Where and when: Metricon Stadium, 2:35pm (AEST)
Last time they met: R18 2019, Brisbane 12.15 (87) DEF North 12.3 (75)
What it means for North: Respectability. The coach has said they’ll be showing something this week. Let’s see it.
What it means for Brisbane: After last night’s game against their two rivals in the Top 3, a win over the Roos would be great for their Top 2 chances.
Motts Watch: Looking forward to seeing how North perform with their backs to the wall and something to prove.
Mottsy’s Tip: Lions by 40.
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LATE CHANGES
Kangaroos: Tarrant out, replaced by Xerri
Lions: No changes
Xerri replaces Tarrant for North. Lions No Change.
Too quick for me Chillo!
Got the early word from Al Nicholson on Twitter, was just waiting for official confirmation
And of course I traded out Xerri last week *sigh*
Not f%@ken happy.Missus had me doin shit all day.No time to do all my SC stuff.All my trade plans involving starc and Skinner weren’t done.Plus now I’ve got f#%king Xerri taking Woodcocks score!I f#@king swear from now on footy time is MY time and nothing gets done until my SC is done!!!!!
You sound like a terrific husband
Hmmm…. interesting change. Walker will have to head down back. Shouldn’t effect Goldy too much but at this stage of the season Shaw’s definitely experimenting so you just never know.
I am bringing in Goldy for Gawn
I’ve kept Gawn probably a bad move to serve as a bit of a pod come finals
Same.
Hope he comes good, got Draper as back up.
Is Zorko a viable captain option given the risk of Neale being tagged by Anderson/McDonald?
North are still a finals chance. Don’t write them off. Comfortably the best coached group in the AFL. To top it off, their list is filled with young stars (Goldy, Higgins, zeibell, Polec) etc.
lol 😛
Thoughts on LDU ?
we getting an early look at the 2021 LDU breakout train?
Nice protest post 🙂
TU Use Kelly’s VC score of 119.
TD Neale as captain
TU: Take Lloyds 137 VC score as Captain (means taking Wicks 34 emergency score and benching Ruscoe)
TD: Risk Captain on Macrae, T Mitchell or Grundy, means Wicks stays benched as E and I run with Ruscoe on field
OK then – so if I’m taking the risk (and need to decide quick as my only non player to throw onto the field as Captain if I want to take Lloyd’s 137 ) is Skinner from BL
TU : Captain Macrae
TD: Captain Grundy with no Gawn
Weighing up whether to play Big O at R2 or F6.
Who scores more?
TU – Draper
TD – Aarts
TU – take Lloyd’s 137
TD – C on Neale
I’ve lost the plot and have gone Noble to L.Mcdonald. with the announcement of extra trades with the upcoming byes I’m going balls-to-the-wall high risk and hoping McDonald keeps his roaming loose defender/mid role and praying he isn’t going to get used as a tagger again.
Yep. I like it, HPlate.
Not to take anything away from those ranked highly rn, but SC is basically a dice roll rn. Have some fun.
What I’d like to see today:
Neale go huge
Goldy and the Big O not cancel each other out
North to not turn over the ball in their back half.
North by 1 point
That’s not too much to ask is it?
neale being tagged?
Nah, just not getting stuck into it just yet.
Mason Wood grabbing his hamstring
Larkey… take a bow. it wasn’t pretty but someone finally put it through the big sticks
McCluggage come on you can do better! get those goals and go big
SC relevant scores @ QT:
ROOS
Simpkin – 38
Goldy – 34
McDonald – 32
Dumont – 27
Walker – 26
McKay – 24
Mahony – 24
Hosie – 12
LIONS
Zorko – 44
Lyons – 33
Neale – 28
McInerney – 23
McCluggage – 22
Witherden – 21
Starcevich – 12
Thanks GD
Uninspiring first quarter by both teams.
simpkin & zork
very nice start
Starcevich has had 1 disposal, and already beaten lasts week total score.
yeh ,very happy not to have to worry about onfield rooks any more
47 at half time! Didn’t even bother trying to loop him this week!
Can’t believe Neale’s quarter time score. Very happy to take it, but barely sighted in first quarter.
He definitely makes the most of his contested ball/clearances
starch loosing pts lol
what is happening to Mccluggage?
wow starch 47 , gna ton up
SC relevant scores @ HT:
ROOS
Goldstein – 78
McDonald – 72
Simpkin – 63
Dumont – 53
Walker – 44
McKay – 40
Mahony – 37
Hosie – 19
LIONS
McInerney – 71
Lyons – 69
Witherden – 59
Zorko – 59
Neale – 58
Starcevich – 48
McCluggage – 22
McInerney with 5 tackles at half time with a goal also. Scoring well so far, so did anyone trust their gut and bring him in?
Far out Starcevich, have put up with your mediocrity for weeks and now you decide to score 48 in half a game of football! I traded you for Wicks….
Don’t Worry Lisa
Will probably go missing in second half and I’m sure you utilised cash to make an upgrade somewhere else .
Yep – he became Merrett
Merret joined my team too
Let’s hope for a big game
Anyone no what happened to walker?
Knock to the ribs. Came off straight away to have it looked at. Hopefully he was just winded, been looking good otherwise.
Am I the only one with crap foxtel signal ?
is that a yes or no ?
I think it only affects people who were loaded up with dons/Dees players in Rd3. I just couldn’t resist sorry Wighty 😉
While we are on that subject…dons/dees through no fault of their own, dont get a bye in the compressed run home…thats coping it again !!!
Couldn’t resist RIYP !!!
LOL. It’s the gift that just keeps on giving. I look forward to hearing all about it if any of the dons/Dees players get rested.
Fact. Earth is NOT flat.
mines fine
turn your box off , unplug for 10 secs
see if that helps
Done that several times…both tv and box.
And re-booted the thing as well…so annoying. I’m on dish.
No Nato
Ended up moving D Cameron to Ruck
New POD recruit Lyons doing well
Won’t know if I have made right decision till Bailey Smith plays as he made way to start preparing for rd 15 bye
poor form from the fox commentators
all they’re talking about is how bad brizzy are playing
with the coach swinging the axe & a new look nth team
only 3 pts down @ the 1/2
larkey & Xerri giving their fwd line something different
kids standing up
go nth
i want starch to ton up just for a laugh
Geez, do I loop starch for hurn/docherty?
Starcevich on more points then Neale…. Sigh
starch 87
top scorer for brizzy lol
Urgh Mccluggage with the bad kicking 3 behinds…
Unless Neale has 50 pt last qtr, do we look for another c ?
150 would be nice but I’ll take 135 or more
Yeah….dont want an awkward 120-125
Should scale up to about 140 so will def take it
SC relevant scores @ 3QT:
ROOS
Goldstein – 99
Simpkn – 83
McDonald – 73
Dumont – 69
Mahony – 49
McKay – 48
Walker – 43
Hosie – 39
LIONS
Neale – 100
Starcevich – 95
Zorko – 86
Lyons – 86
McInerney – 76
Witherden – 74
McCluggage – 51
never thought id say this but
i need 1 of my mid premo’s to get dropped so i can take starcevich’s score
Gotta love this game. I watch scores on fan footy and the chat….one poor dude didn’t know Xerri was a late in and had c loop on him.
ouch
OK, starch on 95 at 3qtr time.. Gonna loop..
TU – Docherty
TD – Hurn
most traded out player this week
Lyons laying low and scoring that 100* doesn’t get the attention of the opponents like Neale, Mccluggae
gna be a tricky capt score from neale
Brisbane sneak home, hoping Neale can be boosted up to 140 so i can comfortably lock in as vc. Besides that very happy with Simpkin and once again Lyons does the business. 5 round average of 127 with 2% ownership. As for the lions they look the goods but cant kick straight and think theyre missing a a grade big forward to support hipwood to really challenge for the flag this year.
SC relevant scores @ FT:
*scaling to come
ROOS
Goldstein – 136
McDonald – 111
Simpkin – 104
Dumont – 93
Walker – 60
Mahony – 57
McKay – 50
Hosie – 34
LIONS
Neale – 134
Lyons – 121
Zorko – 110
Starcevich – 97
McInerney – 95
Witherden – 95
McCluggage – 57
Who needs Max when you have recruit Goldy ? Means keeping Neale v is an easy decision.
North just lacking a bit of polish.
I suspect that the likes of Polec Pittard Hall and Wood will have plenty of time to improve their tans
Very happy with the effort and spirit…..as for the result…..geez it would have been great to steal it.
As for my earlier post.
Neale whilst not going huge was very solid.
Minimal defences turnovers and Brissie didnt make us pay full penalty.
Goldy and Big O both scored well.
Cause for optimism with what I saw today
Neale 138 according to Fox Footy which seems to have accurate scaling immediately post game.
Think we have to lock that in, only thing making me question it is Macrae projected score 163…!!
Nah, lock in Neale.
Captain for second week in a row Big Maxy