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Game Day Pre-Season - West Coast vs Adelaide (Fri)
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I'm late to the party here in this thread, but very enjoyable game to watch 
Some random thoughts...
Keays as permanent forward is a winner for mine. Unlike most of our young mids who they keep trying as forwards, he's actually a natural up there, and it opens up a spot for someone else in the midfield. He can have the occasional burst through the middle just to mix things up and assist with rotations, but he should spend 90% of his time up forward.
Hinge has been an excellent addition, I love his kick. Between him and Dawson, it's nice to see a couple of quality left-foot kicks in the side!
Soligo and Berry are genuine guns. Two very different players but if we can keep them both they're going to be brilliant for us.
Schoenberg showed flashes of his 2021 form, but also patches of his 2022 form. More of the former please, Harry!
Fogarty looks set for a fantastic season, that forward line is going to be fun to watch going forward!
Thankfully I missed the painful Himmelberg vs Thilthorpe argument earlier in this thread, but get Thilthorpe in there and get Himmelberg out. I don't care about their relative form at the moment. Thilthorpe has an AFL future, Himmelberg doesn't. There's no value in him rucking at SANFL level. He's very obviously a confidence player. Back him in and let him work his way into form.
Pedlar definitely has something. That combination of power, speed and x-factor is pretty rare. If he plays up forward he's going to get one of the weakest defenders too, given the other forwards we have that need to be minded. The time is right to start giving him regular AFL games.
As good as our defensive structure was, it was irritating how often we created a turnover only to just blindly bomb it forward. There should definitely be a free player when you create a turnover, need to find them.
Some random thoughts...Keays as permanent forward is a winner for mine. Unlike most of our young mids who they keep trying as forwards, he's actually a natural up there, and it opens up a spot for someone else in the midfield. He can have the occasional burst through the middle just to mix things up and assist with rotations, but he should spend 90% of his time up forward.
Hinge has been an excellent addition, I love his kick. Between him and Dawson, it's nice to see a couple of quality left-foot kicks in the side!
Soligo and Berry are genuine guns. Two very different players but if we can keep them both they're going to be brilliant for us.
Schoenberg showed flashes of his 2021 form, but also patches of his 2022 form. More of the former please, Harry!
Fogarty looks set for a fantastic season, that forward line is going to be fun to watch going forward!
Thankfully I missed the painful Himmelberg vs Thilthorpe argument earlier in this thread, but get Thilthorpe in there and get Himmelberg out. I don't care about their relative form at the moment. Thilthorpe has an AFL future, Himmelberg doesn't. There's no value in him rucking at SANFL level. He's very obviously a confidence player. Back him in and let him work his way into form.
Pedlar definitely has something. That combination of power, speed and x-factor is pretty rare. If he plays up forward he's going to get one of the weakest defenders too, given the other forwards we have that need to be minded. The time is right to start giving him regular AFL games.
As good as our defensive structure was, it was irritating how often we created a turnover only to just blindly bomb it forward. There should definitely be a free player when you create a turnover, need to find them.
I think I’d replied to a post of yours and tried to delete it, but it doesn’t seem to work. It was an ams4crows post that is quoted.
I think it’s quite plausible that when under pressure we will revert to the ‘chip chip only move forward with perfection’ game style. I love the kamikaze style that places trust in the talent/competitiveness of the blokes ahead of the ball. And we’ve played that style very well. But we’ve also closed up shop after a couple of losses and shelved a winning style in favour of one that minimises the degree of loss. Will be an interesting year.
Never value a player upon contract year performance. Always look at the 2 or 3 that preceded it. That said, reckon he started last year awfully slow but sorted himself out.
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there isn't anyone else for round 1 so no choice.
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We need to get Rachelle around the ball as much as his fitness will allow.
Come 2024 reckon he will be 75% mid, 25% forward.
Come 2024 reckon he will be 75% mid, 25% forward.
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That's a really good observation.
I've just watched the highlights and was wondering how to summarise what I'd seen. You nailed it.
OK, they're highlights, but 3 things stood out:
--- hard running and speed of ball movement, complemented by
--- a big increase in skill level
--- players' lowering their eyes and looking for a target, rather than the old bombs-away!! strategy (which I loathed).
Soligo's evasion through traffic at 0.32, dazzling.
Walker, Fogarty and Keays looked good. Keays forward is working well, better than McHenry/Murphy there.
Laird-as-Chicken-man again in 2023 (he's everywhere! he's everywhere!)
McAdam freed up and running well.
Negative consequence: it was only a trial game against a much weaker opponent, but I saw enough to think that I'm going to be paying up to jenny61_99.
Anyone know why this happened. Where was Strachan?
Seems to me we want him playing as a ruckman/forward rather than the other way around. I reckon ROB might need to start looking over his shoulder at RT, not Strachan.
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Elijah and Oliver's mother is a SA girl too IIRC, pretty sure their father met her while playing his trade for West Adelaide in Adelaide after a stint with Richmond.
I really liked how they used Rachele in the trial. Seemed to be following the footy rather than parked in the forward line. Every time he got it, he did something good.
McAdam also played higher up the ground than usual. He had way more impact than he would have as a pure forward.
McAdam also played higher up the ground than usual. He had way more impact than he would have as a pure forward.
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All of those were pure glory.
Pedlars was the best.
the shrugs/fends off followed by that one handed drop onto his left that pinpointed his team mate.
Wow. Pure class.
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We need to chuck the lure out..
Elijah would be perfect for our needs.
Hopefully in the past two years Rankine and Elijah had a good relationship and Rankine can help with the luring..
Theres a connection there with him being a crows supporter growing up, past family history with the city of Adelaide etc.
The only thing that could fxxk it is if he’s met a young gold coast lass..
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Fog also worked up the ground.
Clearly our forward line is going to be more fluid & unpredictable...
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I think he looked better at Geelong because he never had to be the man, he was a big bodied midfielder who could run and it suited Geelong perfectly as teams were making plans for Dangerfield, Selwood, Gablett and to a lesser extent Duncan. He flourished in that environment but it was an environment that made Sam Menagola look handy.
Now that he is with WC, he has to be the man and he doesn't have the game for it, he is a very good player but I think it is wearing him down being the number 1 mid
Must be just me but I reckon we’ve actually hit up more 20-30m passes to guys presenting at the football
It’s just that it’s been in more dangerous and direct positions rather than just maintaining possession
Ball movement has looked much improved hence the increase in scores from turnovers
Wouldn’t mind seeing our uncontested mark stats although it doesn’t show the full picture re moving ball forward effectively vs sideways possession maintenance
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It was interesting that, despite the thrashing, most stats were actually pretty even: so much for stats!
However, the keys were obviously inside 50s and marks inside 50, where we had huge advantages.
Taken together, this suggests that we were much more efficient than WC in transferring possessions into impact.
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Held the ball in our half and created heaps of repeat entries. Wore them down with constant pressure to defend
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Was pretty average last year too for the most part. No idea what’s happened there, he just doesn’t seem to have the same intent as he did at Geelong.
Did Barnett play in the 2nd game with the reserves? Anyone see how he went?
Also didn't really notice Doedee much, not sure if that's good as he was blanketing his player or if he playing too far off them to have an impact.
McAdam was excellent he's very good at delivery the ball inside 50 needs some credit as over the preseason it seemed he missed a bit of it but looks in great condition
Also didn't really notice Doedee much, not sure if that's good as he was blanketing his player or if he playing too far off them to have an impact.
McAdam was excellent he's very good at delivery the ball inside 50 needs some credit as over the preseason it seemed he missed a bit of it but looks in great condition
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Rather illogical trade for WC ... ageing list and due for a deep rebuild and while you can understand liking what Kelly looked like at Geelong, the best of Kelly's career would stretch over the unavoidable rebuild that was coming up.
Kelly would be on the slide by the time they're on the up, where as they could have taken 2 r1 and 1 early r2 pick to the 2020 draft.
