Round 10- Adelaide v Hawthorn

[UK Fan]

Should be a belter. We arent travelling smoothly at all, last week against the Dees we were brilliant and terrible in the space of 10 minutes.

Crows will definitely bring Bock in IMO.

Hawks have Ellis and Dew available who may come in for Stokes and Moss if they dont get up*

I will be there, looking forward to it..GO HAWKS!

Dew Fatbastard
Dew Fatbastard
WHO ATE ALL THE MEAT PIES

Honestly this bloke must get encouraged to pig out and thus take advantage of the fact that he is the arsiest player in the league. With such ample reserves of arse available to him little wonder he does his one trick pony act and kicks goals from all over the place and they somehow roll through the big wide fat opening for yet another Pawk sausage roll. The opposition can't respect the fatbastard and even if they did the only player in the league with arms long enough to wrap around Dew Fatbastard is Aaron Sandilands so he gets to waltz around the park unmolested. The only time Dew Fatbastard gets close attention is when he is mistaken for a bean bag when he stops to rest at furniture shops. Dew Fatbastard won the fancy dress award at the Premiership celebration last year when he became the first person to be both halves of the Horse outfit.

Dew Fatbastard keeps in shape by nicking off every quarter to head to the refreshments stand at every AFL venue..there's never a queue because only people who earn as much as AFL 'stars' (LOL more like Planets in Dew's case) can afford the prices. Because he only gets six kicks a game he is never missed. However, Dew Fatbastard's style is catching on. Tubby Franklin has joined the upper crust but has yet to feast on the goals yet this season. Bent Guerra and Luke Podge also have been keen on the roll.

Dew Fatbastard - the people's champion. SUPERSIZE ME!!

regards,

REB

Dewy certainly made those geelong boys look completely inept last year.

Was Geelongs 2008 Gf loss the greatest choke in AFL history ??????

Are you serious? Although Dew was very good in the GF last year he didn't make the Geelong players look inept. History is littered with similar stories to the Geelong story of 08 and they won't be the last team to dominate a comp and fail at the final hurdle. 07 on the other hand that was a choke .

So you didnt think Dewy banging home goals in the third quarter from the boundary and from 50 metres out off one step. Did not make Ottens Mooney and Chapmans misses from inside 20 metres embarrassing at all ???

Must have been watching a different game to me. Geelong fans can deny it all they want but they choked big time in 2008.

WHo else in the AFL has lost one game for the year and lost the GF ??? honest question ???

[FD88]

DISGRACE!

Come on mate. He hasn't been the best, good to see us making the tough calls. Looked a couple of years back as if he was going to take the decisive step forward but kept hitting the injury wall and has never delivered on his promise. I like that he helps the young Victorians out when they first get here but won't pretend that he has been overly hard done by on the selection table this week.

Had Doughty not smashed Judd last week it could well have been his name on the omissions list though.

[NFC]

DISGRACE!

Come on mate. He hasn't been the best, good to see us making the tough calls. Looked a couple of years back as if he was going to take the decisive step forward but kept hitting the injury wall and has never delivered on his promise. I like that he helps the young Victorians out when they first get here but won't pretend that he has been overly hard done by on the selection table this week.

Had Doughty not smashed Judd last week it could well have been his name on the omissions list though.

He responded last week, and they reward him by being dropped?

Reilly >> Symes

[Psyber]

Reilly >> Symes

Based on overall form this year I'm not sure I agree - prior to his injury I would have..
Reiily has not shown great form since his injury, apart from that one match, and even at his best I don't think he does a lot of good with the ball.
Overall, I think Symes is more consistent, even if his disposal isn't brilliant either - but whose is lately?...

[FD88]

A potentially season-defining win and evidence that we continue to make progress. Doughty is playing out of his skin while the usual young brigade keeps on gunning it. Knights is playing freaking phenomenal footy at present; keep this up and he becomes a genuine top tier player. I was sitting in the bay that he saluted after that awesome goal from the pocket, 'twas great stuff. We keep saying it but this is a gifted group coming through, perhaps the best we've had as Craigy, Triggy and Reid have said. Sloane, McKernan, Davis, Armstrong, Petrenko, Young, Cook and others are running around in the SANFL and all showing signs...inevitably we'll uncover some duds along the way (though I won't be mean and list my likely candidates) but pound for pound this is the very best I've felt about our group as a supporter of the AFC.

The personnel-based concern to come out of today's game for mine was again Moran; heck, our ruck division in general. Yes he showed evidence of improvement but again he did things that as an AFL footballer are inexcusable. His attitude, desire for the contest and woeful turnovers are horrid to watch. Give it a month and McKernan will have snatched a debut at Bob's expense imo, because he's got the athleticism AND the aggression, not to mention a superior skill base. Some will mount an argument here that Maric should go first and yeah...it's not a crazy call given how far below his usual output Ivan has been but poor attack on the ball and horrific skill errors **** me to tears above all else.

Speaking of Maric - is there something going on we don't know about? He's better than this.

[Hondo]

A great win by the boys today. I tipped the Hawks and nervously sat through the standard 3rd quarter fade but was wrapped to see us hold on. If you said we'd be 5-5 at the end of week 10 (or even if you said we'd have as many wins as Port) I'd have taken that. I still don't think we can make the 8 but good to see the season get back on track.

[NFC]

Well said FD88, agreed.

Terrific win today, best 1st half I've seen in years. Knights has made our forward line 10x better, love him up there!

[Footy Smart]

So do people still want to sack the coach, drop doughty etc and still believe in all that other crap they were sprouting about like poor game plan wa wa wa..... young exciting team, great coach and a positive future ahead (touch wood)

the last 2 weeks have been what craigy has wanted the players to do.... back themselves in and actually execute the skills required to play the run and carry game plan which suits our smaller forward line. Some of the ball movement today was exceptional and even in the 3rd Qtr we didn't play that badly. We still tackled and had the intensity around the contest but Hawthorn played some pretty good footy. The positive from that is we weathered the storm and held our nerve.

[Baron Greenback]

Went and had a look at yesterday's game.
Bloody good win by the Cows.
I'm normally one of the first to bag them when they play their usual defensive game, but they were brilliant to watch yesterday.
Fell back into old habits in the third quarter, but took the Hawks on at every opportunity in the other three.
Walker was good, but had some fantastic delivery.
Was very impressed with Knights, Porplyzia and Bock.

[Gozu]

A great win by the Crows and thankfully Craig's starting to play the way he should've been playing with a lot of younger players in the side. Excellent, positive and entertaining footy and a win over last year's Premiers is a bonus.

[MatteeG]

I hate Footy Park LOL.

Well done cows!

[Gingernuts]

So do people still want to sack the coach, drop doughty etc and still believe in all that other crap they were sprouting about like poor game plan wa wa wa..... young exciting team, great coach and a positive future ahead (touch wood)

Great call FS, I was thinking the same thing myself. The angry mob falls silent now that things are starting to click.

A great game of footy to watch, some of that ball movement in the first half was the best I've seen for at least 3 - 4 years.

A lot will be made of the 3rd quarter, but I think the standard has improved in the last two weeks and it's not as bad as some make it out to be, the improvement just hasn't shown on the scoreboard.

[Hondo]

So do people still want to sack the coach, drop doughty etc and still believe in all that other crap they were sprouting about like poor game plan wa wa wa..... young exciting team, great coach and a positive future ahead (touch wood)

Great call FS, I was thinking the same thing myself. The angry mob falls silent now that things are starting to click.

Yes, the Neil Craig thread on the main board had not been touched since the Brisbane game . I don't have a problem with criticism so long as those posters are prepared to comment in the good and bad times.

Not that the last 2 weeks is all Neil Craig's credit. Just like the previous 2 weren't all his fault. I think the players have really stepped it up which is great to see.