- Nov 23, 2015
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"The king is dead!' - Leon Cameron
has coached his last game for the Giants. Unironically, it ended pretty much how many of our other matches this year did.
'Long live the king!', or since Mark McVeigh
is merely an interim coach, perhaps that should be 'long live the prince!', or even just 'long live the regent!'. I guess that doesn't have as much pizzazz as the original saying. Much like this season hasn't seen much pizzazz from the boys on the field.
It's the start of a new era, although as likely only interim and short term, I'm not sure it really is, nor how much it's really going to tell us. Particularly, since I think the gameplan is at the heart of much of our problems, and I don't know how much MM can actually change in one week (or several weeks as we go forward).
This game will be an interesting first hurdle for MM. The Weagles have unfortunately been racked with personnel unavailability due to COVID, on top of seemingly dropping down the ladder naturally. That has seen them lose by some massive numbers this year. So it will be interesting to see how their team looks this week, and how they go against what is likely to be a dispirited Giants team. By rights, we should win, and reasonably could replicate the Crows game. But the Eagles did knock Collingwood off at home, so they are definitely capable of causing an upset. Will that be against us this week, on the back of Leon's departure, or will we bounce back under a new (interim) coach?
Giants are definitely fielding some players who are either hurting, or right out of form - Whitfield and Haynes being foremost. Several others are just down on form, such as HH and TT. Added to our seemingly endless list of injuries, we're just not in a good place.
We have a few spots to replace for the game - Finn Callaghan and Connor Stone being known at this point. No Binga to potentially bring in, although presumably Hogan and Bruhn will be available again after their illnesses last weekend. Bobby Hill being the medi-sub would seem likely to catch a recall on the back of those injuries, and I will expect that MdB gets retained, although I'd prefer someone else get an opportunity. Honestly, I'd like to get some games into the kids - so hopefully one of Josh Fahey or Jacob Wehr gets to replace Callaghan. There's also Matt Flynn who sat out last game, and Keiran Briggs too, so if the injury that Preuss suffered in game takes him out, there's options there, as well as potentially changing up the forward line. Ultimately, we'll get our first look at how McVeigh is going to select teams for the rest of this year. Will we continue the sometimes illogical selections, or actually reward effort in the seconds and drop bad performers from first grade (looking at you HH!)?
Tell us what you think - what do you want to see, what do you expect to see?
PLAYERCARDSTART
Leon Cameron
- Age
- 51
- Ht
- 185cm
- Wt
- 82kg
- Pos.
- Def
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 17.2
- 4star
- K
- 12.4
- 5star
- HB
- 4.7
- 3star
- M
- 3.6
- 4star
- T
- 0.9
- 3star
No current season stats available
- D
- 20.8
- 5star
- K
- 14.4
- 5star
- HB
- 6.4
- 4star
- M
- 3.6
- 4star
- T
- 0.8
- 3star
PLAYERCARDEND
'Long live the king!', or since Mark McVeigh
PLAYERCARDSTART
Mark Mcveigh
- Age
- 43
- Ht
- 184cm
- Wt
- 85kg
- Pos.
- D/M
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 17.1
- 4star
- K
- 11.6
- 4star
- HB
- 5.5
- 4star
- M
- 3.6
- 4star
- T
- 3.0
- 5star
No current season stats available
- D
- 18.4
- 5star
- K
- 13.6
- 5star
- HB
- 4.8
- 4star
- M
- 5.6
- 5star
- T
- 2.0
- 4star
PLAYERCARDEND
It's the start of a new era, although as likely only interim and short term, I'm not sure it really is, nor how much it's really going to tell us. Particularly, since I think the gameplan is at the heart of much of our problems, and I don't know how much MM can actually change in one week (or several weeks as we go forward).
This game will be an interesting first hurdle for MM. The Weagles have unfortunately been racked with personnel unavailability due to COVID, on top of seemingly dropping down the ladder naturally. That has seen them lose by some massive numbers this year. So it will be interesting to see how their team looks this week, and how they go against what is likely to be a dispirited Giants team. By rights, we should win, and reasonably could replicate the Crows game. But the Eagles did knock Collingwood off at home, so they are definitely capable of causing an upset. Will that be against us this week, on the back of Leon's departure, or will we bounce back under a new (interim) coach?
Giants are definitely fielding some players who are either hurting, or right out of form - Whitfield and Haynes being foremost. Several others are just down on form, such as HH and TT. Added to our seemingly endless list of injuries, we're just not in a good place.
We have a few spots to replace for the game - Finn Callaghan and Connor Stone being known at this point. No Binga to potentially bring in, although presumably Hogan and Bruhn will be available again after their illnesses last weekend. Bobby Hill being the medi-sub would seem likely to catch a recall on the back of those injuries, and I will expect that MdB gets retained, although I'd prefer someone else get an opportunity. Honestly, I'd like to get some games into the kids - so hopefully one of Josh Fahey or Jacob Wehr gets to replace Callaghan. There's also Matt Flynn who sat out last game, and Keiran Briggs too, so if the injury that Preuss suffered in game takes him out, there's options there, as well as potentially changing up the forward line. Ultimately, we'll get our first look at how McVeigh is going to select teams for the rest of this year. Will we continue the sometimes illogical selections, or actually reward effort in the seconds and drop bad performers from first grade (looking at you HH!)?
Tell us what you think - what do you want to see, what do you expect to see?