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PREGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn

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We wont win, I'm still deluded enough to go every week and convince myself by the opening bounce we will though.

 

"Play the kids" like we've had 3 first rounds the past 3 years too pluck from the list ?

10 minutes ago, sisso said:

We wont win, I'm still deluded enough to go every week and convince myself by the opening bounce we will though.

I have the same condition - the Pollyanna syndrome

 
1 minute ago, binman said:

I have the same condition - the Pollyanna syndrome

I also have FOMO - fear of missing out when we do decide to play properly and get a win....guarantee the one game I decide to skip the boys will have a glorious victory

20 minutes ago, Smokey said:

I thought older generations were known for fixing things instead of throwing them away? 

I was asking the question Smokey. 


5 minutes ago, binman said:

I have the same condition - the Pollyanna syndrome

That probably fits nicely with our Hail Mary forward game plan binman. 

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This game last year was a Masterclass by Clarkson. 

Our coaching panel experimented with lots of new ideas (no wingmen, high zone press, Jones as tagger, roaming forwards/mids etc) and we were taken to the cleaners.

We need coaches to be switched on like they were in the 2nd semi last year! 

 
58 minutes ago, sisso said:

I also have FOMO - fear of missing out when we do decide to play properly and get a win....guarantee the one game I decide to skip the boys will have a glorious victory

Same

Still kicking myself for staying at home for the 2008 game vs Fremantle. Haven't missed a match since.

 

 

Edit...  OMac & JWag in for Viney & Weid

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1 minute ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Josh Wagner and Omac...

...for Viney and Weidman.

Terrible selections!

Keilty still just an emergency ?

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O mac and Wagner..  exciting stuff.

Should have bought in Keilty and Sparrow,  who are both emergencies.

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Just now, Petraccattack said:

O mac and Wagner..  exciting stuff.

Should have bought in Keilty and Sparrow .

I was about to post exactly the same thing.


Don’t care that Omac was written up as one of the best at Casey last week

I watched most of the game and thought he was very ordinary,they must have counted his kick outs in the stats 

If I was Kielty I would be spewing, he has twice the talent of Omac

Can understand maybe needing one defender, but two? Oh well, maybe they want Mcdonald and Jetta's replacement (was it lockhart last week) in the forward line instead. My wife has tipped us (Richmond supporter). Good luck team.

I'm now even more confident with omac back. 

Relax, we've got this. 

4 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

...for Viney and Weidman.

Terrible selections!

Keilty still just an emergency ?

That's right, because an untested player who's never played a single game at AFL level and is playing OK/consistent footy at VFL level is our saviour.

And because we have inside mids and KPF's just queuing up to get a game.


I can only hope that such strange selections are a precursor to an amended gameplan.

Perhaps we can play nearest the pin with the losing margin.

Gunston to reprise his 2:8 of the finals or 8:2?

Hawthorn is going to kill us. They don't have anybody in their forward line slow enough for Oscar to play on. Sparrow should have been brought in to replace Viney. It will be like playing two men down.

 

Smart selections: O Mac allows Tom (our best KPF) to go forward, as does J Wagner for Fritsch.

 

I stand corrected, @Nasher. I just don't understand Goodwin's selections anymore.

Why bring in Oscar? So he's going to play on Roughead then and Frost is going to play on a small?

Surely, O'Brien is playing back? But maybe not, given the omission of Weideman?

5 minutes ago, bing181 said:

Smart selections: O Mac allows Tom (our best KPF) to go forward, as does J Wagner for Fritsch.

I sure hope the logic is to allow others to play in their strongest positions 


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