Preview Changes/pre-match discussion v Collingwood (FINAL CHANGES: OUT: Wood/Jacobs IN: Brown/Swallow)

[Black2Blue]

Maybe Brad's plan B is to not have a plan B. So when plan A isnt working, the opposition coach thinks 'North will implement their plan B here', but then nothing changes, and therefore tricks the opposition coach. But in fact, Brad did implement Plan B, which was in fact not to change anything, which means that Plan B was actually implement.

An interesting, risky, sexy idea Brad. Lets hope it does or doesn't work.

Think you've actually nailed it there JJ. Take the Freo game. I too was expecting North to go hard and lift the intensity after the first quarter. But Brad completely outfoxed Ross Lyon by keeping the status quo. You could actually see the shock and surprise on the faces of the Freo players as the waltzed their way into the 50 for another goal. Hope other teams don't start to cotton onto our Claytons Plan B.

Got a healthy bit of Blighty about you with your radical ideas, JJ.

Get JJ down to Arden St I say.

 

[Dodecahedron]

not playing our best by any means - would have liked to have beaten port.

but 4 and 4 - what i expected, and i think most ppl expected this.

I agree the "glass half full" view is that we're 4 and 4. And I probably would have taken 4 and 4 at the start of the season.
But the "glass half empty" I was alluding to is that our 4 losses haven't been a top 4 team pushing contenders to the wire.
The losses have been as bad as they get. That Freo game felt like I was watching that Sydney Prelim "aberration" all over again.
I'm just a grumpy man lately because it feels like groundhog day. Sh1ts me to tears.

We can make a good step by smashing the pies.

 

[Tas]

Should be doing better on the i50 count then, being we play on a fast deck and all...

We should, and we would, if we had a midfield that did anything of note with stoppage clearances.

 

[King Corey]

Hope we don't buy into the mystique of Pendlebury.

"I don't want the fact Scott Pendlebury didn't reach 40 possessions to tarnish his legacy or cost him a Brownlow. His 38 possessions were very damaging and while some people will point to him only kicking 2 goals he provided a lot of rebound from half-back."

 

[chubbspeterson]

Is Max Warren a chance? Sounds like hes being doing well at vfl level

 

[Event Horizon]

Pies are #1 for contested ball
NMFC are #15 for contested ball

Pies are #2 for i50's
NMFC are #14 for i50's

Pies played GC, Brissie, St Kilda, Carlton and Essendon. We'd beat all 5. Pies also lost to Geelong and Richmond, who we have beaten. And lost to Adelaide at home. As BT mentioned in another thread, we'd be 7:1 if not 8:0 with that draw.

 

[Dodecahedron]

Pies played GC, Brissie, St Kilda, Carlton and Essendon. We'd beat all 5. Pies also lost to Geelong and Richmond, who we have beaten. And lost to Adelaide at home. As BT mentioned in another thread, we'd be 7:1 if not 8:0 with that draw.

all that data is good but I still remember watching the Collingwood game last year and Cloke tearing us a new one.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Maybe Brad's plan B is to not have a plan B. So when plan A isnt working, the opposition coach thinks 'North will implement their plan B here', but then nothing changes, and therefore tricks the opposition coach. But in fact, Brad did implement Plan B, which was in fact not to change anything, which means that Plan B was actually implement.

An interesting, risky, sexy idea Brad. Lets hope it does or doesn't work.

You know fig jam would fall for it.

 

[scooby1279]

Pies played GC, Brissie, St Kilda, Carlton and Essendon. We'd beat all 5. Pies also lost to Geelong and Richmond, who we have beaten. And lost to Adelaide at home. As BT mentioned in another thread, we'd be 7:1 if not 8:0 with that draw.

which means the pies will set them self up to beat us

 

[King Corey]

Is Max Warren a chance?

Um... maybe..

Sounds like hes being doing well at vfl level

.. oh really? Definitely not then.

 

[koshari]

Maybe Brad's plan B is to not have a plan B. So when plan A isnt working, the opposition coach thinks 'North will implement their plan B here', but then nothing changes, and therefore tricks the opposition coach. But in fact, Brad did implement Plan B, which was in fact not to change anything, which means that Plan B was actually implement.

An interesting, risky, sexy idea Brad. Lets hope it does or doesn't work.

Sounds like a cunning plan, But Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?

BTW would 100 cunning plans be a Cunnington?

 

[Event Horizon]

which means the pies will set them self up to beat us

Of course they will. But so did Richmond and Essendon, but we have gotten over the line.
After yet another shocker last week, hopefully it's us, who are hungrier out there.

 

[Juryduty]

Forget about past matches, all that is important is this Sunday.


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[koshari]

all that data is good but I still remember watching the Collingwood game last year and Cloke tearing us a new one.

i would like to think Tarrent could hold him.

its Elliot, Goldsack and Pendles I would be concerned about.

 

[Jeremy Jordan]

Sounds like a cunning plan, But Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?

BTW would 100 cunning plans be a Cunnington?

Last one in gets hacked to death by Rod Stewart's great-great-grandfather.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

i would like to think Tarrent could hold him.

its Elliot, Goldsack and Pendles I would be concerned about.

Goldsack, really?

 

[scooby1279]

Of course they will. But so did Richmond and Essendon, but we have gotten over the line.
After yet another shocker last week, hopefully it's us, who are hungrier out there.

fingers crossed mate as i have no confident's in this team atm.

 

[Bigeasy]

4 and 4....exactly where everyone predicted we would be after 8 rounds.......

Yes but the heavy losses is the concern

 

[chubbspeterson]

Um... maybe..
.. oh really? Definitely not then.

Can't do much worse than some of the guys out there. I'd look at replacing LMac with Warren and Gibbo with Mullett, but that will never happen.

Um... maybe..



.. oh really? Definitely not then.

Yeah I forgot you've got to put 7-9 games of solid vfl footy before you get a look in with Brad

 

[Roo Beauty]

Sounds like a cunning plan, But Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?

BTW would 100 cunning plans be a Cunnington?

I see what you did there…

 

[muttley45]

Tonight : In Swallow, Brown, Turner

Sunday : Out Swallow, Brown, Turner, Sub Dumont

 

[Juryduty]

I really do think regardless, Swallow will put up his hand up to play and will come up


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[Only Forwards]

Tonight : In Swallow, Brown, Turner

Sunday : Out Swallow, Brown, Turner, Sub Dumont

If Froggy is the sub I'm gonna burn things

 

[The Filth Wizard]

fingers crossed mate as i have no confident's in this team atm.

Probably because you used to keep scooping them...

 

[koshari]

Goldsack, really?

goldsack, sidebottom, they both sound the same.