Preview Round 10 - Geelong Cats v Port Adelaide Power, Simonds Stadium, Thursday 25th May 7:20pm

[ROBBBO]

The game we won in 2007 down at Kardinia Park - Geelong left out 3 star midfielders (Ling was one of them - forget the other two)
Would really like to see Westhoff have some time in the middle ala Roughhead for the Hawks, we need to get hands on it in the middle - Key to beating Geelong is getting hold of Selwood, Hoff is stronger and gets arms to a lot of blocks and smothers
We have the weapons to win this, hope the lads have the belief, stay in front until midway into the 3rd and we are a good chance

 

[TeeKray]

If Collingwood fell over the line against them in that Prelim we'd have obliterated them the week after. They'd have been utterly exhausted after 3 consecutive wins including the overtime victory at Subiaco, they lost Buckley to his reinjured hammy late against the Cats leaving them without their talisman and their VFL-calibre ruck division of Guy Richards and Chris Bryan would've been destroyed by Lade and Brogan, giving our vastly superior midfield silver service all day.

It's the ultimate sliding doors. Moreso than the lost opportunities of 2002/3/5 & 2014.

Let's face it, if this scenario played out it would have been the single biggest fluke of a premiership in the history of the game.

We had a rag tag team of ageing stars and mediocre but enthusiastic and confident young players. We won nearly every close game we played, including consecutive last kick wins against fellow top four contenders late in the season. We finished 2nd with a record of 15-7, which is historically low but was enough to claim two home finals. We came from behind to beat West Coast by less than a kick in the QF with Cousins tearing his hamstring mid game and Judd literally limping around all night. The team we played in the PF was a team of honest triers who were expected to take out the wooden spoon pre season - and they played like it on the day.

Don't get me wrong, we played decent footy in 2007 and were probably the second best team in what was admittedly a weak year. But gee we rode our luck for 24 weeks and then got it all paid back in one big hit on grand final day.

 

[tribey]

Let's face it, if this scenario played out it would have been the single biggest fluke of a premiership in the history of the game.

We had a rag tag team of ageing stars and mediocre but enthusiastic and confident young players. We won nearly every close game we played, including consecutive last kick wins against fellow top four contenders late in the season. We finished 2nd with a record of 15-7, which is historically low but was enough to claim two home finals. We came from behind to beat West Coast by less than a kick in the QF with Cousins tearing his hamstring mid game and Judd literally limping around all night. The team we played in the PF was a team of honest triers who were expected to take out the wooden spoon pre season - and they played like it on the day.

Don't get me wrong, we played decent footy in 2007 and were probably the second best team in what was admittedly a weak year. But gee we rode our luck for 24 weeks and then got it all paid back in one big hit on grand final day.

Agreed. Jeez we deserved to come up against another team of shittrucks to make up for only getting 1 flag out of that era, though. Two across 2001-2007 would've been about par all told, given we won more games than any other club across that span.

Give us a St Kilda 1997 or Melbourne 2000 - of which Collingwood 2007 absolutely was - instead we cop Hawthorn 1989 multiplied by Essendon 2000.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Geelong in that game was by far the single best performance I've ever seen live. They played like they had 10 extra players on the field. We were just vastly outnumbered at seemingly every contest.

 

[Sleezy]

Would really like to see Westhoff have some time in the middle ala Roughhead for the Hawks

I see where you are going with this, but roughy in the middle for the hawks was disastrous last week. He was too slow to impact the contest in the middle and they lost their key marking target up forward (relying on vickery, gunston and sicily as key marking targets. Lol). Luckily we have big dicko.

What we need from the hoff is to make the blitz defend (which he sucks at btw) from the wing down to the forward line.

In fact one of the keys will be making their wingers and half forwards (motlop, murdoch etc) defend. They don't like defending.

 

[afl2004]

Geelong in that game was by far the single best performance I've ever seen live. They played like they had 10 extra players on the field. We were just vastly outnumbered at seemingly every contest.

2nd and 3rd quarters were insane . Still the best i have seen . It was like our 1st quarter against the hawks in 2015 but for 90% of the game

 

[StuMan]

AFL 99 simulation time:
A scrappy start with neither side able to maintain possession for long. It takes five minutes until Geelong register the first inside 50 for the match; Bamford hits Burns, lace out. Geelong gets the first goal.
The ball comes straight back into our D50 and somehow, Burns outmarks 3 Power players and kicks his second goal in a minute.
Just when things look like getting beyond control for us, Kilpatrick pushes Kingsley in the back just after the centre bounce. Kingsley kicks it down to Tredrea who kicks in to our F50, and Fiegert takes a screamer on Colbert.
Unfortunately, he misses the set shot. Which sums up Port Power's first term.
We manage to take control of the match after Geelong's fast start, but keep missing our shots, due to both bad delivery inside 50, and missing simple shots at goal.
Geelong lead by 12 points at quarter time, with Ports remaining goalless.

The second starts with King tapping it straight to Sanderson who goes charging toward Geelong's 50.
Unfortunately for Sando, Poole tackles him hard and he gets done HTB.
After that we regain control of the match and manage to get in to the lead.
Breuer, Schofield, Dickie, and Kingsley put massive defensive pressure on the Cats through the middle, making life for their mids rather hard.
Port Power by 4 points at half-time.

We start to pull away in the third quarter.
The issues with bad inside 50s solved by the mids getting the ball to Tredea at CHF, who would set up the forwards with beautiful kicks.
Cockatoo-Collins is main beneficiary of these entries kicking 3.2 for the match. Lockwood and Breuer also snag a couple.
Port at 3QT by 18

Not much exciting in the final quarter in terms of the contest. Port continues on their way.
Geelong get the ball going their way on occasions thanks work in the middle by Sanderson, Pickering, Hocking, and Riccardi, but Ports respond every time, leaving the game out of the Cats reach.
After the first quarter debacle, Paxman has a great game, proving too much for Spinks, who ends with one goal, and very little influence.
Tredrea has a huge final term, taking two massive hangers, and kicking 3.1 for the quarter. All while still setting up his team mates inside 50.
Despite having significantly more time in possession, we have twice the amount of tackles.

Ports by 34.

 

[Sleezy]

AFL 99 simulation time:
A scrappy start with neither side able to maintain possession for long. It takes five minutes until Geelong register the first inside 50 for the match; Bamford hits Burns, lace out. Geelong gets the first goal.
The ball comes straight back into our D50 and somehow, Burns outmarks 3 Power players and kicks his second goal in a minute.
Just when things look like getting beyond control for us, Kilpatrick pushes Kingsley in the back just after the centre bounce. Kingsley kicks it down to Tredrea who kicks in to our F50, and Fiegert takes a screamer on Colbert.
Unfortunately, he misses the set shot. Which sums up Port Power's first term.
We manage to take control of the match after Geelong's fast start, but keep missing our shots, due to both bad delivery inside 50, and missing simple shots at goal.
Geelong lead by 12 points at quarter time, with Ports remaining goalless.

The second starts with King tapping it straight to Sanderson who goes charging toward Geelong's 50.
Unfortunately for Sando, Poole tackles him hard and he gets done HTB.
After that we regain control of the match and manage to get in to the lead.
Breuer, Schofield, Dickie, and Kingsley put massive defensive pressure on the Cats through the middle, making life for their mids rather hard.
Port Power by 4 points at half-time.

We start to pull away in the third quarter.
The issues with bad inside 50s solved by the mids getting the ball to Tredea at CHF, who would set up the forwards with beautiful kicks.
Cockatoo-Collins is main beneficiary of these entries kicking 3.2 for the match. Lockwood and Breuer also snag a couple.
Port at 3QT by 18

Not much exciting in the final quarter in terms of the contest. Port continues on their way.
Geelong get the ball going their way on occasions thanks work in the middle by Sanderson, Pickering, Hocking, and Riccardi, but Ports respond every time, leaving the game out of the Cats reach.
After the first quarter debacle, Paxman has a great game, proving too much for Spinks, who ends with one goal, and very little influence.
Tredrea has a huge final term, taking two massive hangers, and kicking 3.1 for the quarter. All while still setting up his team mates inside 50.
Despite having significantly more time in possession, we have twice the amount of tackles.

Ports by 34.

Who's leading the bnf at this point of the season?

 

[StuMan]

Who's leading the bnf at this point of the season?

I hadn't thought of this. I'll have to go through my posts at some point and see.

Off the top of my head, probably Tredrea after a couple of quiet rounds to start season, has been a star.

Got a good feeling about him. I'm sure in 20 years when the media talk about the best CHF of the 2000s, his name will be the first to come up.

 

[Sleezy]

I hadn't thought of this. I'll have to go through my posts at some point and see.

Off the top of my head, probably Tredrea after a couple of quiet rounds to start season, has been a star.

Got a good feeling about him. I'm sure in 20 years when the media talk about the best CHF of the 2000s, his name will be the first to come up.

#amancandream

 

[philreich]

Let's face it, if this scenario played out it would have been the single biggest fluke of a premiership in the history of the game.

We had a rag tag team of ageing stars and mediocre but enthusiastic and confident young players. We won nearly every close game we played, including consecutive last kick wins against fellow top four contenders late in the season. We finished 2nd with a record of 15-7, which is historically low but was enough to claim two home finals. We came from behind to beat West Coast by less than a kick in the QF with Cousins tearing his hamstring mid game and Judd literally limping around all night. The team we played in the PF was a team of honest triers who were expected to take out the wooden spoon pre season - and they played like it on the day.

Don't get me wrong, we played decent footy in 2007 and were probably the second best team in what was admittedly a weak year. But gee we rode our luck for 24 weeks and then got it all paid back in one big hit on grand final day.

Slightly tongue in cheek, but I wouldn't be surprised if Norf conceded that preliminary final. They'd already been smashed by 106 points in the qualifying final by the rampant Cats, so maybe they thought, "We're not enduring that again - especially in a grand final."

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Cats by 60

 

[Papa G]

If Collingwood fell over the line against them in that Prelim we'd have obliterated them the week after. They'd have been utterly exhausted after 3 consecutive wins including the overtime victory at Subiaco, they lost Buckley to his reinjured hammy late against the Cats leaving them without their talisman and their VFL-calibre ruck division of Guy Richards and Chris Bryan would've been destroyed by Lade and Brogan, giving our vastly superior midfield silver service all day.

It's the ultimate sliding doors. Moreso than the lost opportunities of 2002/3/5 & 2014.

I work with a level headed Collingwood supporter who also believes this to be correct. Of course the majority of them believe they also would have beaten us by 20 goals.

 

[Steve Dore]

Or Johnson, as it's indigenous round.

racist

 

[Willsy10]

Or Johnson, as it's indigenous round.

I don't think this will be a basis for selection.

 

[Willsy10]

Whilst Chad is a huge out, we will still put up a very good side on paper, one player doesn't make that much difference no matter how good they are.

We should still win this game, our best has clearly been better than their's so far this year, and it sounds cliche but if we bring our best the result will take care of itself.

We don't need to fear Geelong at Geelong, it ain't 2009 last time i checked.

 

[LP7_]

Gus would've kicked 14.

Cats by 70.

Goals.

 

[Marmozet]

We don't need to fear Geelong at Geelong, it ain't 2009 last time i checked.

I've heard some Port people already say they want to get into the ground a little later so they don't have to witness Geelong's 2007 premiership players parade and GF highlights package.

That's not going to intimidate me. I'll sit there and watch if I have to.

 

[1954]

As has already been suggested the key to Port winning this game will be keeping the influence of Duckwood and Danger to a minimum.

If they both get off the chain, I doubt there is much, if any chance of a positive result in our favour.

 

[TeeKray]

I've heard some Port people already say they want to get into the ground a little later so they don't have to witness Geelong's 2007 premiership players parade and GF highlights package.

That's not going to intimidate me. I'll sit there and watch if I have to.

Great username to post content ratio

 

[El_Scorcho]

I'm really struggling to be confident. Despite putting poor sides to the sword, we just can't get it done against good sides anywhere.

That said, I fully expect us to be right in the game the whole time because we've been competitive all year, even in losses. It's important to pinch one of these games soon, and this would be a beauty given the premiership celebration.

Chad is a big loss but I don't feel like this should come down to an individual unless that individual is Dangerfield and we let him off the leash.

 

[Marmozet]

Great username to post content ratio

I don't think anybody in the history of BigFooty has had that said to them more than I have

 

[Rising Power]

Expecting the obligatory 10-20 minutes of poor footy that will be our downfall.
Hoping it's the reverse and we pile on 6 goals in the same amount of time to secure the win.

 

[Byrons Firen]

Assuming no changes I have a hunch Brendan Ah Chee might prove the ace up our sleeve.

 

[philreich]

As has already been suggested the key to Port winning this game will be keeping the influence of Duckwood and Danger to a minimum.

If they both get off the chain, I doubt there is much, if any chance of a positive result in our favour.

I reckon Geelong's 6 day break is an issue. They had 130 tackles against the Bulldogs, which has to take it out of you physically - can they back that effort up this week? I think the key for us will be to stay with them until half time. If they get the jump on us, it could be tough to recover from. But hopefully the longer the game goes, the more fatigued the Cats will become.