{"id":30120,"date":"2017-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/grant-thomas-makes-big-prediction-about-footy-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"grant-thomas-makes-big-prediction-about-footy-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/grant-thomas-makes-big-prediction-about-footy-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Thomas makes a big prediction about footy in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Grant Thomas says overly defensive AFL game plans have been discredited and the league could be about to witness a shift in strategy.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI can only ever find two sides, which unfortunately &#8212; it\u2019s the worst thing that could\u2019ve ever happened &#8212; two sides that have won a premiership based on manic defence,\u201d Grant told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they happened to play each other two years in a row, and that was Sydney and West Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Longmire, you look at Roos and you look at Lyon\u2026 they\u2019ve played in nine of the last 12 grand finals and they\u2019ve won two, and seven have failed, and they\u2019ll continue to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306505525&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery team irrespective has five minutes of glory in a grand final,\u201d Grant said, \u201cwhere they have a five minute good spell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t kick away and put scoreboard pressure on you can be dominating a game and all of a sudden you find yourself only three points up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant praised Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs and mentioned Adelaide and Geelong who he said would \u201cdare to lose\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that trend continues I think it\u2019s going to push all the way back the other way. 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