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Six Collingwood players made their finals debut against Sydney last week - Martin Clarke, Travis Cloke, Tyson Goldsack, Harry O'Brien, Scott Pendlebury and Sean Rusling - and their efforts drew praise from coach Mick Malthouse.
Rusling played against the Bulldogs last year. Derr.
piester wrote:We need to be on our game for this one, I remember a certain grand final in 2003 where we were favourites based on some supposed injuries to the opposition and we were smashed in no uncertain terms. This will be a tough game on their crap heap
Thankfully a lot of pea-hearted, side-stepping deadwood has been cleared from that squad, and replaced with blokes who have a go.
But i won't mention any names who gave up that GF without a yelp. Nah, bugger it, i will: Cole, Woewoeful, Walker, and the former owner of gurnsey 39, M.Lokan. And Williams would have dogged the crunches too, had they been stupid enough to select him. R.Shaw since pardoned.
I still can't get over the fact that those blokes kept Rupe and Freeborn out of that side. Anyway, bad flashback triggered and over.....
Just booked friday morning off to watch the game on setanta sports live.
Oooh yes!!!, should be well pissed buy the evening, hopefully celebrating
after the Mighty Collingwood have smashed those Weagles.
I think there's been too much emphasis on who is or isn't going to be playing for the Eagles. I don't reckon our young blokes give a rats about who's in the Eagles side, that's why they have got us to where we are.
Let's just do our own thing.... and belt the livin b jesus out of em!!!!!
Wow, Dave86 ... I wrote mine before even seeing this thread. I thought I was reading my own post when I started reading yours. We're very much on the same page (especially the bits about Rocca/Glass, Staker, Wakeling/Lynch and O'Brien). Let's hope MM feels the same way, too...
My Possible Line-Ups:
Didak (Waters) - Rusling (Chick) - Davis (Wirrpanda)
I don't know enough about West Coast's midfield rotations with their second and third strings having to play their first and second strings now that Judd, Kerr and Cousins are out.
West Coast do not have three bigs to match all of Rocca, Cloke and Rusling. I have Chick on Rusling because I just don't know who else they can put on him once Glass and Hunter take Rocca and Cloke.
Rocca must play up again like last week to take Glass out of his comfort zone and allow Rusling the freedom to lead into space. Subiaco has a MASSIVE Half-Forward area (it takes TWO kicks from the centre to get it deep into F50), so Cloke must run all day and continuously present. The worry for us at Subiaco is crumbers, always has been for Collingwood (Didak and Leon do not crumb well). We need smalls at the feet across Half-Forward or we are CACTUS. The proposed rain further highlights the need for a genuine Half-Forward strategy.
If West Coast opt for a loose man in defence, we must use Maxwell as the third man up in every Wakelin/Lynch contest. Maxwell must fill every hole Lynch wants to lead in. When Lynch fires, so too do West Coast. Hansen has barely played in recent weeks, and R.Jones is mediocre at best (he can slip under the radar, though, as he tends to play HF-Wing to get his kicks and set others up with handball). LeCras is dangerous, but I trust Heater to smash him. Staker is a wild card, and Goldsack will have his work cut out as heis deceptively tall and has sticky hands. I have no idea is Rosa plays forward... I worry about Wirrpanda. Whenever he plays forward, he produces. Clement may need to switch to Wirrpanda if he moves forward, meaning Maxwell has the tough task of containing Hansen.
Thomas and Clarke patrolling the massive wings should have an absolute field day.
The onball match-ups are now very even without the Eagles' big three. Cox is always a danger, but Pendlebury, Burns and O'Bree are more than capable of matching it with Stenglein (who may play the wing if Buckley plays there) Braun and Fletcher. These guys are not genuine line-breakers (unlike Judd, Kerr and Cousins). Rain would help West Coast more than us now I reckon, 'cos their team now resembles more of a blue-collar brigade. If MM rotates our midfield continuously like he did last week (with Buckley, Thomas, Leon Davos, Didak, Swan, etc.) I think we have the talent and legs to run their 2nd/3rd stringers off their feet.
Stenglein, Braun, Fletcher ... Priddis, Embley, Waters, Rosa, Hurn ... we are more than capable of taking it up to them.
If it rains, don't be surprised if Richards makes way for another runner such as R.Shaw or the extremely fit Licuria. Also, I'm struggling to find a suitable match-up for all of our defenders. O'Brien/Maxwell/Goldsack are quite similar. One may miss out for more run.
Bottom line: Don't be fooled by the loss of the big three. West Coast is still a formidable team ... especially at Subiaco, where we haven't beaten West Coast in 15 years.
Pies by 27 points. (gotta be positive)
Last edited by DaicosMagic on Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
