FD88 wrote:You know what I'm excited about? We have a number of players going into this match who have never played against West Coast before (Symes may have while with Port but hasn't while he has been at the Crows):
Douglas
Tippett
Symes
Mackay
Vince
It's a different side to the one that has traditionally struggled with matchups against the Eagles in the past. When you go into a game with unknown quantities you never know what will come out of it. You just never know. I will say this though, I vividly recall Glass being made a fool of by Westhoff last year; Tippett is a similar type except bigger, stronger and based on 20m sprint times, quicker. Not to say Glass will get destroyed again, but with that game in mind I will watch this one with interest should it eventuate. It's a big unknown in our forward line that may benefit the matchups.
Will we win? If I were a betting man I'd pick the Eagles; the Crows shouldn't win if you compare the squads. But in those five players I named we have unknown quantities - we don't know what they will add to or subtract from the usual matchup heads WC give us, and that's an exciting thing imo.
Wouldn't be surprised if Adelaide got up.
We've got Masten and Ebert to throw in the mix of unknown quantities. I reckon Tippet would probably draw a Hunter or Graham. Graham, being the taller of the two would be more likely. Hopefully Ebert can do a few things to impress the crows brain trust who overlooked him. He's probably glad he didn't get drafted to the crows, he could have ended up a dud like a lot of their previous draftees...
