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Viney for kent, are you assuming viney spends more time forward? Bringing in two a inside mid for a forward(jkh is more forward than viney) I think he and oliver will rotate through there a bit more if these are the selections for team balance. Viney would be good on touhy. JKH plays that midfield forward role so hannan would be an upgrade for a chance at more goals. Where i think the out of the blue selection may be is hannan for kent Viney for tyson, forget the forward roll mid for mid, keeping the balance. Smith for JKH smith to play as a defensive forward on stewart or Taylor or who ever is floating around killing our forward entries. Gives the flexibility to throw him back and swap fritsch as well. And hogans not playing so he can't get in his way.

I never liked bartel as a player, probably because of all the smashings, my partner goes for hawthorn so she naturally hated him, but even she said he's best special comments, actual insight into why a team is dominating or what it needs to do to get back into it. Instead of the usual "they need the next goal" or "they need to be harder at the ball". And for all the 300 game and star power chanel 7 employ in these positions Daisy's a close second, she often comes up with a bit more inside knowledge on why a teams setting up the way it is.

They nay look at playing viney forward on touhy. He's very damaging if he gets to kick it and might hear footsteps when their viney's. Then swap with oliver, they weren't working perfectly together when viney was in earlier in the year. Also if tyson plays it keeps the midfield closer to what they are used to. Joel Smith could be a handy in, his defensive speed and height is very underrated by many here, and in his last game started to sort his disposal out. But he definitely saved more goals than he cost

The idea that its bottom 6 for grand finals comes from the thinking both teams top 6 are going to perform similarly (they made it to the grand final so the talents there), most teams are even for the next few players and then the winner will normally be the team with the better lower ranked players. Its the whole 22 and who bats deeper.

I was just having a discussion with someone and was wondering if they still name state teams even though we dont play it anymore? When talking about past players its often brought "player a" represented his state 7 times, and is used as career recognition. It was a discussion about nev, i believe he would be picked multiple years by now and think it would still carry weight.

No not yet

Does anyone have a barcode i could use? Trying to get tickets for the old man. Pm me if you do.

I was thinking about this the other day when hannan made me look a fool in the team preview thread. With our core player selections being a lot more successful than previous rebuilds and coming of age, its allowed the next rank down more time and lenience. Can you imagine harmes o'mac and anb being given the patience to reach the levels they have when our number 1 pick took off, our marque saviour signing being mitch clark and a midfield that consisted of an injuried trengove undeveloped grimes, with only jones passable (dont forget james sellers in the forward line and tom gillies in defence). Its nice to think this is what the successful clubs have done. Had an exceptional core (hodge, mitchell, franklin, roughhead. Voss, lappin, power, aker, brown, leppitch. And geelong) and let players develop or bring in plaers to just perform a role. I feel for the players listed above, players like grimes, trengove, petterd, tapscott if brought into this environment would be the harmes type players not expected to be the olivers, brayshaws.

Cant agree with this more. I think some people are thinking he may ask to be traded back to w.a in the future so get all excited now. Jesse will be coming into his prime as our team does. Which will mean better forward delivery. Did brisbane lions try and trade out lappin or power because they had black voss and acker?

I have to eat my hat on hannan. In the team selection i questioned his year, and that he drops out of games and doesnt offer enough defensively. Perhaps he was trying to play through something because his game was great attacking and running the other way. Its good when your wrong about something like that.

McDonald was just blocked in the ruck. Right in front. Wtf.

The hannan praise surprises me, i think he's had a rather poor year, and while he may kick a goal or 2 his defensive work has been pretty inconsistent. Maybe he might be pushed up onto the wing more, with fritsch playing back. I would almost prefer jones back instead of fritsch now hibberd is back as the 3rd tall intercept player. If they isolate AVB on McGovern like sydney did with aliir, he needs to sacrifice his game, 3 goals won't matter, McGovern will cut off a lot more.

I think i have one. Out Night out at injured team mates engagement party. In Professional attitude and staying in. (I dont know all the details, perhaps they went had dinner a couple of lemon squashes and went home, but not the best preparation)

Yeah, they should all pick out individual moments and criticize each other and tear the team apart. Of course the coaches are going to try and lift the teams spirit to keep confidence up. No doubt they've been getting talked to and interviewed straight after.

This thread hasnt been as silly as i thought it would be, we had the structures wrong this week with pedo playing back. Dont want to make changes for the sake of changes so in saying that Hunt didnt finish the game. So easy one is hibberd for hunt. Spargo and garlett really struggled today. Id say spargo for melksham. Once pedo moved forward we were way to slow, his relief ruck work is barely competitive anymore. Weids rucking is better than pedos and tmacs, but not offering enough elsewhere yet. I feel if he were to com in it would be for vandenburg. But with gawn struggling with a minor calf injury may be the option. Pedo was brought in as a back so would wagner be next off the bench? Outs Hunt Spargo Pedo Ins Hibberd Melksham Wagner? In danger Could make a case for garlett out and kent in. Vandenburg really struggled and could make a case for bugg or Hannan but Hannan has been underwhelming and disappears for large portions of the game. We all know what bugg will bring but also know what bugg will bring.

Oh and trade hogan? He's just starting to hit his straps and will only get better. Petracca needs to look at the best players in the comp, even look at brayshaw. He seems like the cocky proud sort of person and realize mostly all of these guys were the best among their peers ad juniors and only one way to be better than them, is to work hard than them. On the plus side how goid is oliver? Tagged hard today but still his handballs even under intense pressure are still always to the best option and has also started taking important marks around the ground. I had harmes as a fringe player at the start of the year but wow, he has surprised me big. I thought he was just your clinton jones type high possession poor disposal type player. But his disposal has improved so much. Salem, even manages to hit targets with snaps out of the backline.

Peserson will not (should not) play back again. Dropped marks or when he took one he was way to slow to make a decision. I've liked what spargo has done so far but the kids lost confidence. Time for a rest. As for Garlett, well his best us great but when its a hard fought game, how many tackles and pressure acts did he have today? When he doesn't fire we can't carry that. Hunt, injured an ankle again but just doesnt seem to have the same pace as he used to, I actually thought he lowered his eyes and tried make the hit up pass better then ever before. Anb came out better after half time but wow not sure if his or jones disposal was worse. As for vandenburg he got the 3 goals, but his net worth probably didnt justify selection, sydney swapped aliir onto him as soon as tmac started trying to work him up the ground. He seemed to play tall and didnt sacrifice his game at all. Kicking the ball to poor places, also vandenburg allowing aliir to do as he pleased. A couple of other games when we haven't ran our flanks off the back of the square we have gone quite well. Seems to happen to late. ANB has a shocking first half. Has had a great month, and has done well against good opposition in the past. Is a bottom 6 player and we dont seem to worry about getting the in the hands of better ball users. Watching sydney draw our players away from the likes if McVeigh was infuriating. With all that said, look at all that improvement that can happen and we only lost because we choked in front of goal.

It was amazing watching sydneys midfield identify who the tap was intended for and block and scrag brayshaw and oliver before the tap was even contended. We didnt wake up to it and were out coached on every line. Like the team the coaches will learn from it. I would like some new assistants for an outside perspective. Sydney forwards consistently dragged oscar up the ground and left him in no mans land. Aliir wouldnt allow tom mcdonald to drag him up the ground after johnson went off. As soon as he could he swapped over to vandenberg. Jimmy Bartel noticed a lot of these things in the first half yet we didnt seem to counter this. Our mids are just all out attack. Even in defensive 50.

Salem starting in the middle, jones to the backline?

Pederson has got to the right spots but has spilt the mark, or when he has won the ball takes to long to make a decision. Hibberd is going to be a big upgrade next week. Is hunt still carrying another injury? His pace has was a huge asset when defending with our zone to make a spoil. If the rain lets up i expect us to come back and be a tight finish. Getting and keeping momentum by finishing our work.

Why dont we man up the spare in defence. We're smashing them around the ground and just hitting the spare every time we go forward.

Does young have a picture of the umpires doing bad things with a goat?

That oliver kick to spargo, perfect.

If that wasnt holding the ball against young first goal then i dont know what is

I think you missed the similarities to us after norm smith