Changes vs Crows - Salem, Hibberd, Hannan(!) In for C.Wagner (omit), Petty (inj), Lockhart (inj)

[Sir Hugh Percy]

OUT: Chaplin, Jennings, Rooke, McCartney, Mathews

IN: Ratten, Bartel, Inanimate Carbon-Rod, Winston Churchill's corpse

 

[Jamurp]

There’s about 5 or 6 from our side last week who’s skills are either not up to it, or are just dumb footballers (Tsmith, Lockhart, Spargo, Stretch, Petty etc)

The cupboard is still pretty bare though, I’d be bringing in Pruess, JKH, Hibbberd (if fit).

Care factor for this game has reached an all time low though unfortunately.

 

[Sir Hugh Percy]

Calls for JKH to come in are premature. He was good at the end of last season when the rest of the team were firing, but he's the kind of meh footballer who is very ordinary in a very ordinary team, not someone who's going to drive change towards better standards... in anything. At least Preuss is a campaigner and Hannan a goer.

 

[Dancing Potato]

Bringing JKH in would be a spud for spud swap. No point.

Would think Preuss and Hibberd are the only two worth looking at with Lever and Hannan needing a bit more time.

 

[Scythe94]

lEaDeRsHiP

 

[Tulip]

lEaDeRsHiP

******* lol

 

[saj_21]

Calls for JKH to come in are premature. He was good at the end of last season when the rest of the team were firing, but he's the kind of meh footballer who is very ordinary in a very ordinary team, not someone who's going to drive change towards better standards... in anything. At least Preuss is a campaigner and Hannan a goer.

And they are probably the same people calling out the coaching staff for picking players off the back of limited preparation, after we lose a game.

 

[PerfectFooty]

lEaDeRsHiP

I went to school with Nick Mellington, seems fair for both parties. Lewis can't get selected and Nick probably had it coming

 

[Demon 16]

Jordan Lewis

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

They seem to always be assessed as a single player as well (Corey was very average on the weekend but Josh was good).

There have been times Josh has been good, but I didn't think Sunday was one of them!

Corey was average.

Both are limited players, exposed when our good players are down on form or injured.

 

[Topkent]

Fine by me, I was just thinking how lewy needed a rest

 

[Demon 16]

There have been times Josh has been good, but I didn't think Sunday was one of them!

Corey was average.

Both are limited players, exposed when our good players are down on form or injured.

When we have Lever, Salem, Jetta, May and Hibberd back in the side this won’t be something we will need to worry about.

 

[HANDSOLO]

And they are probably the same people calling out the coaching staff for picking players off the back of limited preparation, after we lose a game.

I don’t think there is any overlap in those people. I may be wrong

 

[dylan93]

No point rushing in any of the guys coming back from long term injuries. Let them get back to full fitness ready for 2020.

 

[saj_21]

I don’t think there is any overlap in those people. I may be wrong

There will be some, not yourself. You were quite right about the coaching staff picking unfit players.

Just frustrating after all the captain hindsights after round one, and now some are calling for hannan/JKH to come back in after 1 VFL game after 12 weeks off.

 

[Crusty Demon]

There have been times Josh has been good, but I didn't think Sunday was one of them!

Corey was average.

Both are limited players, exposed when our good players are down on form or injured.

Josh is handy depth. Gets a bad wrap on here unfortunately. Corey is just not up to it. A handy VFL player at best, which unfortunately we have quite a few of atm. I would have much prefered we drafted a young kid than this guy. Maybe with Kent, Bugg and Tyson leaving we felt we needed a slightly more mature body as depth. But he was useless for North and he's done nothing better for us. Will be delisted first chance allowed..

 

[Scythe94]

Injured in his first full game back -> straight into the seniors.

My Dave Misson voodoo doll is going to get a ******* workout if anything happens to Lever.

 

[Dancing Potato]

Wait...so after a year off from a serious injury he played all of one and a half quarters of VFL, rolled his ankle and they're like 'Yep, should be match fit and ready for AFL'?

 

[pjfairbairn]

*

 

[schmuttt]

Would have thought it’d make sense for Lever to play VFL again then after a longer than normal break comes back for QB.

 

[stEdy]

Season on the line, gotta get your key players back!!!11

 

[Demon 16]

Misson will not last the year if Lever agitates his ankle or does a hammy.

Honestly what the * are they thinking?

 

[Tulip]

I'll take comfort in the fact that I'm not a doctor so can't really make an informed comment, but it does seem odd.

 

[schmuttt]

I'll take comfort in the fact that I'm not a doctor so can't really make an informed comment, but it does seem odd.

You don't need to be a doctor to see our history of rushing players who aren't ready back into the side.

 

[Tulip]

You don't need to be a doctor to see our history of rushing players who aren't ready back into the side.

The Dr can you confirm?