Review Round 21 vs Adelaide Crows @ Adelaide Oval - 05/08/23 - 2:10pm

[Supersuns]

I thought Keane was pretty good against Port. Crows forward line and their home ground advantage have a massive chance to absolutely blow us open.

 

[Disambiguous]

Three from the last four is quite encouraging.


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[The Kings Ransom]

Three from the last four is quite encouraging.


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They clearly somewhat vulnerable
defensively.

Conceding a fair few points historically - this year 10th best team defensively and with their 1st choice talls out.

If the midfield can win their match ups it gives us a good chance.

Their forward line is super potent so will have to play good team defence and impair their quick ball movement.

 

[Supersuns]

Tex almost always gets a hold of Sarge. It's a worry, need a good team defence performance and the mids to win the battle.

 

[TheGoldPersons]

Calling it now

Mac will give Walker a bodyslam

 

[GC2015]

Tex almost always gets a hold of Sarge. It's a worry, need a good team defence performance and the mids to win the battle.

Stopping Tex is the key to victory for mine. I believe Rachelle will be returning for the Crows in this game and I know he's good but I feel more confident having Lemmens out there to play on him instead of Long who was absolute towelled up in the GWS game (admittedly against probably the best player in the game right now). I think Lemmens, Powell and Macpherson will be able to contain Rachelle for the most part so it's really just Tex that worries me. Collins is actually in outstanding form right now so if he can keep that up then we're a HUGE chance. We've got the superior midfield to them so we should get more attacking opportunities than they do but ultimately I think we need a four quarter effort like we saw against Brisbane in order to seal the win. The Crows know they can't afford any slip ups and will be very determined to win this one, but then again so should we because we're literally in the exact same position as Adelaide right now. It's essentially sudden death every week from here onwards and you know what that means...

This is a Mini GF!

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Stopping Tex is the key to victory for mine. I believe Rachelle will be returning for the Crows in this game and I know he's good but I feel more confident having Lemmens out there to play on him instead of Long who was absolute towelled up in the GWS game (admittedly against probably the best player in the game right now). I think Lemmens, Powell and Macpherson will be able to contain Rachelle for the most part so it's really just Tex that worries me. Collins is actually in outstanding form right now so if he can keep that up then we're a HUGE chance. We've got the superior midfield to them so we should get more attacking opportunities than they do but ultimately I think we need a four quarter effort like we saw against Brisbane in order to seal the win. The Crows know they can't afford any slip ups and will be very determined to win this one, but then again so should we because we're literally in the exact same position as Adelaide right now. It's essentially sudden death every week from here onwards and you know what that means...

This is a Mini GF!

Not too worried bout Rachele, he like Humphrey is running on fumes.

Tex is the guy to stop.

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Probably
Collins - Walker
Ballard - Fogarty
Andrew - thilthorpe

That makes me pretty nervous.
Don’t know if any of those matchups really suit style wise. I’d say ballard on thilthorpe works but can’t possibly have Mac on Fogarty.

Maybe farrar comes into the starting 22 - can chip in against Fogarty.

Keep Mac on someone like macadam and have him float off and double team the power forwards.

 

[The Kings Ransom]

This is the consensus Adelaide side (below)

On paper, they’ve got a cracking forward line but otherwise.. it’s a vulnerable team on paper.

Their defence is paper thin with Milera the only guy to have played more than 25 games.

Their midfield is decent but we’ve beat up on crouch and laird before. Obviously Dawson is one of the best players in the comp at the moment.
I’m confident we can at least take it to them.

I’m bringing in Farrar for Hollands who can be sub. Just gives us more flexibility and reinforcement across the backline which I think we’ll need.

Other option is a shock move and bring in Caleb Graham

46

Caleb Graham

Age

23

Ht

194cm

Wt

97kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

5.5

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.0

3star

MG

63.0

1star

D

5.0

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.0

1star

MG

63.0

1star

D

10.0

3star

K

5.5

3star

HB

4.5

4star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.0

3star

MG

63.0

1star

. He plays on thilthorpe and Ballard on to Fogarty. I would be ok with this too..

B: Michalanney, Borlase, Keane
F: Rosas—-— King —-Casboult

HB: Nankervis, Worrell, Milera
HF: Ainsworth Lukosius Holman

C: Jones, Dawson, Hinge
C: Ellis — Miller — Atkins

HF: Pedlar, Walker, Keays
HB: Powell Collins Macpherson

F: Fogarty, Thilthorpe, McAdam
FB: Farrar — Ballard — Andrew

R: O'Brien, Rachele, Laird
R: Witts — Anderson — Rowell

I: Smith, Crouch, Schoenberg, Soligo
I: Flanders, Swallow, Lemmens, Humphrey

S: Hollands

 

[RowellAnderson12]

This is the consensus Adelaide side (below)

On paper, they’ve got a cracking forward line but otherwise.. it’s a vulnerable team on paper.

Their defence is paper thin with Milera the only guy to have played more than 25 games.

Their midfield is decent but we’ve beat up on crouch and laird before. Obviously Dawson is one of the best players in the comp at the moment.
I’m confident we can at least take it to them.

I’m bringing in Farrar for Hollands who can be sub. Just gives us more flexibility and reinforcement across the backline which I think we’ll need.

Other option is a shock move and bring in Caleb Graham

46

Caleb Graham

Age

23

Ht

194cm

Wt

97kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

5.5

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.0

3star

MG

63.0

1star

D

5.0

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.0

1star

MG

63.0

1star

D

10.0

3star

K

5.5

3star

HB

4.5

4star

M

3.5

4star

T

1.0

3star

MG

63.0

1star

. He plays on thilthorpe and Ballard on to Fogarty. I would be ok with this too..

B: Michalanney, Borlase, Keane
F: Rosas—-— King —-Casboult

HB: Nankervis, Worrell, Milera
HF: Ainsworth Lukosius Holman

C: Jones, Dawson, Hinge
C: Ellis — Miller — Atkins

HF: Pedlar, Walker, Keays
HB: Powell Collins Macpherson

F: Fogarty, Thilthorpe, McAdam
FB: Farrar — Ballard — Andrew

R: O'Brien, Rachele, Laird
R: Witts — Anderson — Rowell

I: Smith, Crouch, Schoenberg, Soligo
I: Flanders, Swallow, Lemmens, Humphrey

S: Hollands

Embarassing if we can’t beat that backline

 

[2020suns]

Touk suspended for a week


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[Supersuns]

Fair, if that was happening to one of our players we would all be crying for blood.

 

[Jen2310]

 

[kreglze]

My major issue is why has it taken till Thursday.

 

[Southern Sun]

Absolute joke. It was in the tackle not a deliberate act.

 

[Young_Guns]

Suspended or not, what a joke of a process. AFL clears him, the hypocrite Zorko whines like a b*tch in the media, we train with him in the side all week, the AFL changes their mind and suspends him an hour before teams are due.

 

[eppo67]

Suspended or not, what a joke of a process. AFL clears him, the hypocrite Zorko whines like a b*tch in the media, we train with him in the side all week, the AFL changes their mind and suspends him an hour before teams are due.

Disgraceful and that little turd Zorko thought he was booed in Melbourne a lot after the Petty incident.
The crowds will go nuclear on him now. He's going to cop it big time.

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[Young_Guns]

In other news, I’m excited to see Farrar in and potentially playing further up the ground. Lit up the stadium when he came on last week and I still think he can best serve us as an attacking winger who can also track all the way back and play a defensive role.

Gives us options to free up Powell and Atkins as well.

 

[Jirik13]

Just curious, was there no option to appeal this ban outside of MRO process?

 

[SnusCG]

Just curious, was there no option to appeal the his ban outside of MRO?

Wondered that as well

Surely we would be appealing that ban

 

[The Kings Ransom]

The original tackle was completely fine.
He was literally flinging around him trying to grab on when first making contact with his groin.

Whether he went on with it after the tackle was complete and they were on the ground.. only Touk is really going to know.

Pretty disappointed in the fact that it severely reduces any chance we had of winning.

 

[exile]

lmao classic afl

 

[SandyToes]

Dorko and that whole team he is a “ leader” of are a total disgrace
Embarrassment to professional sport in this country
Sniping peahearted front runners the lot of them
Dorko will want to find a place to live North of Coomera because he’ll find living on the Coast a difficult proposition after this
What a sad little lack of talent tosser he is


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[kreglze]

Nothing would make me feel better than coming out and belting the Crows now.

 

[Jirik13]

Funny thing is that Zorko did not appear in any pain and discomfort after tackle as he claimed to AFL now. The original medical report was clear. Bruises he claimed on Mon could come from any contacts during the game or whatever he did after the game . If Miller was allowed appeal, I can't see any chance to prove it was intentional. The worst would probably be careless and fine.

What a sore looser Zorko is. He went on SEN radio on Wed and whinged again.

AFL process is a comedy.