Cats V Pies Preseason Challenge Feb 12th

[Mr.Craig]

Pendles 99 in two and a half quarters...

[Vinny]

How much did you place KB?

[Vinny]

Pendles 99 in two and a half quarters...

All class.

[kilbluff1985]

How much did you place KB?

$20

Stupid Collingwood chokers

[Vinny]

Haha unlucky!

[Bones Bombers]

May make Freeman a mid/late season downgrade.

[aussied]

Just some one liners of what i thought of watching tonights game. i know its the first match of NAB cup and shouldn't take to much off it but here's my two cents. plus i should note i am a Geelong supporter so maybe a little one sided.

CADDY IS GOLD!!!! he was a machine barg'in in and out of packs, around stoppages he got the ball out clean and made good decisions, and showed he was okay getting bloody for it. (hopefully no concussion ploys)

Varco looks in good shape better value of a player then what he was at last year. seemed motivated and desperate for the ball.

Such a Shame that Burbury got his jaw broken, by the way of DT points were going 40DT by the time he got injured before half time. was looking promising hopefuly can make some last minute cash from him before round 15.

Jack Frost is hope for collingwood's defense, give him another year he will be a great solid defender however not sure Supercoach wise though.

Beams looking solid however will be interesting to see once you add Swan in there.

Cloke looks fit i think he achieved what collingwood asked of him today. with the new marking rules i think this will work in his favour more then other players (pav excluded)

Good performance by Jesse White. will be good to see some attention taken away from cloke which will alow cloke to push outside the fwd 50.

Hawkins Kicking was 10/10 very happy cats fan to see that tonight.

Stevie J needs to go back to the basics, as a cats supporter its starting to annoy me just a little. <3

Enright playing on the back flank, with Bartel down forward more this year i think he will be the running back something along the lines of Andrew walker of last year. 30+ disposals  around 3/4 time, and is looking like he had a very intensive running preseason. i am watching closely.


Jamie Elliot is a good decision maker good overhead mark, for $390k i see an avg of +75 and good return.



Anyone else like to add anything? :)

[Vinny]

Nice write up man.

One thing is if you leave out Beams you are flowering crazy.

If he didn't handball so much he would have scored HUGE.

[aussied]

Nice write up man.

One thing is if you leave out Beams you are flowering crazy.

If he didn't handball so much he would have scored HUGE.

Thanks.

collingwood does look like it has the best midfield in the game Beams swan ball pendles sidebottom and i recon by years end you will be able to add in adams and elliot.  you would be crazy not to have  beams in your starting team, however trying to fit in pendles and swan around bye structures is going to be a hard one ;)

[Speculator]

Clinton young is out

[Maggie May]

Not sure about Caddy.  Only finished up with 61SC points (you can find this on fox sports match centre).  Hawkins similarly only go 71 SC points, despite kicking 4 goals.

Frost will need to be elevated off the rookie list to be SC relevant, and the Pies only had one spot which they gave to Hudson.  So Frost will need a long term injury to see any games this season.

One to consider though is Grundy.  63SC points after copping a heavy hit from Bartel early and missing about 20 minutes.  Apparently, according to the radio commentators, he looked a bit out of sorts when he cambs back on in the second game, but he did run out the game strongly.

Adams and Stokes could be good PODs in the midfield.  Only thing is the round 8 bye, and in the case of Adams, most people will already have Pendles and Beams who are musts IMO.  Can you fit 3 Pies in excess of $400k into the 1 midfield which is also likely to have Ablett and Martin from GC?

Ben Kennedy was also solid and should play a lot of games this year barring injury.  Could be an option for F5/F6?

[Maggie May]

Clinton young is out

Yep.  Was largely unsighted for a lot of the match.

[cortez]

very happy geelong supporter tonight, agree with other two if you leave Beams out you are nuts. i also was impressed by Caddy but more impressed by Guthrie, kid is gonna be a gun. Duncan was also impressive but on a non sc side of it loved Tomahawk!!!

[aussied]

Ben Kennedy was also solid and should play a lot of games this year barring injury.  Could be an option for F5/F6?

Ben Kennedy at $220k isnt a bad pick for a prem rookie price have him on my to be looked at further list :P

[aussied]

have to say i wasnt that impressed by J.walkers effort tonight but then again he was playing a second ruck.  from all the hype about the good preseason that he has had so far i was expecting more.