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CHANGES: Rd 17 vs GWS

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9 hours ago, Travy14 said:

Pickett and Bedford are both young lads that need to learn senior footy, and no VFL this year which hurts development.

both are better options than most in our reserves, we went inside fifty 35 times.  and id say that 50% at least gave them no opportunity to apply pressure. if your basing selection on Mon night well there will be 14 changes.

Pickett will be good, he needs to be managed properly, its obvious his body isn't ready for full AFL seasons yet, but that comes down to coaching workloads.  Bedford needs a proper go, he has the skills and the pace. Spargo is an OK selection, but him and Hannon are both the same, they have one great game followed buy 2-3 poor ones. they get a 4-5 week crack, so why not Bedford instead?

this is spot on. everyone is quick to bash them both and call for their heads and refer to the stats but how many games did cyril or charlie cameron get 15+ disposals, A: not many. these two young lads are absolutely passing the eye test better than anyone else we've tried in their spots over the last two years. 

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    19 minutes ago, 58er said:

    Or did It originate in US where stories are more likely to be lies than Facts. 

    You could apply that to most countries.

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    40 minutes ago, Pitchy said:

    In: Bennell

     

    Bennell has the skills and touch we need to score more goals. 

     

    If the most unskilled club in the league can't fit in a highly talented (albeit not at peak fitness) player such as Bennell this week, then I suspect that club and player have unofficially parted ways. 

     

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    The club needs to take a deep breath with selections, stop out smarting themselves and pick a best 22 on paper.

    That means:

    No Wagners, Bedfords, Bakers or ANB's. They are not good enough to take us anywhere.

    No Preuss if Gawn is in the side. I thought Goodwin and Co get paid enough to realise that this hasn't worked in the 5 or 6 times they've played together. This is entry level selection that a 12 year old could see.

    Get rid of Joel Smith. We have a 1-4 record when he's in the side and our defence doesn't seem to gel when he's in the side.

    Play T Mac who is a professional goal kicker in a team that's crying out for one.

    Play Lockhart or Jetta. We have been absolutely destroyed by small forwards this year.

    Play Harmes if he's available and give him a big job.

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    Not fussed at all who they choose to select. 

    Vs St Kilda we had one of our worst looking teams of the year on paper, last week perhaps worse again.

    In the St Kilda game we had a game plan and even with less talent on paper than Saints they stuck to the task and prevailed against all odds. (Thanks May/Petracca) but lesser lights also did what was asked/required of them.

    Vs Sydney we expected to beat them and played accordingly.  We did not have a discernable game plan.

    Vs Freo we had our worst team of year, on paper anyway.  Against the breeze we got lucky they did not kick straight in 1st qtr or it would have been all over.  It actually took us well into the last quarter before we scrapped the gameplan and went one on one.  Finally the players showed intensity.  We lost by not much.  Had we played man on man all day we would have won by 6 goals.

    For this round and next, regardless of selection changes i would just like to see what this team can do man on man, without Simon's gameplan holding them back.  They are fit enough, apparently,    Release the shackles, let them loose.  My gut feeling is our players are not nearly as bad as we are seeing.  The gameplan is [censored] all of them up. New game plan, man on mon, have fun boys, lets end this season in style!

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    Have our media department [censored] the bed all of a sudden? 

    Absolutely nothing on how the reserves went or the weekly who's in line for selection article.

    Amazing how its not only the players that go missing after a few losses..

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    4 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Far out, dropping the skipper.   Desperate or ruthless?

    Could we retaliate by dropping ANB?

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    11 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Far out, dropping the skipper.   Desperate or ruthless?

    Goodwin said our club should be more ruthless. 

    He need look no further than Leon Cameron to learn what a ruthless coach does. 

    The ball is in Goodwin's court to set the example of MFC ruthlessness, altho I fear it is too late to pull this season out of the fire.

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    8 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Goodwin said our club should be more ruthless. 

    He need look no further than Leon Cameron to learn what a ruthless coach does. 

    The ball is in Goodwin's court to set the example of MFC ruthlessness, altho I fear it is too late to pull this season out of the fire.

    Cameron: they are some big balls of steel. Wowweee, oh boy, gosh (in BT voice).

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    11 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Goodwin said our club should be more ruthless. 

    He need look no further than Leon Cameron to learn what a ruthless coach does. 

    The ball is in Goodwin's court to set the example of MFC ruthlessness, altho I fear it is too late to pull this season out of the fire.

    Leon Cameron isnt ruthless,  hes about as good a coach as Goodwin.

     

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    1 minute ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    Leon Cameron isnt ruthless,  hes about as good a coach as Goodwin.

     

    No need to be rude P2J, harsh words indeed!

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    9 minutes ago, Demonland said:

     

    Sends a clear message.  I would expect their whole team to come out breathing fire this week.

    We choose not to drop Tom Mc for a season and a half, Melksham should have been dropped many times this year.  We tried to send a message last week by making 7 changes but did not drop the guys who deserved to be dropped.  Brayshaw/Harmes to name a few more of players that should have clearly been dropped at stages.

    Cameron has sent out a wake up call and no one is safe.  Simon does not seem to have the balls to drop anyone but fringe players.  They might just roll us by 10 goals this week with bit of extra fire in the belly.  I would prefer they did not drop Coniglio.

    This is a club or coach being ruthless.  No player is above the club.  Good luck Demons, come out ready for war!

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    17 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    The club needs to take a deep breath with selections, stop out smarting themselves and pick a best 22 on paper.

    That means:

    No Wagners, Bedfords, Bakers or ANB's. They are not good enough to take us anywhere.

    No Preuss if Gawn is in the side. I thought Goodwin and Co get paid enough to realise that this hasn't worked in the 5 or 6 times they've played together. This is entry level selection that a 12 year old could see.

    Get rid of Joel Smith. We have a 1-4 record when he's in the side and our defence doesn't seem to gel when he's in the side.

    Play T Mac who is a professional goal kicker in a team that's crying out for one.

    Play Lockhart or Jetta. We have been absolutely destroyed by small forwards this year.

    Play Harmes if he's available and give him a big job.

    Play bedford
    Do not play T.Mac

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

     

    Don't forget Morris also came out before GWS played Brisbane telling everyone that Cogs was dropped, he then was best on ground for them with 27 odd touches, maybe GWS feed Morris false info to fire him and their team up. I believe he's out when it's on the team sheet and he's not an emergency. 

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    Gws clean out....no doubt we'll be having our own soon...

     

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    4 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

    Don't forget Morris also came out before GWS played Brisbane telling everyone that Cogs was dropped, he then was best on ground for them with 27 odd touches, maybe GWS feed Morris false info to fire him and their team up. I believe he's out when it's on the team sheet and he's not an emergency. 

    Yep that makes sense.  The headline grabbers need a headline

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

     

    Wasn' t he limping last week?  Makes for a good story though.....

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    23 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    If the most unskilled club in the league can't fit in a highly talented (albeit not at peak fitness) player such as Bennell this week, then I suspect that club and player have unofficially parted ways. 

     

    Which would be ridiculous.. guarantee if we let him go another side will grab him, Surely we will thought it might take a year to get confidence in his body. I would hope they give him another year and a pre season that is working on fitness and not rehabilitation.

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