Preview Changes: Round 8 Vs Brisbane Lions + pre-match discussion

[Tonga Bob]

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Someone should tell Bob...

Sorry boys I can’t hear you. I’m too busy enjoying my half full bottle of iced coffee.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Season's / JL is in an odd spot. I think our transition to the forwardline has improved out of sight but it seems to be at the cost of our defensive structure through the midfield and down back some what. While I wont give the backline a pass on the tripe they put together on the weekend, Hughes and Ryan out on top of Hamling / Pearce was likely always a bridge too far when the midfield got pantsed on transition. It's been markedly worse than last year even ignoring the weekend.

At the moment, JL gets a massive tick for me on his gameplan. I've seen elite transition, defence and attack across two years, just not if rarely all at once. From all accounts the players love him, another tick. He got left a lot to be desire with gameday coaching and instilling some hardness into the players though.

Genuinely believe we can still play finals

 

[malpaso]

It was seriously bemusing.

We haven't been playing world beating opposition, and Treacy hasn't been Josh Kennedy, but our structure, our ball movement our marks inside 50 had all improved markedly...so you come up against the club that kill us in their back half MINUS the two players we keep kicking the ball to and you remove one of the players that helped change things.

Muppetry...
All of a sudden Freddy is getting the ball bombed on his head again and Oscar Allen is allowed to concentrate on one player only...because Lobb is currently an inanimate carbon rod

We didn't get killed from their back half. We got killed in the middle and front half...

 

[Ge3ks]

What is our backline going to look like against Brissie? Ryan, Hughes, Chapman going to play?

 

[wayToGo_]

What is our backline going to look like against Brissie? Ryan, Hughes, Chapman going to play?

This?

 

[FreoRicci]

Club has asked to shift the game to Brisbane

Another empty stadium and suffer two straight home games of loss revenue. Club probably will bite the bullet.
We ll be smashed. Joyful

 

[Purpleheart_56]

Is that 1-2 weeks in the normal Newtonian sense, or 1-2 weeks dependent on my velocity relative to Adam Cerra which means it could be 4-5 weeks on planet Earth?

TBA

 

[Scham]

What is our backline going to look like against Brissie? Ryan, Hughes, Chapman going to play?

If they’re all out it looks like this:

Watson Cox Conca
Wilson Logue Duman

 

[wayToGo_]

If they’re all out it looks like this:

Watson Cox Conca
Wilson Logue Duman

And the 7th defender? Aish?

 

[Scham]

And the 7th defender? Aish?

Yep.

 

[apuchar]

Yeah Giro in. Aish, Acres and Giro can rotate through the wings.

 

[nurries]

Club has asked to shift the game to Brisbane

You watch, we will be in lockdown with the return match over here.

Bet.Money.on.it.

 

[freo1997]

Lobb to CHB. Get the bloke involved. Darcy and Meek rotate the ruck.

Drop Lobb if he doesn't perform there.

 

[DeanS]

Needs to play midfield (rotating to half forward) or not at all. Not impacting either way as a small forward. Why didn't they throw him in the middle yesterday?

He did so little the coach maybe forgot he was out there.

 

[Scham]

Duman for Hughes, Sturt for Crowden.

If Brayshaw misses, Giro in for him.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Yeah Giro in. Aish, Acres and Giro can rotate through the wings.

Is Western wing material?

 

[apuchar]

Is Western wing material?

At this stage he is probably best as a hhf. He tends to rotate through hf and mf. Probably just not yet at Afl level. Maybe just for a taste.

 

[ilikepotatoes]

I hope we get the blowtorch treatment that West Coast and Carlton got before their games against us.

I want to see how we respond.

 

[Alfonz]

Needs to play midfield (rotating to half forward) or not at all. Not impacting either way as a small forward. Why didn't they throw him in the middle yesterday?

He is too small and slow. short people need to have standout class/speed/smarts. Not just be battlers. He tries hard and I like his attitude, but unfortunately I don't think he can succeed at AFL level.

We need bigger guys like Acres and Tucker to play with the attitude of someone like Crowden. Because Crowden doing it himself will be ineffectual.

I've said it many times, but we have to reduce the amount of short people on our list. WC had 1 player under 180cm. We had Serong, Walters, Schultz, Colyer, Crowden. And it seems the likes of Giro, Western and Henry are waiting in the wings. Switta when he's fit. Maybe more incoming at end of the year.

 

[Mogumber]

He is too small and slow. short people need to have standout class/speed/smarts. Not just be battlers. He tries hard and I like his attitude, but unfortunately I don't think he can succeed at AFL level.

We need bigger guys like Acres and Tucker to play with the attitude of someone like Crowden. Because Crowden doing it himself will be ineffectual.

I've said it many times, but we have to reduce the amount of short people on our list. WC had 1 player under 180cm. We had Serong, Walters, Schultz, Colyer, Crowden. And it seems the likes of Giro, Western and Henry are waiting in the wings. Switta when he's fit. Maybe more incoming at end of the year.

Lobb is our tallest player, he's got a heart the size of a pea

 

[salim malik]

He is too small and slow. short people need to have standout class/speed/smarts. Not just be battlers. He tries hard and I like his attitude, but unfortunately I don't think he can succeed at AFL level.

We need bigger guys like Acres and Tucker to play with the attitude of someone like Crowden. Because Crowden doing it himself will be ineffectual.

I've said it many times, but we have to reduce the amount of short people on our list. WC had 1 player under 180cm. We had Serong, Walters, Schultz, Colyer, Crowden. And it seems the likes of Giro, Western and Henry are waiting in the wings. Switta when he's fit. Maybe more incoming at end of the year.

Yep if you're a small you have to be extra special.
A good tall will always beat a good small.

 

[Wilksyy]

And then you have the mighty mosquito fleet that is Richmond...

I don’t mind small as long as they’re fast.

 

[Scham]

And then you have the mighty mosquito fleet that is Richmond...

I don’t mind small as long as they’re fast.

Fast or clever. I don’t think Baker is overly fast but gets by on footy smarts.

On Crowden, he’s fast enough but doesn’t use it enough to his advantage. Can’t see him making it at AFL level. Ok depth though.

 

[Lach72]

In other good news: Paddy Sweeny just said on Peeee Aarrggh that David Mundy was off having scans this morning

 

[masai]

In other good news: Paddy Sweeny just said on Peeee Aarrggh that David Mundy was off having scans this morning

They’re going for scans to check that Dave is not “pregnant” from all the extra love he’s been receiving lately.