Our next 4 games

[theaussietilt]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

Was going to make a thread about this myself.

A bit concerned about the next month. Mainly Freo and Geelong. We're letting through WAY too many goals at the minute, and our next month is a BAD time to be leaking so badly.

The back six needs to tighten up quick smart, or we'll be on the receiving end of some decent hidings.

This seems to be an outcome of the very attacking, lock it in the forwardline gamestyle we're playing, where if a turnover occurs in the front half of the ground we don't have enough players behind the play to restrict the opposition running it straight down the guts.

It's working well at the moment as the gamestyle is creating far more goals than it's leaking. A test came against Carlton when they broke down the structure and almost scored at will, however we were able to regain control and kick two or three goals for every one of the scum's from then on.

This bodes well for the future in my opinion, hopefully the boys learned a lot from that quarter and will know how to regain the ascendency quicker in the future, as it's inevitable that the good sides will go through periods where things click for them. The trick will be limiting the bleeding to two or three goal runs rather than five or six. Freo's pacy skillful runners are probably as good a chance as any to cut through our structure - it will be great to see how we hold up on Friday night.

 

[doppleganger]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

There was a thread just like this a few weeks ago. I disagree with this one though. What's crucial to success is that we beat the teams we're supposed to. We're going to lose games this year, no way around it, we're not going to have a St Kilda like dominance no matter how much you want it. Freo at Subi is one of the toughest games this year it looks like, dropping it won't ruin our season, nor will losing to Geelong.

What needs to happen is that we don't drop games against Brisbane, Sydney, Essendon, Carlton or any of the other lower teams.

Lock up the top 4 spot and hopefully have the players fresh, fit and firing for finals, that should be the plan.

Agree

Sure it is good to win games against the other supposed threats, however a 15 point loss to Freo at Subi really means SFA in the context of season, means oppo fans will jump up and down and say we are frauds but who cares......prob better to not be flavour of the month in May/June anyway as it is incredibly hard to be UP for the second half of the season with flag favourite title.

Much more important to win all the games against the teams we should win and lock in top 4. We always drop a couple of games that we shouldn't.

 

[daics cousin]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

Somehow i have thew feeling that we will beat Freo,Brisbane,the bulldogs and Melbourne.

Geelong is the worry.I reckon the two teams we must beat to have equal footing come finals time is Geelong and Stkilda.If we can beat these two we are looking good come finals time.We need to beat these two teams they stand between us and the flag...........The psycological advantage is what these two have over us at the moment if we can break that nothing will stop us.

Also i havbe been told by a close source that presti is not injured and Malthouse wants to play the youngens like reid and brown to see how they handle the situation against top sides

So don't expect presti to be rushed in we need to see how Brown and Reid compete agianst the likes of Pav,Mooney,Brown and fev before the human blanket gets a call up.

 

[Zahki]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

Ok, NOW it's important to win next weeks game. Only us and Fremantle sit on 6-1, a win consolodates our position and puts us a game ahead of every other top 4 contender. A very good position to be in, it's gone from a "meh" to a must win game.

 

[mattys123]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

Ok, NOW it's important to win next weeks game. Only us and Fremantle sit on 6-1, a win consolodates our position and puts us a game ahead of every other top 4 contender. A very good position to be in, it's gone from a "meh" to a must win game.

With the Cats the week after, I never saw the Freo game as a "meh" of a game. Next week may well define our season IMO.

Win; And we are on top by a game and percentage after 8 rounds.

Lose; And we are "back with the pack", and Freo will be a game ahead of us.

I firmly believe that if we win next week, we will finish top 2, not just top 4, so I will be a little nervous all week, with so much riding on this game IMO.

 

[danielnajdek]

nothing to be nervous about gonna be a shocking game to watch definitely won't eat before the game might chuck it up

 

[Bloben]

Re: The next 4-5 weeks crucial to our success

Ok... I'm getting ahead of myself but hypothetically if we can knock off Freo then come back and beat Geelong the week after, we will be seriously looking at a top 2 spot this year.

We have some tough games coming up but if we can come out on top we would have a) continued to take 4 points but just as importantly b) stopped some of our biggest challenges in taking 4 points.

And thanks Carlton for helping our cause

 

[Did's Dodgy Knee]

Rocket Science and Brain Surgery. Never heard of rocket surgery.

Rocket Surgery beat me in my DT league last week... He's got a good team.

 

[larrikan]

People are forgetting we travel interstate well AND Freo are coming off a six day game in Brisbane where they got a delayed flight home at 6am Sunday morning...with so much being about recovery and an emotionally charged Brisbane game...we do have a slight advantage this week...I addition we match up well against Freo with their younger players. We will beat Freo no worries. My worry is the same for us coming back from Subiaco to play Geelong six days later.

 

[danielnajdek]

Yeah but Geelong are playing in Brisbane aren't they?

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

To be frank I'd be over the moon if we won one of the next two. Freo away is equally as hard as Geelong anywhere. Beating one of those sides will make a statement.

I think the Brisbane game will look after itself because they are not as good as they think they are, while the Bulldogs game is too far into the future to predict what form they'll be in.

We need to go no worse than 2-2 in the next four weeks. 3-1 would be better though.