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This has all the hallmarks of the Round 8 2006.

The Crows were near the top of the table and at the height of the CrowBot era, and Richmond had hardly one a game and was close to bottom of the table. Terry Wallace was under pressure and were huge odds to win this game. Wallace devised a new game plan (that is still in use today) of keeping the ball off Adelaide. It worked. Adelaide had kicked 4 goals to half time and ended up losing 10.9 to 9.12. Richmond had 259 kicks to 172. 181 marks to 102. The high possession 'keeping off' game was born and Adelaide were never really a chance for the flag after that game where we had been 'worked out'.

Does Ross Lyon have a game plan to nullify our current game plan? I think he is clever enough. His career is on the line. Maybe 2-3 players lose in defence? Keep a low defensive zone with Pav the only Freo player past the centre? A wet game, some scoreboard pressure and a restless crowd? Does Pyke have a plan B?

Big test.
Bit much to say Ross Lyon's career is on the line. He just inked a 5 year extension, he's not going anywhere for quite some time.
 
Gee imagine the meltdown on here if the Crows lose.

You'd be happy if we lost at home to a winless team missing nearly half their best 22? Just a "bad luck boys, bulldozed by a more powerful side, let's back the same blokes in to respond next week" You have an odd preoccupation with imagining meltdowns.
 
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Bit much to say Ross Lyon's career is on the line. He just inked a 5 year extension, he's not going anywhere for quite some time.

Ross is a sly fox, wouldnt surprise me if he has put a pen through this season after last weeks loss and will reload and start preparations for 2017 especially given he has been guaranteed a 5 year deal.

That may mean trying to beat the Dons to the number 1 draft pick, we have seen Carltank, could we see FreTank? Grabbing early draft picks and use that as currency to grab McCarthy and Hogan wouldnt surprise me. Mind you the way Fremantle have played this season they dont need to tank, just play like they have for the first 5 rounds.
 

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Now ....just another 150 to go ;)

EDIT : :eek: WOW just thought that thru
1. Another 150 weeks of reading each "game changes thread" .....Out: DMac :rolleyes:

Has anyone noticed the gradual change by the DMac haters to Cheney ......no admission they were wrong, just a change in focus to the new whipping boy Cheney

I wasn't going to because I know you'll just traverse down a tangent not related, but i can't help but correct you here. Most posters who don't rate Mackay concede that he has the talent but doesn't play to a level befitting it anywhere near often enough. You even posted quite recently that Mackay has lost his certain best 22 status and needs to perform to stay in the side. Even Vader has posted similar thoughts. This year I readily accept that Mackay has played a couple of pretty good games, but his other 3 were not flash being somewhere between passable and poor. But 2 out of 5 is ok and deserved of holding his spot, however, this does not make posters wrong about Mackay and his historical output and whether he should have been selected for a fair bit of last year. I've said that I don't think he has the intestinal fortitude to put in the effort required over numerous weeks and I'm yet to be convinced that he's changed his ways. But if he can put together a couple more of his better games over the next 3 weeks, then it's definitely time to start putting that history behind him and judging him on this years form. He's close, but he's not there yet.

As for his detractors migrating to Cheney, I think that's a bit simplistic. Cheney has been identified as the weakest link in a defense that is having trouble with small/medium forwards. I personally haven't a view because I still think, as I've been posting for yonks, that the problem with our defense is further upfield and largely the responsibility of the midfield. But, from where I sit, Cheney does appear the least talented of the bunch and I would expect the first to make way if there was a better option.
 
This has all the hallmarks of the Round 8 2006.

The Crows were near the top of the table and at the height of the CrowBot era, and Richmond had hardly one a game and was close to bottom of the table. Terry Wallace was under pressure and were huge odds to win this game. Wallace devised a new game plan (that is still in use today) of keeping the ball off Adelaide. It worked. Adelaide had kicked 4 goals to half time and ended up losing 10.9 to 9.12. Richmond had 259 kicks to 172. 181 marks to 102. The high possession 'keeping off' game was born and Adelaide were never really a chance for the flag after that game where we had been 'worked out'.

Does Ross Lyon have a game plan to nullify our current game plan? I think he is clever enough. His career is on the line. Maybe 2-3 players lose in defence? Keep a low defensive zone with Pav the only Freo player past the centre? A wet game, some scoreboard pressure and a restless crowd? Does Pyke have a plan B?

Big test.

Re bolded - meh. We will just have Tex, Seedsman and Smith pepper the goals from 60m out lol, the flooding players can get a good look at the footy going over their heads :p
 
This has all the hallmarks of the Round 8 2006.

The Crows were near the top of the table and at the height of the CrowBot era, and Richmond had hardly one a game and was close to bottom of the table. Terry Wallace was under pressure and were huge odds to win this game. Wallace devised a new game plan (that is still in use today) of keeping the ball off Adelaide. It worked. Adelaide had kicked 4 goals to half time and ended up losing 10.9 to 9.12. Richmond had 259 kicks to 172. 181 marks to 102. The high possession 'keeping off' game was born and Adelaide were never really a chance for the flag after that game where we had been 'worked out'.

Does Ross Lyon have a game plan to nullify our current game plan? I think he is clever enough. His career is on the line. Maybe 2-3 players lose in defence? Keep a low defensive zone with Pav the only Freo player past the centre? A wet game, some scoreboard pressure and a restless crowd? Does Pyke have a plan B?

Big test.

Rather, I think it has all the hallmarks of R15 2009.

Saturday night at Football Park. Freo with backs to the wall sitting second last only 3 wins from 14 matches. Sandilands out. Pavlich out. Crows doing OK, sitting 5th on the ladder with a 9-5 record.

The result? Crows 19.16.130 to 1.7.13.

To date, Freo's lowest score and Crows lowest score conceded.

Could both records be broken again?

EDIT - also our 6th biggest win.
 
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I lost the unlosable game because I only had Joel Bowden and my opponent had both Bowdens. I think they took 35 marks between them.

181 marks for Richmond (we had 102). Those with double figures:

Joel Bowden: 20
Patrick Bowden: 15
Andrew Kellaway: 15
Kayne Pettifer: 15
Troy Simmonds: 13
Brett Deledio: 11
Andrew Raines: 10
 
Rather, I think it has all the hallmarks of R15 2009.

Saturday night at Football Park. Freo with backs to the wall sitting second last only 3 wins from 14 matches. Sandilands out. Pavlich out. Crows doing OK, sitting 5th on the ladder with a 9-5 record.

The result? Crows 19.16.130 to 1.7.13.

To date, Freo's lowest score and Crows lowest score conceded.

Could both records be broken again?

EDIT - also our 6th biggest win.
When the Crow zone worked it really worked.
 

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And having seen most games in Melbourne, that is one of the keys. You can tell within the first 5 minutes that the Crows are 'off' in Melbourne and they were off more than on in the past. Pyke seems to have worked out the 'switch' so far. The Bulldogs game will be the test of that - we were so switched off last year.

It will be very interesting to find out if this is true. I guess they probably have proper psychologists looking into it but the question that has interested me is a player's attitude and whether it is matched by what they actually do in a game.

Even if a player and the people around him are careful to guard against complacency and they tell each other they must not be, do they deep down actually feel that things will be easy and they don't have to work as hard as they might?

I've been playing with a way to look at teams' attitude habits when they come up against strong and weak opposition teams and have come up with terms used as listed in table below and I think we may be an "A" or a "B" team so far this year.
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I think we have gone in to games against teams we thought of as strong (or not to be taken lightly) and I think we area BRAVE team so we have been switched on from the get go in those games, whereas last season we have been a "B" type team at times when we met up against teams we might have considered weaker opponents who were "A" or "B" type teams.
 
This has all the hallmarks of the Round 8 2006.

The Crows were near the top of the table and at the height of the CrowBot era, and Richmond had hardly one a game and was close to bottom of the table. Terry Wallace was under pressure and were huge odds to win this game. Wallace devised a new game plan (that is still in use today) of keeping the ball off Adelaide. It worked. Adelaide had kicked 4 goals to half time and ended up losing 10.9 to 9.12. Richmond had 259 kicks to 172. 181 marks to 102. The high possession 'keeping off' game was born and Adelaide were never really a chance for the flag after that game where we had been 'worked out'.

Does Ross Lyon have a game plan to nullify our current game plan? I think he is clever enough. His career is on the line. Maybe 2-3 players lose in defence? Keep a low defensive zone with Pav the only Freo player past the centre? A wet game, some scoreboard pressure and a restless crowd? Does Pyke have a plan B?

Big test.
I unfortunately travelled to watch this game with the Bowden brothers playing kick to kick... yelling out to Craigy to change his game plan & get the players to bloody man up.

This game won't be anything like the Tigers game.
  • Pyke has already shown he adapts his game plan to the opposition.
  • Fremantle's skill level is deplorable & with their quality outs, there is no way they could play keepings off.
We should win easily & only a poor effort/attitude can lose this game for 3+ quarters... which I doubt as our players are switched on.
 

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