Preview Changes for next week V The Crows

[frizzle]

Blame me I think I jinxed him on Saturday.

 

[Mongo Ming]

So does anyone know what actually happened to Elliott?

Davoren pointed the bone at him from his car driving past the Holden Centre.

 

[surfer1]

Why wouldn't Elliott pull up sore?

Hasn't played for ages and played 75% of game time.

 

[Kirby]

I personally wouldn't drop Crocker for Fas if it's going to be wet.

 

[jackcass]

One out of left field to think about for Laird is Adams. He hasn't been at his best so far this year in the middle and with Adelaide having Crouch x2 out, we may already have the necessary cattle to cover them in the middle of the ground. I think Adams could be one who could really go to Laird and hassle him and hold him accountable. Using Pendles' selfless game against Cripps as an example, we shouldn't be afraid to use our guns in roles like this to benefit the side.

To do so we may want to bulk up our inside mid stocks so that means Sier or Wills could be considered.

We stand little chance against Adelaide unless we are quite bold & attacking and I think taking Cox into this game could be a mistake. Reading that there may be rain might be a big influencer of my thinking here but I think we need to go in with an even quicker, more attacking side as this is where Adelaide can be opened up at times I think. In the draw vs them last year we used Grundy on his own with Moore as backup.

Another thing that we have been doing well over the last couple of weeks is isolating guys like Sidey and Treloar up forward and this will be more difficult against Adelaide due to the quality of their medium/small defenders. Kelly and Brown are both guns and Doedee looks very promising. I think playing Fas instead of Crocker could benefit us here, as a player with his attacking quality (at best) will force the small/mid guys to be more accountable, and hopefully open it up a bit for others.

If Fas really struggles he could be replaced by Elliott, who I wouldn't bring in this week for an interstate trip off a 6 day break after only playing 3 quarters of footy. ANZAC Day for Billy.

Another game for Stephenson, will gain huge experience from playing in front of a big AO crowd & also benefit from travelling interstate with the squad. Plus, he's playing fairly well, running games out & making good decisions by foot.

Changes for me would be:

In: De Goey, Fasolo
Out: Cox, Crocker

B: Crisp Dunn Scharenberg
HB: Murray Howe Langdon
C: Aish Treloar Phillips
HF: De Goey Reid Adams
F: Varcoe Fasolo WHE
R: Grundy Pendles Sidebottom
I: Maynard Brown Thomas Stephenson

E: Wills, Crocker, Cox, Daicos

Crisp to Betts, Dunn to Walker, Shaz to Jenkins, Langdon to Lynch, Howe to McGovern.

I can understand why people are suggesting Cox out (I don't agree, but I can understand it) but if you do that then you need to have an alternate ruckman come into the squad. Can't go into a game assuming Pendles and Reid will give Grundy a chop out.

 

[jackcass]

he is sloppy at best. Make too many fundamental errors and turns the ball over. Buckley's love child so he is safe for now and we have no other option other than play him with our limited resources. I would be amazed if he was in our best 22 with a 100% healthy list

Prepare to be amazed.

 

[Maggie5]

Adams has been playing with a sore back for a couple of weeks.

Shame about Elliott, so one change De Goey or does Fas come in?

 

[CFC2010]

I can understand why people are suggesting Cox out (I don't agree, but I can understand it) but if you do that then you need to have an alternate ruckman come into the squad. Can't go into a game assuming Pendles and Reid will give Grundy a chop out.

Who gives Jacobs a chop out jackcass?

 

[The Plowking]

Adams has been playing with a sore back for a couple of weeks.

Shame about Elliott, so one change De Goey or does Fas come in?

DeGoey

 

[mike123]

Well that makes things easier

In: Fasolo, De Goey
Out: Crocker, Stephenson

 

[parvey]

Refer above no Elliott so Fasolo comes in for me.

Out = Stephenson & Cox due to weather and balance

Buckley said Fasolo won't play this week

 

[BringouttheGimp]

If we win Friday.. I'll wear g-bangers for the rest of the yr re.. but then again.. nothing's changed re.

 

[CFC2010]

Buckley said Fasolo won't play this week

F U Buckley

 

[BringouttheGimp]

F U Buckley

F U Blair

 

[CFC2010]

F U Blair

Love you Borthwick!

 

[The Daicos]

Tell ya what, we'll be up and about if we win this week.

 

[jackcass]

Who gives Jacobs a chop out jackcass?

Jenkins

 

[CFC2010]

Jenkins

Fair enough.......old man Reid will do then.

 

[brockbruiser]

Who plays on Jenkins and Walker? Howe and Sharenberg are too small I would have thought....

 

[Finnishpie]

Su

Why wouldn't Elliott pull up sore?

Hasn't played for ages and played 75% of game time.

They have said they were surprised and hadn’t planned him to pull up sore. Why not? Because he’s been training for a month. There’s sore and then there’s ‘sore.’

 

[Bloben]

Really wonder what is going on with Fasolo. From the outside he looks to be playing well enough and completely over his shoulder issues. Either he is not performing in some aspect that we are unaware of or maybe he is working through some things that may not be physical that the club is managing internally.

 

[Finnishpie]

Tell ya what, we'll be up and about if we win this week.

There’s about 10% chance of that...

 

[Finnishpie]

Really wonder what is going on with Fasolo. From the outside he looks to be playing well enough and completely over his shoulder issues. Either he is not performing in some aspect that we are unaware of or maybe he is working through some things that may not be physical that the club is managing internally.

Suspect they think he’s not good enough defensively and basically Crocker has taken his place.

 

[jackcass]

Fair enough.......old man Reid will do then.

Jenkins certainly isn't Dempsey or Nichols reincarnate but he's no mug and at 200cm and 110kg can hold his own. If Moore was still in the side I'd be happy we had coverage but losing Cox without decent backup is a mistake I think. Particularly if it's wet as by nature there will be more stoppages.

 

[Finnishpie]

The news about Elliot is seriously worrying. Either that ankle will never be the same, or he’s hurt I AGAIN. Either way, hate to be a doomsdayer, but he’s in trouble.