Preview Changes: R18 2019 vs Essendon

Ins & Outs this week?

  • OUT: Mackay

    Votes: 34 75.6%
  • OUT: Seedsman

    Votes: 9 20.0%
  • OUT: Knight

    Votes: 7 15.6%
  • OUT: Murphy

    Votes: 1 2.2%
  • OUT: Hartigan

    Votes: 3 6.7%
  • OUT: Kelly

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • IN: McHenry

    Votes: 3 6.7%
  • IN: Gibbs

    Votes: 9 20.0%
  • IN: Fogarty

    Votes: 14 31.1%
  • IN: Jones

    Votes: 23 51.1%
  • IN: Douglas

    Votes: 2 4.4%
  • IN: Sholl

    Votes: 4 8.9%
  • OUT: Stengle

    Votes: 3 6.7%
  • IN: Ootiib C

    Votes: 5 11.1%

  • Total voters
    45
  • Poll closed .
Sep 29, 2007
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How mackay can get a game again after not even being able to show anything vs witches hats is incredible. Seriously how is he getting a game.
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Ramify

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Oct 15, 2012
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So team balance is chucked out the window?

Nether Lynch or Stengel play a similar role.

That ever elusive non-statistical role you mean?

AFCs notion of team balance is a freaking joke dude. Consists of balancing out half a team worth of in form talent with another half of hazbeen-but-never-were hacks who train the house down but never produce the goods when it matters.
 
Mar 28, 2011
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Pluto
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We both love Stengle but you got prize dibs
Think we should have played all 3 fwds
Hard to match on
Haha love him all you wish mate :p definitely agree with your point, having three small forwards in Betts, Murphy and Stengle (all guys that provide nice defensive pressure) would be a good point of difference for sure
 

Murray2503

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Let's be honest. The only time our club makes any progressive change is when we get our ass handed to us. They make the token change and then revert back once we flat track bully some useless club. Rinse repeat. Club is going nowhere under Pyke. He is incapable of developing anything other than mediocrity.
 
So team balance is chucked out the window?

Nether Lynch or Stengel play a similar role.
No Mackay would upset our team balance? That's like saying winning powerball would upset your budget.
 

Ramify

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Lets assume it was MacKay, who plays where?

Simples. Change your bloody structure and quota system/ideal age profile to accommodate your most in-form and talented players.
I know the set-and-firget approach has payed off bigtime for us over the years but Isnt this a big part of a coaches job description???It's called dynamism or something like that.
Who knows, it could possibly make a certain teams gameplan a tad less predictable, and as farfetched a notion it may seem, it could even benefit the team both longterm and short by getting games into the kids(long) and by forcing players in the now to do wacky s**t like actually perform in order to secure their spot(the now).
 

Morning_Fog

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Jun 24, 2018
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No Mackay would upset our team balance? That's like saying winning powerball would upset your budget.

I’m all for dropping MacKay, I would be ecstatic if he never played again but I just don’t See how the forward line works if you drop MacKay for Lynch.

Betts, Stengle, Murphy with Lynch, Walker and Jenkins just doesn’t work.
 
Sep 13, 2004
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i was a little supprised stengle was dropped too but when u think about it he had 2 gimmee goals and a good snap against wiches hats so i can understand if its for team balance. as for Dmac he has a lot of haters but isnt he one of the speedier players we have? everyone has been talking how the bombers will cut us up with speed. The proof will be in the pudding tommorow. If we win ( i thinks so by 2 goals) the changes have worked.

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