Where and When: Metricon Stadium, Saturday 1 August 2020 at 2:35pm (AEST)
Last Time They Met: Rd 4, 2019: North Melbourne 9.17 (71) def Adelaide8.11 (59) at Marvel Stadium
What it means for North: North have been terrible of late and badly need a win to earn back a bit of respect. If they don’t win this, they can expect to cop the brunt of the media blowtorch.
What is means for Adelaide: Like North, the Crows have sucked, but for longer and harder. That said, they have been competitive in recent weeks and they would dearly love to snag their first win of the season.
Supercoach Watch: Laird and Smith have a few unhappy Supercoaches watching on while Simpkin owners aren’t so smug any longer.
Thommo Watch: Pass! It’s going to be tough work watching this match.
Thommo’s Tip: Crows to break their duck. Just: 5 points.
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Taylor Walker out illness
Crows
OUT – Taylor Walker
IN – Kieran Strachan
North
No changes
Strachan 124k Ruc/Fwd making his debut
Kieran Strachan $123,900 Ruck/Fwd
No rookie rucks debut for about 37 years, then two in less than 24 hours. Supercoach gods having a laugh.
Who to replace Doedee? Just want the better player, not worried about byes. Cheers.
TU Hurn
TD Stewart
Had Strachan DPP for a trade in instead of Draper originally……
…..beware of in coming flying dummies…..
who wins
crows
roos
Brodie Smith was off after 2 minutes getting work don on his right leg/knee.
Up jogging along boundary line, so hopefully not too much of a worry for 6% of coaches
higgins is in an interesting position in his career
32 yo , high quality mid & a free agent
probably not on that much coin @ nth
probably got 2 yrs left in him
does he stay @ nth & hope they can win a flag in the time he has left
or does he go to a club like GWS on better coin & win them a flag
GWS would probably give nth a couple of gun fringe players , like maybe green to boot
……ahh, the legacies of buying premierships……all for the sake of economical turnover……
Simpkin is killing his score with the clangers.
8 touches 3 clangers
Dude has to be playing hurt… he has sucked since hurting his ankle
his score is actually gone backwards
9 touches 4 clangers
probably gets a better tagger now zeibel is injured
With a BE of 201 his price is going to plummet hard.
What a bloody disaster!
might make it into the rookie review soon
Call it a masterstroke, call it luck. But culling Simpkin this week is the best move I’ve made all year. Too bad I didnt make it 2 weeks ago…
Claim it as a masterstroke Hazza.
Think I’m stuck with him. Loop holing him next week.
Was SO close of culling Simpkin this week, was gonna pull the pin and replace him with Neale in my Tech team. D-Oh.
any one else finding there are no fantasy scores on SC gameday page
Glad I got rid of Simpkin
hav’n a mare
Half Time Nth Melb 9.1.55 lead Adelaide 3.3.21
ROOS
Luke McDonald 74
Trent Dumont 66
Aaron Hall 63
Jed Anderson 61
Shaun Higgins 60
Todd Goldstein 59
Jack Mahony 51
Jamie Macmillan 47
Majak Daw 47
Bailey Scott 47
Josh Walker 45
Jasper Pittard 43
Shaun Atley 41
Cameron Zurhaar 40
Aiden Bonar 39
L. Davies-Uniacke* 33
Curtis Taylor 32
Ben McKay 30
Kyron Hayden 29
Robbie Tarrant 29
Nick Larkey 23
Jy Simpkin 21
CROWS
Reilly O’Brien 53
Paul Seedsman 51
Shane McAdam 44
Tom T. Lynch 43
Jake Kelly 42
Lachlan Murphy 41
Bryce Gibbs 40
Daniel Talia 40
Rory Atkins 38
Rory Laird 36
Ben Keays 36
Matt Crouch 34
Kyle Hartigan 34
Andrew McPherson 32
Chayce Jones 28
E. Himmelberg 28
Luke Brown 25
Tyson Stengle 22
Kieran Strachan 21
Brodie Smith 20
Will Hamill 3
Riley Knight 2
………probably had his ankle cold sprayed, it numbs the pain, but you lose feeling and full control.
…..old players medicine…….
Curtis Taylor in massive pain looking to be a hyper extended knee
And after all that he is back out on the field. Commentators were first thinking he had a broken leg
on my bench this week
trading him next week
was hoping for a 70 today
starting to think brodie smith will never be SC relevant
Shouldn’t have taken you this long to figure that out lol, Jo.
Concerning news watching this game as a Sympkin owner. He just doesnt get the minutes in the middle, spends a lot of time up front and doesnt get much of it up there even when north kick 18 goals. Fingers crossed he lifts next week.
Not really understanding Ben McKay’s score. 73% efficiency with only 1 turnover. 91 DT 60 SC
I assume it ks due to all uncontested possessions and then his teams taking points for all the goals they scored
i think DT dont penalize mistakes
Game was over when he started to click
Final Score – North run out big winners 19.5.119 to Crows 7.8.50
ROOS
Jed Anderson 139
Todd Goldstein 138
Aaron Hall 132
Luke McDonald 123
Trent Dumont 121
Shaun Higgins 107
Jack Mahony 94
Shaun Atley 93
Cameron Zurhaar 86
Josh Walker 83
Bailey Scott 82
L. Davies-Uniacke* 78
Majak Daw 76
Jasper Pittard 75
Jamie Macmillan 71
Aiden Bonar 64
Ben McKay 61
Kyron Hayden 59
Jy Simpkin 55
Nick Larkey 53
Robbie Tarrant 52
Curtis Taylor 43
CROWS
Paul Seedsman 103
Reilly O’Brien 93
Rory Laird 91
Matt Crouch 81
Tom T. Lynch 77
Shane McAdam 75
Jake Kelly 70
Kyle Hartigan 70
E. Himmelberg 65
Daniel Talia 65
Andrew McPherson 61
Lachlan Murphy 59
Bryce Gibbs 57
Ben Keays 56
Tyson Stengle 54
Brodie Smith 52
Rory Atkins 52
Chayce Jones 45
Kieran Strachan 39
Luke Brown 37
Riley Knight 24
Will Hamill 18