Round 9: Eagles v Adelaide - Saturday 7 June @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval

Eagles v Adelaide

Saturday 7 June
Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval

League: 1:40pm

Last Match
Eagles 11.9.75 d Norwood 10.12.72 @ Coopers Stadium
Adelaide 17.8.110 d South 13.11.89 @ Hickinbotham Oval

Ladder Position
Eagles 2nd 7-1 54.66%
Adelaide 8th 2-6 44.55%

Both sides are coming off wins in their last match.  Who will continue their winning form?

Eagles easily by about 5 goals

Crows likely to only have 4 unavailable players due to injury and presumably they'll take one emergency, so looks like 18 AFL listed players, plus Callinan, plus 2 top ups.

That should make them pretty strong.

Eagles get back Grocke.

Will be a good indication for the Crows to see how good they are.

surely Grocke will play reserves ?

bayman wrote:surely Grocke will play reserves ?

He played reserves the state game weekend. Not sure how he went.

It's typically ironic that I thought playing them last would mean this was the time injuries would hit them, theoretically making it easier...

Whatever happens, it will be a flood fest...too many key forward and forward options can only mean one thing for an AFL side so far as to overcome it, by negating it

Aerie wrote:

bayman wrote:surely Grocke will play reserves ?

He played reserves the state game weekend. Not sure how he went.

thanks, i didn't know that but even so he'd need another run in the reserves, big ask against Port first up at league level i would think

Eagles by 20 points

The Crouch boys will be playing their first game together for Adelaide (I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that Brad would be back this week).

That would be worth a look I reckon! Both exciting prospects.

Eagles by 2-3 goals.

Eagles 41

Always like to see the lineups before tipping in a Crows match. Will take the Eagles in a tight one (say 3-4 goals) but wouldn't be surprised if the Crows continue recent form

Adelaide might be starting to turn it around.

They will turn it around until the ball goes near Wundke, when he will turn around to have several shots for goal.

I can't see Adelaide's defence handling him, Ainger and the others.

Eagles in a high scoring game with one low scoring quarter.

Scrunch wrote:Always like to see the lineups before tipping in a Crows match. Will take the Eagles in a tight one (say 3-4 goals) but wouldn't be surprised if the Crows continue recent form

Eagles:
F: McGregor, Wundke, Heinjus
HF: Goldsworthy, Ainger, Grocke
C: Hall, Lewis, Allmond
HB: Sumner, Jarrad, Batley
B: P. Raymond, von Bertouch, Giuffreda
R: Borholm, Powell, Poole
INT: A. Dunstan, Lloyd, Boyd, Kane, J. Sinor

IN: Grocke, J. Sinor

Adelaide:
F: Battersby, Osborn, Spina
HF: Robinson, Davis-Neale, Porplyzia
C: Grigg, B. Crouch, Atkins
HB: Knight, Kelly, Reilly
B: Siggins, Hartigan, Shaw
R: Graham, M. Crouch, Callinan
INT: Burns, O’Malley, Paynter, Pfeiffer

IN: B. Crouch, Hartigan, Shaw, Burns, Pfeiffer
OUT: McKernan, Ellis-Yolmen, Petrenko, L. Thompson

Adelaide forward line looks very thin. Can see McKernan being in an in though. Seriously hope he's not in the AFL team. Walker in doubt there though apparently.

Crouch boys in the centre together!

spell_check wrote:

Scrunch wrote:Always like to see the lineups before tipping in a Crows match. Will take the Eagles in a tight one (say 3-4 goals) but wouldn't be surprised if the Crows continue recent form

Eagles:
F: McGregor, Wundke, Heinjus
HF: Goldsworthy, Ainger, Grocke
C: Hall, Lewis, Allmond
HB: Sumner, Jarrad, Batley
B: P. Raymond, von Bertouch, Giuffreda
R: Borholm, Powell, Poole
INT: A. Dunstan, Lloyd, Boyd, Kane, J. Sinor

IN: Grocke, J. Sinor

Adelaide:
F: Battersby, Osborn, Spina
HF: Robinson, Davis-Neale, Porplyzia
C: Grigg, B. Crouch, Atkins
HB: Knight, Kelly, Reilly
B: Siggins, Hartigan, Shaw
R: Graham, M. Crouch, Callinan
INT: Burns, O’Malley, Paynter, Pfeiffer

IN: B. Crouch, Hartigan, Shaw, Burns, Pfeiffer
OUT: McKernan, Ellis-Yolmen, Petrenko, L. Thompson

Thanks SP, thinking the Eagles by even more now

None of those outs will happen I don't reckon. Maybe 1 as a travelling emergency.

Dale Lewis said on channel 7 last night Thompson will play as one of the backs is in doubt.

Adelaide in an upset

No reports from the game? It seems a pretty disappointing result from the eagles but the crows line up was pretty strong in the midfield with the addition of Brad Crouch.

Hopefully the Eags can bounce back pretty quickly.

i heard this morning from someone who was at the game & does sit in the grandstand that a Malcolm Blight tactic was used by Mick Godden, no he didn't make them train at 'lemon time' but did leave the coaches box & went into the rooms with about 10 minutes to go in the match...interesting message to the players

Pretty happy with the performance of the Crouch brother combo yesterday. Would love to see them line up together in the senior side before the year is out.

Is Adelaide becoming another Port in this year's SANFL?

Not sure if Adelaide was that good or that Eagles that bad. Haven't seen the Eagles look so insipid for ages. Their second half resembled Glenelg's against West. When the opposition has over 100 more possessions and only 1 player in your team had more then 3 tackles for the game that is a pretty soft effort.