AFL Finals Series 2025 - Week 2

[GVGjr]

Friday
Adelaide vs Hawthorn

Saturday
Brisbane vs Gold Coast

[Sedat]

Brisbane missed a trick dropping Reville for the first final. They need more leg speed between the arcs, not less. In a strange way, Neale out will actually help Brisbane because he was banged up anyway before doing his calf, but they desperately need more run and carry and less in-and-under. I reckon they should drop both Levi Ashcroft and Charlie Cameron - young Ashcroft was absolutely torched by Dempsey on the wing and has been pretty poor for many weeks now. Cameron looks absolutely cooked. Fort out for McInernay is a no-brainer as well.

Fagan is a very loyal coach - I wonder if he's had enough with a couple of his players and pulls the trigger at selection this week. He looked pretty pissed off (in the nicest possible way) post-match on Friday night.

[BiteNibbleChomp]

Ten days ago I was on the Adelaide hype train, I'd enjoyed all the games I'd watched of them (except for a certain Saturday arvo at Marvel, of course!). But the booing of Quaynor has soured me on them a fair bit. On the other side of the coin, I've been hoping that Gold Coast would crash out all season because I've found the idea of them being perennial bottom-feeders to be quite funny, but now that they've actually won one I'm starting to come around to them (maybe it's just the story of their first player, about to retire, winning them their first final).

I'm heading up to Canberra for the W game so will be watching Adelaide/Hawthorn at a pub there. The last time I travelled interstate was the W preseason game in Perth in July - where a pub was showing Adelaide play Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval on a Friday night. Talk about coincidences...

- BNC