Brenton Sanderson

That's been the case in this game for years.

It feels like both teams have got a legitimate claim as to why they should win.

But yeah, clearance, scores from stoppage, who forces the opposition into mistakes in dangerous parts of the ground, that might be what determines the winner.

Yeah, it's getting your best players around the footy, the clean at ground level, explosive at a contest.

But then you've got to try and find to get a – you can take a numerical advantage in there.

So put an extra one in, push your wing in, push your fat side wing in, bring a forward up and in, which means you've got the extra number.

But then that gives you a minus one somewhere.

That gives you a minus one outside of the contest as well.

So I think previously sides that have been weak at clearance, you don't have to win clearance to still score.

And I think back to Geelong when –

Even when I was coaching there, when we used to lose clearance, but you had so much talent behind the ball, you would lose 20, 30 meters, but gain 150 because you had those explosive ball users off halfback that could win that contest post-clearance.

So yeah, it's not the end of the world if you don't win clearance, but you got to win the next possession post-clearance.

That's, I guess, the most important thing for a coach.

All right.

Which way are you leaning?

I like the Pies still in this one.

But yeah, to the Bombers fans, it's been really fun to watch them the last two and a half games.

I saw them live in Adelaide.

They were great last week.

They were brave against the Suns.