WHERE AND WHEN: Optus Stadium, Saturday, April 14, 6.10pm AWST
SUMMARY
West Coast is riding strong momentum after a stunning late surge secured an unforgettable first win at Optus Stadium over Geelong and the Eagles will be determined to celebrate Mark LeCras’ 200th match and Nic Naitanui’s 150th game in style. The pair have been in excellent form so far in 2018, with LeCras booting eight goals and Naitanui exerting a massive influence on the Eagles’ engine room coming back from his knee reconstruction. The Eagles hope to regain spearhead Josh Kennedy from injury, but a youthful forward line has exceeded expectations in his absence and West Coast’s firepower will worry the Suns. Gold Coast was disappointing against Fremantle last Saturday, suffering a first loss under Stuart Dew. The Suns have stayed over in Perth after selling that ‘home’ game to the Dockers and will need a big performance from co-captain Tom Lynch if they are to score just their second win from 12 games in Perth.
LAST FIVE TIMES
R11, 2017, Gold Coast 11.14 (80) d West Coast 11.11 (77) at Metricon
R10, 2016, West Coast 20.12 (132) d Gold Coast 7.13 (55) at Subiaco Oval
R18, 2015, Gold Coast 12.11 (83) drew West Coast 11.17 (83) at Metricon
R7, 2015, West Coast 21.9 (135) d Gold Coast 6.7 (43) at Subiaco Oval
R23, 2014, West Coast 23.13 (151) d Gold Coast 15.9 (99) at Metricon
Hutta’s Tip: West Coast by 20 points
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West Coast v Gold Coast at Optus Stadium, 6.10pm AWST
NO LATE CHANGES
FINAL INTERCHANGES
West Coast: Jack Redden, Daniel Venables, Jackson Nelson, Jake Waterman
Gold Coast: Jack Martin, Brayden Fiorini, Michael Rischitelli, Darcy MacPherson
Hmm tough Descision. Do I take Dustys VC Score or captain olango?
TUp Take Dustys VC Score.
TDown Captain Olango!!
V/C on Buddy didn’t quite work out
I should of gone Dusty but I needed a POD to make the SCT CUP.
So………
Captains duties this week.
T/U Titch.
T/U Nic Nat.
Help!
Draft league question. Who to field
T/U: Swallow
T/D: Zerrett vs power tomorrow
Best two rookies to field
TU: Waterman & Henry
TD: Henry & Fritsch
Comment : Waterman & Fritsch
Concerned Waterman’s output will be restricted with JJK’s return.
Shit… forgot to trade Ryan.
Don’t drink n’ Supercoach bitches.
Ya argh, themes sounds like fight’n words, I’ll have yah
You have him on the field?
Yeah, with the E on Garlett. I knew Henry didn’t play until tomorrow, and just figured West Coast had another Sunday game.
Guess I’ll just hold Ryan for the next 11 weeks now…
Holman is heading for the worst score I can remember for an on field player of mine.
Yeo last week has been my worst, I believe.
He seems to understand he absolutely screwed me, and is delivering so far tonight.
Yeo could crack the hundred by half time.
Will he make his 177 breakeven?
Wasn’t far off
Hello Kennedy , goodbye Waterman I think.
Dang…I finally fielded Holman tonight after having him riding the pine over the first 3 rounds. No loop in the mids.
🙁
He has been good so far , but no tackles tonight?
Ya just the 1 that I’m seeing. I’ll be watching the replay to assess. Seems like a lot of teams have him on field though (and how could you not after watching the tackles and on-ball activity on the film)!
So minor crisis may be averted there.
With his BE and the3 week AVG pretty good, he should still pocket us some good gains. Great rookie to have this year. And no reason he can’t bounce back from this game!
Also in other news, glad to see JJK having a crack. Held him through that (I don’t know, I think the team called it a…) ‘two week injury’ (…that lasted much longer than that…) in 2017. As an SC fan he drives me nuts when he is on my team (he is not this year…and won’t be…maybe for Finals, but I’ll worry about that later!(…1 round at a time)). As a footy fan, however, I can’t help cheering for the man! Way to go JJK. Good to have you back!
I hope Holman’s new outside role isn’t a permanent change.
Holman to get drop next week I reckon 🙁
Holman coming home like a train.
I hope nobody bought into the J.Lyons hype.
Ouch… get everybody on a plane back to QLD and act like you were neeever in WA boys…
Expect a few to get dropped after that performance.
Maybe next week….
Still waiting for a train home…