Adelaide Oval

[saynta]

Looks like we will be playing a pack of Dogs at Adelaide Oval, Saturday 10 October.

No, the finals start a week earlier. It's likely to be Thursday 1st October at Metricon. Port will play in Adelaide, WCE in Perth and Brisbane at the Gabba.

I think we are better off playing the dogs in Adelaide TBH.

Couldn't agree more. The Gabba is a centre square clearance ground (it's quite short length wise) and really, the depth of the Dogs midfield has us covered. I think Adelaide suits us really well - it's big and open and allows runners like Hill, Jones and Butler to get on their bikes. I think we have the Dogs covered in the Ruck, I think we have good, functional key forwards to make their defenders actually defend (i.e. like Battle did on Haynes) and the Dogs' forwards are streaky at best. Even more so if Naughton plays.

Three keys for me? 1. Gears to lock down JJ (again); 2. Seb to do a job on either McCrae/Hunter or Libba (not sure you can really tag Bont and Smith is sort of the same); and 3. Keep it out of the hands of Keath and Daniel.

The Gabba and Marvel are very similar. From memory, we go ok at Marvel.

Gabba is 170.6 meters x 149.9 meters

Marvel is 159.5m x 128.8m

Adelaide oval is 167m x 124m

[The_Dud]

Not sure where you got those Gabba specs from!

[saynta]

Not sure where you got those Gabba specs from!

"The dimensions of the playing field are now 170.6 metres (east-west) by 149.9 metres (north-south), to accommodate the playing of Australian rules football at elite level.

The Gabba - Wikipedia

Doesn't sound right though, does it??

This is more like it:

AFL BOUNDARY DIMENSIONS

Ground - length - width

UTAS Stadium - 175m - 145m

TIO Stadium - 175m - 135m

GMHBA Stadium - 170m - 116m

TIO Traeger Park - 168m - 132m

Adelaide Oval - 167m - 123m

Cazaly’s Stadium - 165m - 135m

Optus Stadium - 165m - 130m

Spotless Stadium - 164m - 128m

UNSW Canberra Oval - 162.5m - 138m

MCG - 161m - 138m

Jiangwan Stadium - 160m - 136m

Etihad Stadium - 160m - 129m

Mars Stadium - 160m - 129m

Blundstone Arena - 160m - 124m

Metricon Stadium - 158m - 134m

Gabba - 156m - 138m

SCG - 155m - 136m

[St Plugger]

We've 2 players in the team that are quite familiar with AO in Paddy Ryder and Dougal Howard and another with some additional experience playing there in Callum Wilkie, in addition to our recent successes there earlier this season. Cumulatively we'd have an "experience" advantage over the Bullies in playing on the AO. We've made the journey there twice this season as well, which is also another useful experience going into this match. The ground will most likely be in better condition than the Gabba too. These advantages make AO a better proposition for the Saints than the Gabba when going into the game.

[remboy]

We've 2 players in the team that are quite familiar with AO in Paddy Ryder and Dougal Howard and another with some additional experience playing there in Callum Wilkie, in addition to our recent successes there earlier this season. Cumulatively we'd have an "experience" advantage over the Bullies in playing on the AO. We've made the journey there twice this season as well, which is also another useful experience going into this match. The ground will most likely be in better condition than the Gabba too. These advantages make AO a better proposition for the Saints than the Gabba when going into the game.

Having already flown in on game day twice this year for two wins is great for us. We know the routine, we know we can perform at the ground, we've won our last two games there and we've beaten the dogs this year.
It's all falling into place.