Thought it was time to get the pre-season thread going.
Confirmed that Bont and Naughton are playing in the State of Origin game (please no injuries).
1st to 4th year players back next week.
Thought we might have done something different to stop them scoring from their long kicks in after the 3rd goal from it.
But no.
Freo beat us the same way they did earlier in the season.
Disappointing.
Time to put away a top team for the first time this year.
I’m feeling strangely confident about this one, we seem to match up alright with the Lions.
The slightly narrower ovals of SCG and Gabba seem to help our game as well.
Hoping Jones can find some form would be huge for the season.
The next two games will shape our season and definitely tell us if we have any chance in September.
The Crows are Top 3 in points scored and have a great forward line with their tall forwards and always the threat of Keays, Rankine, Rachele and Dawson.
Will be a big test for our defence and...
Bont and Darcy are superstars.
Coffield had a good first game of the season. Against the tigers so hard to gauge but looked solid.
Hope Treloar, JOD and McNeil are fine.
Hope Sellwood and Jaques have good games against Coburg. Wouldn’t mind both in against Saints.
Bramble and Cleary need a spell.
Hopefully Darcy is back for this one, missing him more than ever.
McNeil lucky to survive but not many options for his position. He can go sub and let Dolan have the...
Seems relevant to post after tonight’s game with Bice definitely going to be a trade.
Early thoughts are:
Bice > Hardemann
LAshcroft > Sheldrick
Maric > Kennedy
Want Lohmann but Sheldrick probably gets priority with Richmond next and will be able cover the R15 & R16 bye. I’m pretty light on...
Played one of our worst games of the season. The turnovers in the first half were beyond a joke.
Proud of the fight back but far too many costly, silly errors.
Got absolutely done by inconsistent umpiring but at the end of the day I’m so tired of losing these important games every year.
Absolutely loved seeing our young guys play huge roles at the end.
Gallagher, A.Jones, Richards, Naughton, Freijah, JoD and many others with huge moments
Macrae and Daniel huge.
Bont is the best player in the AFL.
Interesting selection after a dominant performance today.
If English is back, I would drop Buku as the only change.
With English back:
Ins - English
Out - Buku
Lobb back to Defence with JoD playing the 3rd KPD and Freijah interchanging positions throughout the game.
If no English, I...
Hard to have too many changes after 4 great performances.
Buku and Coffield in the same team seems a bit redundant to me. On form, I would be dropping Coffield first.
I think Macrae should come in for Daniel as well
This is a huge game and one we can’t afford to drop.
In - Freijah, Macrae...
Massive game after two brilliant wins.
Liam Jones still looks to be 1-2 weeks away from playing.
Garcia looks like he needs to get a game, but for who? Could give Sanders a game in the 2s but he has been improving each week.
I would go in unchanged.
Ins - Nil
Outs - Nil
I’d keep it simple after a win. I’d like to see Garcia come in for Gallagher. Think Gallagher needs a spell in the 2s, good potential but hasn’t been impacting games. Baker out for Harmes sees pretty obvious to me. Harmes played well pre injury.
Still want to see Buss debut, but that seems...
Got the 4 points and never want to think about that game again.
Could have won by more, but tried to be way too cute throughout the game.
Bont is the best player in the AFL even with injuries.
Lobb was surprisingly good at FB and Freijah looks like a Top 10 draft pick from this class...
Shocking result tonight, which now makes Freo a must win game if we have any chance of making the 8.
Richards should be coming back next week.
My changes:
Out - McNeil, Buku, Daniel
In - Scott, Busslinger, Richards
If Keath’s injury keeps him out next week then I’d replace him as an out...