AFL 2021
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fucking windy in Cairns today so set your expectations even lower than they already were for Dees v Freo tonight
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Geelong look the class team at the moment, though that mantle has been held by West Coast, Brisbane, Port Adelaide and Richmond at various points over the last month.
You'd be surprised to see the winner come from outside that group though. I'd back in a Geelong/Richmond final but wouldn't shock me to see West Coast or Brisbane there.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2020:
Geelong look the class team at the moment, though that mantle has been held by West Coast, Brisbane, Port Adelaide and Richmond at various points over the last month.
You'd be surprised to see the winner come from outside that group though. I'd back in a Geelong/Richmond final but wouldn't shock me to see West Coast or Brisbane there.
given West Coast look destined for 5th, and will be stuck in Qld where they appear to stink, i think i would be shocked.
Richmond v Geelong looking very likely. Don't they play each other this weekend?
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@mariner4life West Coast may well struggle in the hub, but their best footy is arguable better than any other team in the competition. That game against Collingwood was scary.
I can see them scrapping their way into a Prelim final, and then all it takes is one good day and they are in the GF. Not sure if they can produce that, but if they do then they are very hard to beat.
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@barbarian it's a good point, they do have the best potential. I'm just concerned by their level at the moment.
If they get everyone fit and healthy they will be a handful
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West coast look impressive , have a lot of great players ,
if there is an issue , their game plan relys on perfect execution , chip mark, chip mark , long kick mark , they like to keep the ball off the ground and take a lot of uncontested marks , looks beautiful when its coming off ,
Sometimes under the heat of a high pressure game such as finals, that becomes the most difficult type of gameplan to perfectly execute , and if they do have a weakness its the ball hitting the deck ,
i probably rate geelong ahead of them right now but both are right in it
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my only thing with Geelong is
I've seen them look good right up until finals before, and then they fall apart
This year looks better though. And Hawkins is almost unplayable.
I actually think the finals will be fucking close, and if someone is ever going to win from the bottom half of the 8, then this is the year for it.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2020:
my only thing with Geelong is
I've seen them look good right up until finals before, and then they fall apart
This year looks better though. And Hawkins is almost unplayable.
I actually think the finals will be fucking close, and if someone is ever going to win from the bottom half of the 8, then this is the year for it.
Chris Scott won a premiership in his first year of coaching them , but took over a champion side ,
Since then has 4 wins from 15 finals
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2020:
fucking windy in Cairns today so set your expectations even lower than they already were for Dees v Freo tonight
Fuckity fuck fuck. Another game lost and the enigma continues. After barely looking like we knew where our forward 50 was through three quarters, we then piled on the pressure in Q4 and almost, almost, looked capable of stealing the win.
I'd love to see a Melbourne's Q4 stats vs the rest of the game.
So now we can't make the 8 on the back of our own results. We might be in the mix for another two weeks yet but it's gonna be a fucking hard watch.
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Conditions were miserable. Freo just worked harder for most if the game. Neither side has a functioning forward line.
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Still good to be at live footy. Next up swans v lions on Sunday
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2020:
Conditions were miserable. Freo just worked harder for most if the game. Neither side has a functioning forward line.
Yeah, Weiderman just isn't as prominent as he needs to be, Fritsch isn't big enough and MacDonald has been dropped. And when we pushed May forward he was there or there abouts but also couldn't take a mark.
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@shark i like May. He's a unit who runs around and likes to hurt people.
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Demons are cooked. After a very good performance against the Saints and Petracca looking like a top 5 player in the league, they have slumped to two bad losses and won’t make the 8.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2020:
@shark i like May. He's a unit who runs around and likes to hurt people.
Yep, but didn't have the desired impact when pushed forward. Love him on defence though.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2020:
Demons are cooked. After a very good performance against the Saints and Petracca looking like a top 5 player in the league, they have slumped to two bad losses and won’t make the 8.
You shuddup.
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And the Dees live again because there is something completely rotten at GWS. That club just cannot figure it all out. They have talent everywhere, and serious talent, but they just can't get themselves to be a complete package.
They made a GF 12 months ago, and got absolutely flogged. They should be hungry as hell, but they just don't seem to have the drive.
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We've got GWS on Saturday night so I reckon I'll watch that on the big screen (as opposed to ipad in bed tonight) and annoy the shit out of the wife if we play well with some yelling and stuff.
how did i miss this? Two pea-hearted outfits "battling" it out to make the 8.
I'm backing the draw. With a late shot at goal to win it missing.
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Yeah no idea what's going wrong at GWS. That said Adelaide actually look pretty decent at the moment, a long way from the guaranteed 4 points they were a few months ago.
In other news, Carlton came back from 37 down to beat the Swans late. A fun sort of game, you could make the argument both teams could have won by 20+.
I'm not sure if the Blues are a good team, but they have a knack of staying in games that in previous years they would have lost comfortably. For all the talk of Tom Papley or Zac Williams I think the team is in desperate need of another ball-winner in midfield, to complement Cripps and Walsh.
