Round 16 Preview - Norwood v Centrals @ Coopers Stadium
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:47 amWith the Redlegs having a convincing win over a very dissapointing Roosters outfit and Centrals battling out a hard fought win against the Maggies today, it certainly sets up next weeks clash between the 2 sides at The Parade as a bit of a blockbuster. In what will be a battle of 3rd vs 4th, the resurgant Redlegs will go into this home clash on the back of some good form which will naturally develop an expectation of knocking off the reigning prmiers. Centrals meanwhile, are slowly finding patches of good form and showed some real guts and determination to just take the points over a fighting Port Adelaide, who led at every change in the game at Elizabeth.
I'm not quite sure about any Norwood injuries from today but the Dogs are likely to go into this game without the versatile Daniel Schell who seemed to jag a groin in the warm up, trying to shake in the opening term but sitting out the rest of the game after quarter time. Any other changes to either side may be AFL forced with another impressive 5 goal haul from Taylor Walker putting presure on the Crows to give him his AFL debut. Of course with Brett Burton and Jason Porplycia going down it is possible that both Walker and maybe Luke Jericho might just get a call up, while The Power could make changes that either effect or benefit both Centrals and Norwood.
I'm already looking forward to this game and think that at these early stages, the result could really go either way. I found it interesting that the Dogs chose to only play 1 ruckman today, in Jason Mackenzie who did a great job, but I think with Norwood having both Stephen Doyle and Adam Cockshell in good form Roy Laird may need to bring in Jon Giles or Earl Shaw to combat the 2 bigger Redledgs ruckman. Of course, as is the case in most games, the battle will be won in the midfield so I think the Dogs may need that extra big man. The smaller ground down at The Parade might suit the Dogs really well as they looked dangerous when they went long and deep into attack with Heath Lawry and Luke Cowan both returning to form today and kicking a couple of crucial goals each.
Although early days at this stage, I'm going to tip the Doggies, in a high scoring encounter, by about 3 or 4 goals.
I'm not quite sure about any Norwood injuries from today but the Dogs are likely to go into this game without the versatile Daniel Schell who seemed to jag a groin in the warm up, trying to shake in the opening term but sitting out the rest of the game after quarter time. Any other changes to either side may be AFL forced with another impressive 5 goal haul from Taylor Walker putting presure on the Crows to give him his AFL debut. Of course with Brett Burton and Jason Porplycia going down it is possible that both Walker and maybe Luke Jericho might just get a call up, while The Power could make changes that either effect or benefit both Centrals and Norwood.
I'm already looking forward to this game and think that at these early stages, the result could really go either way. I found it interesting that the Dogs chose to only play 1 ruckman today, in Jason Mackenzie who did a great job, but I think with Norwood having both Stephen Doyle and Adam Cockshell in good form Roy Laird may need to bring in Jon Giles or Earl Shaw to combat the 2 bigger Redledgs ruckman. Of course, as is the case in most games, the battle will be won in the midfield so I think the Dogs may need that extra big man. The smaller ground down at The Parade might suit the Dogs really well as they looked dangerous when they went long and deep into attack with Heath Lawry and Luke Cowan both returning to form today and kicking a couple of crucial goals each.
Although early days at this stage, I'm going to tip the Doggies, in a high scoring encounter, by about 3 or 4 goals.
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