Mr Picket Fence,I agree with most of the things that you stated,except the inclusion of ANB who needs to excel in real matches. Casey v Frankston should be a cake walk but is it going to prove anything in regards to form/selection. We should have got Crowley for his toughnest and let Minchie go. We also need another good round of draft picks at years end. Still we have too many spuds.

2 minutes ago, ENYAW said:

Mr Picket Fence,I agree with most of the things that you stated,except the inclusion of ANB who needs to excel in real matches. Casey v Frankston should be a cake walk but is it going to prove anything in regards to form/selection. We should have got Crowley for his toughnest and let Minchie go. We also need another good round of draft picks at years end. Still we have too many spuds.

Did you watch his performance last night, and he wasn't much better the week before in a winning team, think Essendon will play a younger player in his spot going forward

25 minutes ago, WhyAlwaysMe said:

Mission was rite to declare Garlett to play FFS its a rolled ankle.

Other than injuries don't think we will see Pedersen again, he's a bit like a all rounder thats not really good enough at anything. 

Or Garland.

1 hour ago, WhyAlwaysMe said:

Mission was rite to declare Garlett to play FFS its a rolled ankle.

Other than injuries don't think we will see Pedersen again, he's a bit like a all rounder thats not really good enough at anything. 

Pedo is potentially one of our best contested marks*. Not sure why we don't leave him as a deep forward to keep an opposition tall occupied and shift Hogan to CHF. 

Edit: *27th last season for league averages

Edited April 8, 20169 yr by Skuit

1 hour ago, ENYAW said:

Mr Picket Fence,I agree with most of the things that you stated,except the inclusion of ANB who needs to excel in real matches. Casey v Frankston should be a cake walk but is it going to prove anything in regards to form/selection. We should have got Crowley for his toughnest and let Minchie go. We also need another good round of draft picks at years end. Still we have too many spuds.

Who is Minchie?

 

6 minutes ago, Samael said:

Who is Minchie?

 

Viv Michie and Tim Minchin's love child?

23 minutes ago, Samael said:

Who is Minchie?

 

 

22 hours ago, poita said:

Not sure why the selection thread has been closed, so I'll make my comments here. These are the most underwhelming changes / selections I have seen for a long time.

I cannot believe that after Roos admitted he got selection wrong last week, he has backed up again with largely the same group. None of Kent, Lumumba, Harmes, Bugg, and Vandenberg offered a yelp last week, and yet all get another chance. Brayshaw was clearly underdone, but he and Garland are a long way from being at fault for last week's debacle.

We have to play all of Frost, Dunn and Pedersen to cover North's tall forwards, and to give Gawn a rest. That leaves just one running type to come in (or maybe Oliver to stay), which is unbelievable given that our so-called runners let us down so badly last week.

I'm sick of selection issues costing us, but they will again this week. If the weather is good in Hobart, we will be lucky to get within 12 goals.

Pretty sure he tweaked his knee again at the one minute mark of the 2nd quarter last week Poita.

I hope i am incorrect and it's still just a "minor medial" as we were told but if it's worse than that we may not see him for many weeks or the entire season.

Was more surprised at his selection last week. Seemed very risky and too early to me.

14 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Pretty sure he tweaked his knee again at the one minute mark of the 2nd quarter last week Poita.

I hope i am incorrect and it's still just a "minor medial" as we were told but if it's worse than that we may not see him for many weeks or the entire season.

Was more surprised at his selection last week. Seemed very risky and too early to me.

So a different Brayshaw named for Casey, or Misso lying again

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Satyriconhome

1 minute ago, Satyriconhome said:

So a different Brayshaw named for Casey, or Misso lying again

We will find out tonight Satty

Footy clubs have been known to tell a few little white lies from time to time ;-)

2 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

We will find out tonight Satty

Footy clubs have been known to tell a few little white lies from time to time ;-)

He was on Marngrook on Thursday night and said he was playing, reason he was dropped was his performance was unacceptable, said he may have come back too early, going to have a red hot crack at Casey and earn his spot back, there is no fitness issue

 

Marngrook - the footy show that actually talks about footy and has had female panelists since the start

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Satyriconhome

2 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

He was on Marngrook on Thursday night and said he was playing, reason he was dropped was his performance was unacceptable, said he may have come back too early, going to have a red hot crack at Casey and earn his spot back, there is no fitness issue

 

Marngrook - the footy show that actually talks about footy and has had female panelists since the start

Ok mate. Maybe going a poor early crow and nothing in it as you say.

Astonishing that after 10 years, 3 rebuilds, we can still look at a match-up, and even when Melbourne is at near-full strength, still say, "On paper, we're going to get smashed."

2 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

Did you watch his performance last night, and he wasn't much better the week before in a winning team, think Essendon will play a younger player in his spot going forward

Agree. He is not the same player he was a couple of years ago.

Gawn needs to lift for us to have any show of playing a competitive match out.

Last week was pretty poor. Allowing opponent front position too often, falling over too often in the contest. 9 effective disposal and 3 clangers.

Play Pedo as the 2nd tall forward rotating at CHF with Hoges. Don't have any other options as this point other than a camio from Dunn. Pedo aint a match winner but he at least gives a decent contest, can mark i50 and kick a goal and is competitive on the ground.

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Rusty Nails

1 minute ago, Rusty Nails said:

Gawn needs to lift for us to have any show of playing a competitive match out.

Last week was pretty poor. Allowing opponent front position too often, falling over too often in the contest. 9 effective disposal and 3 clangers.

Play Pedo as the 2nd tall forward rotating at CHF with Hoges. Don't have any other options as this point other than a camio from Dunn. Pedo aint a match winner but he at least gives a decent contest, can mark i50 and kick a goal and is competitive on the ground.

Pedo isn't playing.

 

Our back six have to hit targets. Tom McDonald gets one more chance to play a decent game but he is fast becoming a liability with his momentum kiiling turnovers gifting goals to the opposition. Lumumba is the same. Frustrating in the extreme.

And the backwards handballs started again last week. Killed off about 30 forward thrusts.

The players have trashed theirs and the supporter momentum that had built up. This is going to be a tough game against an opponent we struggle with. How we play this game will dictate our season pure and simple.

Lose by 10 goals and you can say goodbye to 40k members and the season given that our first half has the most winnable games. 

59 minutes ago, praha said:

Astonishing that after 10 years, 3 rebuilds, we can still look at a match-up, and even when Melbourne is at near-full strength, still say, "On paper, we're going to get smashed."

This is the sad truth.

Thought we had no chance. And that was with Garlett in the side. His absence is massive.

Not looking forward to this game at all.

 

19 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Our back six have to hit targets. Tom McDonald gets one more chance to play a decent game but he is fast becoming a liability with his momentum kiiling turnovers gifting goals to the opposition. Lumumba is the same. Frustrating in the extreme.

And the backwards handballs started again last week. Killed off about 30 forward thrusts.

The players have trashed theirs and the supporter momentum at had built up. This is going to be a tough game against an opponent we struggle with. How we play this game will dictate our season pure and simple.

Lose by 10 goals and you can say goodbye to 40k members and the season given that our first half has the most winnable games. 

Actually chap, it hasn't

5 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Actually chap, it hasn't

Maybe not for 60yo fanbois

Just now, jnrmac said:

Maybe not for 60yo fanbois

No a little bit of telephoning told me.

60yo fan-gallicparkland?

 

I'm going to try something different and cling to that old "belted last week, something to prove this week" adage..

The boys have copped it all week and rightly so, but I believe this will give the players something big to prove. That they aren't jokes. 

Stranger things have happened..

What else can a fan do but barrack?

Go Dee's 

The saddest part for me is that we still have to lose a winnable game and get belted by supporters and media for us to actually put in an effort that in Roos' 3rd year should be the standard.

 

27 minutes ago, stuie said:

The saddest part for me is that we still have to lose a winnable game and get belted by supporters and media for us to actually put in an effort that in Roos' 3rd year should be the standard.

 

The irony being we actually had more of that in our first year under Roos. We may have lost but every time a team faced Melbourne in 2014 they came off feeling like they'd had a bruising contest. I understand that an attacking style opens things up but contesting should always be the minimum. 

We slumped back to bruise free footy last week.