Preview Round 1 - Adelaide v St Kilda @ Adelaide Oval

[GROTTO]

Sunday is going to be great. Crowies first game of the season at Midday, and the Australian F1 at 2:30pm.

And Im going to a 5th birthday party that my son was invited to at timezone for all of it....

FML, they better have Daytona or i'll lose my mind!

 

[Slime Roy]

The interest will be whether Nicks provides opportunities to those ripping up the Sanfl or he sticks with guys with a reputation as safer bet.

Ripping up the SANFL, you mean in the "Best Players" List??

 

[Betts are off]

To paraphrase Deadpool..

"In my world you were an Arcade game, you were THE Arcade game!"

 

[Trigger13]

Sunday is going to be great. Crowies first game of the season at Midday, and the Australian F1 at 2:30pm.

And Im going to a 5th birthday party that my son was invited to at timezone for all of it....

FML, they better have Daytona or i'll lose my mind!

Drop the kid off and run haha

 

[cleanhands]

We need angry Balme to ruffle him up.

Don’t often get angry Balme

 

[Mutineer]

Don’t often get angry Balme

Brooksby boys disagree...

 

[Pugsley]

Don’t often get angry Balme

You certainly don't. He would rip him apart with words but he still wouldn't get it.

 

[cleanhands]

Brooksby boys disagree...

he wasn’t angry , that was just his on field presence

 

[cleanhands]

You certainly don't. He would rip him apart with words but he still wouldn't get it.

He just has a presence about him, when he talks to listen

 

[Pugsley]

He just has a presence about him, when he talks to listen

That is spot on.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Seeing all these other teams announce their debut players already, meanwhile we sit and wait for the Draper announcement. Nicks is going to Nicks.

Port announced Joe Berry yet ?

We are playing Sunday , just calm down

 

[Jeffcrowe]

So the remaining questions are:

• Milera in without any games in the 2nds?
• fear that Draper won't get a debut?
• Curtin not exploding in the pre-season game means he somehow isn't in line for a best 22 spot?
• Nankervis one of our best performers every time he is asked a question, still not locked in?

At least we are not discussing how Smith or Murphy push out the 22.

1970crow squad above looks pretty decent ... as many have said, just swap out Milera for Nank and it's tick - tick - tick.

Laird. Murray. Max
Hinge. Keane. Worrell
Cumming. Soligo. Sholl
ROB. Dawson. Rankine
ANB. Tex. Keays
Rachele. TT. Fog
Nankervis. Crouch. Peatling. Curtin
Draper (sub)

That’s my team if you swap Nank for Milera too

I have no doubt Draper plays

 

[GROTTO]

So the remaining questions are:

• fear that Draper won't get a debut?

The meltdown on our board will be more epic than the game itself if Draper is not picked.

 

[TARANTULA]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

 

[kirky]

Not sure why we need Milera over Nankervis … is it his pressure, durability. two way running?

Nil to all three thanks.

Pressure acts - average over his career - fail
Durability - 39 games out of a possible 105 (since 2020) - fail
Two way running - don’t think so

 

[Peter Doherty]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

That you Nicksy?

He's a player with a load of upside, you get him in the team and let him develop.

Yes, there may be better credentialed players right now, but if you've identified Curtin as a player of the future, make room, play him, it will pay off.

 

[Cromulant]

That you Nicksy?

He's a player with a load of upside, you get him in the team and let him develop.

Yes, there may be better credentialed players right now, but if you've identified Curtin as a player of the future, make room, play him, it will pay off.

It looks like this is the philosophy with him TBH.

We're going to find a place for him to play

 

[Peter Doherty]

It looks like this is the philosophy with him TBH.

We're going to find a place for him to play

I hope so. It's a new year, he's had a good preseason.

Surely they can't give him the 2024 treatment again. Though I do conceed his body didn't appear to be right last year.

 

[crows dude]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

You just play talent like him

 

[Cromulant]

I hope so. It's a new year, he's had a good preseason.

Surely they can't give him the 2024 treatment again. Though I do conceed his body didn't appear to be right last year.

I'm not too bothered if we manage him through the sub role at times, even this weekend.

His versatility is a blessing and a curse at this point of his career, but you've gotta play him.

 

[cmndstab]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

Backline and midfield are irrelevant. They're playing him as a forward right now. Walker will be most likely retired in a year's time and he'll fit in just fine then. Until then, he will likely play the majority of games off the interchange bench.

 

[MrBarry]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

You just find a place for him and the fixation with 'I don't know what to do with him'. Needs to end.

I'm not going to be 100% aware of what to do if I get the keys to a Ferarri, but I'll ****ing drive the thing until I do. What are our coaches a bunch of flapping ninnies who suddently can;'t figure really basic things out?

 

[Cromulant]

You just find a place for him and the fixation with 'I don't know what to do with him'. Needs to end.

I'm not going to be 100% aware of what to do if I get the keys to a Ferarri, but I'll ****ing drive the thing until I do. What are our coaches a bunch of flapping ninnies who suddently can;'t figure really basic things out?

They'll play him.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Port announced Joe Berry yet ?

We are playing Sunday , just calm down

That's not how I roll

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I'm worried about Curtin. Our back 6/7 are pretty set. Foward line is rock solid. He's about 6th inline in the midfield. Don't see much room for him without a few injuries.

Our team is so heavily structured in their units - defenders, midfielders, forwards.

Little silos working with their line coach.

All clubs are like this to a degree of course but I reckon we really buy in

A unicorn like Curtin is without a home.