Unofficial Preview Practice Match: North Melbourne v Collingwood, Mars Stadium, Ballarat, Sunday March 1st, 3:10 PM

[Dtennent94]

Maybe we are hedging our bets due to the 10-team finals system? It’s going to be even easier to make finals, so perhaps we are less concerned about peaking for the first few rounds? We might win em anyway.

Maybe we have just trained our butts off and are now trying to taper to be as fit as possible for R0?

Less need to practice game plan and prime players when they have so much experience. Might be more value in reducing games played for each individual across the season?

 

[Eric Shin]

Happy Practice Match Day for those that celebrate

 

[JuniorB]

Maybe we are hedging our bets due to the 10-team finals system? It’s going to be even easier to make finals, so perhaps we are less concerned about peaking for the first few rounds? We might win em anyway.

Maybe we have just trained our butts off and are now trying to taper to be as fit as possible for R0?

Less need to practice game plan and prime players when they have so much experience. Might be more value in reducing games played for each individual across the season?

We also need to get games into our younger players.
Practice games don't count for much in the scheme of things apart from some match time.
Our experienced players need it less than our young guys.
For me, interest lies, for example, in seeing if Ed Allan can build on his performance in the GWS game - flash in the pan or the start of something?

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Maybe we are hedging our bets due to the 10-team finals system? It’s going to be even easier to make finals, so perhaps we are less concerned about peaking for the first few rounds? We might win em anyway.

Maybe we have just trained our butts off and are now trying to taper to be as fit as possible for R0?

Less need to practice game plan and prime players when they have so much experience. Might be more value in reducing games played for each individual across the season?

its not a ten team finals system. It’s now a six team finals system with a few exhibition games thrown in

 

[Soups]

No joke this was in the bin last weekend.

 

[sr36]

View attachment 2538527No joke this was in the bin last weekend.

Probably thrown away by the manufacturer who made the mistake of making 25 of them.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

View attachment 2538527No joke this was in the bin last weekend.

Drew Petries ex probably chucked it

 

[Horaceg]

Happy Practice Match Day for those that celebrate

Why not,!

 

[Rorzza]

This time tomorrow there will be reports Josh has gone past Nic too!

 

[Harry O]

Fly was a development coach before head coach, Pretty sure he knows how to develop kids that are “good” enough.

There’s no benefit to gifting games for development. They need to earn their spots

True
But we need to start transitioning some in to avoid an ugly cliff

 

[manicpie]

Happy Practice Match Day for those that celebrate

 

[riddick78]

View attachment 2538527No joke this was in the bin last weekend.

I heard the club is pre throwing them out, cuts out the middle man.

 

[timokane]

VFL so far so good today easy 35 point win.
No injuries.
Looking same in AFL no injuries and get up by say 3 goals.
Nice steady 18 point win today at Mars.
No injury at all.
Go easy this one as season is only next week as well.
Pull players out of the game if needed.
Storms predicated as well and some wet weather on the way for Mars this afternoon.
A mate of mine there is already warm sticky weather.
Humid he says.
Keep up waters and keep cool.

 

[whiskeytown]

I’m liking the junior line up in what is a glorified dress rehearsal.

I’m not big on the pies top 6 chances this year… and injuries always a factor

so I’m keen to get games into youth to address the inexperience of the pies depth beyond the first 25 or so players

 

[timokane]

Some thing about north that gets my goat when ever we play them.
1977 irks me to the day.
Something about their fans at pies games.
Just dont like north fans when ever we play them.
Got a irrelevant arrogance about them

 

[stormskye]

reading weathers pretty .

Prob a good decision to go in with a team of mostly kids

 

[timokane]

Looking like it now turning bad soon at Mars

 

[TradeDraft]

reading weathers pretty .

Prob a good decision to go in with a team of mostly kids

Raining on the way to Ballarat

 

[Lockyer24]

Great chance for the young blokes to put their hand up and say I’m good enough to play round 0. Even guys like Swadling - show your class

 

[sr36]

Fly was a development coach before head coach, Pretty sure he knows how to develop kids that are “good” enough.

There’s no benefit to gifting games for development. They need to earn their spots

Yep. The way some talk AFL games have magical properties and I would have been a star if only I'd been played 50 times in the AFL. I blame Tony Shaw and Malthouse.

 

[Jen2310]

We might see a two ruck combo. Buller wasn’t wearing ruck padding in the warm up

 

[thebaldfacts]

Not worried about the result. Just want some of the kids to really stand up to show that they belong. To have a chance of winning the flag, we need some of Allan, Harrison, Parker, Steele or one of the newbies to really step up this year.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

What sort of answer is that from Fly re: Naicos?

 

[Doc1763]

What sort of answer is that from Fly re: Naicos?

missed it, what did he say?

 

[Harry O]

Larkey has caused us a lot of issues over the years. Good test for Big Billy