Pre-match: Pies v North - all comments here...

[PraiseMillane]

played a game of snooker with wakes lastnite and his been told his a deifinite on monday along with burnsy.

apparently licca and harry will make way.

wakes had actually badly burnt 3 of his knuckles a couple of days b4 last week aswell, that would have obviously been another reason why he didnt suit up last wend in the seniors or reserves. but yes, will play on monday guys

[RudeBoy]

Unless he's injured, Licca will not be dropped - and nor should he. He's earnt the right to have a couple of quiet games, but he'd want to play well this week. If he's injured then Burns will come straight in.

Heath will surely keep his spot after a sensational weekend of football.

Harry (who will get plenty of other opportunities soon enough) should probably make way for Jason or Wakelin - I'd like to see Jason get a chance to cement his spot in our backline, as Wakelin is close to retirement and we need to give his probable replacement enough opportunities to develop in to the position.

Richards will definitely not get dropped because he is just beginning to find some form and needs to put together a few games on end to establish himself in the side. Cameron will probably have to wait for an injury to a KP player to get back in the firsts.

[cfc_4_eva]

I can't wait for the game leaving for Melbourne on the train tonight!! Should be a good week for me and a amazing week if we win. I hope they can win i fell they should I hate the Kangaroos so it should fell good to win

[lethalburns]

I hope they don't play Tarrant near goals early.

Last week he wasted all the momentum we had in the first quarter. We can not afford to be guessing whether he has his kicking boots on every week.

Get him further up the ground pumping the ball into the forward line constantly.

Only put him deeper if we are struggling.

[melliot]

I hope they don't play Tarrant near goals early.

Last week he wasted all the momentum we had in the first quarter. We can not afford to be guessing whether he has his kicking boots on every week.

Get him further up the ground pumping the ball into the forward line constantly.

Only put him deeper if we are struggling.

I'd be happy if he has 3 shots within 40m in the first 15 min! He'll learn from last week.

[lethalburns]

he learnt from last week? ehhehe

he has not learnt since the 2002 grand final, I doubt one game fixed him up chief .

[piedys]

Hale v Fraser

Nath, you sound like Howard Cosell!

"Ali vs. Frasier"

Dyso

[melliot]

he learnt from last week? ehhehe

he has not learnt since the 2002 grand final, I doubt one game fixed him up chief .

The guy has just lost his confidence. 02 and 03 was an excellent kick. Last year there was no doubt his knee injury effected his kicking.

His first attepts had his knee hitting his chest. Thought he fixed his action on his last attempt on goal and worked out what was wrong.

Mind you, I like him up at CHF or HFF anyway. Think thats his position IMO. Still like him to have 3 shots in the first 15min. I'd back him.

Keep the faith!

Cheers

[RudeBoy]

Regardless of his kicking accuracy, I reckon Tarrant is a much more damaging player out on the half forward line, where he can use his speed and mobility to get heaps of the ball.

[jimbeam]

I hope we win by 10goals. we can, just depends how long it will take for us to break it open... our forard line must keep firing, i still dont think its fired yet as a group.. dids,neon,taz,rocca,tclo there should be 10-15 goals there, 5-8 from the mid fraser,lones,bucks,ducth,johnno 120+ points when this team fires easy.. and rusling is still looming around for rd8-9..

[JLC]

Should have nailed these bastards twice last year. First time round Pebbles being injured and poor kicking cost us the game. Second time round with a depleted team we through the game away.

This time round with a much stronger line up and coming off a good break surely we can beat them by at least 5 or 6 goals. We have no excuses if we don't. Our confidence should be back

I would not expect too many changes for this weeks game however. Burns should be a monty to come back into the team given that he excels against the Kangaroos and needs a game under his belt before Anzac day.

As for the Kangaroos having tall forwards to worry about our backline have fought bigger battles and won. I think Essendon next week present a more dangerous forward line than the Kangaroos.

I will be extremely pissed off if we cant beat the Kangaroos as i dont rate them at all as a team. To me they are bottom four material and need to be treated as such.

jlc

[paulie]

As I sip on a few drinks me thinks it's time to post.I would be very disappointed if we could not beat the middle of the table Roos this week.As we are only two players off our best side injury wise.We should be able to win by at least 4 to 6 goals this week giving us a chance to go 2 to 1 with Anzac day just around the corner.If Taz can keep his work rate up around half forward and the big Rock leads and kicks with confidence we should be able to have this in the bag by three quarter time.I would think the Burns Unit would be back this week with Harry making way only change this week.

[rosspies]

Im hoping Leon gets more game time this week. He absolutely starred against the roos in the practice match at Princess Park earlier this year. Rocca had a field day against Hay (i think it was as Hay?) Although i not sure who we will put on Nathan Thompson. (Wakelin got beaten by him in that game).

I think collingwood by 26 points.

[3rd degree]

It will be much tougher than last week can't let wells get into the game at all. Wakes has got to cut off Thompson's leads.

I think we have a lot of motivation to win this one! c'mon lads.

[Miz]

Grant is the Kangas player with the class to chop us up but Harris is the player we most need to shut down, give Licca and O'Bree the tagging roles and leave the more polished players like Holland and co free to run.