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well a must win for sturt after a first round loss, can chambers be held goal less again ? i think norwood will be better in the middle & thus win, while sturt in round 1 was too 'stop-start' with their team pattern

We always have trouble with our game plan vs theirs unless it is wet so will be hard to win at Dog Turd Park.
Man up , play hard tough football and Norwood will win....let them run around unattended and they will cut us to pieces.
This is one Norwood really want !

For once Norwood might actually have the personnel to worry Sturt. With hard nuts like Campbell, Massie and Weatherald getting under the packs I'd hope we can win more of the clearances than Sturt who I feel will really miss Whiteman this year. Whiteman's loss for Sturt will be akin to Howard's loss to North last year, they never replaced him and it showed and I'm guessing the Double Blues might be in the same boat.

Added to our ability to win the hard ball is the pace and poise of players like Hughes, Terlich and McGuiness, all of whom can break the lines and have (more often than not anyway) a penetrating kick. This year Norwood's forward line isn't as one dimensional as it was last season, with Rowe, Vlatko and Lee all presenting reasonable targets up forward. Jericho to come back will add some guile around the packs when the ball hits the ground, sadly Simon Phillips has yet to show enough to justify his mortgage on a league position.

Once again it was our insistence on 'sexy, running football' against Port that bought us unstuck, crucial mistakes cost us goals and put us under more pressure than we needed to be against willing but limited opposition. If we can reduce the error count I reckon we'll smash a few teams this year but the jury is still out on whether Hill's Nunan-at-all-costs gameplan can win games against teams like Centrals.

Sturt will be a good test of where Norwood currently sit IMHO.

Hoping for a quick bounce back by the Blue Boys. Saturday was pretty ugly and really the score should have been worse.
Norwood always worry me because they have players prepared to go in and get the footy but then have the right mix of receivers ready to take it and run. This is what I saw from the Bays and if Norwood play similar, we might be in a bit of trouble.
Will be good to see us play at Unley early in the season and should once again be played in front of a good crowd.
Hopefully we work out that we need crumbers under Chambos feet because he will almost always bring it down to the ground if he doesn't mark.
Should be a good game and I always take more from round 2 then round 1. If we lose again i'll be very worried

I think it will be a fairly close one, Norwood by 17 points.

Norwood's recent record where Oxford meets Cambridge is actually pretty good, is it not?

Norwoods record against Sturt in the wet is very good. Hopefully the showers predicted for sat don't happen. Not that we can believe the weather bureau this far out anyway.

Pseudo wrote:Norwood's recent record where Oxford meets Cambridge is actually pretty good, is it not?

Wins in 06 (dry), 07 (wet), loss 08 (dry) from memory

Constance_Perm wrote:

Pseudo wrote:Norwood's recent record where Oxford meets Cambridge is actually pretty good, is it not?

Wins in 06 (dry), 07 (wet), loss 08 (dry) from memory

I reckon there was another win in 05 in the wet as well

Interceptor wrote:

Constance_Perm wrote:

Pseudo wrote:Norwood's recent record where Oxford meets Cambridge is actually pretty good, is it not?

Wins in 06 (dry), 07 (wet), loss 08 (dry) from memory

I reckon there was another win in 05 in the wet as well

Might be right actually mate, the brain cells still haven't realigned from Friday night on Coopers Hill

08 was very wet at Unley. 05 was a wet night at Adelaide Oval. I'm always screaming the same thing against you guys in the wet, "WHY DON'T WE EVER HAVE ANY PLAYERS BEHIND THE PACKS". That is where I see you killing us every time. We'll learn one day that the ball slips through the hands when it's wet

topsywaldron wrote:...hard nuts ...Weatherald...

LMAO.

Your new coach may have the know how to improve Sturts play in the wet being the player he was.

Aerie wrote:

topsywaldron wrote:...hard nuts ...Weatherald...

LMAO.

you've got to be ******* kidding me aerie if you are laughing at that...soccers is a hard nut mate, i guess you wouldnt know a hard nut if it slapped you across the gob!!!!

NFI

Jimmy wrote:

Aerie wrote:

topsywaldron wrote:...hard nuts ...Weatherald...

LMAO.

you've got to be ****ing kidding me aerie if you are laughing at that...soccers is a hard nut mate, i guess you wouldnt know a hard nut if it slapped you across the gob!!!!

NFI

I second that Jimmy.

a must win game for the blue boys, they need to bounce back with a good win. it should be a different sturt side than round 1, too many passengers in our team hurt us, Norman get the mix right with forward crumbers and players that a prepared to run the ball.

Aerie wrote:

topsywaldron wrote:...hard nuts ...Weatherald...

LMAO.

Next you'll be telling me Luke Jarrad once got a contested possession.

HeartBeatsTrue wrote:

Jimmy wrote:

Aerie wrote:

topsywaldron wrote:...hard nuts ...Weatherald...

LMAO.

you've got to be ****ing kidding me aerie if you are laughing at that...soccers is a hard nut mate, i guess you wouldnt know a hard nut if it slapped you across the gob!!!!

NFI

I second that Jimmy.

Give Aerie a break guys.
I too spluttered a little over the term ‘hard nut’ as it usually refers to an intimidating tough guy.
Our no. 11 inTIMidates with talent.
However, I can understand ‘topsy’ using ‘hard nut’ when describing ‘young’ Mr. Weatherald.

In what I believe was his 1st game for Norwood against North at Prospect last year, he applied
at least 3 of the best tackles I have ever seen against much larger bodies.
Thrown into a team thoroughly foreign to him, he simply reverted to basics.
If film of Tim’s play in that game is around it should be used as a training video for youngsters
wanting to learn ‘textbook’ tackling techniques.

‘Topsy’ perhaps we should leave the term ‘hard nut’ for Macca.
After all, Tim’s opponents survive his tackles and eventually get up again !

Lets hope Sturt continue to struggle on and off the field as it appears SP has gone 'underground' much to the delight of the masses!

Apologies to the normal passionate Sturt supporters but I had to say it!

Sorry mate.

A classic match between two traditional rivals.

Much will depend on the weather team line-ups etc but...at home Sturt by 3 goals.