Preview Round 2 v Gold Coast MCG Saturday March 21st 1.15pm - Sonsie In For McAuliffe

[Karp3_dm]

Brown lucky to be included

100%
He’s such a talent tho, hope it’s clicked for him

 

[Le RickyBobby]

When will they learn? Nank, TT, Hopper, Prestia and Ross is the worst possible midfield mix in the AFL.

Same shit every week, we'll lose clearances and CP by a million they'll get the ball to the outside and score 25+ goals.

 

[Sol23]

2 young kids get dropped but hopper survives.
They will murder us with Taranto,hopper,Ross and Dion…… that is ridiculously slow

 

[lizard man]

Tom Browne can ruck

 

[tiger_tough]

Lefau in the ruck not great lol

Why?

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Really disappointing to see the omissions

Vlastuin and Prestia would’ve been fine

Fawcett unlucky given he was the stand out forward in the VFL praccy

Lefau coming in as Ruck relief doesn’t work

 

[Coach_Required]

Don't mind Gibcus being dropped, he was average last week along with Gray.

Concerned with Prestia coming into the side, if I see Taranto, Hopper & Prestia all in the centre bounce I think I won't even bother watching the game. I'll come back much later and bomb "like" everyone's melts in the game day thread instead.

Brown didnt warrant selection imo & Lefau i know why we brought him in but I dont see it working.

 

[Punt rd end]

 

[Truetiger]

Lefau in the ruck not great lol

If you believe the sides begin as that team selected, lol, it rarely happens.

 

[tiger_tough]

Why the f are so many people against Lefau playing backup ruck? He's well suited to it IMO.

 

[Achilles Heel]

When will they learn? Nank, TT, Hopper, Prestia and Ross is the worst possible midfield mix in the AFL.

Same shit every week, we'll lose clearances and CP by a million they'll get the ball to the outside and score 25+ goals.

At least no one will get tagged

 

[DontArgue4]

Good selection. Better balance.
Gibcus nowhere near ready.
Hope we don’t see Prestia, Taranto, Hopper together in the midfield even once.

We all know thats going to be the midfield for 90% of the game

 

[Coach_Required]

Why the f are so many people against Lefau playing backup ruck? He's well suited to it IMO.

In the VFL, we got no one else though.

 

[tiger_tough]

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Older than the Suns

 

[Rubber Hips]

Great changes….very happy with those


Gibcus needs to find form…bloke can play, he can get up to speed with the game in the vfl until his form warrants a call up

 

[Coach_Required]

Older than the Suns

Speaks volumes.

The "protecting the kids" police have an excuse though, we have a lot of injuries to our youth.

 

[voorhees]

great to have Vlas back in our defence.
not happy with Gibcus being dropped, man needs game time in the seniors to build the confidence back up.
Great to get Brown back also.

 

[tiger_tough]

In the VFL, we got no one else though.

Riccardi has probably been the best backup ruck in the league so far. Lefau can play a smiliar role.

 

[Coach_Required]

Riccardi has probably been the best backup ruck in the league so far. Lefau can play a smiliar role.

Hope so, maybe my bias gets in the way, i just don't rate the guy.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Hopper pull your finger out please!

 

[prodigy]

Ballard to have his usual out of the box good game against us.

Ballard is a gun defender, kidding yourself if you think otherwise. First game back from his ACL reconstruction so I doubt he will be as prolific as he normally is.

 

[Rubber Hips]

Great to have VLASTUIN back


Would have won with him last week

 

[baazzaa]

but in the long run the rewards will be worth it.

what sides have successfully rebuilt by not playing kids?

by my reckoning we have 6 potential a-graders under 23 playing: banks, campbell, lalor, brown, grjl, armstrong. i would include kmac2 but given he's playing on a wing we're clearly planning on derailing his career like we did with ross and sonsie by permanently playing him out of position.

so how is prestia playing going to contribute so much to the development of those 6 players, that it justifies denying a game to kmac2 or sonsie in the centre? i don't get it. so too with lefau displacing fawcett who deserves a game.

the match committee are focusing on choosing the most competitive team for the next week. the idea that this coincidentally also happens to maximise long-term player development is nonsense. if playing your oldest team week-after-week also maximised player development no-one would ever play kids.

there's a genuine trade-off between long-term development and short-term competitiveness and we're choosing the latter.

 

[Groupie_]

Why the f are so many people against Lefau playing backup ruck? He's well suited to it IMO.

because he did acl

 

[Coach_Required]

what sides have successfully rebuilt by not playing kids?

by my reckoning we have 6 potential a-graders under 23 playing: banks, campbell, lalor, brown, grjl, armstrong. i would include kmac2 but given he's playing on a wing we're clearly planning on derailing his career like we did with ross and sonsie by permanently playing him out of position.

so how is prestia playing going to contribute so much to the development of those 6 players, that it justifies denying a game to kmac2 or sonsie in the centre? i don't get it. so too with lefau displacing fawcett who deserves a game.

the match committee are focusing on choosing the most competitive team for the next week. the idea that this coincidentally also happens to maximise long-term player development is nonsense. if playing your oldest team week-after-week also maximised player development no-one would ever play kids.

there's a genuine trade-off between long-term development and short-term competitiveness and we're choosing the latter.