Preview Elimination Final: West Coast vs Essendon, Perth Stadium, Thursday 05/09/19 @ 8:10 PM AEST

[ghostdog]

I can stomach playing the Eagles, reckon we’re a sneaky.

I actually think we are too. I have no supporting evidence for this feeling. I also feel like the Eagles are prone to hearing footsteps when the pressures on. We have the capacity to out run them... if we're not cooked that is.

 

[doug85]

Going to be thursday night apparently,

Sweet

8 or 9 day break coming back from WA

 

[windyhill]

Not ideal. Not out of it.

 

[Shane Heard]

Not ideal. Not out of it.

Just as usual in this joint...silence the WC crowd early put the pedal down non stop.

Pressure and more pressure

 

[HirdsTheWord]

probably the worst result that could have happened for us.

but we are in it.

please for the love of **** just show up bombers!

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Honestly, I am pleased at playing West Coast over there.

If we get done, so be it. But, if we get a win against the reigning premiers, on their home deck, while breaking a finals drought, that would fill the players with so much confidence they might feel that they could go all the way.

 

[Shane Heard]

probably the worst result that could have happened for us.

but we are in it.

please for the love of fu** just show up bombers!

Eagles out of form. Massive pressure on them.

We are a big chance.

Have faith.

 

[doug85]

Eagles out of form. Massive pressure on them.

We are a big chance.

Have faith.

And we’ll have our best team on the field for months.

 

[yodellinhank]

...if we get a win against the reigning premiers, on their home deck, while breaking a finals drought, that would fill the players with so much confidence they might feel that they could go all the way.

A win and the players will get ahead of theyselves again this ****ing club

 

[Shane Heard]

And we’ll have our best team on the field for months.

Yes. Rested and ready to throw everything at them.

Stringer will relish the occasion.

 

[Bombers1234]

Put Ambrose on Yeo.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Eagles out of form. Massive pressure on them.

We are a big chance.

Have faith.

always have faith

just want the boys to be hungry.

 

[OsteitisPubis22]

It’s gonna be very tough, but that’s finals footy, would rather be there than not be.

We have nothing to lose. If things go right who knows. Need to be in the game at 3qtr time.

Garunteed in’s - Hooker, Hurley, Heppell, Stringer, Fantasia.

Possible ins - Snelling, Ridley.

Outs - Jok, Hartley, Begley, Leverde and probably Ham.

Key matchups are important.

Hurley plays on Darling, Ambrose plays on Kennedy,
Hooker Floating playing on third tall (Allen/resting ruckmen.
Francis goes to Cripps and goes 3rd man up!

Gleeson needs to have the game of his life against Ryan and Rioli.
Saad and McKenna round it out. They need to run all day, be willing to just leave their men. And back the others to fill the holes they leave.

Stringer McKernan and Brown just have to make a contest. Half as many contests as possible, if we just let McGovern, burn and Barass chop everything of then we are stuffed.

Lastly we need goals from the small, Fantasia and Tippa just need to fire.

Yep, so much has to go right for us to win, but why not hey?




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[Cold Sober]

Go West young men and bring back gold.
Take the triple heads and their umpires out of the game early and the rest is achievable.

 

[Mootsy]

just for the coaches can you teach the players how to relax, thanks. Too much hot potato against the pies. If the players were relaxed, they’d take the time to move the ball around better.

 

[ghostdog]

Eagles out of form. Massive pressure on them.

We are a big chance.

Have faith.

Last two weeks we've jumped out with multiple goals. We've been building to a massive quick start, but we'll need 4 quaarters

 

[Shane Heard]

You look at the stats from the WC v Hawks game and it’s all pretty even.

How did they beat them?

By piling on the pressure in their F50 and harassing the WC backline and not letting them have their merry way taking it out.

Finals pressure.

Seek and destroy.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Eagles have lost their tagger, haven’t they? Hutchings?

He was very effective last time against Saad.

 

[RearNaked]

Absolutely worst case scenario

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

GWS would have been ideal but we've had a lot more success recently against WCE than we have had against the Tigers, Pies or Bulldogs. That's all I'm gonna say.

 

[JDavey]

Put Ambrose on Yeo.

Yeo seems to be the only mid that can reliably go head to head with Fyfe.
Ambrose limited Fyfe.
Transitive properties of being an AFL midfielder says this is worth a try.

The interesting thing is that we put Ambrose on Fyfe because Fyfe is good overhead around the ground. Yeo has other strengths I think you want to counter more than his ability to take a mark. I think Clarke is a better match up if you want to put on a hard tag but I could understand us doing Ambrose, especially given the tall WCE forward line.

The way to beat WCE has been laid out by a few teams since WCE smashed us. I hope we've been taking notes as that game style seems like it would suit us given our sub optimal (yet mobile) marking options forward.

Hopefully we don't draw Dean Margetts.

 

[Albertross]

Confirmed Thursday night game.

 

[windyhill]

Jake Stringer. Just watch him go.

 

[Charliebrow 16]

I have no right to feel confident, but I genuinely believe we can snatch a win over there. Rest up boys and bring the pressure in a couple of weeks.

 

[JT_the_Man]

I shouldn’t be confident... But I’m confident?