3 minutes ago, ghost who walks said:

chirp chirp

who does thom yorke play for

15 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Absolutely staggered that JvR wasn't selected. Wtf

I think we are forgetting just how poor JVR was. that's ok but he needs to find form. I watched the ressies and the tiges had such low defensive pressure you could not put much store in the goals kicked up forward. however he did look confident kicking for goal in windy conditions and did look better leading up. but he needs to show this against decent opposition.

Someone posted that there’s a watch on May for this game too

I expect Rivers to come in the midfield and Turner to play in the back 7. That said, I hope that Windsor goes into the midfield rather than Rivers because Rivers has finally found form in defence and Windsor has not quite clicked in the backline. This is the week to try Windsor in the middle or back on the wing.

Petty will play as the ruck relief, but this means our forward line will be very short for 30-35% of the game.

With Oliver out his week, I can also see Sparrow, Langford and Chandler being used in the midfield more. Chandler was very good in the midfield against the Roos and I am surprised we haven't tried this again.

Maysie out? That’s what I just heard.

40 minutes ago, ghost who walks said:

who does thom yorke play for

For whoever he wants.

12 minutes ago, Demongirl35 said:

Someone posted that there’s a watch on May for this game too

Yeah I just heard he’s an out.

Not strictly on topic, but related:

It's an indictment on our player development that JvR isn't playing seniors.

Looking at his stats he has not improved one iota in the last two and a bit years.

Average disposals from 8.7 (20 games) to 10.2 (21 games) to 7.8 (5 games). Less than a goal per game on average.

Casey is full of players who'll be delisted with few or no senior games.

Youse all know who I'm talking about (Carl Barron/Shane Crawford,).

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1 hour ago, Yarra Valley Demon said:

Agreed, it's disturbing. This will make 4 of the last 5 games we've had him as an umpire.

Yes very disturbing and we have won two of those games, Some of us might be biased against perceived bias

Maybe we should all play Lawn Bowls if we see bias. You have to play to the umpires and the opposition, we don't get to choose

3 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Maysie out? That’s what I just heard.

This week just gets better

4 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Yeah I just heard he’s an out.

JVR or Howes in, if that's the case.

Just now, Dee Zephyr said:

JVR or Howes in, if that's the case.

Jed Adams says 'Hi'.

2 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Jed Adams says 'Hi'.

Adams not named, emergencies are JVR, Laurie and Howes. I’d think Howes..

Can’t see how we stay $1.45 to win with Clarry and May out. Should still be favourites but getting tighter..

10 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Yeah I just heard he’s an out.

Who’s in?

2 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Jed Adams says 'Hi'.

The fact he's not even listed as an emergency even with May being in some doubt, says maybe not.

I'd bring in JvR. We can always put Petty back if need be.

It will most likely be Howes, if I know our selection committee.

We could with a little luck sneak into the finals this year however there is no chance this side will make a GF this year. We are seriously short of key position players. We have no FF, no CHF our centres are ok, then our KPBs are either ageing and or now injury prone. We have lots of good back up and support players but very few match winners when the chips are down against the top sides. Witness tomorrows side no FF, no CHF, no CHB. We will have fill in players in those roles. It is vital this coming off season that we get a quality FF or CHF. We are going nowhere without those players. You can forget Fullerton and Jefferson they are VFL talents at best. JVR is an average top level player who will never win a game for us off his skill, he is not a go to player IMO.

2 minutes ago, old dee said:

We could with a little luck sneak into the finals this year however there is no chance this side will make a GF this year. We are seriously short of key position players. We have no FF, no CHF our centres are ok, then our KPBs are either ageing and or now injury prone. We have lots of good back up and support players but very few match winners when the chips are down against the top sides. Witness tomorrows side no FF, no CHF, no CHB. We will have fill in players in those roles. It is vital this coming off season that we get a quality FF or CHF. We are going nowhere without those players. You can forget Fullerton and Jefferson they are VFL talents at best. JVR is an average top level player who will never win a game for us off his skill, he is not a go to player IMO.

'we have lots of good back up and support players' - I'm not sure we have that. I assume you mean the likes of JvR, Turner, Howes but then who?

I think we've got a lot of dead wood, fast becoming list cloggers.

Oh not Howes again!

57 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Yeah I just heard he’s an out.

Have you made the trip Ghosty?

40 minutes ago, Jack Vineys Anger Manager said:

I'd bring in JvR. We can always put Petty back if need be.

It will most likely be Howes, if I know our selection committee.

Agreed Howes the more likely, seems they're happy with Petty forward for now.

16 minutes ago, old dee said:

We could with a little luck sneak into the finals this year however there is no chance this side will make a GF this year. We are seriously short of key position players. We have no FF, no CHF our centres are ok, then our KPBs are either ageing and or now injury prone. We have lots of good back up and support players but very few match winners when the chips are down against the top sides. Witness tomorrows side no FF, no CHF, no CHB. We will have fill in players in those roles. It is vital this coming off season that we get a quality FF or CHF. We are going nowhere without those players. You can forget Fullerton and Jefferson they are VFL talents at best. JVR is an average top level player who will never win a game for us off his skill, he is not a go to player IMO.

Sorry Old Dee you've just described why we have a snowflakes chance in hell of making finals this year. No amount of luck is going to help if you only have half a truly capable line up.

And when I say capable, I will for a moment just give a freebie pass to the game plan ( whatever it is ) , and suggest half the list out there on any given day aren't outputting in the manner they need to be. By that I describe forwards not effectively/efficiently scoring. Defenders not controlling or thrawting their opponents, mids not winning enough clearances.

I'll say it again til cows run out of moos if we can't find a way to see out games convincingly then we're all just kidding ourselves.

Win lose or draw tomorrow it would be PROGRESS to kick 3 goals in the last.

Hopefully we aren't nobbled by injury.

We're a pretty average mob atm I'm said to say and average teams don't get invited much to September Balls.

12 minutes ago, Dingo said:

Have you made the trip Ghosty?

I fly out tomorrow morning at stupid o’clock (6am) and fly out of Perth at stupider o’clock (midnight).

(Is Tomlinson available?)

So our key defenders will now be T Mac, Turner and Howes (assume he's in) which is the same set up as the Freo game which is fine.

Petty will be the second ruck which leaves us with literally no tall targets inside 50 when he's rucking. I don't understand this strategy.

The other option is to bring in JVR rather than Howes to give our forward line some height and hope that T Mac and Turner can handle their tall forward line. Waterman is capable of 6 and being chiefly responsible for a West Coast win tomorrow night, make no mistake.

May's becoming rather unreliable from an injury perspective.

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

I fly out tomorrow morning at stupid o’clock (6am) and fly out of Perth at stupider o’clock (midnight).

That is dedication.

You might need a nap at the footy.