cardamon
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Thanks Luke! Thanks everyone for coming, especially on such uhh short notice,
Umm, so, there will be no match preview this week for Sunday's game against North Melbourne at Optus stadium,
the poster who half mindedly replied "yer i'll do the first one available" in the match preview volunteer has to focus on his personal management of clinical laziness/procrastination/forgetfulness/. The club has been aware of this and has wrapped the appropriate support measure around poster cardamon, and we continue to do so. cardamon is continuing to research vital information on the game that might be needed to write a match preview, such as the fact that the game will take place at 3.20WST, at Optus Stadium Perth, against the North Melbourne Kangaroos.
He will continue to research interesting facts, meshed with his own opinions about sunday's game, for example, Brad Scott would want to improve his poor 30.8% record against Ross Lyon, who really will really receive an answer as to whether he still has the playing group on Sunday.
Anyway that's about as long as I'm willing to beat that dead horse joke. This Sunday shapes as a genuine contest, between 2 allegedly young sides. North Melbourne as it turns out played an older side most weeks last year, in a mad scramble to make finals (Tayl0r's theory that North Melbourne consistently aims only for 6th on the ladder). Our side was genuinely young last year, but in my opinion we look much more mature at the moment. All of our 1st year players last year (named for sunday: Banfield, Brayshaw, Cerra, Crowden Giro) have a whole year of "professional" football and weights into them; we've brought in some hardened bodies in Conca and Colyer. Oh sh*t I forgot hardened doesn't mean inconsistent and injury prone, oh well, I'm sure you get the gist. Life moves so fast. You blink and suddenly Matt Taberner is a mature player, coming in to lead the side from its dearth of key forwards. I have a Matt Taberner footy card taped to the back of my phone. A reminder to always give it my all even when I sometimes make boneheaded mistakes. The stats on his card do not really make for pretty reading, but he did get the shiny gold treatment.
Speaking of key forwards, it really feels like good old Fremantle to be bursting at the seams with tall strong marking types one day, and losing 3 of the best in 3 weeks before round one. Some look to the lack of key forwards on the bench as a surefire sign that Matt Taberner will play, and they will surely give him until the last minute to get right, but the collective anxiety of bigfooty has convinced me that our stocks are completely decimated, and it will be hard to shake this notion until I see hopefully 3 tall players in our forward line on Sunday. Cam Mccarthy is an interesting one. I don't personally think that his new beard suits him very well, its a little too low down on his neck for me but hourses for courses. He can however kick a beautiful snap from the boundary line! Unpressured! in a club instagram video at training! Jasper Pittard is rocking unctrollably and sobbing at the thought of this potential matchup. It is a matchup that may eventuate as North Melbourne are without several key defenders, relying on second game Mckay and Ed Vickers Willis to support Robbie Tarrant down back. (Of course their elite backman isn't injured.) Rory Lobb thinks he is a forward, finally free from getting conned into rucking every week at GWS, but unfortunately Wayne Carey thinks he is a better ruckman. Unfortunately for us freo supporters, as a paragon of logic and virtue, Carey must be right, meaning that Rory Lobb will go down as another TOP 10 FREO TRADE FAILS!! (NUMBER 6 will SHOCK you)
In all seriousness, woops haha got to change back to the old font, In all seriousness, I think the mix of Taberner, Mccarthy and Lobb is a good mix of height, mobility and strength, but all of them have the potential to be really noticeably bad if things arent going their way. I hope Cam Mcarthy in particular will be galvanised by my mean comments re his beard earlier, and push his tank hard to win the ball upfield, using his beautiful footskills delivering the ball to our deeper forwards.
The extended bench for fremantle is an interesting one, stuffed with a lot of will they or won't they types. I believe Banfield, Tucker, Hughes and Duman will play, which is conservative but all of them are somewhat flexible. I think Hughes is needed back to rotate with Hamling against Wood and Ziebell, where he can use his size and athleticism. Duman on Ziebell is a little scary.
Saving the best for last, the midfield challenge probably even. Or not. Who knows?
Fyfe Cunnington
Cerra Higgins
Brayshaw Mcdonald
Banfield Simpkin
Walters v Polec
Hill Hall
Langdon Scott
Mundy Some of the players on North's bench (what, I am not devoting brain cells to which NM rookies are midfielders or not, I'm young i have too much to live for )
Personally I think that after a tense opening quarter, 3.5 North to 2.1 Fremantle (lots of negative bigfooty comments), Fyfe and Mundy will don their wharfy capes and drag some of your talented youngsters to a solid win. It's worth noting that both teams will face a test to their chemistry, as North went on a bit of a buying spree last year as well and will have new faces in the midfield. For what it's worth, I am still optimistic about this season, our best 18 all look like bonafide AFL players (some only potentially), and if we can expose our depth in the opening rounds until Blakely, Hill, Hogan, Switta, Logue and Cox are available, our side should actually improve, as opposed to last year where a tonne of injuries hit and all of a sudden Jones and Giro are debuting against the grand finalists away.
Freo by 17
Umm, so, there will be no match preview this week for Sunday's game against North Melbourne at Optus stadium,
the poster who half mindedly replied "yer i'll do the first one available" in the match preview volunteer has to focus on his personal management of clinical laziness/procrastination/forgetfulness/. The club has been aware of this and has wrapped the appropriate support measure around poster cardamon, and we continue to do so. cardamon is continuing to research vital information on the game that might be needed to write a match preview, such as the fact that the game will take place at 3.20WST, at Optus Stadium Perth, against the North Melbourne Kangaroos.
He will continue to research interesting facts, meshed with his own opinions about sunday's game, for example, Brad Scott would want to improve his poor 30.8% record against Ross Lyon, who really will really receive an answer as to whether he still has the playing group on Sunday.
Anyway that's about as long as I'm willing to beat that dead horse joke. This Sunday shapes as a genuine contest, between 2 allegedly young sides. North Melbourne as it turns out played an older side most weeks last year, in a mad scramble to make finals (Tayl0r's theory that North Melbourne consistently aims only for 6th on the ladder). Our side was genuinely young last year, but in my opinion we look much more mature at the moment. All of our 1st year players last year (named for sunday: Banfield, Brayshaw, Cerra, Crowden Giro) have a whole year of "professional" football and weights into them; we've brought in some hardened bodies in Conca and Colyer. Oh sh*t I forgot hardened doesn't mean inconsistent and injury prone, oh well, I'm sure you get the gist. Life moves so fast. You blink and suddenly Matt Taberner is a mature player, coming in to lead the side from its dearth of key forwards. I have a Matt Taberner footy card taped to the back of my phone. A reminder to always give it my all even when I sometimes make boneheaded mistakes. The stats on his card do not really make for pretty reading, but he did get the shiny gold treatment.
Speaking of key forwards, it really feels like good old Fremantle to be bursting at the seams with tall strong marking types one day, and losing 3 of the best in 3 weeks before round one. Some look to the lack of key forwards on the bench as a surefire sign that Matt Taberner will play, and they will surely give him until the last minute to get right, but the collective anxiety of bigfooty has convinced me that our stocks are completely decimated, and it will be hard to shake this notion until I see hopefully 3 tall players in our forward line on Sunday. Cam Mccarthy is an interesting one. I don't personally think that his new beard suits him very well, its a little too low down on his neck for me but hourses for courses. He can however kick a beautiful snap from the boundary line! Unpressured! in a club instagram video at training! Jasper Pittard is rocking unctrollably and sobbing at the thought of this potential matchup. It is a matchup that may eventuate as North Melbourne are without several key defenders, relying on second game Mckay and Ed Vickers Willis to support Robbie Tarrant down back. (Of course their elite backman isn't injured.) Rory Lobb thinks he is a forward, finally free from getting conned into rucking every week at GWS, but unfortunately Wayne Carey thinks he is a better ruckman. Unfortunately for us freo supporters, as a paragon of logic and virtue, Carey must be right, meaning that Rory Lobb will go down as another TOP 10 FREO TRADE FAILS!! (NUMBER 6 will SHOCK you)
In all seriousness, woops haha got to change back to the old font, In all seriousness, I think the mix of Taberner, Mccarthy and Lobb is a good mix of height, mobility and strength, but all of them have the potential to be really noticeably bad if things arent going their way. I hope Cam Mcarthy in particular will be galvanised by my mean comments re his beard earlier, and push his tank hard to win the ball upfield, using his beautiful footskills delivering the ball to our deeper forwards.
The extended bench for fremantle is an interesting one, stuffed with a lot of will they or won't they types. I believe Banfield, Tucker, Hughes and Duman will play, which is conservative but all of them are somewhat flexible. I think Hughes is needed back to rotate with Hamling against Wood and Ziebell, where he can use his size and athleticism. Duman on Ziebell is a little scary.
Saving the best for last, the midfield challenge probably even. Or not. Who knows?
Fyfe Cunnington
Cerra Higgins
Brayshaw Mcdonald
Banfield Simpkin
Walters v Polec
Hill Hall
Langdon Scott
Mundy Some of the players on North's bench (what, I am not devoting brain cells to which NM rookies are midfielders or not, I'm young i have too much to live for )
Personally I think that after a tense opening quarter, 3.5 North to 2.1 Fremantle (lots of negative bigfooty comments), Fyfe and Mundy will don their wharfy capes and drag some of your talented youngsters to a solid win. It's worth noting that both teams will face a test to their chemistry, as North went on a bit of a buying spree last year as well and will have new faces in the midfield. For what it's worth, I am still optimistic about this season, our best 18 all look like bonafide AFL players (some only potentially), and if we can expose our depth in the opening rounds until Blakely, Hill, Hogan, Switta, Logue and Cox are available, our side should actually improve, as opposed to last year where a tonne of injuries hit and all of a sudden Jones and Giro are debuting against the grand finalists away.
Freo by 17
