Preview Round 8: Essendon vs Brisbane, Docklands, Saturday 02/05/26 @ 12:35 AEST

[dank420_]

No setters lmao

 

[JY5165]

What exactly has Tsatas done to Brad Scott?

was on the cards after his tog was dropped from 75 to sub 60. have no idea why tho. far from the worst midfielder out there for us

 

[TheFrenchCut]

I don't love the process of how they've arrived at it, but I do like that they've made the move on Tsatas and (possibly?) Parish.

 

[dalecooper]

i think we were playing a midfielder or two too many anyways, especially since both tsatas and parish cant play anywhere else

 

[JayJ20]

Nah the way Brad is treating Tsatas is ridiculous.

I'm happy Sharp and Robey will get some looks in the middle, but dropping Parish would have been enough to increase Tsatas' TOG.

Brisbane will flog us.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

This might be my favourite selected side in 20 years. Unwin instead of Gresham would have been perfection.

 

[Petrify]

I hope Brad gives Sharp and Robey on ball time with Tsatas and Parish out now but knowing him he's going to park them on HFF for 40% of the game again. Great development Brad. Real nice.

 

[Its Manbearpig]

Those changes were absolutely picked out of a hat.

 

[jdstorm]

just looked at teams.

Not sure why they like to fake everything but it’s genuinely baffling. Hopefully it’s meant to look like:

Def: McKay Reid Kondo farrow Roberts SEH + one of Langford/Prior

Mids: Merrett Caldwell Durham McGrath Sharpe

Wings Dursma, Day wicks + Langford/prior

Forwards Cox, Caddy, Edwards, Robey, Nguyen, Gresham

That’s one of the more physically competitive sides Scott could have picked… assuming this is the plan

Edit: other thoughts.
Robey may also get a run through the middle as the 6th/burst mid

Langford probably stays on the wing as Prior stays in the backline to ensure continuity when Redman returns next week.

 

[JayJ20]

I hope Brad gives Sharp and Robey on ball time with Tsatas and Parish out now but knowing him he's going to park them on HFF for 40% of the game again. Great development Brad. Real nice.

And we'll run with Merrett, Durham and Caldwell who along with Parish have us sitting 16th in clearance differential and 17th in centre clearance differential against the team that's 1st and 2nd respectively in those areas.

 

[Drummer_19]

The concept of a 2 win team "managing" a player is hilarious. For what? The run for 14th?

 

[Duckworth]

The concept of a 2 win team "managing" a player is hilarious. For what? The run for 14th?

I watched Parish chasing, I think he was already self managing.

 

[BomberManU]

The concept of a 2 win team "managing" a player is hilarious. For what? The run for 14th?

2 win?

 

[Westlo]

1 mid too many last week (should’ve either left Gresham in or brought in Nguyen) but now we’re a mid short against arguably th e best midfield in the comp

Amazing team selection work again.

Can we throw everything at getting pendlebury coaching us in 2028 so we don’t have to keep seeing this shit.

 

[Shanghaistu]

1 mid too many last week (should’ve either left Gresham in or brought in Nguyen) but now we’re a mid short against arguably th e best midfield in the comp

Amazing team selection work again.

Can we throw everything at getting pendlebury coaching us in 2028 so we don’t have to keep seeing this shit.

2028? Won’t he have another 5 years of playing still left at that time?

 

[DapperDon]

Caldwell has had a mare of a season and they drop Tsatas just as he was finding his feet?

Parish too important to play VFL?

 

[Drummer_19]

2 win?

oh shit, 1 win.. somehow in my mind we won the gold coast game.

 

[MiguelM]

Tsatas very unlucky. Needs a run of games, esp with no Parish.

Caldwell, Prior, Blakiston very lucky.

Glad we didn't risk May though

 

[Shanghaistu]

oh shit, 1 win.. somehow in my mind we won the gold coast game.

We did. We also won against the bulldogs. Anything under 60 points is a win under my new improved afl-handicapping system

 

[ant555]

Would have liked to see Tstatas play more. Personally, I did not think he ticked off anything as far as outside run or being a bit more physical and he was 100% worse than Parish last Saturday as far as defence goes. His kicking was better in two of the games. 3 games doesn't really give a big enough sample size in my view. Pretty clear he is heading out the door.

Caldwell only had 25% CBA last week, so I suspect he is in line for more midfield time. Needs to find. He has been poor.

Will be interested in how Cox goes. They better have him in line to play forward. Would be totally stupid to put him on the wing again.

Gresham in. Yawn. Would have preferred Unwin but I guess they want to see a bit of a run in form rather than 1 good game.

Robey probably a bit lucky.

Good to see Ngyuen in.

Also good that Kondo is getting another look.

At least a couple of young blokes have come back in.

 

[jdstorm]

1 mid too many last week (should’ve either left Gresham in or brought in Nguyen) but now we’re a mid short against arguably th e best midfield in the comp

Amazing team selection work again.

Can we throw everything at getting pendlebury coaching us in 2028 so we don’t have to keep seeing this shit.

Not by my count
Merrett McGrath Caldwell Durham + Sharp and Robey who were both drafted to be midfielders.

 

[ant555]

Not by my count
Merrett McGrath Caldwell Durham + Sharp and Robey who were both drafted to be midfielders.

As much as I hate to say it and it does not inspire me, they will probably give Gresham a few midfield rotations as well.

 

[jdstorm]

As much as I hate to say it and it does not inspire me, they will probably give Gresham a few midfield rotations as well.

does seem likely.

 

[Keystone agony]

Caldwell, Durham, Mcgrath, Zerrett are our mids ya mongs

With Sharp bits n pieces

 

[Calthorpe14]

was on the cards after his tog was dropped from 75 to sub 60. have no idea why tho. far from the worst midfielder out there for us

He was fumbling a lot & constantly got sucked into the contest and left his man free. He certainly wasn’t alone with a poor game, and I’d have persisted with him, but if this is an area of his game that Scott wants to see him improve, I get it.