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gover Posted: 3 Days, 11 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole? #303856
We know Kosi is out, but heres an injury list from the Saints site. Injury list as of Monday 12th April 2010 Current injury list is as follows: Sam Fisher - concussion Lenny Hayes - broken nose Luke Miles - stress fracture fibula (long term injury) Nick Riewoldt - hamstring, high grade muscle tendon Jesse Smith - ankle, to be assessed In the old days, concussion used to always mean a player missed the next week? Does this happen these days?
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ARUSBN Posted: 3 Days, 11 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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Stevedore, I have no doubt they will climb the ladder... seeing as they are both near the bottom! Adelaide are missing a host of players... that is fact and many have had interrupted preseasons. Essendon have shown a little this year, however they beat Carlton just. If you watched that game they played extremely poorly. Carlton were simply much worse. We can only beat what opposition put on field. This is about a premiership porthole. Coming off 6 wins season before it is ridiculous to be talking after 3 rounds when it is fair to say we have just got teams at the "right" time.

DrJon Posted: 3 Days, 10 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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ARUS, it's certainly OK to be cautious but dismissing the two wins against Adelaide and Essendon beacuase they aren't that good is a bit unfair. Fact is (I) We used to lose those sort of games; Essendon were a very poor side Round 2 last year and we got beaten in an insipid display and (II) we didn't just beat those two teams; we absolutely smashed them, by 56 points and 44 points and (III) We ran down the premiers - kicking 6.5 to 3.2 in the last quarter. That hasn't haoppened to the Cats since 2006. Even with those players missing (and we had some key players out too) the Cats are better than 85% of the comp. Yet we showed fight and resilience to turn around a 21 point deficit late in the 3rd. Talking about premierships in 2011 is probably a tad premature but this is a finely balanced unit with a lot of strengths. Don't see why it can't challenge in the next two years if we keep this group fit and firing.

shane Posted: 3 Days, 10 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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Who's talking about a premiership in 2011? That's just getting ahead of yourself. I'm a firm believer in taking it one premature premiership at a time? 2010 for me.

Tropical Posted: 3 Days, 9 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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The whole premiership window thingo is just management-speak for getting games into your players - so they are all AFL hardened big-game players at the same time. Have a looky at the Herald Sun's full strength indicator FSI linky - in terms of age & games our team on Sun has almost the same experience as the Cats. We're ready, although I don't see how Hill will win the Norm Smith - the east coasters who adjudicate the thing won't have worked out that he is a game breaker by then. They'll just look at the dreamteam points then hand the award to Girlblett in a 10-goal losing side.

larkin Posted: 3 Days, 9 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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Nice link. Reminds me ... the sun in your eyes end (city) had the wind but the other end was where most of the goals were kicked.

guy smiley Posted: 3 Days, 7 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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So, we had 79 less disposals than the Cats? That is, ladies, a manshaming. Prison style.

mbudm Posted: 3 Days, 6 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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We had every stat less than the cats - except for 1 goal and 1 behind. Group manshaming.

clinical Posted: 3 Days, 6 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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Freo have a great mix of older hardened players and young, smart football brained, skillful jets. If they keep playing the way we have been witnessing all year then their is no reason this cant be the year. Wishful thinking maybe but why the hell not.

FreoBear Posted: 3 Days, 6 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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We haven't been given any indication they can't do it.

shane Posted: 3 Days, 6 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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Look FreoBear, until they can learn to win in Melbourne...oh. Well until they can string more than a couple of wins together...oh. Until they can beat the good teams like Geel...oh. ummm...something about the MCG?

Grub Posted: 3 Days, 5 Hours ago Re:Premiership Porthole?

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I'm all for blind optimism but there are a few premiership potholes and some premiership pitfalls to avoid in the next few months before that silverware gets where it belongs. All the past winners (with the exception of the ooftits who won their premierships on sheer talent and superior character according to the press and the club itself) have emphasised the need for a little luck and a good deep fit squad. Injury, form and general malaise will play a huge part in our season and as a number of posters have recognised, some of our inexperienced young fellas are going to get tired as the season progresses. It is super important to have todays fringe players (Schammer et al) firing and ready to go when called upon. All indications are that they are fit and ready to go - still a question mark over Palmer's fitness and readiness?

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