Nelo

5 minutes ago, Youngwilliam said:

If it's too loud, you are too old. ?

Nah but seriously it is getting ridiculous. NBA does it, NHL also in every break in play, Big Bash Cricket. Does get a bit tiring. Are the AFL afraid of silence because when you get a patch of it, you do feel the change.

My kids actually don’t won’t to go because it’s too loud for them. So don’t think it’s an age thing. 

Absolutely hate it. Gone are the days of chatting to your mate between goals or a quarter time. All the radio talk back suggests no one likes it so why is it happening???

Give him the 300 but not too many more. Other players in the vfl deserve a spot. 

One of the most pathetic efforts by a team I’ve seen in a while. Well done saints. 

Pain in the rear end. This suddenly turns into a danger game. 

29 minutes ago, demonstone said:

The only name I can't see is Melksham, which would indicate he is either an inclusion in the senior side or will be sub.

I would suggest senior side as Goodwin already said he won’t be the sub this week. 

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Who is the announcer on SEN right now filling in for Whately?

He is SO annoying i want to smash my radio!!!

Not everyone agrees with your opinion PAL

Where does Hutchison find these little peoples!!

 

Rant Over

It’s Cam Luke. 100% agree he is the most annoying presenter I’ve ever heard. Always interrupting people. 

Not at all worried about this game. I think we will kick straight and cruise to a 45 point win. 

Comfortable win by 21 points coming up. 

3 hours ago, DubDee said:

Carlton should win tonight, Williams and Martin come in and make them a lot better.  O Mac with 3 off the bench this time

Bears to beat the Cats

Crows to beat Sydney - all 16 'experts' have tipped Sydney but I reckon the Crows are up an about

Port - 100pt win

Gold Coast 70 pt win

Tigers by plently

Dogs in a close one

Giants in another close on

Dont think Omac is playing. 

They should have had a booze bus out the front of the studio. 

Top 8 would be nice and could be 12 wins. But let’s be honest, if your not top 4 you don’t have much chance of a flag. 

9 hours ago, deelusions from afar said:

Have just had a watch of the replay and it's amazing how many of the views expressed here seem way off the mark (in my opinion).  Some people forget that we were playing an opponent so are not going to have everything go our way.  Take a look at the Freo forums (or any team that is lost this week) and it looks very similar to us after a loss - just switch a few players names around and we wouldn't know the difference!

Not a perfect performance by any stretch but all teams develop over the season and I would have definitely taken this performance prior to the game if given the option. Freo had injuries but we did as well - No Brown or Weiderman makes us look very fragile on paper.  We will have a better indication after the next few weeks.

So aside from Lever / May dominance, Jordon's game, some of my takeaways were:

- Spargo and Kossie possies forward of centre lead to goals.  They are the best at lowering their eyes and finding people in dangerous spots inside 50.

- Hunt played much better than I remembered.  His job is high risk high reward and sometimes it doesn't come off.  But when it does, it is dynamic and in this game his closing speed was critical in a number of instances.  When people like Hunt (it happened to a number of players) get caught holding the ball it is usually more a symptom of what is (not) happening up the field.

- I have loved Jones because he carried the team for so long.  But beyond him getting 300 games I don't think he should be in the team.  If not for his years of service and proximity to 300 he would be the one I would drop first.

- We missed A LOT of easy goals - Petracca, TMac hitting the post, Fritsch, Lever after a 50 and Jackson in the last quarter.  Tighten a few of these up and it looks pretty different.

- Centre clearances are a problem.  We were unlucky a number of times.  But there were others where they just got us on the outside.  This happened around the ground a fair bit as well.  When the player standing on the defensive side of the contest gets sucked in, we look very vulnerable when we lose it.  Having said that, this happens to every team and we did it to Freo a couple of times too.  As Fyfe mentioned before the game, a key part of the strategy is to force their opponents into the contest in the centre square so that they have space on the outside.  What I like is we are trying lots of players in there and no doubt will be doing lots of homework and analysis on this - there is certainly a lot of scope for improvement here!

- Rivers started very strongly in the first quarter.  Seemed to rush his disposals after that - given our defence was largely on top, not sure if he was given a different role after quarter time as he was much quieter.

- I thought one of my absolute favourites in Nev might be on borrowed time.  But I thought he was solid - won a number of crucial one on ones.  I did notice however, that the dockers looked to exploit him and Salem's lack of height in the second half when they tried to narrow their eyes more going forward.  Will be interesting to see if Goodwin looks to bring in Hibberd or even Petty / Smith so we are not exposed in this way in future with teams that have multiple dangerous key forwards.

- Brayshaw did not attend one centre bounce.  Given Gus has played his best games in the centre square, Viney is out and some of the other players that attended centre bounces included Kozzie, Sparrow, Jordon, Harmes, ANB, Jones, I can't work out what is going on.  He kicked a couple of nice passes and got a few good tackles in but if he's not getting a run onball when Viney is not in the team, then why wasn't he traded? Maybe then we could have traded for a specialist winger?  I like him as a player but it seems like he's losing in being played out of position and we're losing in him (and Jones) playing as wingers - what am I missing?

 

 

Great analysis. What annoys me is we do hard work and get into great positions to score and the final possession is poor. Tidy this up and we should be able to hit the scoreboard more frequently. 

Will be cheering hard from Albury. Cmon dees please don’t let me down. 

Might be a nil all draw with both teams lacking a forward line. 

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

	PLAYER	INJURY	LENGTH
	Angus Brayshaw	Foot	Test
	Michael Hibberd	Ankle	Test
	Steven May	Concussion	Test
	Jake Melksham	Hamstring	Test
	Clayton Oliver	Soreness	Test
	Christian Salem	Hamstring	Test
	Joel Smith	Finger	Test
	Jack Viney	Foot	1-2 Weeks
	Ben Brown	Knee	4-6 Weeks
	Sam Weideman	Leg	4-6 Weeks
	Jay Lockhart	Testicles	Indefinite
	Marty Hore	Knee	Season
	Aaron Nietschke	Knee	Season

 

Big list. Always seems to be the same players eg, Weideman, Viney, Smith. 

11 minutes ago, 4_Kent_Watts said:

Any Love for Anthony Ingerson. He wasn't no flash, but he was a very handy key Backman who wasn't beaten to often if I remember correctly. Great spoiler. Someone kick me. 

I was a massive fan of Ingerson back in the day. Did all the team things and didn’t get beaten too often one on one. 

Maybe we got rid of the wrong McDonald. 

Dogs not even trying and still flogging us. 

Going to be a long year. 

What a gun!!

2 hours ago, Kent said:

Hey Nelo

are you saying KF wont be offered a place?

Correct. Out in the media today saying he won’t be offered a position. 

Unfortunately it didn’t work out for Kobe but good luck in the future. 

Not a minute too soon.