Finals discussion thread

[saintspremiers]

GWS. Give them more handouts please. They need more! They are shyte!

I'd love them to go out in straight sets. Definitely a chance now.

As for tonight - the Cats should pump Richmond who will get ahead of themselves in front of 95,000

It's a shame so many visitor tickets were sold in the MCC where members may get locked out tonight. Possible big stuff up looming by the MCC selling 5,000 visitor tickets.

[Sainternist]

I'm predicting an upset for tonight. Richmond haven't beaten Geelong for a long time and it'll be Geelong to get ahead of themselves. It'll come down to the wire in the end. Tiges will have a great first half and their lead will diminish as the second half progresses. Similar to our QF win over Geelong in 2010.

Dusty vs Dangerfield will be a midfield Battle Royale.

[Joe Bloggs]

Early days but can't see GWS dominating Grand Finals for years to come as most of us predicted.

[freely]

All class, no mongrel. Interesting.

[thejiggingsaint]

The thing that struck me about last night's effort from GWS, was how Josh Kelly could be BOG for the Giants, yet they were still smashed. It makes me wonder how our team can go from "pretenders to contenders" simply from the addition of Josh Kelly to the list? OR can one man truly make such a difference? Interesting.

[thejiggingsaint]

I'm predicting an upset for tonight. Richmond haven't beaten Geelong for a long time and it'll be Geelong to get ahead of themselves. It'll come down to the wire in the end. Tiges will have a great first half and their lead will diminish as the second half progresses. Similar to our QF win over Geelong in 2010.

Dusty vs Dangerfield will be a midfield Battle Royale.

I'm with you on this one colleague! Richmond by a BAGFUL! Go Tigers! GO!

[meher baba]

All class, no mongrel. Interesting.

All class, no midfield more like it: the Crows destroyed them in the middle. Makes me wonder if the likes of Kelly and Whitfield are the game changers they are billed as being.

[meher baba]

And, re Richmond. I would love them to win tonight, but it will be very tough.

And as for Martin vs Dangerfield: there's no contest IMO. Martin is good, but not great. Dangerfield IMO is one of the best half a dozen players I have ever seen: up there with Lethal, Duck, Hudson et al n And he is playing in an era of hard tagging and tight structures.

[St Chris]

Last nights game could have been any game in any round - just didn't have that finals intensity about it.

GWS will take care of either WC or Port next week, but I just can't see them beating either the Cats or Richmond at the G in a prelim. Not how they played last night anyway...

[meher baba]

Last nights game could have been any game in any round - just didn't have that finals intensity about it.

GWS will take care of either WC or Port next week, but I just can't see them beating either the Cats or Richmond at the G in a prelim. Not how they played last night anyway...

Surely the Eagles will beat Port (who are impostors as finalists IMO). And then I would see the Eagles vs GWS as very much a 50/50 proposition.

[Con Gorozidis]

Adelaide are a deserving Premier imo.
Loss of Dangerfield.
No high draft picks.
Phil Walsh tragedy.

They have been very impressive.

[The Fireman]

are there finals on ?

[Bowey Boy]

Richmond, Geelong, who is the bigger front runner with soft underbelly?

[stonecold]

Richmond, Geelong, who is the bigger front runner with soft underbelly?

GWS!!!!!

[Bowey Boy]

We need a like button.

[mullet]

a champion team will always beat a team of champions

[dragit]

The quality of football in general is very ordinary at the moment, 2nd vs 3rd tonight and the skills are terrible resulting in 1 goal in 20 minutes, plus GWS kicking 1.5 in a half last night.

[SaintPav]

Geelong are s***

[Enrico_Misso]

It's a goalfest here at the G

[dragit]

Geelong are s***

They're no Richmond.

[Joe Bloggs]

Cats are prowling tigers have choked

[Joe Bloggs]

The quality of football in general is very ordinary at the moment, 2nd vs 3rd tonight and the skills are terrible resulting in 1 goal in 20 minutes, plus GWS kicking 1.5 in a half last night.

Pressure is good from both teams yeah

[Con Gorozidis]

Cats are prowling tigers have choked

Backfire?

[Con Gorozidis]

Geelong are s***

Agree.
Two good players.
4 ok.
16 VFL hacks.

[GregPackhamsHeadband]

a champion team will always beat a team of champions

A champion team full of individual champions will always beat a champion team. Remember what Guru Bob said, "A good big man will always beat a good little man, except when that big man is Glen Coleman."