Preview 2024 Round 14 Adelaide v Sydney - Adelaide Oval

[dosser]

Was just visiting the Crows board and am horrified by my vision of tomorrow night. It seems like the general consensus is to tag all of our midfield, so I can envision a game where the ball is bounced and then slowly bounces around until it comes to a stop while all of the Crows players are desperately trying to keep our players away from it. If they are good, this may last for a minute or two until someone breaks their tag and grabs the ball, upon which time they are immediately tackled by their tagger, resulting in another ball up.

I can't wait for the channel 7 commentary on this as they fill in the space until the ball is picked up!

 

[The Gong]

Was just visiting the Crows board and am horrified by my vision of tomorrow night. It seems like the general consensus is to tag all of our midfield, so I can envision a game where the ball is bounced and then slowly bounces around until it comes to a stop while all of the Crows players are desperately trying to keep our players away from it. If they are good, this may last for a minute or two until someone breaks their tag and grabs the ball, upon which time they are immediately tackled by their tagger, resulting in another ball up.

I can't wait for the channel 7 commentary on this as they fill in the space until the ball is picked up!

It's the beauty of having 3 elite midfielders. If one doesn't get you, the other two will.

Geelong absolutely showed how to beat us in that first quarter but it's the challenge of maintaining that effort and discipline for four quarters. Michael Voss said before our match with the Blues "Knowing and doing are two different things."

I know we joke about the absolute outlier of losing to Richmond but they did manage to apply elite pressure for most of the match. It broke down our precision kicking and we started kicking long down the line for Vlastuin to feast. What we didn't do is switch to a high possession game and kept trying to push the pace when it wasn't happening for us. We've been able to do that at times since then when required.

Adelaide would need to blanket us in defence for four quarters to win this and I don't think they have that in them but I didn't think Richmond did either.

 

[SM]

One element of Geelong's first quarter performance I (don't think) I've seen anywhere was Cameron's role on Blakey, pulling Blakey to FF essentially by sitting at full back for a lot of the first quarter. It seemed by pulling Blakey out of our backline we lost a lot of our drive out of defence which was quite effective. I think that stopped because we began using Florent and others for the link up instead so worked our way around it, but it was an interesting tactic I haven't seen used much. Not sure many other teams have a match up to exploit him like that though.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

Ladhams is a fair way ahead of the Big Mac at the moment. Seems like he's taken a step or two back this year compared to 2023.

I get the impression that Ladhams is taking the piss in the VFL. Just seems to always want to go the low percentage play like hitting guys lace out, slotting bananas from the boundary etc. When it comes off, looks like he's a cut above, when it doesn't, just looks like a goose.

Big Mac and Green on the other hand just look to be steadily improving their respective games and I would play both over Ladhams.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

The ridiculousness of the 1 being to one of the worst teams in the comp is crazy. At least when the Cats lost in 08 it was to the Pies.

I actually find it easier to accept thanks to the sheer absurdity.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Was just visiting the Crows board and am horrified by my vision of tomorrow night. It seems like the general consensus is to tag all of our midfield, so I can envision a game where the ball is bounced and then slowly bounces around until it comes to a stop while all of the Crows players are desperately trying to keep our players away from it. If they are good, this may last for a minute or two until someone breaks their tag and grabs the ball, upon which time they are immediately tackled by their tagger, resulting in another ball up.

I can't wait for the channel 7 commentary on this as they fill in the space until the ball is picked up!

Conjures images of this classic!

 

[the hypnotoad]

Was just visiting the Crows board and am horrified by my vision of tomorrow night. It seems like the general consensus is to tag all of our midfield, so I can envision a game where the ball is bounced and then slowly bounces around until it comes to a stop while all of the Crows players are desperately trying to keep our players away from it. If they are good, this may last for a minute or two until someone breaks their tag and grabs the ball, upon which time they are immediately tackled by their tagger, resulting in another ball up.

I can't wait for the channel 7 commentary on this as they fill in the space until the ball is picked up!

no one can keep up with blakey, he'll pick up that ball and be off and gone
once we've established our 6-0 lead (or 1-0, if it hits the post) they'll have to come up with plan b

 

[the hypnotoad]

Conjures images of this classic!

imagine boofhead taylor calling some of those names

 

[kickthething]

Was just visiting the Crows board and am horrified by my vision of tomorrow night. It seems like the general consensus is to tag all of our midfield, so I can envision a game where the ball is bounced and then slowly bounces around until it comes to a stop while all of the Crows players are desperately trying to keep our players away from it. If they are good, this may last for a minute or two until someone breaks their tag and grabs the ball, upon which time they are immediately tackled by their tagger, resulting in another ball up.

I can't wait for the channel 7 commentary on this as they fill in the space until the ball is picked up!

Unleash the Amartey party as our new speedy mid.!!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

imagine boofhead taylor calling some of those names

Still better than a few of them
Commentating

 

[kickthething]

One element of Geelong's first quarter performance I (don't think) I've seen anywhere was Cameron's role on Blakey, pulling Blakey to FF essentially by sitting at full back for a lot of the first quarter. It seemed by pulling Blakey out of our backline we lost a lot of our drive out of defence which was quite effective. I think that stopped because we began using Florent and others for the link up instead so worked our way around it, but it was an interesting tactic I haven't seen used much. Not sure many other teams have a match up to exploit him like that though.

The best way to nullify him likely, pull him back to the square and create space, almost a Pagans paddock where Blakey is forced to sit one on one…..problem with this is Blakey is also pretty good one on one w his speed a real asset, so it probably doesn’t really work long term.

 

[SM]

The best way to nullify him likely, pull him back to the square and create space, almost a Pagans paddock where Blakey is forced to sit one on one…..problem with this is Blakey is also pretty good one on one w his speed a real asset, so it probably doesn’t really work long term.

This is the opposite, having blakey at FF nowhere near our defence.

 

[Millky95]

The best way to nullify him likely, pull him back to the square and create space, almost a Pagans paddock where Blakey is forced to sit one on one…..problem with this is Blakey is also pretty good one on one w his speed a real asset, so it probably doesn’t really work long term.

Do that with Florent with a small imo

 

[Kiama Chris]

This is the opposite, having blakey at FF nowhere near our defence.

A bit like putting JJ on your best exit defender but replicating it with your best KPF is really odd.

 

[the hypnotoad]

Still better than a few of them
Commentating

nah, i despise him ... he revels in his wilful ignorance, thinks he's funny and clever ... he makes that twerp brayshaw almost listenable

 

[SM]

A bit like putting JJ on your best exit defender but replicating it with your best KPF is really odd.

Yeah was a bizarre use of Cameron I thought.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Grundy went well haha

 

[giantsully]

One element of Geelong's first quarter performance I (don't think) I've seen anywhere was Cameron's role on Blakey, pulling Blakey to FF essentially by sitting at full back for a lot of the first quarter. It seemed by pulling Blakey out of our backline we lost a lot of our drive out of defence which was quite effective. I think that stopped because we began using Florent and others for the link up instead so worked our way around it, but it was an interesting tactic I haven't seen used much. Not sure many other teams have a match up to exploit him like that though.

I think this is the same as the three headed midfielder threat - Blakey has been relatively quiet in terms of his rebound of late, mainly because other teams have sat on him. But then Ollie, Rampe, Robert, Lloyd and JMac have all stepped up at various times to ensure we continue to get that defensive run (and the Lizard has a continued to do great work defensively).

That's the beauty of the team (at this point in time), we seem to have multiple options to respond to different scenarios.

 

[caesar88]

When they talked about the mid 2000s WCE they were right to focus their discussion about Cox, Judd, Cousins and Kerr. That didn’t mean people didn’t think Darren Glass, Andrew Embley or Adam Hunter weren’t quality players or were disrespecting them.

It’s a testament to how good Heeney, Warner, Gulden (and now Grundy who is also getting a lot of love) have been.

I also think that the other big contributors in our team do actually get a fair bit of positive mention in the media - Blakey, Florent, Rampe, Hayward, Papley and Rowbottom are all players who I’ve seen get very positive media coverage whether it be print, radio or TV.

I think the only way they'd be right to focus their discussion on three players is if those three players were the only reason we were the best.

Those three have been pivotal to one facet of our game, which is our scoring, which we're best in the league at. They're among the three leading "mids" in the comp for goals this year and all in the top six for score involvements.

They haven't been pivotal to the back-line, which is conceding the fewest points against, which is the best in the league. That would be Melican, Rampe, McCartin, Blakey, Cunningham & Florent's doing.

They haven't been that pivotal in our pressure and turnover game (not saying they're slouches in this regard, just not the key players), which is the best in the league. That would be Rowbottom, Wicks, McInerney, Hayward & Jordon's doing.

And Heeney aside, they haven't even been that pivotal in our increased first usage from stoppages and centre bounces, which has mainly been Grundy & Rowbottom's doing (as well as Heeney's.)

I think if you took away any one of those facets from our game, not just the high-scoring mids, then we wouldn't be the team we currently are. It makes everyone in our team equally as deserving of praise IMO and it shits me that that is considered such a crazy concept by the media.

Understandably they only have x amount of time to discuss the Swans on their various programs and radio shows and promo clips, etc. each week. But maybe if they didn't talk about the same three Swans every single time on all those platforms then they'd find a way to cover everyone equally, as they deserve to be.

Apologies for the rant. This is a real pet peeve of mine.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Yeah was a bizarre use of Cameron I thought.

Scott has been playing Cameron as a wing/high forward.

 

[The King!]

Judd Cousins and Kerr won a flag by a point. Big deal

 

[momentbymoment]

Why are we going to lose another game at some point? Is it just because?

Reasons …

 

[dosser]

Judd Cousins and Kerr won a flag by a point. Big deal

That's the big deal.

 

[SM]

Scott has been playing Cameron as a wing/high forward.

Indeed, so using him as a full back was very unique.

 

[sataris]

I agree with kickthething.

We are never going to lose another game ever again.