Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

[Grantysghost]

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Stevo reporting that Tassie are going to feature in week one.

If both Melbourne and Port have games at Adelaide and the AFL doesn’t want 3 at the one venue...

Tassie is ok right?

[comrade]

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Tassie is ok right?

Will basically be an Essendon home game.

[DOG GOD]

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Tassie is ok right?

When Essendon played hawthorn, the crowd was 80% Essendon, 20% hawks supporters.

[bulldogtragic]

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Tassie is ok right?

We complained about the fly in, fly out two weeks ago getting stuck for 45 minutes. Even though both clubs had it.

Wouldn’t want to have another delay if that disturbed the players.

[Bornadog]

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Will basically be an Essendon home game.

We won't be playing in Tassie

[1eyedog]

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Would it be worth trying Dale as a forward to see if he can provide some spark for us?
I know he's in All-Australian type form there but we need some more scoring avenues.
I'd be tempted to play Schache up forward as well.

Probably prefer we didn't pull our best player in the back half out of the back half.

[DOG GOD]

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So, will Bevo put a hard tag on Merrett or as usual, just let opposition mids run free?

Merrett needs a HARD tag. A job for Dunks or maybe Scott?
Also, Hind is another that needs to be looked after. If JJ is in the team, does he have the nous to sit on Hind and not necessarily worry about possessions (I’m sure we can do without his 6 for the game), and play as a pure defensive fwd.

[bulldogtragic]

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So, will Bevo put a hard tag on Merrett or as usual, just let opposition mids run free?

Merrett needs a HARD tag. A job for Dunks or maybe Scott?
Also, Hind is another that needs to be looked after. If JJ is in the team, does he have the nous to sit on Hind and not necessarily worry about possessions (I’m sure we can do without his 6 for the game), and play as a pure defensive fwd.

We’ve never tagged. We won’t start now. We are all in with Bevo and his ideas. Gotta hope it doesn’t bite us and we can work harder the other way.

How we respond to Libba getting tagged would be nice. Clubs have done it really well and Libba and his teammates can’t seem to work him free of it.

[DOG GOD]

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We’ve never tagged. We won’t start now. We are all in with Bevo and his ideas. Gotta hope it doesn’t bite us and we can work harder the other way.

How we respond to Libba getting tagged would be nice. Clubs have done it really well and Libba and his teammates can’t seem to work him free of it.

And I also don’t expect Bevo do go against his own stubbornness re: tagging. Makes me laugh when he sees Libba getting tagged and taken out of the game, but never really does it himself.

Maybe the issue with our mids and no real defensive pressure, is the fact they’ve never really had to sacrifice their own games to take an opposition mid out of the game, and play 4 quarters in a defensive role.

[comrade]

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Age journo Dan Cherny reporting our game will be in Tasmania. He doesn’t get it wrong.

[Grantysghost]

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Age journo Dan Cherny reporting our game will be in Tasmania. He doesn’t get it wrong.

So my only question is, did we get a choice?

Sounds like being 5th comes with it's disadvantages.

[comrade]

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So my only question is, did we get a choice?

Sounds like being 5th comes with it's disadvantages.

We’ve stated our choice was Adelaide.

[Grantysghost]

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We’ve stated our choice was Adelaide.

Ah ok thanks.

Not ideal if it wasn't our option. But, you can't dictate from outside the top 2.

[DOG GOD]

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We’ve stated our choice was Adelaide.

I guess the problem is, we get 3rd choice.
If Melb choose Adelaide , and port has Adelaide, then if the AFL doesn’t want 3 games in Adelaide ,then it’s tassie or the Gabba for us.

[comrade]

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Ah ok thanks.

Not ideal if it wasn't our option. But, you can't dictate from outside the top 2.

The irony is if you gave Essendon a choice they’d probably pick Tassie.