Sorry Schultz will not make it, will not be on the list next year IMO. Good WAFL player, but he is lost at sea in AFL. Ballas would come back before him, unless he starts kicking 4 snaggers every week and laying 6+ tackles.
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Sorry Schultz will not make it, will not be on the list next year IMO. Good WAFL player, but he is lost at sea in AFL. Ballas would come back before him, unless he starts kicking 4 snaggers every week and laying 6+ tackles.
Really? Ive said he's a very good player. Just not top 5 at the club and not an absolute gun clearance player when he played mid in 2017. Ourt top 5 on current form.
1. Fyfe 2. Walters 3. A.Pearce 4. Mundy 5. B.Hill. Id love to know how Blakely is better than any of them Or even a fully fit Hogan, Tabs, Ryan, Hamling or S.Hill (the fully fit version)
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He was getting there, I think the perception was that this year he would become a genuine midfielder, when he kind of only did that in 2017. We had a completely different game plan then. He essentially played half back as a release option and he had no attention. We nearly finished bottom of the ladder. There was not much memorable for it and Blakely did produce a good year - but I would not say great.
If we keep winning at home, he will find it tough to get a gig - but if he keeps playing like he did in the WAFL, his time will come. It would be interesting if he had a role change as a forward mid.
If we keep winning at home, he will find it tough to get a gig - but if he keeps playing like he did in the WAFL, his time will come. It would be interesting if he had a role change as a forward mid.
I guess the issue is that so many on bigfooty think he has played his way in, but we dont know what other boxes he has to tick....
With the 6 day break coming up , maybe Blakely will come back next week fresh.
You could say the same about a few players.
You could say the same about a few players.
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Still baffled with those ins and no Blakely. Hopefully unchanged then and that's just an extended 'reward for effort' bench. Would be the only thing that makes sense.
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Other then him being injured or pulling up sore from the Peel game it is really the only explanation i can come up with after my conspiracy was debunked.
One of the best away games we have played in a long time last week ?
Everyone thinks it was this great performance last week losing 19 pts to Adelaide away , it was ok and an improvement on our normal Adelaide Oval form but nothing more than that
The average total score for an AFL game is probably 160 - 170 pts
That game had 80 odd all up didn't it ?
It looked like a 5 goal loss on balance of play to me and if the teams had of scored at something like a normal rate that's what it probably would have ended up being
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If he was being considered for Tucker's position and Tucker is a better user of the ball (I'm not sure many would argue against this), then I can understand why Blakely wasn't brought in for Tucker.
If he was being considered for Nyhuis' position, I think Ryan has done absolutely everything he can to stay in the side. He doesn't deserve to be dropped.
If he was being considered for Nyhuis' position, I think Ryan has done absolutely everything he can to stay in the side. He doesn't deserve to be dropped.
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I wouldnt put Blakely top 5 on work so far but I wouldnt have put AP in top 5 on work so far before the start of this year either. I had Blakely as our most important mid this year if we were going to improve in the post neale era. The Blakely hype was on potential informed by exposed form. If I was to pick our most important young players at the start of this year I would have gone Hogan, Blakely, AP.
It be getting kms into the legs , or he did not finish the last wafl game well or something along those lines.
He can not be far away
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He hasn't played AFL since June last year and he was put into half back for the last quarter while playing for Peel.
Peel won the game by nearly 13 goals. Playing half back in that type of game was the equivalent of a ruckman resting at Forward Pocket.
He clearly didn't have the legs OR the S&C team were keeping a lid on his km's.
Either way, him not being selected is almost definitely because he's not quite ready for a full AFL game.
Give him another week to get up to 100% fitness and unleash him next week.
No changes fits with the ‘play your way in / play your way out’ mantra and reinforces the message.
Another good week in the twos and Blakely will play his way in. Who for? Sunday’s game will decide that through form or fitness.
Structurally, I like the idea of Cerra to the half forward line. He’s shown he can hit a target, take a grab and is a good kick at goal - delivery to out forwards is our Achilles at the moment and Cerra would definitely help improve this. Blakely would slot straight into his half back role, rolling through the mids when required.
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Another good week in the twos and Blakely will play his way in. Who for? Sunday’s game will decide that through form or fitness.
Structurally, I like the idea of Cerra to the half forward line. He’s shown he can hit a target, take a grab and is a good kick at goal - delivery to out forwards is our Achilles at the moment and Cerra would definitely help improve this. Blakely would slot straight into his half back role, rolling through the mids when required.
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Hogan destroyed us when we had Rance...
Im tipping a break out game from him in purple this Sunday unfortunately...
good luck
Im tipping a break out game from him in purple this Sunday unfortunately...
good luck
Draftees start out on a two season contract. Unless he does some legally really bad or gets seriously hurt I can guarantee you he will be on Freo's list next year.
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How can a team that only kicked five goals on a sunny afternoon and lost not have anyone that played their way out?
Play your way in and play your way out does not mean that 1 or even 2 bad games means you get dropped. This was the biggest criticism of the way Taberner was handled, that every time he had a couple of bad games he was dropped back to the WAFL - we can't have it both ways.
I'm not sure that any one individual deserved to be dropped based on the Adelaide game, everyone gave it a red-hot crack and we came up short.
From what I saw on the weekend, only Connor really played well enough to push himself up to the firsts, and for whatever reason the selectors saw it differently. I can guarantee if Connor played this week and (God forbid) got injured, the pitchforks would be out for the S&C team again for rushing him back.
We all want to keep improving, it might just need a little patience.
The backline is easily our strength atm so can understand Connor not being favoured there. If it is midfield then the obvious out is Andy, but that won't happen regardless of what anyone here thinks. Same goes for Cerra.
Struggle to think who comes out unless we lose a forward and Cerra goes there but don't think that is ideal since he isn't quick. I think it will take an injury, a totally abject performance or 2 from Tucker, Andy, Cerra, Nyhuis or Hughes or a change in structure (which seems unlikely given we have too many talls as it is not getting games that probably should).
You nailed it with the second point though. They don't have good forwards so much of their top notch midfield work goes to waste. You could easily have said we would have belted them if we added a fully fit Shilly into our lineup in place of one of our i50 butchers.
They don't have that and that is a large part of why they are not better. So basically you are just saying, if they had better players, they would be better. Which is of course true for every team.
Struggle to think who comes out unless we lose a forward and Cerra goes there but don't think that is ideal since he isn't quick. I think it will take an injury, a totally abject performance or 2 from Tucker, Andy, Cerra, Nyhuis or Hughes or a change in structure (which seems unlikely given we have too many talls as it is not getting games that probably should).
Luck sure, but it goes both ways and luck could have also seen them lose by 8 goals.
You nailed it with the second point though. They don't have good forwards so much of their top notch midfield work goes to waste. You could easily have said we would have belted them if we added a fully fit Shilly into our lineup in place of one of our i50 butchers.
They don't have that and that is a large part of why they are not better. So basically you are just saying, if they had better players, they would be better. Which is of course true for every team.
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To put some perspective around the team selection decisions, the Crows game was high intensity trench warfare while the Peel game was a virtual training run against moderate opposition.
I can understand why the match committee would be reluctant to make changes on the strength of the form in two very different environments.
I can understand why the match committee would be reluctant to make changes on the strength of the form in two very different environments.