1st Preliminary Final - Adelaide v Geelong - Pre-game Thread

[CrowBloke]

Let's get back to rational, calm discussion. I like the suggestion of keath up forward but I don't think our match committee has the balls. Think it's between milers and otten.

I'd speculate (not demand or state-for-sure) Otten.
If needs be, Pyke could move him back or forward. That flexibility gives him Pyke-points.

 

[icrow32]

Same, i've found the phone app, which then shunts you off to the mobile browser, beats the PC every time. For what reason i have no idea. But its painless...

Agreed, I have done tickets for final against GWS, gold member priority GF tickets and prelim final tickets all on the iPad over 3G or 4g and never had an issue yet. Meanwhile it's 11:15am and the oldies or internet phobes are still lining up at Ticketek and I have had my tickets in my inbox for 2hrs.

 

[CrowBloke]

... "derp derp" ...

Hell, that's funny.

 

[phill5158]

I feel like a loss this Friday will far outweigh 2005 and 2006 and believe me I'm not saying I think we will lose but with footy you just never know. In saying that if you compare our side now to the 2005 and 2006 sides, we have a far superior forward line than what we had them years although our midfield was probably better back then.

Looking at our side this year it feels like the most well rounded crows side I have ever seen in my 18 years supporting the club. Also it is probably the closest group I have ever seen, just the amount of respect they have for each other and love how they are playing for each other rather them themselves.

Come on Adelaide, your time is now. Don't waste it for a second.

On SM-T810 using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[CrowBloke]

Re: ticket expense
I offered to put up my car as collateral to buy a ticket, but the bloke said,
"Nah, mate, you have to buy a whole ticket".

 

[Ferris43]

 

[Ferris43]

No way he plays

 

[Elite Crow]

So Danger gives them the shits too?

 

[Red mist]

 

[fairfooty]

I wouldn't play him by the looks of that - heart bleeds for him.

 

[StonesThrow]

I feel like a loss this Friday will far outweigh 2005 and 2006 and believe me I'm not saying I think we will lose but with footy you just never know. In saying that if you compare our side now to the 2005 and 2006 sides, we have a far superior forward line than what we had them years although our midfield was probably better back then.

Looking at our side this year it feels like the most well rounded crows side I have ever seen in my 18 years supporting the club. Also it is probably the closest group I have ever seen, just the amount of respect they have for each other and love how they are playing for each other rather them themselves.

Come on Adelaide, your time is now. Don't waste it for a second.

On SM-T810 using BigFooty.com mobile app

I agree on most points. The only thing we have going against us is the lack of intense match conditioning. This might play a big part in the result. We're up against it imo. The loss of two damaging players will also play into it. Id be tipping Geelong if I was a betting man.

Will be mighty disappointed though, more so than 05/06. There has never been a better year to win a flag for the crows. Would be a huge let down.

 

[fairfooty]

So Danger gives them the shits too?

Post of the thread!

 

[Niximus]

So Danger gives them the shits too?

It's what you get for eating Harry Taylor's sock ham.

 

[Rabman]

21st game between Adelaide and Geelong in Adelaide this friday. Including the semi final win in 1997, 15 wins to Adelaide 6 to Geelong. Only Fremantle and St.Kilda do we have a stronger home record against.

 

[Scorpus]

"Adelaide forward Mitch McGovern has completed a short running session ahead of Friday night’s Preliminary Final against Geelong.

McGovern reported soreness in his left hamstring, which is not the one he injured earlier in the season, after training at the weekend.

Crows Head of Football Brett Burton said scan results had not shown anything of significant concern.

“Mitch was able to do some running this morning which is encouraging, however he will appear unlikely to be available for this week,” Burton said.

“Given the time of the year, we will push his rehabilitation on to give him every chance to be available as soon as possible.”"

http://www.afc.com.au/sites/AdelaideCrows/news/2017-09-18/positive-progress-for-mcgovern

 

[SloaneysDanger]

Brett Burton shouldn't be saying Gov is unlikely to play this early in the week.

 

[Big Crow]

I have immense faith in this playing group to get the job done. If we play well then we win, which is a matter of bringing the intensity we've typically shown since the last time we played the Cats, and executing our skills by hand and foot to open up the run. You'd hope there is not a shred of complacency at West Lakes right now.

Don't get me wrong, there are of course no guarantees and Geelong have some serious weapons but I'd rather be backing us than anyone else. Come on you Crows, get the job done.

 

[Elite Crow]

Brett Burton shouldn't be saying Gov is unlikely to play this early in the week.

Pretty obvious.

 

[SloaneysDanger]

Pretty obvious.

It is? Stewart has had hamstring tightness since the game and that's not what will keep him out this week if he misses.

 

[hey shorty]

Seems like a tendonitis issue much like Talia early in the year. Wouldn't play him though and I reckon they will have told his replacement today that they're in

 

[Deaneus!]

If this footage is from yesterday then there's no way he's playing.

Footage from a closed session? Hmmm

Same, i've found the phone app, which then shunts you off to the mobile browser, beats the PC every time. For what reason i have no idea. But its painless...

I have always suspected traffic from phones is given priority, to shunt customers onto using the app

So Danger gives them the shits too?

That's what happens when you drink bathwater

 

[relapse]

Of course he wasn't going to play, that kind of luck never goes the club's way in September.

 

[Tyls83]

Internet access from phones is always way quicker than broadband or nbn in most cases

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It's just so wrong that McGovern misses. He's the one who did the right thing by the club, ignored the lures of larger offers from home and chose to stay with us. Devastating

Only positive I guess is that he didn't shred his hamstring in Q1 of Friday night's match.

 

[pjcrows]

Brett Burton shouldn't be saying Gov is unlikely to play this early in the week.

They wouldn't say it if he was going to play. They will not bring a player with a hamstring risk in to a Prelim.