Prediction Round 23 Changes vs. GWS Giants

[malpaso]

No Pearce, Treacy and Darcy

They have Briggs and Cogs back

We don't name Walters

This is gonna be quite ugly.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is similar to the dogs game at Marvel

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WTF is Walters going to do? Yes we don't have our #1 spine but Walters doesn't address that. Reidy does and NOD means we get more running power on the wings.

 

[poshman]

Call me stupid, but reckon it will be close

I think so as well - with a ruck in the team we have the forward targets to make things difficult for GWS. We need to run them off their feet.

 

[Randomizor]

Walters has been completely invisible for 95% of his games this year. And the few he has played well in are when we've dominated anyway.

Adding another small forward who can't get near it doesn't fix our small forward issue. Not sure why people are suddenly concerned that he isn't named.

We will miss his one possession a quarter

 

[FreoRicci]

No Pearce, Treacy and Darcy

They have Briggs and Cogs back

We don't name Walters

This is gonna be quite ugly.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is similar to the dogs game at Marvel

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Other then Hogan, have a small forward line. No Pearce is okay
Now that Reidy is in, Tabs out, it’s more settled. Hopefully Jackson gets off

 

[mike91]

Re-writing history a touch there. Some perspective has been lost in the last fortnight around here.

Nope. Jackson has been massively dissapointing this season.

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[The Feeder Club]

No teams run GWS off their feet, what am I reading?
We'll win this game if, and it's a big if, we dominate clearance even more than usual and regain our front half pressure game to limit their rebound ball movement. If we turn it into a game of trying to run them off their feet we'll get completely spanked.

 

[Purple Jesus]

We will miss his one possession a quarter

 

[noise36]

Doubt we make finals from here so why not try something different. Seem like decent ins and outs to me.

 

[muckypup]

I think this is a defining game for this group. The easy thing to do would be to head over, show some fight for a while then fold to the 25 or 30 point defeat that the vast majority of the AFL public expect.

We could head back quietly to Perth, the team comforting themselves with the fact that some key players were injured, we were unlucky, and that old chestnut we are still young.
There is always next year. Next year. And the year after.
And the year after.

Potential. The post dangerous word in professional sport. Success is always just around the corner. We just have to wait until Andy and Caleb are 26 and 24, instead of 23 and 25. We just need to wait until Alex Pearce and Sean Darcy are fit instead of injured.
Next year.


Or
The group could make a stand. Make a statement to the competition that we are a force, not just this year but for the next few years. Like paddy Dangerfield and Geelong last weekend, we could just refuse to accept defeat.

GWS are decent but there is certainly a vulnerable underbelly in that team if we show up in the right frame of mind.

I reckon this is the biggest game we have played since the 2022 finals series. There is SO MUCH at stake this Saturday. AFL careers are short and fleeting. There is zero guarantee that our star players will play top level football well into their 30s. As someone pointed out on another thread, it’s harder for WA players. Fyfe and sonny’s post age 30 careers are but pale shadows of their former glory. David Mundy is an exception rather than a rule.

We just have to find a way to win this Saturday. No excuses, no talk of futures. There is no other option. It will be an unbelievable waste of a season if we don’t.

Winston Churchill come home !!!

 

[ImperialPurple]

Call me stupid, but reckon it will be close

Don't want to be rude and call you stupid, but... >.<

 

[Kram]

Don't want to be rude and call you stupid, but... >.<

Waaaaay too many people are bullish on our chances this weekend so massive disappointment thrashing incoming.

 

[poshman]

Nope. Jackson has been massively dissapointing this season.

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Yes and they have also been good in more than five percent of the games this season.

 

[Grape Bear]

Chance Waaaaay too many people are bullish on our chances this weekend so massive disappointment thrashing incoming.

 

[armpit]

If there's the power of positive thinking, then it stands to be, there must be the power of negative thinking. Some of the people running around in here are specialists in negative thinking. I need an analogy here. Say Freo are a pool and everything Freo is within it. That's the Admin, coaches etc and the players. I'm sure they try to be positive about their winning chances. By far the largest part of the pool are the fans. Maybe a bubble of collective consciousness centred on Freo is better than a pool, whatever the negative thinkers are polluting the pool with there sh!tful thinking.

Say the negativity adds up and sucks the life out of the bubble and the team implodes. Really it serves you right. Self fulfilling prophecy. Try to move yourselves to put the positive into the mix. Crikeys, even before the game has started, you're writing yourself off to be a loser. At least try be positive until we're 4 goals down with 10mins left in the last. Otherwise it's such a weary road you're on.

 

[DocT]

Our worst game of 2023 was against the orange. Looking at the line ups for this week I'm a-fearin' a terrible fear.
There's a possibility that we've already seen Walters play his last purple game. Now I'm sad AND scared

 

[Kapow!!!]

 

[mike91]

Yes and they have also been good in more than five percent of the games this season.

Oh you took that literally? Lol ok then.

Walters has been good in more than 5% of games also

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[mike91]

If there's the power of positive thinking, then it stands to be, there must be the power of negative thinking. Some of the people running around in here are specialists in negative thinking. I need an analogy here. Say Freo are a pool and everything Freo is within it. That's the Admin, coaches etc and the players. I'm sure they try to be positive about their winning chances. By far the largest part of the pool are the fans. Maybe a bubble of collective consciousness centred on Freo is better than a pool, whatever the negative thinkers are polluting the pool with there sh!tful thinking.

Say the negativity adds up and sucks the life out of the bubble and the team implodes. Really it serves you right. Self fulfilling prophecy. Try to move yourselves to put the positive into the mix. Crikeys, even before the game has started, you're writing yourself off to be a loser. At least try be positive until we're 4 goals down with 10mins left in the last. Otherwise it's such a weary road you're on.

People think we might lose

"OMG, SO NEGATIVE EWWW! FAKE FAN"

Grow up kid, people are allowed to be have an opinion. It's hardly a shock people think we'll lose with 3 key outs

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[MadMundy]

Reidy is definitely going to help, Jackson being able to go back down forward will help our structure.

 

[s_wd6]

Don't want to be rude and call you stupid, but... >.<

Yeah what are they thinking lmao. We're winning this by 60.

 

[Grape Bear]

Maybe GWS are in a heavy training block?

 

[armpit]

People think we might lose

"OMG, SO NEGATIVE EWWW! FAKE FAN"

Grow up kid, people are allowed to be have an opinion. It's hardly a shock people think we'll lose with 3 key outs

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Of course people are allowed to have an opinion.

"OMG, SO NEGATIVE EWWWW! FAILING FAN."

Hold on tight then to what works for you. I tried.

 

[pK75]

No Ricardi helps us, he usually kicks 5 on us doesn’t he?

 

[Kapow!!!]

Maybe GWS are in a heavy training block?

 

[Dirty_banchez]

We might have a chance if Luke Ryan has been told to **** off when it comes to kick ins.