Afl 2008

The Cats slaughtered us on friday night. We kicked terribly, but thats no excuse, the Cats were a much much better side then us on friday. Oh well our bad run of matches continue next week, playing Collingwood who had a good win last night.
 
punterpupnroy said:
Geelong are just a class side. Jimmy you superstar great game by the cats. But bad game to watch tbh..
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yeah defo a bad game to watch. especially if your a crow supporter
shows how bad it was when we cheered VBs(i think) behind at the end of the first QTR.
 
Any Demons fans out there?

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I'm closing in on 50 posts
 
CortezTheKiller said:
Which one do you do? I've got a team in the virtualsports one:

http://afl.virtualsports.com.au/

Had Ablett as my skipper this week & he had pretty quiet game by his standards. I'm currently running 9,264th out of 196,372, which I'll take as an AFL-newbie.
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just have the one at afl.com.au, yer Ablett guns it i have him as captain in supercoach week in week out :thumbs
 
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Midfield Comparison:

The Cats are in the best shape they have ever been. With the midfield class of Bartel, Ablett, Ling and Corey it will certainly be a extremely difficult task of the Dockers midfielders. Consisting of players such as Palmer, Crowley, Peake and Sandilandes. Not only do the Geelong midfielders use the ball well and move it forward quickly they share it around running their opponents of their feet. The Cats make it easier for them to do this by using whats called the centre corridor. The Dockers MUST flood numbers back when the cats gain possession in the centre of the ground. This will cause the Cat players wide otherwise they would have to bomb it to a contest in the forward line. Fremantle will need to maintan this and a aggressive aproach for four quarters to win the game in the midfield but infortunatley it is highly unlikley for this to happen.

Back Comparison:

Both teams have a solid backline. The Cats' consisting of player such as Scarlett, Harley (Skipper), and Milburne just to name a few. This will be very interesting to watch because Fremantle should have a number of quality midfielders coming back for this clash. The Dockers best defender Luke Mcpharlin looks set to return and as does Michael Johnson. However rebounding defender Roger Hayden lookset to miss. Antoni Grover should get the job on Mooney as he is the strongest defender at Fremantle. This is one of the more even areas of the ground but it all depends on who is on the ball come match day.

Forward Comparison:

This is were both teams are strong. In my opinion it will either be a shoot out or a low scoring struggle due to the fact that both teams bost talent in the back and forward half. Matthew Pavlich the captain for Fremantle has kick 19 goals in his past 3 matches however 2 of those 3 have been at Subiaco. Jeff Farmer has a history of magic at Skilled Stadium and it seems to be his deciding match in his career. Chris Mayne for Fremantle came pick 40 in the 2007 NAB AFL Draft. He had impressed this season and his last few weeks have been extremely impressive. But the Cats forward half is just as good. With Players such as Mooney, Chapman, Stokes and Varcoe who are all capable of kicking a bag of goals.

Important Points:


  • If the defenders of both teams are on their game come saturday it will all be down on the quality of the midfield. Geelong ooze depth and quality there and so if this is the case the cats should come out easy winners.
  • The only way i can think of Fremantle winning is if Sandilandes wins the effective ruck knocks and if Fremantle kick straight and kick allot of goals. A forward line shoot out would be Fremantle Best bet...
  • The 1 point loss at Subiaco in round 6 would be fresh in the minds of many Fremantle Players. Especially of the Fremantle Captain Matthew Pavlich who hit the post with 30 seconds left. If he would have kicked that goal the dockers would have grabbed the lead and probably held on for a remarkable win.... It wasn't to be.

Conclusion:

The Cats will be just too good and even if the weather is going to be shocking come saturday in Geelong im sure that and Goal Fest wouldn't be enough for Fremantle. The Cats are just to good a side to lose this match.

Geelong by 39 points
 
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Didn't Geelong use to be crap in like 03/04 and now all of a sudden since last year they are teh sex?
 
Adelaide was very unlucky with injuries. They would have won without injuries. I hope my young eagles can win today against Richmond:hpraise
 
All teams have injuries, we had them against the Dogs, and we went down by 10 points, the fact is if we still had our team out there we would have lost, as we were not doing enough to win. Collingwood were taking control of the game, and looked the better the Crows would have still lost.

I have no doubt we would not have won by 30 though.
 
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Nah I disagree. Adelaide started losing control of the match when Porpleasesua (can't spell it lol) went off injured and after Burton got injured, that was the final nail in the coffin.
 
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