Preview Changes vs Richmond, Sun May 18 1:10PM MCG - Members replacement game

[shintemaster]

Phenomenal play by Swallow to start that chain. Was a terrific player at his peak pre-achilles.

So many accurate handballs in that chain it looks edited together.

 

[DuckYeah]

Incredibly under-rated, both by NMFC and the wider AFL world especially.

Was alright before the injury, complete ******* after it

 

[grimface_87]

Why? Saturday 1:30 is the worst slot followed by 440 sunday

Half our crew can't go because of kids footy on Sunday

 

[DuckYeah]

Half our crew can't go because of kids footy on Sunday

You need to work out what is a priority. Watching North win or watching kids run around in a circle?

Lets face it. Kids footy is shit. Only worth em playing 14+

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Perfect time for me now my boys have outgrown junior sport - we are being taken out for a late Mother’s Day brunch in Richmond, then one of them saunters with me to the MCG.

 

[marklovesbeer]

You need to work out what is a priority. Watching North run around in a circle or watching kids run in a circle?

FIFY.

 

[DocSholl]

Perfect time for me now my boys have outgrown junior sport - we are being taken out for a late Mother’s Day brunch in Richmond, then one of them saunters with me to the MCG.

Get the californian breakfast at Azul :stern look

 

[Event Horizon]

Sun at 1pm is the worst time slot...really inconvenient for me and we got so many of them last year. It makes it worse as always had to watch in a loss...if we won it wouldn't be as bad

Same for me - worst possible time slot. I have one of my son's soccer game which he can't miss as he's one of the key players in the team defense, so it would really let the team down. And I don't feel that I can just go to the footy while my son is playing a game. As much as people bag the 4:40 time slot, that has been really good for me. Keeps most of the Sunday free and allows to get home early enough for dinner. Whereas 1pm is just a killer slot.

 

[Caracas]

So many accurate handballs in that chain it looks edited together.

What stood out for me was a couple of our players putting the afterburners on. We could do with a bit of that right now.

 

[Caracas]

Riddle me this. When was the last time we went into a game as bookies’ favourites, against a team above us on the ladder?

Edit: R22 last season against WC. That didn’t end well!

 

[giantroo]

 

[King Corey]

Get the californian breakfast at Azul :stern look

Sounds like a euphemism :sternlook

(New York accent) "ask for Paula.. tell her ya want the 'California breakfast' wink wink"

 

[HongKongRoo]

Swallow was so good, such a clean player and hard as a cat's head.

 

[King Corey]

You need to work out what is a priority. Watching kids win or watching North run around in a circle?

Lets face it. North footy is shit. Only worth watching 2014-

Fixed.

 

[Flawed Genius]

His calls of that goal and the Harper goal in the same game were two of his worst ever

"Just...lets...the little man run and igNORES HIM" for what might have been our most exciting goal of the entire season

 

[tommy_uman]

Plan is to bring in Fisher for Jy if he doesn't get up. Sheez will move to HF/mid

 

[King Corey]

Incredibly under-rated, both by NMFC and the wider AFL world especially.

Finally found the original post that summed him brilliantly:

FFS. Honestly the ****ing dribble in this thread is off the charts.

The "let's trade him while he still has currency" call is the stuff of AFL Fantasy coaches universe. Teffy would have went off his rocker. I can't believe someone would even contemplate that shit.

Wanna know why we capitulated against Collingwood? Or failed to fire a shot against Fremantle? The lack of his presence in the centre square is probably your first point of call. Smashed in that 2nd half in clearances/contested possessions, and the Fremantle whitewash was nothing short of a debacle around the stoppages. We were straight up demolished inside.

Spitta's greatest asset is his ability to not only win contests around the stoppages, but at worst halve them and if that fails, his defensive output and tackling makes up for it. And, yes he tackles well because he is one of the best exponents of the technique in recent memory. Not because he lacks explosiveness to get to the ball first. I mean, really? **** me, his first 20m is more than adequate. Further to that, tackling numbers for an inside-mid has nothing to do with a lack of explosiveness but everything to do with positioning and recovery, when worked out of position, which happens often.

Elimination Final 2014 - "Zieeeeeeebell", "Petrie around the corner", all that Frank the Tank bullshit to follow. Yeah, well without Swallow willing himself through that contest and stoppage, like he consistently does in big moments, who knows how that game pans out. Hang on though, I guess his handball was a bit iffy with four guys hanging off him and he shouldn't have nearly missed his target in Goldy who is 7ft tall, and he probably didn't choose to kick because he knows he lacks the explosiveness to break away and/or he just knows he is a shithouse kick. Yeah, I'd probably consider trading him to be honest, because I wouldn't classify that as dragging us over the line. Others in our side drag us to more victories, more consistently. *wankmotion


You know what? I don't think he's the greatest leader and I would have Ziebell skipper the side from next season onward. He's also not the greatest kick. But he's more than serviceable and from 40m out directly in front, I would back him in over a host of others. But yeah, definitely, "country standard by foot at best". Brett Kirk couldn't kick over a jam tin, but his value was undeniable and Spitta is a better footballer than Kirky.

He has his limitations, but like most others who perform his role, they go incredibly underrated. I think it was NiceCunnington who has consistently said he is vastly underrated. Well, it seems like it has been the case with our skipper for some time now and it's just absolute crap. Just off the top of my head, a midfield combination of Liberatore, Priddis, Swallow and Kennedy would be just about the best centre/stoppage ball winning unit I could think of. I'm sure the clearance statistics over the past few seasons would reflect that and I would back Swallow in against all three of them to win the footy if the ball was thrown into the middle of them.

A good mate of mine I played footy with who works for the Hawks as an operations co-ordinator, and is apart of their match day logistics, has long told me that it isn't Harvey and Wells that become their primary or first point of focus during match committee or pre-game meetings, but it's Swallow's influence on the game in the clinches. Hodge smacking him with the elbow ring any bells? At the time that we were into Dal Santo he said to me that Swallow getting those three the ball will remain their key concern.

I've seen his year as being pretty good but inconsistent. He's not near his Syd Barker form of 2-4 years ago, but without his tackling pressure and ball winning ability against Essendon and WC in those close games a few weeks back, we probably leave without the four points. He's not far off the pace where he set an outstanding 183 tackle year in 2010, which suggests to me that it's only a matter of time before everything else comes along.

If he was to ever win a Brownlow (and he polled well in 2013 from limited games) the same people who naively potted Priddis would give Swallow the same treatment. They're not pretty/flashy footballers who grab the eye, and their abilities/contribution to the team, should by no means be diminished.

Maybe we need to refresh some memories of what he is capable of. This quarter is a consistent example of what he dished up during the middle of a wonderful 3 year (2010-12) period of football.



Keep setting the example Andrew. Love you champ.

Rant over/

 

[DocSholl]

"Just...lets...the little man run and igNORES HIM" for what might have been our most exciting goal of the entire season

"Is that five goals in the last quarter of a key tight game on one of the leagues best key defenders in the wet? It is."

 

[Flawed Genius]

"Is that five goals in the last quarter of a key tight game on one of the leagues best key defenders in the wet? It is."

As Harper who has just run 100m flat stick, lets go from 50 and has the audacity to keep it from being more than 10m off the ground at any point, Commetti is still talking about the criticism apparently regularly leveled at Liam Anthony for what he does when he's not in possession of the footy

 

[giantroo]

 

[Caracas]

You need to work out what is a priority. Watching North win or watching kids run around in a circle?

Lets face it. Kids footy is shit. Only worth em playing 14+

Over the last 5 years, it’s been indistinguishable…

 

[The Dingrel]

You need to work out what is a priority. Watching North win or watching kids run around in a circle?

Lets face it. Kids footy is shit. Only worth em playing 14+

I'll place some caveats on that,,,,,wandered down to watch some local footy in brisbane last weekend, ground is walking distance from home. Asked one of the parents what division...U16 D grade. I don't think there was a single clean possession, mark, kick or handball that hit the target. But gee you wouldn't know it by how vocal the coaches were....not to mention 1 kid continually giving the oppo an earful and push and shove after every error, to be fair to him, he was probably BOG and the only kid who could kick a drop punt that spun the right way however inaccurate it was. Really quite funny, but I'll be back to keep scouting for diamonds in the rough.

 

[Frank Thring]

I'm predicting RHJ gets a game this week

 

[hilly]

Sunday 1.10pm good time for me.

 

[Roscoe]

I'm predicting RHJ gets a game this week

Hope you also predicted Kamala and Dutton!