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Game Day The Luke Jackson Cup - Round 20 Friday Night Footy vs Melbourne at Optus Stadium
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Melbourne were there for the taking. Teams have heavy legs anyway after playing at Marvel and they were chasing bulldog tail all night just six days back.
But then you look at our forward line, in the wet, and yeah, nah that ain't getting it done.
Melbourne by 15
But then you look at our forward line, in the wet, and yeah, nah that ain't getting it done.
Melbourne by 15
I'd be very surprised if we won easily, and not surprised if Melb won easily. Mostly I'm thinking it'll be a somewhat comfortable win to the Dees with our best case scenario being a narrow (less than 3 goals)win.
Dees by 22pts.
Dees by 22pts.
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Dockers by 19....need to make a statement and lift us out of the mailaise.
Unless something drastic changes from what we've produced over the last several weeks, I think we could get a bit hammered by Melbourne tonight.
Our forward entries and forward pressure of late have been poor, weather that be due to injury or form, either way it hasn't been good or near the standard we set earlier in the season when we were regularly kicking over 100 points per game.
If we carelessly bomb it inside 50 tonight as we have lately, that will play straight in Steven May and Jake Lever's hands. From that point they'll slice us up and get their game going.
If we're more methodical going inside 50, we have a chance, but we'll have to improve a fair bit on recent weeks. Need Tabs and Walters to significantly improve.
if it's wet, that will just hurt our chances even more.
Not without a chance, but i'm tipping Melbourne by 30ish
Our forward entries and forward pressure of late have been poor, weather that be due to injury or form, either way it hasn't been good or near the standard we set earlier in the season when we were regularly kicking over 100 points per game.
If we carelessly bomb it inside 50 tonight as we have lately, that will play straight in Steven May and Jake Lever's hands. From that point they'll slice us up and get their game going.
If we're more methodical going inside 50, we have a chance, but we'll have to improve a fair bit on recent weeks. Need Tabs and Walters to significantly improve.
if it's wet, that will just hurt our chances even more.
Not without a chance, but i'm tipping Melbourne by 30ish
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Good thing we have a thing called the Bureau of Meteorology so that we don't have to rely on people's gut feelings. They happen to say that actually most of the rain has passed already, golly gosh!
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Freo by 10 goals. Jackson consistently taps the footy to our Brayshaw, and each time says, 'Oops, my bad'.
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FTFY
Rain forecast for 3/4pm but should be clear after
Which forecast are you looking at?
We had some rain just north of the city this morning, but it has stopped and there's just the type of cloud around that might give a little rain, but not a lot.
All of the BOM based forecasts suggest there's a low chance of much more, and negligible by the time bouncedown occurs.
Whatever is on Google. It's always been pretty accurate in terms of rainfall on game days. Was on the money for the hawks and Sydney games
That's weather.com, I haven't personally had a good experience with them but whatever way you look at it weather forecasting has a lot of uncertainty anyways.
Melbourne deserve to be favourites for this. They have the runs on the board. We have stumbled in wet weather and i barely rate the home ground advantage this year. There have been 3 debacles (Saints / Swans / Pies). I just hope we turn up.
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I don’t think anyone knows who wins this one, I think we will have the better endurance after last week and the crowd in our sails. On the other hand Melbourne won’t be taking us for granted and will be waaay more of a handful than last time.
Lobb is a huge in. Time for Freddy to get back to the form he showed last time we played em.
Lobb is a huge in. Time for Freddy to get back to the form he showed last time we played em.
Expecting a dour low scoring affair, given best defensive team playing second best defensive team and the wet track.
First to 7 goals may win it.
Us by 9 points, 7.11 (53) to 5.14 (44)
First to 7 goals may win it.
Us by 9 points, 7.11 (53) to 5.14 (44)
That’s funny because my feeling is we’re going to thump them
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where were you starting from. This club's been going so long now I'm usually starting from such a low base my feelings usually improve regardless of the result
Yet they were still beating us by four goals or whatever it was until half time from which we tagged Oliver. We were still competitive with them when Ma was on the field. Petracca was the only point of difference by that stage.
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