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Ant Bear
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- Dec 7, 2012
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Our forward line is our biggest advantage in this game, but it won't be of any help if we:
A) Don't win or at least break even in the midfield. This is Geelong's strength, even without Ablett. Dangerfield, Selwood, Duncan, Menegola and Kelly are still as good a midfield as we'll face all year
B) Fail to be brave, and take the game on. I understand that the players are instructed to play tempo footy when the game situation demands; to hold the ball up after a mark and reset further down the line. But we are so much more dangerous when we wheel and go - it creates run from behind, movement in front and makes the oppposition reactive.
C) Defend like drunken yobbos after a big night at Mr Kims again. Keep your feet, help each other out and stay calm, FFS
D) Concede the ruck. Either Doogs competes like a proper ruckman against Stanley, or set up to rove to the opposition ruckman.
Having said that, I think that Geelong are ripe for the picking, with injuries to at least 6 first-choice players (Ablett, Henderson, Taylor, Guthrie, Cockatoo, Gregson), and if the players' ears are scorched from last week, we should win comfortably.
A) Don't win or at least break even in the midfield. This is Geelong's strength, even without Ablett. Dangerfield, Selwood, Duncan, Menegola and Kelly are still as good a midfield as we'll face all year
B) Fail to be brave, and take the game on. I understand that the players are instructed to play tempo footy when the game situation demands; to hold the ball up after a mark and reset further down the line. But we are so much more dangerous when we wheel and go - it creates run from behind, movement in front and makes the oppposition reactive.
C) Defend like drunken yobbos after a big night at Mr Kims again. Keep your feet, help each other out and stay calm, FFS
D) Concede the ruck. Either Doogs competes like a proper ruckman against Stanley, or set up to rove to the opposition ruckman.
Having said that, I think that Geelong are ripe for the picking, with injuries to at least 6 first-choice players (Ablett, Henderson, Taylor, Guthrie, Cockatoo, Gregson), and if the players' ears are scorched from last week, we should win comfortably.