It will be interesting to see who their ins are, Heath Shaw, Didak and Rocca could all be back this week which would really help their structure, and I think we are all hoping for the Rocca V Dawson rematch.
It will be a really interesting match technically.
The way I see it, Collingwood's game plan involves them chipping along the boundary and then kicking it long into the forward 50 and rely on marks from their talls and spillage from their smalls.
The interesting thing is that St Kilda have been trying to force teams out wide and have then moved the zone to force them to kick it to a contest. IMO this tells me that Collingwood's game plan has already taken care of the first part of our game plan and falls right into our hands.
Let's face it their talls are nothing special in Trav Cloke and Rocca so the key will be keeping their smalls quiet, which we have been able to do to pretty good effect in the past two weeks against teams with similar set ups.
If our intensity is up and our accuracy improves we should be able to beat them pretty comfortably IMO.
Some of the matchups I'm hoping to see -
CJ vs Davis - Davis is in great form and can be deadly when he has the ball in his hands, CJ has the pace and tank to shut him down and hurt him on the rebound.
Hayes vs Swan - like vs like, two hardnuts who find plenty of the ball going against each other, would be a great contest.
Dawson vs Rocca - The rematch we've been waiting for, hopefully the result will be different
Also, Collingwood usually have inside midfielders kill them, DT and SC fans will be all too aware of this fact so expect big games from the likes of Ball, Hayes, Goddard and McQualter.
What are your thoughts on the key matchups?
How do you think their game plan will interact with ours?
