Review Good/Bad v GWS, Round 1

[rezagun]

Inside or opinion

Opinion with a hint of inside.

 

[Golumless]

Are you suggesting that we are better off without him?

Admittedly we did look very good with 3 tall forwards.

Mind you Tex isn't the one i'd drop if were to go that seeing he is our best forward.

 

[Brentmeister]

Good: This handball by M.Crouch

Woah

 

[Golumless]

If your correct on that which you could be, Walkers probable inclusion next week may see Menzel back in the 2's. Unfortunate for him because I thought he played a reasonable game without being fantastic. I think Knight has to play, his run and composure in front of
goal was awesome.... he really surprised me TBO.

Menzel got 3 JLT games, gives us a small forward which allows us to rotate Cameron into the midfield more and had a excellent game.

He is a lock.

The loser is between Hampton, Knight, Mackay and Lynch if we go with three talls (and form).

 

[Elite Crow]

Opinion with a hint of inside.

I'd be shocked if Lever isn't back

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Good: This handball by M.Crouch

Ha ha. Nice IT skills superimposing Matt Crouch onto the Crow who got that sweeping handball out. We all know that Mrouch is only capable of dinky little handpasses that put teammates under pressure.

 

[GreyCrow]

Club has already said Walker is in

I would leave the midfield as it is. Put Otto on Vickery. Everyone would say its a win

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Menzel got 3 JLT games, gives us a small forward which allows us to rotate Cameron into the midfield more and had a excellent game.

He is a lock.

The loser is between Hampton, Knight, Mackay and Lynch if we go with three talls (and form).

Yeah Nah on Lynch. He's a lock.

Had a poor game but battled all day. Thought he did a lot that didn't convert to stats or bounce his way.

 

[arrowman]

Probably been mentioned - but how about Mackay's (deliberately) hooked kick in the F50 to cut inside and set up a goal straight in front?

Jaw was on the ground.

Dare I say it - at the time I thought "That was Tex-esque".

 

[spexau]

Yeah Nah on Lynch. He's a lock.

Had a poor game but battled all day. Thought he did a lot that didn't convert to stats or bounce his way.

Lynch creates a lot of space for the rest of the forwards by simply running his opponent into the ground. He didn't have his best day but he stays in for mine.

 

[Sanders]

Which is 100% correct. There's not much point in comparing apples with oranges - if we want to imagine what could have happened with a full strength team, then we also have to factor in that the opposition weren't at full strength either.

Did you forget which account you were logged into when you decided to quote yourself and agree with your point?

 

[hendo8888]

Who are these players you're speaking of? Give me some names

Coniglio, Deledio, Hopper, Whitfield and Wilson. Fairly decent list.

 

[Elite Crow]

Yeah Nah on Lynch. He's a lock.

Had a poor game but battled all day. Thought he did a lot that didn't convert to stats or bounce his way.

Yep, it seems the offseason has impacted on some people's memories.

Lynch has been one of our gun players for the last 2 years, so much so the opposition are trying to stop him. He is about 6 poor games away from being dropped, not a quiet preseason and an ok game away.

I hate to sound like Vader, but the majority of our best 22 are locks, it's only the bottom 3-4 where changes will come from and even that's hard after the weekend, but changes are coming if we are going to fit Tex, Lever and eventually Brad in. Otten, Kelly and whoever performs poorly from Hampton, Mackay and Menzel are eventually in trouble. Mackay needs to keep performing like he did and if he does hooray. Menzel played well, if he keeps that up and improves he isn't going anywhere, the pressure is on Hampton another couple of games like the weekend and he will be in trouble, if not sooner. The club loves Knight, he's not going anywhere after the weekend.

 

[Elite Crow]

Coniglio, Deledio, Hopper, Whitfield and Wilson. Fairly decent list.

Wilson is playing reserves.

 

[Golumless]

Yeah Nah on Lynch. He's a lock.

Had a poor game but battled all day. Thought he did a lot that didn't convert to stats or bounce his way.

He's the loser if we do go three talls (however unlikely that is).

Tex won't be because he's the best.
McGovern won't because he oozes talent, and we want to keep him.
Jenkins won't because he is the 2nd ruck.

There is only one person left on that list if this is the route we take.

 

[hendo8888]

Wilson is playing reserves.

Wow. They played Buntine over him? Against a team that has Eddie Betts, Charlie Cameron and a couple other quality medium/small forwards?
Righto.

 

[Elite Crow]

He's the loser if we do go three talls (however unlikely that is).

Tex won't be because he's the best.
McGovern won't because he oozes talent, and we want to keep him.
Jenkins won't because he is the 2nd ruck.

There is only one person left on that list if this is the route we take.

That's not the route we will take

 

[Danger in Texas]

Wow. They played Buntine over him? Against a team that has Eddie Betts, Charlie Cameron and a couple other quality medium/small forwards?
Righto.

Mzungu, too

 

[Bicks]

Coniglio, Deledio, Hopper, Whitfield and Wilson. Fairly decent list.

Wilson was an emergency so for some strange reason he wasn't considered best 22, Delidio? looking more and more like father time has caught up with him body wise with persistent calf problems for several seasons now. Whilst Hopper and Whitfield are both excellent footballers someone has to come out for them to get in...who? Coniglio when right probably replaces Kennedy in that side?? Mzungu was the odd selection, he's not best 22 ever if I'm a selector. I really think we were more "undermanned" than GWS with Walker, Lever, Seedsman and even Cheney not available.

 

[Sanders]

Coniglio, Deledio, Hopper, Whitfield and Wilson. Fairly decent list.

Hopper Whitfield and Wilson are marginal and Deledio hasn't played a game

The list begins and ends at coniglio

 

[Golumless]

That's not the route we will take

Not saying we will, just throwing up a hypothetical.

Admittedly, i wouldn't mind us keeping the extra midfielder and going this route.

 

[Danger in Texas]

Hopper Whitfield and Wilson are marginal and Deledio hasn't played a game

The list begins and ends at coniglio

Whitfield is probably in that 19-24 range, same with Wilson. Hard to say on Hopper, depends on how he's progressed.

Lever, Tex, Brouch all in our top 15 players

 

[hendo8888]

Wilson was an emergency so for some strange reason he wasn't considered best 22, Delidio? looking more and more like father time has caught up with him body wise with persistent calf problems for several seasons now. Whilst Hopper and Whitfield are both excellent footballers someone has to come out for them to get in...who? Coniglio when right probably replaces Kennedy in that side?? Mzungu was the odd selection, he's not best 22 ever if I'm a selector. I really think we were more "undermanned" than GWS with Walker, Lever, Seedsman and even Cheney not available.

Looking at the preseason threads, apparently Wilson picked up a wrist knock in JLT1. Then missed the next 2 games.
So it's possible he was just underdone.
From their team on Sunday, you'd have
In: Coniglio, Deledio, Whitfield, Wilson (assuming he is just underdone)
Out: Buntine, Mzungu, MKennedy, AKenney
Hopper vs Taranto is the other lineball one.

We were also missing a fair bit, though. Tex, Crouch and Lever is significant.

 

[hendo8888]

Hopper Whitfield and Wilson are marginal and Deledio hasn't played a game

The list begins and ends at coniglio

So if we traded for Gibbs and he missed round 1, he wouldn't count as an out, because he hadn't played for us?

 

[MRB37]

Mzungu, too

I couldn't figure out that selection. I was assuming he was only selected to do a run with role on Sloane or something.