Game Day 2023 Finals Week 1 - Blues v. Swans, Friday 8 Sep, 7:40 pm @ MCG

[caesar88]

I just hope the midfield is competitive enough that everyone else becomes a factor. So much of the talk leading into the GF was about the fitness of Reid, which defenders would get Cameron & Hawkins, why McLean was picked over McDonald. Come GF day, the midfield belting made all of those things irrelevant.

Even if we don't win tonight I just want to come out of this game learning more about this Swans team than just, "the midfield needs work."

 

[Donza]

10 degrees at the moment feels like 1.6 !
Just windy and cold , nowhere near as wet as last night

Brrr.

Mind you its only 12.5 here at my place in wollongong.

 

[bedford]

Brrr.

Mind you its only 12.5 here at my place in wollongong.

Still got shorts on . Going to my footy club lunch with Kevin Bartlet he is very funny

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Still got shorts on . Going to my footy club lunch with Kevin Bartlet he is very funny

oh that will be great fun! KB is a hoot of a storyteller.

As for the weather, I usually have the windows open but have closed them all. I will not even go outside to collect the mail today. Nowadays I lack the ballast and would just be a leaf on that evil wind

 

[Punts]

Will be a dry (ish) game.

MCG dries amazingly well and showers to clear after 4pm.

Working next door

Blowing a gale

 

[wilsonmatic]

Still got shorts on . Going to my footy club lunch with Kevin Bartlet he is very funny

Give me Kevin over Whately any day of the week.

 

[Donza]

Working next door

Blowing a gale

995 low pressure at the mouth of Port Phillip bay will do that.

 

[dosser]

10 degrees at the moment feels like 1.6 !
Just windy and cold , nowhere near as wet as last night

I wonder if there is a rule preventing players wearing long pants?

 

[MF]

995 low pressure at the mouth of Port Phillip bay will do that.

What kind of winds can we expect during the game?

 

[Donza]

What kind of winds can we expect during the game?

Nothing too hectic.
Currently its Gusting to 24knots.
Was 38 knots earlier.

7-10pm is 13 knots gusting to 19knots.

So a constant moderate breeze. Will turn more West to SW.

 

[MR0808]

Fun night ahead!

 

[Wolfgang West]

We are taking a risk like we often do in finals in playing JMac and Melican will be a stroke of genius if it comes off but a sad state of affairs if they break down early.

No judgement as I was on the play Reid bandwagon last year so desperately so but that proved me very wrong.

Hope that it’s a bit different as they’ve been playing in some form in twos or scratch matches.

Tonight was an unexpected bonus to a season I thought was long gone. Hope they bring it all together tonight with manic pressure and elite kicking.

Will go along way to winning the game however there is one important ingredient to that manic pressure that will win the game.

Hold your ****ing tackles.

Our pressure is benchmark when we apply it at it's maximum. Do this and they will crumble like a stale Scotch Finger.

 

[Donza]

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Fun night ahead!

thats wrong.. bad info
Or rather it can be interpreted a few ways.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Just to add insult to injury, the forecast for Melbourne next Friday is a sunny 26.

Typical.

 

[ashep]

Thank god bedders is sinking a few at the footy club while the weather chat goes on.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Nothing too hectic.
Currently its Gusting to 24knots.
Was 38 knots earlier.

7-10pm is 13 knots gusting to 19knots.

So a constant moderate breeze. Will turn more West to SW.

That's bearable.

 

[Donza]

I can see Fox footy tonight already.
45% carlton.
10% swans.
45% maynard.

 

[SwansProudly]

Brrr.

Mind you its only 12.5 here at my place in wollongong.

I'm a little south of you, currently 18.4 C feels like 9.5C !

 

[Ticky009]

Right well here's some interesting comparisons.

Link to Age article posted in our Daily media thread.

Blues v Swans: Can Cripps, Curnow thrive on September stage in Blues’ return to finals?

Based on their performances in the biggest home-and-away games, the Blues champions should not be daunted by finals football.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Big Blood]

Right well here's some interesting comparisons.

Link to Age article posted in our Daily media thread.

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Blues v Swans: Can Cripps, Curnow thrive on September stage in Blues’ return to finals?

Based on their performances in the biggest home-and-away games, the Blues champions should not be daunted by finals football.

www.theage.com.au

The bloke from Champion Data named checked all of that but also pointed out Sydney's strength is Carlton's w eakness, on the outside. If we can more or less break even on the contested then we're a huge shot - true as far as it goes.

But he didn't talk about our pressure, as Wolfgang West mentioned above, when our pressure is on we're on. All of our big wins in recent years have been when we've brought it

 

[Kiama Chris]

I'm a little south of you, currently 18.4 C feels like 9.5C !

Kiama and Sydney both 16 and pretty still after the storm.

 

[Troystenvic]

I'm about 35 mins east of the MCG and it has been raining solid for a few hours. Very very cold. C'mon Dad get the boys up.

 

[caesar88]

Manifesting big games from Parker, Mills & Rowbottom

 

[dosser]

I'm about 35 mins east of the MCG and it has been raining solid for a few hours. Very very cold. C'mon Dad get the boys up.

You are out my way! Very windy here at the moment as well.

 

[Troystenvic]

You are out my way! Very windy here at the moment as well.

A horrible Spring day