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Left field option, but could we play Worner as a defensive forward. He was playing well against Brisbane before he was KO’d
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Returning from an ankle injury, someone said he’s lost in the peel reserve side, not the WAFL side, so must be on limited minutes like NOD and Chapman.What is Stanley's situation? Would be great to see him push into selection discussions this season
Left field option, but could we play Worner as a defensive forward. He was playing well against Brisbane before he was KO’d
Pretty simplistic take. Depends what Tab's role is. What if he's drawing the best defender some weeks to give Jye a better run at it. Simple comparison of stats doesn't cut it. I think Taberner will probably lose his spot with Darcy coming in but he's been fine as depth.Tabs is the issue here (or at least an issue). Others can make the "he gets in [insert player's] way" argument, but I won't even go there.
As you hint at with Treacy, Tabs has been decent at taking and generating shots for himself. Over the 3 games of Tabs-Amiss-Treacy, Tabs has scored 5.2 from 9 shots, which compares favourably to Amiss (4.6 from 12 shots) and Treacy (3.2 from 5 shots). But that's almost literally it.
Tabs has gotten 10 SIs across the 3 games, compared to Amiss and Treacy with 16 each. So Tabs has 3 non-shot score involvements compared to 6 for Amiss and 11 for Treacy. When Tabs isn't scoring, he isn't doing much of anything to affect the scoreboard. Amiss and Treacy also have superior tackle and pressure act numbers to Tabs over those 3 games, though granted with Treacy at least part of that is he 2nd rucks (though conversely, part of why Treacy doesn't get as many shots is he 2nd rucks).
Or to put it another way without the stats, if I watched Treacy's games without the 3 goals, I'd be able to point to many significant contributions. If I watched Amiss' games without his goals, I'd at least be able to point to where he's trying things, and the times he gets up the ground his field kicking is high level (plus his pressure in this game was high level). If I watch a Tabs game without his goals, I'd think he's a liability and the clear worst player on the ground.
If the extra 2 points he's kicked compared to Amiss over 3 games (with Amiss having an unusual cold streak in front of goal) or the extra 2 goals he's kicked compared to Treacy over 3 games (with Treacy playing very high up the ground and playing 2nd ruck) moves you significantly, idk what to say. It doesn't move me.
Tabs is done. Slow as a semi and not able to apply pressure, not able to play on quickly to next team mate (slow decision maker) and gets out-marked. He is a handy back up but we no where near as effective going into FWD 50 with him in the mix.Pretty simplistic take. Depends what Tab's role is. What if he's drawing the best defender some weeks to give Jye a better run at it. Simple comparison of stats doesn't cut it. I think Taberner will probably lose his spot with Darcy coming in but he's been fine as depth.
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Do we need to panic.We know JL values stability and that we're not panicking over one game, so...
Outs: Frederick, Switkowski
Ins: O'Meara, Erasmus, Simpson (sub*)
*You know it's true.
Beattie did an ankle injury soon after leaving Freo. He is out for another 10 weeks.If we knew Sturt, Swit and Freddy would all be injured by round 5, wonder if we would have grabbed Beattie
I'm not saying we need to panic, I'm paraphrasing JLs press conference, we'll just go with the best two available which is JOM and Ras.Do we need to panic.
No one was horrible.
Yeah a few were a bit off but it was a tight arm wrestle end to end no one gave an inch until the final min when Carlton got on top.
NOD played quite well against WCE witches hats. I agree with your comment though. Also he played exclusively on the wing. I don’t see him playing half forward.No way I’m putting O’Driscoll in this team without 4-5 weeks of footy. He was rubbish before he got injured, why would he be in before someone like Simpson?
Completely different forwards
Voss is a tall, Beattie was a small
All our talls are on the field, all our smalls are injured
He made several horrible decisions which resulted in turn over inside 50's. The worst one was right before he got subbed.Johnson should be dropped
I suspect they'll move Banfield forward permanently for this game but I'm a bit hesitatnt to change his role. He's been really good executing his role this season and not sure he'll be as impactful as a pure forward.
I genuinely think Tabs has been applying better pressure i50 than Amiss has and that’s saying a lot.
But I swear just about every year we have a period of three games in a row where we don't have to travel? Last year round 21-23, 2022 rounds 2-4, 2021 rounds 20-22.
Edit: Looks like a consequence of playing at home in round 1. But I still don't understand how we can play two away games in a row in gather round, then play two away games in a row with the bye in between and still the only times we're at home two weeks in a row is with the derbies.
mark my words, if Tabs doesn't play, Amiss'll look better.Amiss has been pretty ordinary the past three weeks imo.
He ain’t getting dropped but he needs to offer more then he did yesterday.