Preview Changes: R22 v Collingwood

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My Side
But 1st i would like to see Adelaide find the best Retired Rugby ,or Leauge TACKLING COACH and hire him
I don't think they will drop Jacobs, Betts Ottens or Douglas in our last home game. it could be their last (retirement)
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E.H..to pinch in the ruck...Sloane ( Inj)
Seedsman..........................Atkins
Kieth...................................Hartigan
Kelly/Smith/Brown
Laird/Talia/Mackay
Seedsman/Gibbs/Milera
Lynch/Fogarty/Murphy
Betts/Walker/E.H
Jacobs,Bcrouch,Mcrouch
Knights/Kieth/Douglas/Otten
 

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My Side
But 1st i would like to see Adelaide find the best Retired Rugby ,or Leauge TACKLING COACH and hire him
I don't think they will drop Jacobs, Betts Ottens or Douglas in our last home game. it could be their last (retirement)
INS---------------------------------OUTS
E.H..to pinch in the ruck...Sloane ( Inj)
Seedsman..........................Atkins
Kieth...................................Hartigan
Kelly/Smith/Brown
Laird/Talia/Mackay
Seedsman/Gibbs/Milera
Lynch/Fogarty/Murphy
Betts/Walker/E.H
Jacobs,Bcrouch,Mcrouch
Knights/Kieth/Douglas/Otten
Why are you listing Sloane as 'OUT"? surely he isn't going to miss a game with that??
 
I'm curious, how do people on here rate Rory Laird as a defender?

Not as an overall player, just purely his defensive actions?

I only ask because I feel like he is leaking goals for us this season. I just watched the highlights and saw 3-4 goals where he could/ should have repelled!
He is very good when not accountable.
To be fair we link pressure on. We don't take the game on enough and Laird usually has very little time.
He is a hack forward specialist this year. Clanger King. I blame him solely for my Supercoach debacle.
 
Hopefully the coaches actually look at the opposition this week and realise Talia, Hartigan, and Otten is completely unnecessary, the Pies only have genuine tall up forward now in Jordan Roughead who moved there after Cox went out.

Otten comes out for ROB, who goes fwd/shares ruck with Sauce, since we know he isn't getting dropped for his 200th, trying to combat Grundy and stretch their backline, as well as Keath in for Hartigan.

As for other changes, I don't have a clue, too many to make in 1 week.
 
My Side
But 1st i would like to see Adelaide find the best Retired Rugby ,or Leauge TACKLING COACH and hire him
I don't think they will drop Jacobs, Betts Ottens or Douglas in our last home game. it could be their last (retirement)
INS---------------------------------OUTS
E.H..to pinch in the ruck...Sloane ( Inj)
Seedsman..........................Atkins
Kieth...................................Hartigan
Kelly/Smith/Brown
Laird/Talia/Mackay
Seedsman/Gibbs/Milera
Lynch/Fogarty/Murphy
Betts/Walker/E.H
Jacobs,Bcrouch,Mcrouch
Knights/Kieth/Douglas/Otten
Problem with league tackles is most of them are made from the waist down.. they can tackle as low as the ankles..

We seem to stick a fair few waist height tackles in recent times but unfortunately it means we arent locking up the arm(s) so the opponent simply hands off to a team mate..

Which wouldnt matter so much if we had guys willing to close in on the opposition bloke that receives the ball... but we dont.. we have blokes like atkins, lynch, douglas etc that seem to think standing back watching is a better option.

I watched the replay today.. go back and watch it... so many times some of our players simply give up on the contest and stand back and watch thinking the tackle has been layed by one of their team mates, “the hard works been done”, so they stop and watch on.. and then get caught flatfooted and left behind watching another opponent run off when the ball ends up unexpectedly coming out because the original tackle wasnt effective...
 

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Why are we playing so many players out of position at the moment?

One of the coaching panel said recently - we select our best 22, and then make them fit.

This appears to be what we're doing now, and it's stupid.

Where is Milera playing?
Where is Smith playing?
Where is Douglas playing?
Where is Mackay playing?
 
Why are we playing so many players out of position at the moment?

One of the coaching panel said recently - we select our best 22, and then make them fit.

This appears to be what we're doing now, and it's stupid.

Where is Milera playing?
Where is Smith playing?
Where is Douglas playing?
Where is Mackay playing?
Why is Douglas and Mackay still on our list? Don needs to run Smiith, Brown, Gallucci and Jones through the midfield. Feel Doedee eventually can play mid as well. All have pace.
 
Some good news for us

And down the bottom of that article too.. Liam Jones to miss the rest of the season for Carlton... he’s been exceptional down back for them in the past couple of months.. big loss.
 

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