Preview Changes: R18 vs GWS, Saturday July 15th, 7.10pm ACST @ Adelaide Oval

[WeeBlake]

Our ball movement has stopped.

When pressured we go back to bombing and instantly lose

Yeah there’s a 2018 vibe emerging

 

[CrowBloke]

From AFC site:
" Midfielder Rory Sloane

9

Rory Sloane

Age

34

Ht

183cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

11.9

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

6.6

5star

CL

5.7

5star

D

15.3

4star

K

7.3

3star

HB

8.0

4star

M

1.3

1star

T

3.3

4star

CL

4.2

5star

D

22.2

5star

K

8.6

4star

HB

13.6

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

6.0

5star

CL

4.6

5star

will celebrate his 250th match this weekend and Nicks said he hoped the side could cap the festivities with a win.

“Rory is the club really, we put values together as a footy club about care, compassion, connection and courage and Rory is all of those,” said Nicks.

“He’s respected throughout the league and he’s been a real weapon for us this year both on and off the field.

“We hope we can return the favour to him, you want to perform well for your champions and he’s a champion of this club.”"

Two things bother me about the bold highlighted parts:
1) No mention of winning games, or of playing winning footy, wtf?
It's all about the feel-good vibe.
2) "...he's been a real weapon for us..."
ManOman, we are in big trouble.

I've loved Sloaney for years, but he's currently in the worst form of his life and is far from the impact-player he was.
Nicks' comments suggest a One-year extension is on the cards. Sloane has been a Champion of the Club, but his time is surely over?

 

[WetCrow1991]

Our ball movement has stopped.

When pressured we go back to bombing and instantly lose

Not running hard enough. Essendon were running hard both ways on the weekend and working their zones really well. Crows were only running forward. Picked it up a bit in the 2nd half but by then the damage was done.

 

[WetCrow1991]

From AFC site:
" Midfielder Rory Sloane

9

Rory Sloane

Age

34

Ht

183cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

11.9

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

6.6

5star

CL

5.7

5star

D

15.3

4star

K

7.3

3star

HB

8.0

4star

M

1.3

1star

T

3.3

4star

CL

4.2

5star

D

22.2

5star

K

8.6

4star

HB

13.6

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

6.0

5star

CL

4.6

5star

will celebrate his 250th match this weekend and Nicks said he hoped the side could cap the festivities with a win.

“Rory is the club really, we put values together as a footy club about care, compassion, connection and courage and Rory is all of those,” said Nicks.

“He’s respected throughout the league and he’s been a real weapon for us this year both on and off the field.

“We hope we can return the favour to him, you want to perform well for your champions and he’s a champion of this club.”"

I mean it is for a press conference/interview, but what a load of bullshit.

He was a real weapon for Essendon on the weekend with his poor decision making, poor disposal, and poor work ethic helping break down our structure.

 

[cleanhands]

From AFC site:
" Midfielder Rory Sloane will celebrate his 250th match this weekend and Nicks said he hoped the side could cap the festivities with a win.

“Rory is the club really, we put values together as a footy club about care, compassion, connection and courage and Rory is all of those,” said Nicks.

“He’s respected throughout the league and he’s been a real weapon for us this year both on and off the field.

“We hope we can return the favour to him, you want to perform well for your champions and he’s a champion of this club.”"

Two things bother me about the bold highlighted parts:
1) No mention of winning games, or of playing winning footy, wtf?
It's all about the feel-good vibe.
2) "...he's been a real weapon for us..."
ManOman, we are in big trouble.

I've loved Sloaney for years, but he's currently in the worst form of his life and is far from the impact-player he was.
Nicks' comments suggest a One-year extension is on the cards. Sloane has been a Champion of the Club, but his time is surely over?

He’ll be best 22 again next year

 

[footy4ever]

The difference is they expect to go deep into Finals, managing players. Using the Carlton game as a rest stop. Win is a bonus

Who are Port managing?
Legit injuries to Dixon, JHF, and McKenzie.
Rioli's out for personal reasons and the others apart from Burton are also rans in Narkle and Hayes.

 

[refused_]

Who are Port managing?
Legit injuries to Dixon, JHF, and McKenzie.
Rioli's out for personal reasons and the others apart from Burton are also rans in Narkle and Hayes.

At least they can manage their also rans. Unlike us.... McHenry and Murphy locked for the next 2 years...

 

[spenze]

Tom Greene out is a big one for us, would have probably played Sloane on him

 

[spenze]

He’ll be best 22 again next year

Until someone in the press calls out his deficiencies there will be no change to Rory’s role in the 22. I remember 2 years ago he was going to stop being in the middle and one game out he does his knee, which was just the tonic for him going back in

 

[FullyBigKPro]

"You try tell Sloaney he's not playing"

 

[footy4ever]

At least they can manage their also rans. Unlike us.... McHenry and Murphy locked for the next 2

Ins - Lycett Jonas Duursma. They're no brainer inclusions. It has * all to do with managing also rans.

 

[refused_]

Ins - Lycett Jonas Duursma. They're no brainer inclusions. It has * all to do with managing also rans.

So we don't have any better options than our also rans. Back em in Nicks!

 

[footy4ever]

So we don't have any better options than our also rans. Back em in Nicks!

No, I didn't say that. What we don't have is regular best 22 players waiting to come back in.

 

[BACCS]

Ok perhaps look at it a different way;

Who are playing that we could definitely improve on;
Murphy
sloane
mchenry
scholl

Getting closer to the end;
Smith
crouch [currently not best 23]

doodee probably gone

so there’s 5 playing Saturday that we should be looking at upgrading - that’s almost 25% of the team we should by trying other guys on the list to see if they are in fact bettering the team.

Clearly we are after Redman to help with replacing Smith, but Brodie has been good this year and is potentially having his best season since 2017

 

[BACCS]

No, I didn't say that. What we don't have is regular best 22 players waiting to come back in.

Port didn’t make that many changes because they wanted to, has been a rumour all week they were playing sore

 

[1970crow]

So… in your opinion..

How long do we continue with sholl, mchenry and murphy dishing up one good game in every 5-7 games that they play?..

They’ve been doing this for 5 years now..

Do we give them another 5 years of doing it?.. then give someone else a run if they dont change?..

Who knows.. maybe the club is right and they will all of a sudden become consistently great players that play 20 great games a season instead of 3 or 4..

Just wondering how long you are comfortable to persist with these lads for…

I still remember the couple of puff pieces earlier in the year talking him up after his couple of good games.

 

[Crows I Am]

Can someone please translate this into English?

Sounds like Yoda

 

[BACCS]

Most disappointed that Schoey was dumped as he seemed to be the cleanest of our mids when he came on last week. Should've been Sholl. Murphy was next to useless too in the small / midget forward role...IMO they'd get more out of him in the midfield rotations instead of Sloane. McAdam in is good, as he can at least mark a ball over his head. Who do we assign to Toby Greene? Hinge or Worrell possibly.

It’s funny how quickly change their tune on this board, earlier in the year there were quite a number on this board never wanting him to play AFL for us again and even talked down any dominant SANFL game as ‘he should dominate at that level anyway’

 

[1970crow]

Port didn’t make that many changes because they wanted to, has been a rumour all week they were playing sore

because we don't play sore players even in spoon years.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

It’s funny how quickly change their tune on this board, earlier in the year there were quite a number on this board never wanting him to play AFL for us again and even talked down any dominant SANFL game as ‘he should dominate at that level anyway’

Some on this board write players off too quickly.

For Schoenberg he has talent, so it's a question of whether he is going to work his arse off to make it.

Should have been rewarded for his recent good form & kept in the team imo.

 

[BACCS]

Some on this board write players off too quickly.

For Schoenberg he has talent, so it's a question of whether he is going to work his arse off to make it.

Should have been rewarded for his recent good form & kept in the team imo.

I agree, the kid is a talent and has shown he can dominate SANFL and play well at AFL level. His omission was the most surprising selection for me this week.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I agree, the kid is a talent and has shown he can dominate SANFL and play well at AFL level. His omission was the most surprising selection for me this week.

By surprising... I assume you mean you disagree.

Surely deserving ahead of either Murphy or Sholl.

 

[BACCS]

Some big outs for the Giants this week. Their best interceptor (Haynes), a solid key defender (Keefe), their best on baller (Green) and a decent forward/mid (O’Halloran). No better week to get them and we will be up for Sloaney.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Some big outs for the Giants this week. Their best interceptor (Haynes), a solid key defender (Keefe), their best on baller (Green) and a decent forward/mid (O’Halloran). No better week to get them and we will be up for Sloaney.

No excuses at home.

We just need to play close attention Kelly as he usually burns us.

Also, as I said prior to round 1, Max on Greene please. Hinge & Worrell to double team where needed.

 

[BACCS]

No excuses at home.

We just need to play close attention Kelly as he usually burns us.

Also, as I said prior to round 1, Max on Greene please. Hinge & Worrell to double team where needed.

Would send Keays to Kelly, especially with no Green to worry about. Otherwise, stick him on Whitfield at half back.