Prestia !!

[waiting]

We are a very very different side now. But,... Yep.

Conca first quarter wasn’t it?
Griffiths don’t remember.
Down rotations and got overrun .

 

[daniel30]

I'm happy for him to come straight in if he gets another week under is belt training and plays next week's scratch match and ready to go.Dual premiership player and b and f will be like a new recruit

 

[Coburgtiger]

If Dion comes in for a qualifying final, and we can't cover his lack of match fitness enough to win anyway, then that just means we're a side that needs Dion Prestia.

It's worth losing a qualifying final to get match fitness into Dion Prestia. That's how good he is.

We need him for the elimination finals that matter.

FWIW I don't think his inclusion would ever cost us a win. A Prestia at 60% is an upgrade on a Jack Ross at one hundred. But if it did, and that loss happened in QF, then it's worth it.

We're a good enough team to not just time our run for finals. We can time our run for the finals that matter.

 

[year of the tiger]

If Dion comes in for a qualifying final, and we can't cover his lack of match fitness enough to win anyway, then that just means we're a side that needs Dion Prestia.

It's worth losing a qualifying final to get match fitness into Dion Prestia. That's how good he is.

We need him for the elimination finals that matter.

FWIW I don't think his inclusion would ever cost us a win. A Prestia at 60% is an upgrade on a Jack Ross at one hundred. But if it did, and that loss happened in QF, then it's worth it.

We're a good enough team to not just time our run for finals. We can time our run for the finals that matter.

Agree - the qual final gives us a second chance - if we play the lions, it will be one hell of a fast game against a side of angry ants.

 

[UKTiger]

All we want is Prestia back firing on all cylinders come the next match and our midfield will be as good if not better that the competition

 

[Smoking Aces]

Will be a welcomed addition to the team.

 

[Mr Brightside]

Absolutely no doubt the reigning B & F will come in as long as he gets through the scrimmage and pulls up ok

 

[Tigers of Old]

Dimma seemed bullish that he'll play. Going to be important with a weakened ruck division.

 

[daniel30]

Didn't hold back said if his ready straight in.

 

[wammo]

Any new news on Dion?

 

[craig]

Also the Colllingwood final 2018 when DLTD in bed all week and someone else unfit.

Martin and the Skipper, think Lambert was also NQR

 

[AngryAnt]

One inescapable truth is winners are geniuses and losers are underdone and never should have played.

Had we won the prelim in 2018 the story would have been about the courage of Astbury leading us to victory.

The reality is there are very few occasions when players play when they are not capable of doing so, but the scoreboard always decides opinions.

mmmm... Astbury is one example, Phil Davis is another who clearly should not have even tried to play in last years GF.

 

[TOT70]

One inescapable truth is winners are geniuses and losers are underdone and never should have played.

Had we won the prelim in 2018 the story would have been about the courage of Astbury leading us to victory.

The reality is there are very few occasions when players play when they are not capable of doing so, but the scoreboard always decides opinions.

So, what you are saying is, if Hardwick picks an underdone Prestia and Fagan does the same with Harris Andrews, one will be a genius and one will be a dummy, depending on who wins.

Tough gig, coaching.

 

[craig]

mmmm... Astbury is one example, Phil Davis is another who clearly should not have even tried to play in last years GF.

Davis was laughable playing in the GF totally selfish.

In the end it didnt cost them so he avoided derision for it.

 

[craig]

So, what you are saying is, if Hardwick picks an underdone Prestia and Fagan does the same with Harris Andrews, one will be a genius and one will be a dummy, depending on who wins.

Tough gig, coaching.

Fagan will be the dummy when Andrews pings his hammy again ruling him out for the rest of the season.

We can win the Flag without Prestia.

They cant win it without Andrews .......................they likely cant win it with him either.

Biggest chance Bears have of winning the flag is if they dont play the Tigers in the Big Dance, and if we beat them in the Q/F then I doubt they get there.

 

[tigermouseau]

mmmm... Astbury is one example, Phil Davis is another who clearly should not have even tried to play in last years GF.

Lachie Whitfield shouldn’t have played either. Think he only had 10 days or so to recover from appendix surgery.

 

[craig]

Lachie Whitfield shouldn’t have played either. Think he only had 10 days or so to recover from appendix surgery.

Yep he should have never played either.

 

[St Kevin]

Davis was laughable playing in the GF totally selfish.

In the end it didnt cost them so he avoided derision for it.

I remember watching Davis warm up pre-match. I was supremely confident after that.

 

[year of the tiger]

I remember watching Davis warm up pre-match. I was supremely confident after that.

Same

 

[Wildride]

I’d thought he’d failed the fitness test he was that proppy.