Everything posted by bing181
- POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs Essendon
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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
Tomlinson being found out against big forwards/rucks, Petty just really down on form/confidence (not to mention, having hardly played back this year), Lever missing and Grundy doesn't really know how to play as a defender. Always going to struggle, need Gawn and Lever badly, maybe Turner in for Petty for a while.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
- GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
- PREGAME: Rd 04 vs West Coast
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PREGAME: Rd 04 vs West Coast
Not surprised by the change, difficult though it is to make changes to a winning team. Pickett in gives us more outside run around the ball, so no surprise that they've kept Sparrow who's more of an insider. Jordan unlucky but will get his chances, we're not going to get through the season without midfield injuries and he's next cab off the rank.
- PREGAME: Rd 04 vs West Coast
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PREGAME: Rd 04 vs West Coast
Petty returns to defence, Hibberd for Kozzie. Petty played a handy defensive forward game, necessary given the potency of the McCartin's, not to mention taking the 3rd tall role that Max often plays. Up the other end we got away with only one real KPD, but can't see it being a long-term positional change for Petty. Also wonder whether or not the Petty move wasn't to help get him back into a bit after two pretty torrid weeks as the main man down back with May's absence. But glad it's not me having to make the selections. Apart from Kozzie coming back, Tomlinson and Tom Mac both played well in the two's. And then there's Blake Howes ... 33 possessions and 16 marks today. Knock knock knock.
- PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Sydney
- PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Sydney
- PODCAST: Selwyn Griffith Interview
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2023 Injury List
Hard to see him making it back to Full Salem this year - which as others have pointed out, will make it 2 years in a row. Far from ideal, he's a key player for us.
- PODCAST: Selwyn Griffith Interview
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PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Sydney
Don't think they'll make more than 3 changes unless forced (injury), Goodwin and co. have always favoured continuity and consistency. May for Thommo plus someone for Max would be 2. Then it's perhaps a tossup between JJ for Harmes and Hibberd for McVie. Tom Mac has indeed been underwhelming, but Max out perhaps throws him a lifeline, at least for a bit. Not the week to be dropping a tall who can pinch-hit.
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NON-MFC: Rd 02 2023
Not sure where I said any team were favorites.
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NON-MFC: Rd 02 2023
Going to be tough this year. I actually felt more optimistic last year, at least you knew where you were. Collingwood and Lions both look scary when they click. Going to need everything to go right.
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Kysaiah Pickett on report
If anyone's interested, here are the current guidelines. Quite specific I would say. Page 10 is probably the one you want (re impact). https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/document/2023/03/01/9c9bdc05-2377-4ffb-a8a0-885835edcaf1/2023-AFL-Tribunal-Guidelines.pdf
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Kysaiah Pickett on report
Because they upgrade the level based on potential to cause injury. i.e. it's as much about how dangerous a tackle is as the outcome.
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PREGAME: Rd 01 vs Western Bulldogs
Notable absentees: Steven May, Jack Viney, Bayley Fritsch, Christian Salem That's 4 of our top 10 or so players missing, including our key back and forward. May out is massive, our backline is just ordinary without him as the general, and the absences of Viney and Fritsch take the edge off around the ground and up forward. It'll take a miracle to win this, all those outs to key players have turned us into Essendon or something.
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PREGAME: Rd 01 vs Western Bulldogs
Nothing to do with MFCSS, if you take out 3 or 4 of your best players you're just not the same team. So yes, we could easily lose this - through no fault of our own. Disagree on the rest. We would never have won the premiership without Viney and Salem, they both play key roles that no-one else can cover.
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Playing injured
Please. By his own admission, JVR couldn't get through a VFL match, yet alone an AFL one. (Not a knock on him either, young player, blah blah blah).
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Playing injured
I know that this has become Demonland orthodoxy, but just BS IMV. When you don't have the players, you don't have the players, What people seem to struggle with is the idea that sometimes there just are no solutions, and that not every situation is saveable. The idea that we would have won finals through sending second-rate players like Baker or Dunstan or an underdone Van Royen out to the slaughter is just fanciful.
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POSTGAME: Match SIM vs St. Kilda
Wonder if this is also part of a long-term plan to keep Max playing into his thirties - park him down forward to protect him from being knocked from pillar to post each week as full-time ruck. Perhaps noteworthy also that Tom Mac took ruck duties deep in the forward line, once again taking some of the load from Max.
- Farewell Toby Bedford
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Daisy's commentary
"McLachlan will host and call on Thursday nights, with Pearce – shifted due to her commitments with the Cats – providing the special comments for the increasingly important Thursdays."