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May 28, 2005
Prepare To Be Docked
Lock up your boys & girls residents of Geelong because those old sea dogs are in town. No, not the US Navy. I'm talking about the worst expansion team in the short history of the AFL, the Fremantle Dockers. Sure, they mightn't drink gallons of piss and probably have some control over their raging hormones (correct me if I wrong), but they do bring across from the Nullabor the worst song and colours in the AFL without question. Thankfully for us they also bring across their 0-8 record at Kardinia Park.
I feel like I say this every week but, this looms as a danger game for the good guys in the blue & white hoops. Firstly the 'Shockers' have been copping it in the media all week, both in Perth & Melbourne for their soft and pathetic loss to Hawthorn last week. Coach Connolly will have his boys breathing fire as they run out Saturday arvo.
Secondly they have a weakened team on paper with the loss of Matt Carr to injury and the suprise axing of Des Headland & Byron Schammer who are replaced by lesser likes. These are exactly the type of games that have given us trouble in the past. We must be on our guard!
Lastly, due to acts of stupidity we're missing Cameron 'Pyscho' Mooney as he is serving an enforced layoff. Combined with the doubtful appearance of Tom Harley this leaves us severly short at the back to cover the likes of Pavlich, McPharlin & Longmuir. Assuming Scarlett takes the one playing out of the goalsquare it means all we have to cover them are Rooke, H or Lonergan. Rooke will give 110% but is undersized for whichever one of the three is his opponent, Lonergan is a second gamer who is anything but solid playing in the defensive 50 & Playfair will be sorely missed leading out from CHF. Why we haven't brought in Egan has me scratching my head. Where is Ben Graham when you need him? Oh...
The exclusion of Egan leads me to believe that we are taking a risk in that either Playfair will spend most of his time down back with Gardiner roaming across half forward in his place and/or that we're trusting the weatherman that it will rain and kill off their three tall forwards.
We excel in the rain, especially against a side that is supposedly physically weak as the Dockers. We have so many rotations through the middle that we should have too much legs whether it be dry or wet. You only have to look back to last season where we slaughtered them at Kardinia Pool in a torrential downpour for an example of this.
Our small backs have somewhat been surprisingly very good against opposition this year and I don't think Fremantle will be able to stop our many avenues of attack (albeit without Dog Johnson). This combined with the inspirational achievement of 100 games for everyone's favourite redhead in Linga should see us run out winners by 4-5 goals and keep up our impeccable home record.
GEELONG v FREMANTLE
Saturday, 2:10pm AEST, Skilled Stadium
GEELONG
B: D.Johnson, Scarlett, Lonergan
HB: Milburn, Rooke, Hunt
C: Enright, Bartel, Mackie
HF: Ablett, Playfair, Gardiner
F: Kingsley, Ottens, Chapman
FOLL: King, Kelly, Ling
I/C: Byrnes, Thurley, Riccardi, Tenace
EMG: Harley, Rahilly, Callan
IN: Gardiner, Mackie
OUT: Mooney (susp), S.Johnson (ankle)
FREMANTLE
B: Polak, Parker, Grover
HB: Black, Thornton, Mundy
C: Crowley, Hasleby, Schofield
HF: Dunn, Pavlich, Cook
F: Farmer, McPharlin, Medhurst
FOLL: Longmuir, Bell, J.Carr
I/C: Dodd, M.Johnson, McManus, Sandilands
EMG: Murphy, Smith, Webster
IN: Crowley, Dodd, Dunn, Johnson, McManus
OUT: M.Carr (inj), Headland, Schammer, Siegert, Webster
NEW: Ryan Crowley (Calder U/18s)
Swami Sammy Ds players to watch for:
Bartel - Fantastic in the wet
Jnr - See above
Mackie - Alot of pressure on the kid coming up from the ressies but as shown in the past can get under oppositions guard in our forward line & burn them in a quarter.
Posted by Sammy D at May 28, 2005 12:04 AM
Comments
As this is the only medium I can express this extremely important point of view I apologise in advance for any irrelevance it has to the topic I am commenting on. However it must be said that what I am about to discuss is perhaps the most important and prolific decisions to be made down at kardinia park since Brett “the B train" Spinks, or as I liked to call him the messiah, was recruited from the west. Might I also add that the B train did not only provide the cats with a hard leading, high marking SUPERSTAR, he also brought an uncanny sex appeal to the team which hadn't been seen since the likes of Neville burns and Darren foresman graced the hallowed turf down sleepy hollow. I know it is sacrilegious to say so little about such a great player but I do have to move on to the point I originally wanted to make. And that is of course the naming of the fantastic new stand. I have come up with a few suggested titles and they are as follows:
The Gary “IM PEAKING " ablett RAVE TENT
The Cameron " flaky " Ling SUNSHADE
The David " YORELLA" Mensch STAND
And hes a clue to who i am
The Peter " Best player at Geelong" Riccardi stand
Work it out
And remember We are not albury we are wadonga
Til next time
Posted by: We're not albury we are wadonga at May 29, 2005 01:20 PM
Heya crapface, I already wrote a piece on names for the stand, and they were much funnier than those. If you take a look at our previous address youll see them and possibly laugh at them.
Posted by: Kolonel at June 1, 2005 12:40 AM