THIS WEEKS TEAM

[Deelicious9 0]

Will be a late change. In will come Adem Yze.

Associate of the club has told me. Could or could not be good info.

I don't reckon Yze will play for Melbourne or Sandy.

[Jarka 767]

Whether you are wrong or not, I ask anyone to gather enough players to delist to get Valent and Wonnas promoted, get the first PSD pick, and picks 1, 17, 19, 35 and 51 (as CC said we would take).

That is 8 deletions with only Neitz, Yze, Holland, White, Weetra, and Bode as certainties (IMO). If Bode has another year, I don't think he does, but if he does i'm sure they will pay him out to accomodate the places required to rebuild the list.

I was playing around with this problem in the delistings thread. It's an issue because Carroll and Meesen would be two obvious condidates but it means that we have to either delay promoting Wona & Valenti or let go someone else like Bell. I guess it's not such a bad problem to have, at the start of the year most of us had Garland and Warnock pencilled in, their improvement have put pressure on the rest of the list.

My preference is to target the over 25 group.

Two points of interest:

1. Our list management sucks

2. Nathan Carroll is the luckiest player on an AFL list this year.

[H_T 3,043]

see bell last year, when he was playing his best footy. he is a quality spoiler of the footy, marks his man well, is strong in the air, fast on his feet.

he has not bad disposal but makes terrible decisions. also seems to lack awareness of what is going on around him.

Correct. Appears to lack in peripheral vision when in possession of the ball. Which leads to bad disposal and puts himself under pressure which leads to errors/clangers/turnovers,,,,.....

[Rogue 585]

He could play a very similar role to Whelan in time, with confidence.

I don't think so - one of Whelan's greatest assets is his reading of the play, and I don't see Bell has the same footy nous.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

I don't think so - one of Whelan's greatest assets is his reading of the play, and I don't see Bell has the same footy nous.

T.G.R. over at 'ology has been calling for Bell to be played in the midfield and I think it has some merit.

[Rogue 585]

T.G.R. over at 'ology has been calling for Bell to be played in the midfield and I think it has some merit.

Bell's faults would be magnified in the midfield.

Better off trying him up forward IMO, considering he played as a forward when a junior.

[H_T 3,043]

T.G.R. over at 'ology has been calling for Bell to be played in the midfield and I think it has some merit.

Whilst it wouldn't hurt, IMO I query the following: -

1/ His lack of peripheral vision is a problem

2/ Sustained aerobic capacity for midfield

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

2. Nathan Carroll is the luckiest player on an AFL list this year.

Meesen??? He will also be able to claim that title for another 2 years.

[titan_uranus 24,974]

Bell's faults would be magnified in the midfield.

Better off trying him up forward IMO, considering he played as a forward when a junior.

I'd agree, but I don't think we really need a player of his type in the forward line while we already have Wonna, and to a lesser extent, Robbo. But I reckon if he was to play anywhere it'd be forward.

[deanox 9,898]

Bell's faults would be magnified in the midfield.

Better off trying him up forward IMO, considering he played as a forward when a junior.

are you sure he played forward? i always thought he was a defender, but i thought he played in the country somewhere and had never had a proper 'coach' until he came to melbourne.

[45HG 1,539]

Rhino, out of interest, how come you seem to suddenly have issues with Meesen? (My apologies if you aways did, I just seem to only have noticed you posting them recently) Have you had these issues since/before we drafted him?