Where and when: Marvel Stadium, Saturday July 6, 7:25pm AEST
What it means for the Western Bulldogs: The Bulldogs continue to hang around the finals conversation through a 6-8 win-loss record, but there is no margin for error. They face first-placed Geelong on the back of a strong fortnight.
What it means for Geelong: Maintain breathing space at the top. The Cats have a two-game gap ahead of last season’s Grand Finalists Collingwood and West Coast, and could be a couple of wins from being able to manage their run home without ladder pressure.
The stat: Geelong’s dominance over the Western Bulldogs stretches back more than a decade, winning 16 of the past 18 games, including two finals.
The match-up: Josh Schache v Harry Taylor
An in-form Schache (ranked 463rd in the Official AFL Player Ratings) has returned to the Western Bulldogs senior side with gusto in the past fortnight, kicking six goals. The 21-year-old is likely to face experienced Geelong defender Harry Taylor (211th), a man who has rarely been beaten in a 251-game career.
It’s a big week for: Aaron Naughton
The Bulldogs forward hasn’t kicked a goal in the past two games and no more than one in a game since round eight. It’s a tough position to play for a developing 19-year-old, but Naughton needs to find a way to impact the scoreboard against the best defence in the competition.
Thommo’s Tip: Geelong by 6 points.
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LATE CHANGES
Western Bulldogs: No change
Geelong: Brandan Parfitt (rested) replaced in selected side by Gary Rohan
FINAL INTERCHANGES
Western Bulldogs: Toby McLean, Ed Richards, Tory Dickson, Bailey Williams
Geelong: Lachie Fogarty, Jed Bews, Cam Guthrie, Gryan Miers
If you have two outs from the midfield, would having 2 emergencies on the midfield bench mean both will cover? Or will I only get the lower scoring one?
U will get both emg scores as long as the 2 mids on ground don’t play
Damn, thought it would’ve only been the lower emergency (like in NRL).
In hindsight would’ve been great as I would’ve got Rowbottom…
Cheers, we live and learn!
500 from 3 players in the 1st game
then the usual 2019 bend over a table & take this again
now kennedy out
buggered if im payn for this crap next year
Paying? Last I checked it was free to play… unless you’re talking about SuperCoach Gold?
yeh
not worth it though
herald sun can stick their news papers next year
i dont do social media so i dont get to copy teams off facebook n twitter etc
People copy teams from Facebook and Twitter? I’m not on social media either, so this is the first I’m hearing of it.
PEOPLE OF TWITTER & FACEBOOK-LAND: Copy teams from this site instead! The people here actually know what we’re doing (well, most of the time 😉 ).
Twitter is great for new NEWS, ie the latest is posted so fast, ALL the time. EG today, Preuss being pulled from the Casey side was on twitter before the real world knew. But little else.
There are some great stats on there too and well, it can be fun.
But like you say, for advice, SCT is EVERYTHING.
That is all.
Indeed. I often search Twitter if I want real-time information on that kind of thing (you don’t need an account to do that).
Awesome display by Port!! Great effort by Lycett looking like he was done in the first quarter as well.
Port Adelaide Power: 15.11.101
Justin Westhoff 122
Darcy Byrne-Jones 120
Scott Lycett 110
Robbie Gray 109
Ollie Wines 107
Ryan Burton* 106
Riley Bonner 98
Tom Rockliff 95
Tom Clurey 93
Sam Gray 89
Karl Amon 89
Brad Ebert 87
Dougal Howard 75
Steven Motlop 73
Xavier Duursma 65
Sam Powell-Pepper 65
Tom Jonas 65
Hamish Hartlett 59
Connor Rozee 58
Dan Houston 56
Zak Butters 54
Charlie Dixon 41
Adelaide Crows: 5.14.44
Daniel Talia 113
Matt Crouch 106
Hugh Greenwood 102
Rory Laird 97
Brodie Smith 96
Brad Crouch 88
Rory Sloane 84
Reilly O’Brien 78
Jake Kelly 73
Alex Keath 73
Rory Atkins 67
Taylor Walker 63
David Mackay 52
Eddie Betts 52
Wayne Milera 51
Kyle Hartigan 49
Richard Douglas 44
Luke Brown 36
Lachlan Murphy 31
Josh Jenkins 28
Jordan Gallucci 18
Paul Seedsman 15
haha – sorry folks – forgot I had swapped threads to check!!
well, if you weren’t caring about the Adelaide showdown, at least you know the scores!!
LETS GO BULLDOGS!
Ahh Crap where is Duncan?
Hasn’t touched the ball.
I hope he scores good he never scores lower than 80 if that happen im surprise
Man i bench Clarke i want his score now dammit should’ve put logue on the bench
Clark, no e, has been mooted for more MID minutes for a couple of weeks now. If you still have him, play him above most rookies … should be good for 75 min. Every week. What did he get today?!
86 I see. There were a couple of us who said it on here a couple of weeks ago. It’s worth reading all threads on SCT. As Salamander said above, best info is consistently on here.
Read his weekly Scoring Anomalies and Rare Gems pieces every Thursday by way of example. Invaluable!