32 minutes ago, binman said:

Under sized forwards? Witch's talkin' about Lewis?

Weed and jackson are 199 and 195 cms respectively. 

How tall is frost and frawley?

methinks you mean weed is 196 and jackson 199?

frost is 194 and chippa 193

I think they cant cover our medium forwards.  Just got to hit up leading targets, not just bomb it in.

I can understand people's concern though, TMacs  absence, even though not in the greatest of form, upsets the structure of the team.

9 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

methinks you mean weed is 196 and jackson 199?

frost is 194 and chippa 193

Frawley likely to take weed (assuming  he plays deep) so is 3cm shorter.

Frost takes LJ (I hope Sicily does - but won't) and is 5cms shorter.

Just to clarify picket - what are you talking about?

5 hours ago, A F said:

Money and they probably pitched the idea of live sport being free to the masses, instead of pay per view. It's never about merit in these things, it's always about money. 

Oofa doof. That's a dangerous idea. Gunston way too clever for Smith. And they may well play Smith down back in place of Jetta, but I wouldn't be playing May forward. The backs need continuity together, not the shuffle of the deck chairs every week.

Yep that probably covers it AF

Happy with the change. Thought during the week Brown may have got the call up. But let’s get games into Jackson. Will allow Gawn to push forward and drop back a bit also. 

Jackson playing AFL footy in 2020 smacks of desperation. Only excuse is this is a Mickey Mouse season and there is no second-tier comp in which to play him.

So…probs a good decision in the end.

2 hours ago, loges said:

I can understand people's concern though, TMacs  absence, even though not in the greatest of form, upsets the structure of the team.

Not in the form he wasn't in it doesn't.

The term "dangerous forward" certainly hasn't reared it's head since 2018 with Tommy unfortunately (the 2019 match against Cartlon the exception).

Not saying he won't have his moments but so would anyone if you gave them as many games as Tommy's had without giving much of a yelp in most of them since his outlier season up forward.

Edited July 17, 20204 yr by Rusty Nails

23 minutes ago, Chook said:

Jackson playing AFL footy in 2020 smacks of desperation. Only excuse is this is a Mickey Mouse season and there is no second-tier comp in which to play him.

So…probs a good decision in the end.

so he should be playing Chook...but then again he really shouldn't?

Are you taking the Mickey?

8 hours ago, Rusty Nails said:

Not in the form he wasn't in it doesn't.

The term "dangerous forward" certainly hasn't reared it's head since 2018 with Tommy unfortunately (the 2019 match against Cartlon the exception).

Not saying he won't have his moments but so would anyone if you gave them as many games as Tommy's had without giving much of a yelp in most of them since his outlier season up forward.

I thought you could see in the first quarter last week before TMac got injured you could see him playing a high CHF role with the weed deeper, probably [censored] him better.

9 minutes ago, Josh said:

I thought you could see in the first quarter last week before TMac got injured you could see him playing a high CHF role with the weed deeper, probably [censored] him better.

I like Tom as the high CHF role with Weids at FF, it seems more natural to both of them. Bit sad the TMac got his eye injury as I think it’ll take a couple of games for them to get gelling together properly. 

Would absolutely love to see Weids get 3+ goals this weekend and have a cracker. 

13 hours ago, binman said:

Frawley likely to take weed (assuming  he plays deep) so is 3cm shorter.

Frost takes LJ (I hope Sicily does - but won't) and is 5cms shorter.

Just to clarify picket - what are you talking about?

Ok my concerns are twofold.

1 I would not have gone with a vastly inexperienced Jackson against the Hawks backline, and in so saying would much have prefered Smith Or Brown.

2 Given our tendency to bomb long then this will play right into Hawthorns hands rebounding out of defence. So you have an inexperienced Tall and then the probability that we will again go for a medium forward line, which has been shown to be a failure.

Does that make it clearer? IMV

11 hours ago, Rusty Nails said:

Not in the form he wasn't in it doesn't.

The term "dangerous forward" certainly hasn't reared it's head since 2018 with Tommy unfortunately (the 2019 match against Cartlon the exception).

Not saying he won't have his moments but so would anyone if you gave them as many games as Tommy's had without giving much of a yelp in most of them since his outlier season up forward.

Let's see how the forward line functions tomorrow without him.

We should be much fitter this year, this time.

12 hours ago, Chook said:

Jackson playing AFL footy in 2020 smacks of desperation. Only excuse is this is a Mickey Mouse season and there is no second-tier comp in which to play him.

So…probs a good decision in the end.

Most teams play their first round picks. If GCS had their #1 pick available last week, it might have been a different outcome. As it was, it was a first gamer who gave us most trouble in their forward line. I am happy to see Jackson getting games and am confident that he will justify his inclusion (as has Pickett).

12 hours ago, Chook said:

Jackson playing AFL footy in 2020 smacks of desperation. Only excuse is this is a Mickey Mouse season and there is no second-tier comp in which to play him.

So…probs a good decision in the end.

I don’t know that it smacks of desperation, our other most likely option would be to play Brown but remember that Max has been playing most of the game time in our matches and everything is pointing to the fixture being crammed in. The club could be trying to look after Max’s longevity in the season while also giving an opportunity to a player they obviously think very highly of. 

They may be backing Luke in to get some confidence and form so that he can be a semi-regular fixture in our line up. 

Brown’s worth is that he’s more experienced (and he would’ve been my personal choice) but I understand and am comfortable to a point with us giving Luke another crack at it. 

Coaching staff had to adapt last week with Tmac going down. Kudos. They have been stubborn so far this year. I'm hoping they can feel confident enough to win this with the 22 selected.

I'm happy with the selection of Jackson now i think about it. I'm not sure the Carlton game was a realistic litmus test. Marvel is a tricky first test for a player, no crowd with the roof closed. It can be difficult to read the ball the first few times you play there. Also the 2nd half was putrid by all.

My take is that Jackson will play deep, Weideman will be the leading target. Jackson's height will worry them if he gets a run and jump around the goal square (Not a license to bomb). Both Weid and Jacko can ruck. Either of them will ruck forward of 75m leaving Maxy a kick behind. The fact that Weid and Jacko can Ruck around the ground also gives the coaches a choice of resting Maxy in the forward line, in the hole in defence or time on the bench. Gives us flexibility and Fritta a license to roam.

We should be fitter and smash them around the contest, if we can spread and kick the ball better again this week we win. Bennell, AVB, Hannan, Omac will be fitter and more confident after a few runs now. 

We turn it over like v Tigers/Cats we lose anyway so selections for mine are the right ones.

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

Ok my concerns are twofold.

1 I would not have gone with a vastly inexperienced Jackson against the Hawks backline, and in so saying would much have prefered Smith Or Brown.

2 Given our tendency to bomb long then this will play right into Hawthorns hands rebounding out of defence. So you have an inexperienced Tall and then the probability that we will again go for a medium forward line, which has been shown to be a failure.

Does that make it clearer? IMV

It makes those concerns clear.

But what I was responding to was this comment:

Garbage selection again Simon, why go with undersized Forwards 

Our forwards are taller than their defenders so I'm confused 

The game this year is faster running game, Jackson is a better option than Brown and with the likelihood of a big block of games we need a legitimate second ruckman playing.

 

On 7/16/2020 at 8:05 PM, Neitas bump said:

I like the thought of playing Jackson as the deep forward. As we know he is tall and has a great leap. I feel he will be able to run and jump and cause a contest against frost, Frawley mcevoy etc. Then we can use our small forward line as it hits the ground. Also allows him to rotate into the ruck to give gawn a rest. 

Weideman as the tall lead up forward will get him involved in the game and build confidence. Also he takes more marks when he is on the lead with space. I think that's more his game.

Could be the start of a great forward line partnership for years

At that, I just wonder how Frosty will play - he's been impressive so far this season. 

59 minutes ago, Pates said:

I don’t know that it smacks of desperation, our other most likely option would be to play Brown but remember that Max has been playing most of the game time in our matches and everything is pointing to the fixture being crammed in. The club could be trying to look after Max’s longevity in the season while also giving an opportunity to a player they obviously think very highly of. 

They may be backing Luke in to get some confidence and form so that he can be a semi-regular fixture in our line up. 

Brown’s worth is that he’s more experienced (and he would’ve been my personal choice) but I understand and am comfortable to a point with us giving Luke another crack at it. 

Brown's experience could be as good as notably humble reputation as a player - and that former quality would be useful to a young team.

On 7/16/2020 at 9:24 PM, Lord Nev said:

"Almost a lock" was what I said, and yes I thought Brown seemed the most sensible and obvious option. The most experienced and natural forward out of himself, Jackson and Smith, and has more onfield experience with Weid than the others as well.

I'm not a big fan, but I tend to try and think about selection from a realistic and practical point of view rather than just pure personal opinion.

The run, and the potential carry, the leap and the potential run-down are areas in which I feel that Frosty might intercept our game plans quite a bit in this game against Whoreform. As a combatant to these qualities of the Ice-man, I'd reckon that Smith would be the first choice and Jackson would be the second - mid-to-deep forward.

F*K it i say we throw the "ALL NEW" Oscar in the forward line as a straight swap for Tom, hahaha he's in form after all?

2 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

The run, and the potential carry, the leap and the potential run-down are areas in which I feel that Frosty might intercept our game plans quite a bit in this game against Whoreform. As a combatant to these qualities of the Ice-man, I'd reckon that Smith would be the first choice and Jackson would be the second - mid-to-deep forward.

I'm sure Frost will be looking to fire up a bit for this game, but with all due respect to him; I can't see him featuring much in our game planning let alone our team selection.

12 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

I'm sure Frost will be looking to fire up a bit for this game, but with all due respect to him; I can't see him featuring much in our game planning let alone our team selection.

I hope frosty does fire up. More likely we will see some frost ball.