am

I’m not concerned about North.

Lance84 · July 12, 2019, 5:10am

They’ve also lost to a lot of teams we’ve beaten. It’s not a great argument either way.

wannabe · July 12, 2019, 5:10am

Smash Hits 87 was a ripper- I turned 10 that year and my favorite song was The Final Countdown.

Heffsgirl · July 12, 2019, 5:11am

Pump these ■■■■■.

Anyone of my vintage knows the hatred runs deep for this ■■■■ ant of a club.

Fairybread · July 12, 2019, 5:14am

Most of the media types have tipped North because they have jumped on the Shaw bandwagon - they are in love with Shaw - “isn’t he just so refreshing”.

The rest may have actually done a proper assessment of form and injuries.

Michael_Long_Legend · July 12, 2019, 5:19am

FMD it must get confusing following a mob who play home games that aren’t home games then have away games that are home games. Arseholes.

Lance84 · July 12, 2019, 5:29am

I actually think the opposite. They’re pumping him up so North have a really hard decision to make. Better story that way.

choppsuey · July 12, 2019, 5:40am

There’s some definite caveats on that win. To be honest I felt like GWS barely got it out of 3rd fear all night and thought they had it won.

You see I actually reckon if we torch the footy going I50 like we have it’ll just be close and tight like our games have been owing to our sound defensive structures. But we’ve absolutely got the strengths to run over the top of them as the game opens up and there was signs last week that they were starting to tire.
I just don’t see this being a blowout at all unless we legit don’t show up a la Rnd 1 or West Coast. Big part of the game will be our ability to break up their long kicks down the line and then transition from those.

Red_Territory · July 12, 2019, 5:52am

I understand everyones edginess. Our form this year has been up and down and very frustrating.

I truly believe we have turned the corner. A bit like last year only earlier.

Keep cunnington, Zeibel and that hairy ■■■■ who has a 100 meter run up (this helps with his meters gained stat) and they have farking nothing

We will smash these farkers and destroy their confidence for the next decade.