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    Quote Originally Posted by stevoswan View Post
    Titus O'Rielly's view of Friday night game.......GOLD! :

    "Sydney v Hawthorn (SCG) 7.50pm

    It�s been awhile since this wasn�t a top eight clash. Instead, this year we get 12th taking on 17th.

    For Sydney, it�s 12th with a bullet, as they are now playing somewhere near what we all expected pre-season.

    If they can get a win here, they�ll be flying with a spectacular record of 4-6! That could be enough to clinch a finals spot this season. If the AFL had its way, everyone would get the chance to play finals each year.

    I think this wildcard thing is nonsense. Why don�t the AFL just let the Pies pay to be in the finals? In fact, paying to play in the finals would be the purist AFL policy ever. More teams, more cash.

    Hawthorn still have Jaeger O'Meara�s return listed as �indefinite� but to be fair, there was no prior history of him having injury problems, so you can�t criticise the Hawks� list management for not seeing this coming.

    Plus, they didn�t give up much to get him either, so no harm was done.


    Hawthorn�s biggest structural problem this year is sending only Tom Mitchell out to play.

    The onballer is playing against his old side this week, and he is probably hoping his new teammates decided to join him out on the ground this time. Currently, Mitchell is the council worker you see digging the ditch while 17 people �supervise� him.

    Sydney to win this one." Like I said....Gold!
    Yes, one can't help thinking, that the main reason that the AFL is pushing the silly, wildcard round, is that Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon, just keep on missing the finals.

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    Florent for Cunningham

    Emg Aliir Dawson Marsh

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    Florent for Cunningham

    Emg Aliir Dawson Marsh
    Sounds reasonable. Those emergencies look handy too.

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    A lot of new/no names in the Hawks side now. This is not the almighty team of yesteryear, plus a number of older players are way below their best, and we are at home. Worried whether we can handle Ty Vickery though, difficult match up, maybe we need a potato peeler in the side.

    B: Blake Hardwick, Josh Gibson, Shaun Burgoyne
    HB: Taylor Duryea, Ryan Burton, Ricky Henderson
    C: Isaac Smith, Luke Hodge, Liam Shiels
    HF: Luke Breust, Paul Puopolo, Dallas Willsmore
    F: Ty Vickery, Jarryd Roughead, Jack Gunston
    R: Ben McEvoy, Tom Mitchell, Daniel Howe
    INT: Kaiden Brand, James Cousins, Brendan Whitecross, James Sicily

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    It was very kind of Longmire to give the Hawks a fighting chance by burdening our side with 2 lumbering ruckmen. But even with their extra man advantage, we should still win easily.

    He wouldn't want to embarrass his mate Clarko by playing Aliir and having proper matchups for their forwards. Maybe Longmire thinks playing with a handicap will help his chances of winning another Coach of the Year Award.

    I really admire Longmire for his charity.

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    Lumbering? Tippett may be injury prone but I wouldn't call him lumbering. Paul Chambers was lumbering!
    Today's a draft of your epitaph

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig View Post
    He wouldn't want to embarrass his mate Clarko by playing Aliir and having proper matchups for their forwards.
    Which match-up are you worried about?

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    Could Heeney man up against Mitchell and tag him and win ?

    Reason being if hawks can't get that first pass out of the contest they maybe a little vulnerable

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    Puopolo at CHF. LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AB Swannie View Post
    Which match-up are you worried about?
    Hawthorn are taking 4 tall forwards into the game: Roughead, Gunston, Vickery and Willsmore, and although Sicily is not particularly tall, he plays tall because of his high marking capability. Additionally, McEvoy likes to go forward and would have to be picked up by Sinclair, who is a poor defender.

    It's a clever ploy by Clarko, as trying to get us with height mismatches in their forward line is probably their only chance of winning. I doubt it will work because we have too much class around the ground, but no need to provide an opening for them.

    I suppose we could always throw Reid down back if it's a problem.
    Last edited by Ludwig; 25th May 2017 at 08:21 PM.

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    It's not a problem for the same reason we don't play 6 tall forwards.

    Watch the ball rebound out of their 50 when it hits the ground.

    Longmire can't help it if Clarko has lost the plot.

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    I'm backing our back six against any combination of forwards Hawthorn deploys.

    Puopolo thoroughly backed on the Hawks chat sites as one of several who has done little this year. Not surprised as the head high rule change means he's no longer getting the frees for ducking.

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