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PREGAME: Rd 10 vs Brisbane

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19 minutes ago, stinga said:

I agree but they also have a number of 200+cm players. We just have Max.

Collingwood Moore Frampton Cox Cameron

Brisbane Hipwood Andrews Fort McInerney

They also have some taller midfielders such as Berry Pendlebury

That's a different point though. The point was we apparently had too many small players on our list.

Again, it's not about height, it's about effectiveness.

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    1 hour ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

    Fair, I hadn’t realised brisbane were so short, but their shorties are mostly A-grade.

    Their mosquito fleet has kicked 50 goals, average of 6.25 between those that have played this year, pies shortarses have kicked 43 (avg of 8.6) and ours have kicked 33 (avg of 4.7).

    Bris average 17.8 disposals and 4.5 marks (career avg used for McCarthy and Coleman), Pies 18.9 disposals 4.2 marks (added N Daicos 184cm). Ours 14.5 disposals, 3.1 marks (incl Viney).

    Fine to be short if you are good, Bowey, Chandler, Pickett & Viney are good. Spargo, Laurie, Sharp, Henderson should only play if one of the good shorties is out.

    Admission: at 178 I’m also a shortarse in AFL terms so no bias here

    Yeah, this is a good post. I just think it's less about height and more about ability to play your role. Which you're sort of saying in your opening sentence. I don't think they need to be A grade either.

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    1 hour ago, clarrypetracca135 said:

    This year the half back flanks are match winners

    where are ours

    eg nasiah, whitfeild, richards, etc

    I think this is part of the reason we moved Windsor back to HB

    We need some dash and skill off HB.

    Bowey also being used as our primary distibutor off HB

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    5 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I think this is part of the reason we moved Windsor back to HB

    We need some dash and skill off HB.

    Bowey also being used as our primary distibutor off HB

    Lindsay also pushes back...

    So we're improving in this area.

    We need to start taking our chances from set shots.

    And we need to keep working on our ball movement so that our transition game gives us easier walk in goals.

    We haven't yet added this effectively.

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    6 hours ago, DubDee said:

    Okay i agree Fritsch is horribly out of form but can we stop the no tackles name tag?

    last week he actually tackled unlike other weeks.

    he had 4 including 2 inside 50 tackles so if he is finally starting to do what the coaches ask….

    He is a highly paid professional athlete. No need to treat him with kid gloves like a naughty 5 yo

    He has been horribly out of form for 18 months. And until recently looked like he couldn't care less.

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    11 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

    He is a highly paid professional athlete. No need to treat him with kid gloves like a naughty 5 yo

    He has been horribly out of form for 18 months. And until recently looked like he couldn't care less.

    No treating him like a 5yo

    Just acknowledging the poor performances and also acknowledging he laid a few tackles on the weekend.

    I think he should be at Casey but we can keep the reviews fair

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    Just now, DubDee said:

    No treating him like a 5yo

    Just acknowledging the poor performances and also acknowledging he laid a few tackles on the weekend.

    I think he should be at Casey but we can keep the reviews fair

    Tbh I thought Jmac was quite fair. That's the damning element.

    I believe the word we seek for hairman is 'Lacklustre'

    It's like this club plays with a permanent cold. Underachieving is US!!

    I'm sure it's not intentionally the case but Fritta really seems to just pick his involvement in the game. Given what we see I deem that fair comment.

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    One of the reasons we lost week was the next to no contribution by JVR and Jefferson. Both are out this so hopefully we will have a better function forward line and it returns to our winnings of the previous 3 weeks. Sadly Lions by 2 goals.

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    7 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Tbh I thought Jmac was quite fair. That's the damning element.

    I believe the word we seek for hairman is 'Lacklustre'

    It's like this club plays with a permanent cold. Underachieving is US!!

    I'm sure it's not intentionally the case but Fritta really seems to just pick his involvement in the game. Given what we see I deem that fair comment.

    Sure his comment was fair in general, as is yours

    But he quoted me stating he finally laid a few tackles which is factual, so I didn't really get the response.

    That's all

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    4 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    It's been consistent theme for a long time whether we are winning or not.

    No it hasn't. You're seeing what you want to see.

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    20 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    No treating him like a 5yo

    Just acknowledging the poor performances and also acknowledging he laid a few tackles on the weekend.

    I think he should be at Casey but we can keep the reviews fair

    Yep give him a boiled lollie for a "few tackles"

    Holy cow no wonder other clubs laugh at us.

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    Johnson, Petty, Melksham and Fritsch might just be the slowest forward line of all time. Is that this week's cunning plan?

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    32 minutes ago, bing181 said:

    No it hasn't. You're seeing what you want to see.

    Try a mirror

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    7 minutes ago, poita said:

    Johnson, Petty, Melksham and Fritsch might just be the slowest forward line of all time. Is that this week's cunning plan?

    I reckon Johnson will do more than fritsch this week

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    So obviously A. Johnson will be the sub.

    Thoughts?

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    In: Johnson, Melksham, Petty

    Out: JVR, Jefferson, Tholstrup

    I don’t subscribe to @dazzledavey36 ’s level of criticism of “selection integrity” but I do believe our selection week to week this year has been confusing to say the least, and probably reflects that the club doesn’t know what our best forward set up is. Constantly flipping between the talls, picking them off no form then dropping them after one or two games, going with one tall, then two, now three(?) (Turner, Petty, Johnson). I can’t get around it tbh.

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    3 minutes ago, RedLegs23 said:

    So obviously A. Johnson will be the sub.

    Thoughts?

    no we need that aggresion lindsay sub

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    Fritsch as the sub could work.

    For starters he shouldn't really be in the side IMO. He's also the kind of guy that come be injected into a game late and snag an important goal or two. It's more likely to be a behind and an out on the full in his current form. But still, worth a thought.

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    what has spargo done to warrant a selection still? like fritsch zero scoreboard impact, one of them should be sub but we all know what will happen

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    56 minutes ago, clarrypetracca135 said:

    no we need that aggresion lindsay sub

    He cant be, surely. He’s becoming more important by the week. There’s just no way X could be spared as sub (or at least there shouldn’t be🤨).

    If anything, Sharp should be the sub but he’s been named in the starting 18.

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    20 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Win by 1 point: Goodwin won it at election.

    Lose by 1 point: Goodwin lost it at selection.

    Lose by 100 pionts coach "Cactus Delecti"

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    10 minutes ago, RedLegs23 said:

    So obviously A. Johnson will be the sub.

    Thoughts?

    I can't see rhe logic in bringing in AJ and making him sub given they dropped JVR- who is going to bevtge second ruck?

    Leaving that aside he can only really play forward or on the ruck, so doesn't offer much positional flexibility as a sub.

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