Afl 2010

[niksta]

whoooo hoooo go the power :-)

Bloody oath, was good, actually great to see Adelaide go down especially at home to Sydney today. Will be intersting to see what Graham Cornes has to say this week about his be-loved Cows 'ahem' Crows. No doubt he'll say bad things about the Power as he never has anything good to say about them, prick.

[Damo_R34]

lol his Sons play for the Power, he clearly doesnt hate them

[ISC-Performance]

Good to see Freo have another win..especially on the road! 2-0 so far but the biggest test will be the next 2 games! Geelong at Subiaco and St Kilda in Melbourne! Good to see our rookies play well again (the future is looking good) "crosses fingers"...lol

Ryan

**on a side note I scored Des Headlands freo jumper that he wore in round 1 (signed).....straight to the pool room..haha

[writeoff]

I have grave concerns for Adelaide's prospect for 2010. The pre-season produced too many injuries and too many in the squad look underdone. Bock and van Berlo spent most of the pre-season on the sidelines, and Moran, Porplyzia, Dangerfield, Rutten, Knights, Maric, Symes, McLeod, Edwards, Thompson, Sellar, Burton, Tippett and Johncock all had injuries and needed to be rested at some stage. Obviously Martin and Otten are still recovering from knee surgery.

If we look at the team against Sydney the bolded players are the only ones not in the list above:

B: Jared Petrenko, Ben Rutten, Brent Reilly

HB: Michael Doughty, Nathan Bock, Simon Goodwin

C: Myke Cook, Bernie Vince, David Mackay

HF: Patrick Dangerfield, Taylor Walker, Richard Douglas

F: Trent Hentschel, Kurt Tippett, Jason Porplyzia

Foll: Ivan Maric, Andrew McLeod, Nathan van Berlo

I/C: Scott Thompson, James Sellar, Tyson Edwards, Brett Burton

Goodwin injured his thigh in the 2nd quarter of the Sydney game. When you lay it out like that only 8 players (not including Goodwin) are playing who had an uninterrupted pre-season. It seems to have become a fact in AFL that without the bulk of your players having a good pre-season you will not compete for the premiership.

Congrats to Freo and good score on the jumper Ryan.

[Krishy]

this could be an interesting season......

[SLED]

LOL Dave....most of the players you've mentioned are playing and therefore fit to play or as Craigey says, "they wouldn't be pulling on jumpers otherwise"

We had a shit year last year and you didn't hear injury or unfit excuses....they just weren't good enough last season.......enough with the excuses please

The 18 you put on the field plus the bench is what you've got.....FULLSTOP!

They're either good enough or they're not!

[TALBO]

Interesting to see on Footy classifieds last night that there's a little controversy surrounding the 4th quater stoppage with the stretcher at Subiaco on the weekend. I didn't see the game but from what I saw last night it doesn't exactly look fair!

[Damo_R34]

lol Port supporters are like Ferrari supporters, 1 vs the world

Regardless of injuries, Crows are playing shit and are capable of a better brand of footy. Early days yet, even Melbourne almost knocked of the Wobbles!

Yeah i know the incident Talbo, stretcher came on the ground while play continued, the player got up, saw the stretcher coming on, immediately went to ground.

[PREISS]

I'm a port supporter.

I haven't really talked much about the season yet. Most people at work at crows supporters. Its almost as though the season hasnt started. Very very very quiet.

I haven't said a word. Guarantee there will be some noise once port lose tho

[Damo_R34]

lol, no comment this week.

[SLED]

now you can appreciate how we felt last year

[Damo_R34]

frustrating game to watch, forget the injuries, the game was lost by sheer failed execution of skills and tactics. Looked like an under 9's game, a whole group of kids running after the ball!

[SLED]

yeah right now you just don't have the cattle for pretty footy so I'd have to agree with Roo (on MMM over the weekend), you guys just need to scrap out a win for a confidence builder if nothing else.

The longer you go without a win, the more it will play on the boy's minds........look at Richmond, they're mentally shot with players receiving bans now cause they're out boozing after matches.

[ISC-Performance]

GOOO FREEEOOOO!!! best start to the season in there franchise history

[SLED]

Don't think anybody will wanna talk footy this week.

VICs are probably laughing their arses off at our 2 teams and I can't say I blame them

[Luciano]

Port's 2nd half effort was despicable! But still, I really disagree with some of the umpiring in that game. Several fair & strong tackles weren't considered for free kicks, and bits of unfair play from geelong was completely overlooked. You can appreciate umpires can't see absolutely everything, and having probably less than 100 out of the 30,000 in the crowd appealing for port won't influence decisions very easily. Oh well!

Another tough one this coming weekend, Sants at AAMI!

[Krishy]

i didnt watch the port game but heard the score so guessing the game wouldnt have been pretty lol....but what a start freo are having this season and so do the lions

[Tangles]

Lions are premiership contenders without doubt.

I see them finishing top 2 pre finals, and winning all their finals matches

Brown to kick 70 and win AFL Best & fairest Brownlow medal

Fevola to kick 80 for the Coleman medal

Crows and Power bottom 8

[SLED]

at this stage Krishy, I'm picking the Lions for a top 3 pozzy and Freo top 6 or 7...............but unlike the lions, Freo are likely to break your heart by the 1/2 way mark of the season

EDIT: Tangles got in before me

[Krishy]

i think that despite their big loss power can scrape in the top 8 this season