Preliminary Final - StKVs Bull

[Zarrix]

Good thing about this is that at one team with a long premiership drought will get the chance to break it this year.

I think the Saints will get over the line here though. The Dogs attack won't be as potent against the saints defence.

 

[Coooooooneyyyyyyyy]

Saints up by 7 points at 3/4 time. A bloody brad johnson adresses his fellow warriors to harden up. Bulldogs win by 31 points.

in big kev voice* I LIKE IT *

 

[Coooooooneyyyyyyyy]

I don't think Bulldogs stand a chance

And i can say the same about ur club

 

[Murraj1966]

You're a loser just like your team

Edited for grammar.

 

[Pigdog]

From a neutral perspective i just dont want any upsets to get in the way of a Saints v Geelong GF.
They're the two best teams and evenly matched...would be a cracker and most wouldnt mind who got over the line.

Last thing i wanna see is some spud like a Mitch Hahn for instance have his biannual big game and suddenly kick 6 to win them the game...coz then they'd still just get absolutely murdered in the GF and ruin the party.

Maybe its best they just dont turn up

Why would you say that?

This year we have played Geelong 3 times. Each team has won a game by 14 pts and Geelong won the other game by 2 points.

We have played Collingwood twice for a 22 pt win (in rd 22) and a 1 pt loss in rd 15.

What makes you think we would get pumped in a GF when we have been very competetitive against the opposing teams this year?

 

[Hard Ball Get]

From a neutral perspective i just dont want any upsets to get in the way of a Saints v Geelong GF.
They're the two best teams and evenly matched...would be a cracker and most wouldnt mind who got over the line.

Last thing i wanna see is some spud like a Mitch Hahn for instance have his biannual big game and suddenly kick 6 to win them the game...coz then they'd still just get absolutely murdered in the GF and ruin the party.

Maybe its best they just dont turn up

You seriously have no idea.

 

[Coooooooneyyyyyyyy]

From a neutral perspective i just dont want any upsets to get in the way of a Saints v Geelong GF.
They're the two best teams and evenly matched...would be a cracker and most wouldnt mind who got over the line.

Last thing i wanna see is some spud like a Mitch Hahn for instance have his biannual big game and suddenly kick 6 to win them the game...coz then they'd still just get absolutely murdered in the GF and ruin the party.

Maybe its best they just dont turn up

As Pigdog said our last 3 games have been under 3 goals so i think u seriously have no clue buddy.

 

[Jimthegreat]

The Saints easy.

Only way the Saints will lose the flag this year is if they beat themselves.

 

[TheLastEmperor]

This game will go down the same way that it has in the other two encounters this year. The Dogs to play their run and carry game in an attempt to get through the zone, get tackled turn the ball over and get exposed down back where Riewoldt and Kosi have a field day on the undersized Dogs backs.

The Dogs gameplan doesn't work against the Saints.

 

[Big R]

Pressure is all on StKilda and they will choke.... sorry, I like them but they will imo

Dogs by 47

 

[yebiga]

There is something brewing in the kennel

 

[Saintland]

I'll tell you something for free Stef old chap and that is that a team only plays as well as the opposition lets them. For years we have suffered your contrived naivety and reduction of any simple logic to kindergarten mush. Collingwood had a reasonable year, but you know what? They have fallen apart and all the kings horses and all the kings men can't put the pies back together again.

Crows will win.
And Saints will beat the Dogs for the third time this year.

Don't waste your breath. Churning out meaningless stats if they were somehow significant and blathering on about their walk up start to the premiership each year because they play on the G so much.
Great Pressure Saints. Keep it up.

 

[Gooka]

Dogs will win. Cooney, Griffen & Ward are in the form of their lives - and they're hard to tackle. They'll break the lines.

Johnson & Aker will get off the leish also.

I'm actually pretty confident. Think we'll win by 3-4 goals.

 

[Big Carl]

Pressure is all on StKilda and they will choke.... sorry, I like them but they will imo

Dogs by 47

You should know..................saw a choke first hand last Friday night

 

[Murraj1966]

Dogs will win. Cooney, Griffen & Ward are in the form of their lives - and they're hard to tackle. They'll break the lines.

Johnson & Aker will get off the leish also.

I'm actually pretty confident. Think we'll win by 3-4 goals.

1: I think you mean "leash"
2: Johnson and Aker will be held by Gilbo and Fish in defence and all your midfielders didn't seem very "hard to tackle" in Round 17.
3: You couldn't break the lines before, what's different now?
Saints to win.

 

[bully_bully]

Dogs will win because we will play your game, giving you a taste of your own medicine. We will denied you the ball and give no space to Roo and kosi.... our more efficient and smartness around the F50 (aka) will steal us a few extra goals to get us just over the line.

Low scoring...Bulldogs 95 saints 76.

 

[Murraj1966]

Riiight... so you'll play a different style to the one you've played all year, which is similar to ours, which we've played ALL year... and win?

 

[bully_bully]

Riiight... so you'll play a different style to the one you've played all year, which is similar to ours, which we've played ALL year... and win?

You can only learn from the best, not exactly identical as you have tall forwards, but Eade did came out and said that the defensive rolling/contested zone was copied after the loss to the saints game in Rnd 17.

You have murdered us on the rebound due to turn overs, the key here is that you wont get many easy turn overs this Friday and watch for your backmant to all be accountable and under pressure.
It wont be ;
nest of saints defenders VS Ackermanis
nest of saints defenders VS Brad Johnson
nest of Saints defenders VS Hill (not playing ) etc..

It will be a chip pass by Gia or slicing pass by gilbee and watch the Doggie pack swarm towards your defenders. Goddard will be tagged.

 

[Murraj1966]

More space = greater rebounds!

And as we all know from Collingwood fans, the MCG is about a thousand times larger than the Square of Grass known as Telstra Dome.
And our defenders are a little smarter than letting Gia through to chip pass considering the lowest points scored against in 40 years of 22 round football is a record belonging to us now.

 

[bully_bully]

I didn't say the extra space at the G will benefit either team but what i am trying to say is we have learnt from our losses against the saints and will not hand over the ball so easily. It will be low scoring but we will have more opportunistic goals as our quicker forwards will have more chances in congestions, you will only win if your tall timber can hold their marks CLEANLY. The game will be congested in either attacking F50.

 

[duffman324]

Saints by 87. Doggies are now and have been for five years...hopeless. I am much happier with our list than their supporters should be with theirs. I guarantee we make a Grand Final before them. Feel free to quote that. Richmond are a fair chance but I won't guarantee that.

I wish by 87, I am a negative St. Kilda fan. Still worried about this week. Form suggests I shouldn't be but Saints in prelim, haven't we seen this before? Anyway Saints by 3 goals. Come on you Sainters!

 

[StFly]

Dogs will win because we will play your game, giving you a taste of your own medicine. We will denied you the ball and give no space to Roo and kosi.... our more efficient and smartness around the F50 (aka) will steal us a few extra goals to get us just over the line.

Low scoring...Bulldogs 95 saints 76.

As I recall Adelaide played our game the second time around, how did that turn out on the return bout? 57 points in the Saints favour is what. It's a very simple concept to understand, you play your style of play and you're comfortable with that, when it is up you can push any side so you've no need to change it for a completely different style. You play us on our terms and try to best us at it you will fall on your faces and be beaten into submission because it is not your style, it is ours, it is not to your strengths, it is to ours.

 

[saintsrule]

There is something brewing in the kennel

Yep. It's the beer to drown dogs' sorrows with at about 10.15 tomorrow night.

 

[krisholio14]

The Saints should win this game convincingly, but if the Dogs can do these three things they can get up....

1. Get off to a flyer. Footscray have been notoriously slow starters all year, and if they allow what happened against us to happen again tonight, they will be gone by quarter time.

2. They don't just have to match St Kilda in the intensity stakes, they have to surpass them. They will need to get more contested possessions and more tackles to win this game. Considering the numbers the Saints have been racking up in this area all season it's a tall order.

3. The only area I feel the Dogs have the Saints covered is in the pace department. That being the case, they will have to run run run all night long. In conjunction with this, they will need to use long, accurate kicking to try and catch St Kilda's defense out over the back when they use their tactic of pushing their defenders up the ground.

If all three of these things do not occur, it's going to be another long night for Doggies fans.

 

[RedWhite&Blue]

Well, I saw quite a few sore Doggies strolling off the ground after the game. And from the manner they stalked into the change room after the game, and the look on their faces, one would have thought they lost. Nobody was happy.

That's because they have bigger fish to fry. No use getting excited about getting into a prelim that they should have locked away in the first week.