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I think this is how the ins and outs will pan out. In: Tomlinson, Harmes, Bowey, Brown Out: Petty, Jordon, Hibberd, JVR Sub: Melksham

These changes are genuine LOL's

Tmac is cooked lol. Will be lucky to play at senior level this year. If we're still relying on him at back end of the year then put a line through us.

Their playing syle is copybook text straight from the Damien Hardwick game plan. Just remember McRea was an assistant coach to Dimma during the glory years. They won 3 premierships with the exact same game plan the McRea is implementing right now which far out weighs the vulnerabilities because right now they're still getting the results. They're well balanced on all three parts of the ground and they're about to get a fit DeGoey back and also Sidebottom which will further strengthen their team side come game day. Not sure how you can compare their current style to ours of 2018, i mean its not even close. You talk about a team with so many vulnerabilities and that was us back then. Our defence leaked so many simple goals and it got shown out big time against the eagles come prelim. We were also pretty inconsistent at time throughout that year. Went on a 6 game winning streak but then lost 3 in a row with one coming against the lowly saints. Not only that, we were close to missing the finals that year as well. Collingwood are no way near close to even missing top 4.

I did. He was good that game but not great imo. His form playing for the Academy this year has been really poor and even when he's gone back to SANFL level he hasn't been as productive as that recruiters were expecting especially with the huge wraps he had. His previous SA game prior to the Vic Country game was pretty poor as well. He just seems way too much of a Chad Wingard for me who's very inconsistent and goes missing for too long of periods of the quarter. There are players that in the draft that are speeding way past him in the pecking order. If he doesn't improve his form I wouldn't be surprised if he drops out of the top 20 order. Just on De Mattia, I tok am a big fan. Tough midfielder who's also got a bit of class about. Thought he was exceptional against SA. I also liked Billy Wilson off half back. Reminded me a bit of Hayden Young.

No. His form has been horrible this year.

No he [censored] wouldn't lol. The dude isn't even on an AFL list and that's purely because he's not that good at all.

Yes mate, the boy from Shepparton United. Whilst their is still water to go under the bridge with most kids during their 15's and 16's year level, Onley is a kid with serious talent. For his age he's already quiet tall for a midfielder (193cm). Previous to this year he was alternating between forward and back before they switched into the midfield where he absolutely dominated. Certainly one to keep and eye on.

Just for [censored] and giggles.

That speak more volume of Oscar then it does on West Coast.

Source?

Known him since a young tacker when he would be down in the footy sheds around gameday running water for our team. Played footy and won a premiership with his old man Jamarl who was an absolute gun country footballer.

After last week's effort I think we beat the giants and beat them comfortably. It's the following week that I'm more concerned about.

No way is he worth a 1st rounder.

They'll never drop him.

Not sure I'd have Sparrow up there. Is his form any different to last year?? Yet to see anything from him that suggests he's taken the next step.

Yeah he's an absolute gun. Been fan of his for a while. He's just a tad on the shorter side of a genuine KPF but then again, it hasn't stopped Charlie Curnow.

Or maybe we just strip Clarry'a running and footballing program back a tad so he can actually try and regain full recovery. Bizarre decision to let him start running 3 days after he initially did it against Port..

No Oliver and Hibberd for this weekend. Confirmed by the club.

Bravo post @jnrmac

We've been doing this since 2021. I don't mind the dump kick here and there especially when we move the ball quick and fast. This is why it worked in 2021 because we had McDonald, Brown and Jackson as our 3 talls. If they weren't marking it they would at least bring it to ground for our smalls to pounce on What I do hate is that the last few weeks we're just doing dump kicks on the top of the likes of Chandler, Pickett and even ANB deep inside 50 against much taller opposition. At one stage Sparrow kicked to a Pickett vs De Koning deep inside our forward 50 in the 3rd quarter I think. If we're going to do a dump kick then bring in Brown if we have too. He draws defenders and at least we can halve the contest once the ball hits the ground with our smalls.

Someone remind me why are we playing games in Alice?? Am I correct in saying we sold this as a home game?

That's all I needed to know. Cheers. First of all, my argument isn't about that loading doesn't exist because I know it does. And maybe I need to clarify that a bit more clearer. My argument is that we have a loss against Geelong and all of a sudden excuses come out straight away that it's all purely due to loading. And let's not pretend we've been here before last year. The argument was raised that the wins were going to come in the back half off of last year and set us up cherry ripe for September. Those wins didn't exactly come. We had a poor 2nd half of the year and if you go back to our losses last year there was a concerning trend of 2nd half fade outs, especially last quarters. Come September, nothing changed. W See I didn't blame that on loading or anything even though it was a concerning trend in our game. I still maintain Goodwin was incredibly stubborn on a number of factors including tinkering our game plan, forward connection and his inability to make team changes when it was evident certain same players were playing injured or badly out of form. This is why this is more my biggest concern then loading because alot of the bad habits the coaching department had last year are starting to creep back in again as per the points i raised above. Also no one has even mentioned or factored in that it was a wet weathered game which has been one our biggest weakness so far this year. Geelong, Port Adelaide and Essendon are games in the wet where we've failed to adapt to conditions and we've looked generally fatigued throughout those games it takes away our game and we then don't have a plan B to adapt too. In the games previous to Geelong we've ran out games well, but just haven't executed the basics right. If we were in a huge loading phase in that period then again, I would argue that it actually hasn't hindered our performance because we've ran those games out well. Just on the Adelaide Collingwood game. I thought Adelaide looked a team full of running and played with high energy and excitement. Certainly did not play like a team that was going through a Burgess style heavy loading program as you pointed out.. I would factor that they were absolutely mauled by the pathetic umpiring that cost them in the last quarter. They looked far more fresher then Collingwood. Collingwood certainly the team that looked like they were feeling the effects of having a week off, but credit to them they rose in the last quarter and piled on a few goals to eventually win. But their form leading into the bye wasn't exactly top seed material.

What's Geelongs excuse for kicking 6.2 in the last quarter in wet and heavy conditions? Collingwood kicked 5.2 in the last quarter and ran out winners. They're loading in a heavy block of training too??