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Welcome one and all to Sydney Derby XXI - but not as you know it - now in sunny 
land
If our players already haven't got whiplash from the constant change in location
and schedule then they're doing better than I
Gotta say I can't be more prouder of them how they've carried themselves in all of this.
Its a huge Derby for both teams with a lot riding on the line here.
dropped a game they should have won against the 
and are out of the 8, while the 
need to consolidate their position and possibly challenge for a top 4 spot. need to keep winning because our next 4 opponents are all vying for a spot in the 8 and are going to be coming at us full bore.
Team Changes:
Colin O'Riordan as medical sub is dropped from Sydney
Giants: Shane Mumford & Lachie Whitfield (injury), Lachie Ash (omitted) Bobby Hill (managed) Ins: Matt Flynn, Stephen Coniglio, Xavier O'Halloran
I'm expecting the to come out and play like their season depends on it, cause it pretty much does. Coniglio returns after a very strong game in the VFL and Hopper had something like 41 possessions last week. Their midfield bats deep, so we have to play smart. We have to play four quarters because I'm still freaking traumatised by this season's earlier loss where we led the entire game and lost in the last minute!!!! Toby Greene
can get stuffed. Even when he plays shite they still somehow managed to win against us and those type of luxuries don't come often.
We need to play to our strengths, keep the
in our hands & out theirs. Control the game and like I said, be smart about how we use the ball because turnovers killed us in that final quarter and I'm not even going to start on what that massacre in the middle looked like. Last week against the 
we moved it well, I'm expecting GWS to try and disrupt our centering of the ball and try to keep us out wide, we've just got to be patient, we almost had them last time but dropped our concentration. Would be great if Heeney, Paps & Buddy get amongst the goals because nothing works better than scoreboard pressure. I don't mean to state the bleeding obvious here lads, but this is personal. Okay? The trick to playing finals footy is playing your best week in week out when the pressure is on, the giants are certainly going to be playing like it, if we give them a sniff. So don't.
Hopefully the umps will keep an eye on Buddy getting mauled and this will be the miracle day they decide to do something about it. Wicks needs a better game that his last two weeks, felt he was a little selfish against the but maybe that was just me. Special shout out to my defender boys down back who were brilliant last week and are going to have to on their marks this week. With luck it won't be down there very often
Milestones: Nick Blakey 50 games
Here's hoping we'll be wearing the Heritage guernsey again as its an away match and we have to wear a clash guernsey.
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landIf our players already haven't got whiplash from the constant change in location
and schedule then they're doing better than IGotta say I can't be more prouder of them how they've carried themselves in all of this.
Its a huge Derby for both teams with a lot riding on the line here.
dropped a game they should have won against the and are out of the 8, while the need to consolidate their position and possibly challenge for a top 4 spot. need to keep winning because our next 4 opponents are all vying for a spot in the 8 and are going to be coming at us full bore.Team Changes:
Colin O'Riordan as medical sub is dropped from Sydney
Giants: Shane Mumford & Lachie Whitfield (injury), Lachie Ash (omitted) Bobby Hill (managed) Ins: Matt Flynn, Stephen Coniglio, Xavier O'Halloran
I'm expecting the
to come out and play like their season depends on it, cause it pretty much does. Coniglio returns after a very strong game in the VFL and Hopper had something like 41 possessions last week. Their midfield bats deep, so we have to play smart. We have to play four quarters because I'm still freaking traumatised by this season's earlier loss where we led the entire game and lost in the last minute!!!! Toby Greene can get stuffed. Even when he plays shite they still somehow managed to win against us and those type of luxuries don't come often.We need to play to our strengths, keep the
in our hands & out theirs. Control the game and like I said, be smart about how we use the ball because turnovers killed us in that final quarter and I'm not even going to start on what that massacre in the middle looked like. Last week against the we moved it well, I'm expecting GWS to try and disrupt our centering of the ball and try to keep us out wide, we've just got to be patient, we almost had them last time but dropped our concentration. Would be great if Heeney, Paps & Buddy get amongst the goals because nothing works better than scoreboard pressure. I don't mean to state the bleeding obvious here lads, but this is personal. Okay? The trick to playing finals footy is playing your best week in week out when the pressure is on, the giants are certainly going to be playing like it, if we give them a sniff. So don't.Hopefully the umps will keep an eye on Buddy getting mauled and this will be the miracle day they decide to do something about it. Wicks needs a better game that his last two weeks, felt he was a little selfish against the
but maybe that was just me. Special shout out to my defender boys down back who were brilliant last week and are going to have to on their marks this week. With luck it won't be down there very oftenMilestones: Nick Blakey 50 games
Here's hoping we'll be wearing the Heritage guernsey again as its an away match and we have to wear a clash guernsey.
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