Apologies to Finnishpie, gonna put my own preview up for this won (see what I did there?)
You'll probably put one up that'll outdo mine lol.
The Giants, a solid game on enemy turf against a banged up Port
Here are the team stats.
www.afl.com.au
They won every metric apart form cc (-1) and contested marks (-5) and equal on turnover, difference being they heavily outscored on turnover.
In short a belting, not so much on the scoreboard, none the less haven't see them play a better game this year. Can they repeat it? They'll need to in order to get over the Pies on the hallowed MCG turf, even if they do, for them to win, that's up for debate.
Interesting fact, we lost most metrics against an in form dees outfit (including cc) yet still won, we've won quite a few games losing this metric.
How so? Well our defence, not just the d50 but the whole team defence has been sublime for most of the season, definitely last week.
Switch Flicking:
Interesting about our game last week and for probably most of the season, it looks externally that we can tempo the game and play ideal game at will. Was evident in the last qt last week, definitely in defence for the whole last qt, not a fan, none the less shows we can tempo the game when we want, even against an in form top 4 team.
If you believe that last qt of ours was due solely to the dees pressure, I got bridges to sell you, one in my back pocket, goin cheap, 1 billion bucks. Safe to say Goody isn't happy with his purchase.
To be fair, the giants were in total control and seemed to have control of the whole game, however playing a banged up Port with deficiencies all over the park, Port were always up against it.
They won't be able to dictate terms so easily against us, where as we've shown we can actually dictate terms in games, will even so boldly say in rd3 at the Gabba we had some game time on our terms. Admittedly we've improved much since then.
Belief vs Belief:
As much as this game of Australian football is mostly about science and strategy, we've seen over and over that belief can be a big factor, the giants are in some sort of euphoric belief and hopefully they think they can just waltz in and take it from us. They're probably thinking they're playing better than the sum of their parts, and they probably are.
Uh uh girlfriend!
There is no stronger belief among the lists that are left than our Pies, we probably KNOW that we don't have the best list in it, the blose and the brions certainly more talented, albeit not much.
Meh, that doesn't matter, there is no closer knit playing group than ours, even if you think the giants have this belief, our belief is stronger and has held up high for nigh on 18 months.
Confidence is key, and there is this niggling thought that we still have lots of cards to play up our sleeves, we're no where our best yet we're deliberately conserving for when we need it.
^ I have ultimate confidence in this.
The advantages we have:
For starters we have the extended break vs the giants, admittedly this semi was a fairly bruise free game. Yet we have Naicos coming back chomping at the bit, we have a few players last week that will unlikely have as poor games two games in a row. Jaicos for one, Degs wasn't at his best and is probably itching to be the show off he can be, expect improved performances from these two.
We have players fighting for spots, and we have continuity, we'll basically have two changes for this game at most.
Tay is a loss but I believe one we can cover.
The disadvantages they have:
Apart from Briggs's left shoulder they've had to fly to Adelaide and will now have to fly back to Sydney for a long bus ride back to Western Sydney then back again to fly south for the 2nd last week in September.
As formidable as they are, they're up against it.
System v System, or more accurately best v best.
I doubt anyone, and I mean anyone could argue our ideal game is almost impossible to defeat, sure we haven't exactly shown our ideal game for last half of the year. Only in patches, and as I've explained this could be a deliberate ploy.
You could see in the giants game they've tried to emulate our turnover game, and they did to great effect, however our Pies are a completely different proposition.
We've shown in patches in our last two games, that we, at will, close space and turnover like we did earlier in the year then defend when we think we have the game won. Again, not a fan, but that is our mo and has proven to be successful.
The giants, well they probably played their best game this year trying to emulate our style. We've doing it for much longer and still have much improvement to come in it.
In short we won't them play our game style so easily.
The wash up:
With not much trepidation I think we win this game, with some reserve in the tank, by deliberation I might add like we've done for most of the year.
Time to put the faux team afl back on their boxes and show you can't just waltz in and show up the number one team on their home turf in front 95K fans, 100 of them being giants fans (read nsw nrl fans who have no idea about the game anyway).
The game will play out the way it should be, they'll attempt to out Collingwood Collingwood in futility.
The Pies (Premiers) by 28 pts.
You'll probably put one up that'll outdo mine lol.
The Giants, a solid game on enemy turf against a banged up Port
Here are the team stats.
AFL - News, Fixtures, Scores & Results - AFL.com.au
Australian Football League. All the latest AFL news, video, results and information
www.afl.com.au
They won every metric apart form cc (-1) and contested marks (-5) and equal on turnover, difference being they heavily outscored on turnover.
In short a belting, not so much on the scoreboard, none the less haven't see them play a better game this year. Can they repeat it? They'll need to in order to get over the Pies on the hallowed MCG turf, even if they do, for them to win, that's up for debate.
Interesting fact, we lost most metrics against an in form dees outfit (including cc) yet still won, we've won quite a few games losing this metric.
How so? Well our defence, not just the d50 but the whole team defence has been sublime for most of the season, definitely last week.
Switch Flicking:
Interesting about our game last week and for probably most of the season, it looks externally that we can tempo the game and play ideal game at will. Was evident in the last qt last week, definitely in defence for the whole last qt, not a fan, none the less shows we can tempo the game when we want, even against an in form top 4 team.
If you believe that last qt of ours was due solely to the dees pressure, I got bridges to sell you, one in my back pocket, goin cheap, 1 billion bucks. Safe to say Goody isn't happy with his purchase.
To be fair, the giants were in total control and seemed to have control of the whole game, however playing a banged up Port with deficiencies all over the park, Port were always up against it.
They won't be able to dictate terms so easily against us, where as we've shown we can actually dictate terms in games, will even so boldly say in rd3 at the Gabba we had some game time on our terms. Admittedly we've improved much since then.
Belief vs Belief:
As much as this game of Australian football is mostly about science and strategy, we've seen over and over that belief can be a big factor, the giants are in some sort of euphoric belief and hopefully they think they can just waltz in and take it from us. They're probably thinking they're playing better than the sum of their parts, and they probably are.
Uh uh girlfriend!
There is no stronger belief among the lists that are left than our Pies, we probably KNOW that we don't have the best list in it, the blose and the brions certainly more talented, albeit not much.
Meh, that doesn't matter, there is no closer knit playing group than ours, even if you think the giants have this belief, our belief is stronger and has held up high for nigh on 18 months.
Confidence is key, and there is this niggling thought that we still have lots of cards to play up our sleeves, we're no where our best yet we're deliberately conserving for when we need it.
^ I have ultimate confidence in this.
The advantages we have:
For starters we have the extended break vs the giants, admittedly this semi was a fairly bruise free game. Yet we have Naicos coming back chomping at the bit, we have a few players last week that will unlikely have as poor games two games in a row. Jaicos for one, Degs wasn't at his best and is probably itching to be the show off he can be, expect improved performances from these two.
We have players fighting for spots, and we have continuity, we'll basically have two changes for this game at most.
Tay is a loss but I believe one we can cover.
The disadvantages they have:
Apart from Briggs's left shoulder they've had to fly to Adelaide and will now have to fly back to Sydney for a long bus ride back to Western Sydney then back again to fly south for the 2nd last week in September.
As formidable as they are, they're up against it.
System v System, or more accurately best v best.
I doubt anyone, and I mean anyone could argue our ideal game is almost impossible to defeat, sure we haven't exactly shown our ideal game for last half of the year. Only in patches, and as I've explained this could be a deliberate ploy.
You could see in the giants game they've tried to emulate our turnover game, and they did to great effect, however our Pies are a completely different proposition.
We've shown in patches in our last two games, that we, at will, close space and turnover like we did earlier in the year then defend when we think we have the game won. Again, not a fan, but that is our mo and has proven to be successful.
The giants, well they probably played their best game this year trying to emulate our style. We've doing it for much longer and still have much improvement to come in it.
In short we won't them play our game style so easily.
The wash up:
With not much trepidation I think we win this game, with some reserve in the tank, by deliberation I might add like we've done for most of the year.
Time to put the faux team afl back on their boxes and show you can't just waltz in and show up the number one team on their home turf in front 95K fans, 100 of them being giants fans (read nsw nrl fans who have no idea about the game anyway).
The game will play out the way it should be, they'll attempt to out Collingwood Collingwood in futility.
The Pies (Premiers) by 28 pts.
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