Preview AFL Returns - Round 2: North Melbourne vs GWS @ Giants Stadium - changes/prematch discussion

[DaveyBoy123]

 

[Mav]

MacMillan missing is an absurd notion. He was in our best 3 vs StKilda. If you're just a tZ alt account, then best you leg it.

Interestingly you didn't give him votes, but I did!

 

[Snake_Baker]

I wouldn't be putting money on him playing.



..........oops!

Not only are you a super coach junkie, you are also woefully bad at it.

 

[The Nostradamus]

I wouldn't be putting money on him playing.

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..........oops!

Not only are you a super coach junkie, you are also woefully bad at it.

Lol a vague tweet that goes without saying that players have to train well to play

 

[GarnerSmash]

Daw for Murphy structurally, Bonar for Ahern is good too.

B: McDonald - Tarrant - Daw
HB: Pittard - Walker - Atley
C: Dumont - Cunnington - Polec
HF: Taylor - Larkey - Higgins
F: Ziebell - Brown - Zurhaar
R: Goldstein - Simpkin - Anderson
Int: Macmillan - Bonar - Thomas - Hall

This gives us flexibility in having blokes who can run through the middle and forward, and allows us to have Daw who will be important when the Giants eventually get on top for periods and will need to kick it in long once we set up a wall across the middle of the park.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Lol a vague tweet that goes without saying that players have to train well to play

............now MacMillan gets named to play and it's just another day in the life of AFL super strategist, "the Ziebull"

 

[Nate1993]

It doesn't matter where we play as long as my Curtis Taylor is out causing havoc and maintaining that good form he had early this year.
Also side-note, I get the feeling that everytime the fixture makers get together and look at North Melbourne they just go:
"Yep, they look like a Sunday afternoon team". I swear before the fixture was released i knew thats where they'd put us.

Also on another side note: the second ep of the new podcast dropped, would love it if you guys checked it out.

 

[Snake_Baker]

It doesn't matter where we play as long as my Curtis Taylor is out causing havoc and maintaining that good form he had early this year.
Also side-note, I get the feeling that everytime the fixture makers get together and look at North Melbourne they just go:
"Yep, they look like a Sunday afternoon team". I swear before the fixture was released i knew thats where they'd put us.

Also on another side note: the second ep of the new podcast dropped, would love it if you guys checked it out.

I'll be amazed if he's overlooked.

 

[Nate1993]

I'll be amazed if he's overlooked.

The old Brad Scott regime has given me ptsd on this stuff. I can remember a lot of young players having a good crack and getting knocked out of the firsts. But Rhyce seems pretty switched on to it all.

 

[giantroo]

 

[giantroo]

 

[La Flama Blanca]

The AFL are a bunch of fu**silly people.

With the new fly in fly out on the same day rules, why schedule the travelling team in for an early game?

This should have been a late afternoon game to allow us to prepare adequately for the game. They will leave to leave a the crack of dawn to fly up, transfer from the airport to the venue in plenty of time to prepare.

Essendon and North are both flying in and out of Sydney together for the two earlier Sunday games. The third Sunday game is now a night game and due to the curfew at the Sydney airport this would be a bit more difficult to organise.

 

[Horizons_00]

It’s amusing watching teffy just ignorantly taking the opposing view

Macmillan is a poor footballer plain and simple

The bloke played every game and doesn’t influence, never made a top 10 bnf.

We finally have a clear best 7 defenders ahead of him in the 3 KPD and 4 smaller defenders structure

Bloke is on borrowed time

Show us some proof of his “zero” influence on games when Shaw took over

 

[franjon]

Why do I get the feeling this wont be our last sunday afternoon game?

Because you have experience as a North fan?

 

[franjon]

Also get the dogs with hunter suspended so that’s a positive

Would it matter anyway?

 

[the big lebowski]

Would it matter anyway?

Well it’s 35 less disposals

 

[DesertRoo]

I think the afl might’ve just been to cute by half here.
GWS fell off a cliff after playing us last year, and in a short season that 3 or 4 weeks that it took them to recover would mean season over, it’s time to bring the pain again. Let’s get in their heads.

we’ll be out breathing fire...

 

[franjon]

Perhaps Jmac will go to Greene and slam him into the ground a few times in powerful tackles, really set an example!

You're not serious are you?

 

[Snake_Baker]

Joel?

 

[giantroo]

Joel?

Yep.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Yep.

Put on some size, nice.

What's the mail on our boy Bailey mate?

 

[Hojuman]

Put on some size, nice.

What's the mail on our boy Bailey mate?

Patch there too

 

[franjon]

First team to fly interstate on the morning of a game. Thanks Gil.

I think Gil is still under instruction to weed us out of the competition, if not, immediately, then by placing us against AFL instigated first round draft pick related organisations, at their home. Its either that or he still has the shits that we beat St Kilda. I have nothing against GWS.

The AFL are a bunch of fu**silly people.

With the new fly in fly out on the same day rules, why schedule the travelling team in for an early game?

This should have been a late afternoon game to allow us to prepare adequately for the game. They will leave to leave a the crack of dawn to fly up, transfer from the airport to the venue in plenty of time to prepare.

They may be, and are, a lot of thing's but they're not silly. Not when money becomes apart of it.

 

[Waussie]

The old Brad Scott regime has given me ptsd on this stuff. I can remember a lot of young players having a good crack and getting knocked out of the firsts. But Rhyce seems pretty switched on to it all.

Yeh! Felt that way too, but I'm coming around

 

[Fish Sticks]

Best three?!

When was the last time you called for the dropping of a best three player?!

3) Goldstein
2) Simpkin
1) Polec

HM's: Froggy, Atley, Cunners, Higgo, Tazz, J-Mac, Taylor, Jed (2nd half), Brown (2nd half), Zurhaar (2nd half), Thomas (2nd half).

Plenty of HM's that didn't his the stat sheet in the 2nd half.

You didn’t even have him in your best 3 NM players... he is listed 9th in your own post match votes...