R13 The game of the year bays v blues

[sturtpeter]

With all the total doom and gloom should we forfeit now?

[Rucciangelo]

I don't think it's appropriate that we forfeit SturtPeter.
There's a bye after this game that we can all have a week off for!
We'll take it up to them on Saturday with whomever is in the 21!

[MST]

Glenelg will start favourites in this one, make no mistake.

They will have a distinct advantage in the ruck with Sturt missing both senior ruckman in Feast and DeLuca to injury and Power call up respectively. There are also no guarantees Kurtze will play due to Uni exams. That being said, the Bays proved against Central last weekend that you can concede the hitouts (CDFC had more) and still win the game of footy.

As a Sturt supporter I am excited about this game. Sure, we are likely to be a little unsettled through injuries but it is a great chance for the coaching staff and players to test themselves against the form side in the competition. Some players will be required to be more flexible in where they play and Rick and his assistants will be forced to come up with rotations that usually aren't necessary.

As I said, with up to five or six changes it will be a huge challenge for the Blues but if they can go down to Brighton Rd and win, or at the least push Glenelg all the way, it will be a psychological boost come finals time which is really what counts.

Go the Mighty Double Blues.

[sturtpeter]

Ditto, MST! Let's cage the Mighty Tigers and end th4 game winning sequence against us.

United we stand, divided we surrender.

[TigerBoss]

I thought you'd switched to Norwood SP...

[sturtpeter]

Tb! Who started that rumour?

[ElizabethVCRThief]

Tb! Who started that rumour?

Everyone who tried hard to ignore you when you were decked out head-to-toe in Norwood gear in round 9.

[sturtpeter]

Must've been my twin.

[smithy]

There's 2 of you ?

[sturtpeter]

[bayman]

we have heard of sturts great depth earlier in the year so this does give those players a chance to show their worth

[zipzap]

League

Coad
Chambers
Sharples
Herring
Perrie
Gum
Martin
Avery
McGlone
Fittock
McLeay
Sheedy
Whiteman
Paynter
Wicks
Evans
Nelson
Plant
Jaensch
Farmer
J.Fitzgerald
Crane
Cubillo
Kurtze

Reserves

Hurley
Habner
Anderson
Bartlett
Kay
J.Johncock
B.Eckermann
Weir
Copping
Cahill
Rischbieth
McDonald
Smith
Papageorgiou
Davey
Scott-Toms
Thring
Borholm
Hodge
Tomlinson
Bratton

[phantom57]

Look on the bright side....this Saturday is not the first Sunday in October!!!

[peterg]

Bring it Awwwn -- Bays by Lots

[CUTTERMAN]

Still not having seen Sturt's line-up, bays by 3-4 goals but I've got a good feeling about this.

[Stevie_K]

Bays to make it an even 10 straight with a 31 point win

[godoubleblues]

the Sturt side as read out on RPH

F - Herring Chambers Farmer
HF - Martin Perrie Paynter
C - Gum Sheedy Wicks
HB - Coad McLeay Whiteman
B - McGlone Fittock Avery
R - Kurtze Nelson Crane
IC from - Sharples Copping Plant Jaensch Cubillo

In - Martin Gum Avery Copping Plant Jaensch Cubillo Kurtze
Out - DeLuca Thomson Bentley Gregory Feast Evans

[Pseudo]

the Sturt side as read out on RPH
[...]
Out - DeLuca Thomson Bentley Gregory Feast Evans

Ouch! That must be the record # outs for the year so far.

Hey spelly, you got any idea what the most # outs ever has been?

[Tassie Blues]

going to be a tough one this week just glad its only June. just glad we will have all the our power players back in the finals

[spell_check]

the Sturt side as read out on RPH
[...]
Out - DeLuca Thomson Bentley Gregory Feast Evans

Ouch! That must be the record # outs for the year so far.

Hey spelly, you got any idea what the most # outs ever has been?

No, but as I suspected, we had just as many outs/ins this year (in fact nearly every week!). For the Norwood game Fairclough, Grocke, Hicks, McEntee, Passador and Treeby were replaced by Cicolella, Hier, Jacky, Malinovski, McGregor and Pavlich.