Dees are playing ■■■■ and we are playing crap.
But most worrying is the heat on Melbourne for 2009 tanking and jimmy Stynes reach foundation. We have no greater motivation than last week when we couldn’t get it done.
Need to hit the scoreboard early.
Just for the record
Zlarke is 3 months older than Brown
Mutch is 15 months younger than Langford
So the team is younger than last week.
Ha!
And on a side note Mutch by all accounts was in the top three at Sandy, and does bring spread and overhead marking as well as contested ball work. Yeah he’s not fast, but does keep going all game, so addresses a significant weakness. Rewarding form and taking account of team structures. Zlarke is much more mobile as a tall forward and not completely lost if the ball is delivered wide or along the ground- doesn’t lead up like Brown but Brown is also out of form in this regard. I reckon it’s actually also to straighten us up going forward- more corridor attacking.
Yeah I would have liked Draper in, and if Ridley came back in it would’ve been at the expense of Guelfi position wise. Hardly a ‘don’t drop the old guys’ arguement.
Laverde & Zerk injured, Redman & Gleeson building fitness- there’s actually not a lot of realistic changes.
Dropping people for the sake of sending a message is meaningless if the resultant message is gibberish
Which clearly doesn’t trouble a bunch of people on Blitz- fluent gibberish is their natural metier
A high draft pick that gets dropped as much as Langford does rarely makes it. If he was any good he’d be a lock by now. I know he hasn’t deserved it on occasions, but it’s getting close to tarp time. He’s soft as butter like most of our list.
Can only assume they think none of our rucks have the capacity to work over Gawn on their own.
Fair assumption to make if you consider the two senior blokes are off seriously limited pre-seasons and the 3rd is a kid who’s yet to play a senior game.
I’m seriously considering not going to this game tonight and going to watch Shazam instead.
I still think this game is 50/50 but it’s just hard watching us play at the moment. It does seem like the players are being forced onto the field against their will at some points.
Looking at Melbourne’s team on paper, I can see why they couldn’t score from 70+ inside 50’s.
Whatever happens tonight, they’re not genuinely troubling anyone with that medicore list of names forwards.
Haven’t been to a game in a little while, do they still blare Frankie goes to Hollywood? Two tribes. Now thats a ■■■■■■■ tune
Correct, that’s kinda the point. They havent dropped any under performing senior players yet, if they do that then we may stop bagging them.
Harmes, brayshaw (up forward), Kolodash…, mcdonald the defender turned forward who looks good sometimes and melksham who isn’t a match winner.
Please, be lucky if barely 1 of them would get a game in Collingwood or West coast forward line.
Or our forward line when all fit.
I reckon having 2 of Clarke, Smack, TBell up forward at all times could see some really strong marking and or crumbing.
Mutch will do okay, has been on the cusp for a while after showing he’s got what it takes in the VFL.
Bombers to click and win by 26.
Good changes we should win!
Does our forward line scream “avalanche of goals”?
McKernan, Clarke, Baguley, Smith, Tippa and Stringer.
But you know how these things go - pre-match predictions are that team A or B is crap in a certain area and then bang, they manufacture a winning forward line or defence or midfield and you have the back page of the papers with smiling players and pun-headline to match.
Forward line production is so heavily dependent on supply, both volume and quality. ■■■■ names can look amazing if you put it to them on a platter, great names look terrible when you can’t get it anywhere near them.
Mediocre forwards are our achilles heal.
So far the changes have all been flagged as for balance. Taking that to be true, then the coaches are backing the current players to turn their form around. Question is, how long do they wait to make changes based on form and what exactly is that form expectation? If we lose tonight playing the way we have to date then we have to see changes made on form and stated that’s the reason.
Pity we have a VFL bye next week as we need that VFL pressure for our AFL side.
Keefe from GWS case in point
And every other hack that we have made look like millionaires.
It’s gonna rain goals now.
agree - I said earlier about problems with delivery into our forward line and whether it’s the forwards not setting up right and the mids don’t have a good target to kick to. Or if it’s the mids not delivering it well to the forwards. I think it’s more the former as we don’t work hard and smart enough to provide un-pressured options.