WE ARE IN THE FINALS! Woo hoo!

[tim...]

Melbourne 2 Wellington 0 puts us in the finals. Hope the boys drive the point home on Sunday 

Queensland v Central Coast on the weekend of 6-8 and 13-14 Feb... here we come!

 

[cruiser]

YESSSS!!! Very pleasing. Be interesting to see what side Lawrie plays with on Sunday, especially as the game will decide the minor premiers when it's a dead rubber for us.

 

[bulldogmariner]

YESSSS!!! Very pleasing. Be interesting to see what side Lawrie plays with on Sunday, especially as the game will decide the minor premiers when it's a dead rubber for us.

He has to play a full team which will mean United finish 3rd if QLD win and we could beat them home and away.

 

[Marinerchick]

so glad we are in the finals

 

[jaypee]

YESSSS!!! Very pleasing. Be interesting to see what side Lawrie plays with on Sunday, especially as the game will decide the minor premiers when it's a dead rubber for us.

He has to play a full team which will mean United finish 3rd if QLD win and we could beat them home and away.

And risk Porter and Pedj - don't think so - one yellow and they are gooooone

I think those two will sit out

 

[Part_Timer]

sash is also on 4 yellows

 

[tim...]

bulldogmariner... what a brilliant name combo

 

[tim...]

sash is also on 4 yellows

Lack of sash in the last two weeks has seen convincing losses. Sash must start and play 80-90'

 

[Part_Timer]

and miss semis??? dmac and matty in a 442 plz just go back to basics..park the bus long ball

 

[cruiser]

YESSSS!!! Very pleasing. Be interesting to see what side Lawrie plays with on Sunday, especially as the game will decide the minor premiers when it's a dead rubber for us.

Or maybe not. The Roar are our bogey team. We are Adelaide's. Maybe we want to play Adelaide first up in the finals and to do that, if the Roar win, we must beat Adelaide this weekend. 

 

[soundsdifferent]

Melbourne 2 Wellington 0 puts us in the finals. Hope the boys drive the point home on Sunday 

Queensland v Central Coast on the weekend of 6-8 and 13-14 Feb... here we come!

if we drive the point home on sunday that means we wont being playing qld for sure id much rather vs adeliade.. and that is very posible

 

[tim...]

I'd rather vs Melbourne but I don't think that's possible. I'm in Melbourne for finals leg 1. lol

 

[FFC Mariner]

Sheer lunacy not to rest anyone near the card limit.

Rather see a yoof side than run the risk of losing vital players for the semis

 

[Part_Timer]

ahh finally a football mind...

 

[tim...]

We should play to set up the best possible finals scenario for us, which I'm pretty sure is to face Adelaide again. If that means a full-strength lineup, so be it. We won't beat Queensland IMO.

 

[Part_Timer]

we are a step below all the other top 4 teams regaurdless and going into those games down very influential players or players we have no cover for is pure stupidity....qld whilst one great team have chocked in finals football before *anything can happen*

 

[Sacko]

So does that mean we get the 2 Friday night semis, as 3 v 4 last year and v1 worked out that way?

How close is Owens to a run out, Sunday could be a good chance to give him some much needed game time.

 

[Jesus]

I wish the FFA had decided what days. Make it easier to get the day off work. Hopefully fridays

 

[pjennings]

Okay - we need to protect the boys that are in card trouble but still go for the win to go into the finals with the right mindset. We're light on in the backs with two out and two in card trouble. So why not try this. 

---------Danny
Wilko--Stringers--Boogs---Hutch
----Gumps-----Owens
--------Caceres
DMac---Nik----Simon

Bench - Redders, Smith, Lewis, Porter

 

[tuftman]

Sheer lunacy not to rest anyone near the card limit.

Rather see a yoof side than run the risk of losing vital players for the semis

exactly

Even worse then cards, why risk losing guys like Simon, Caceres and the like to injury from stupid challenges, its always a risk. I think Lawrie should perhaps give games to several yoof players as well. Who knows, one of them could be a gun HAL player(Mrdja aside).

mmm Queensland though, probably the one thing we have in our favour is that we've played a lot of finals football, so the core of the squad thats been there since the start have a good idea of whats needed.

Personally, I think it will be a replay of V2, and Adelaide to break their horror finals record and become Champions