Prediction Changes for Round 5 vs Sydney

[nameless]

And we wonder why we struggle to develop top tier mids...

 

[The_Gambler]

Embarrassing by Simpson to drop O'Neill and select Cripps. He is all talk. Learnt nothing from 2021

Simpson has learned nothing from 2019, 2020, or 2021

 

[kaiserchief13]

Some of the changes I get. The rest make no sense.

Rotham over Hough after doing nothing? Oneil dropped after 24 disposals. Cripps in after no match fitness in months. Get in the bin match committee

Simpson is a bad coach. Had enough of him

 

[EagleMan87]

Hopefully XON goes back to the WAFL and can build on his Pies performance. Won't be long until Shuey re-pings his hammy anyways.

 

[Sammy J]

Very surprised X was dropped. He’d be filthy with that.

 

[squashface]

O’Neill dropped is pretty cooked

 

[squashface]

And Cripps straight in is vomit

 

[kaiserchief13]

Very surprised X was dropped. He’d be filthy with that.

Bet he leaves end of year and so he should

 

[Nigellathechook]

Im not falling into that trap and tipping us like i did against Freo.

Midfield to go missing, no intensity.

Xon to sub for when Shuey does his hammy

 

[squashface]

Hey X you played a career best game but Fumbles Jamie wants to play so sorry

 

[Crimson King]

Rotham over Hough after doing nothing?

I'm guessing with Gov out, they decided to go with Rotham's experience in the backline over Hough's inexperience, which is still a bizzare call, considering Rotham has been nothing but garbage this season.

 

[Altum Volantes]

‘Better on Paper’

Guarantee you they don’t show up for this game.

Too many millionaires.

 

[BrotherDodge]

I hate dropping O'Neill for Cripps after what looked like a breakthrough game last week. Cripps' forward pressure has been vital for years, but with JJ, Rioli and Langdon out there, we can actually cover for him now and should have eased him back through the WAFL.

 

[new breed]

As Expected I suppose
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[mattyc75]

West shouldnt have been dropped. It'll be interesting to see the level of effort these guys coming back in give

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[Matera92]

Can't wait for Cripps to fumble his way to 0.4.

Good player when fit and in form but usually needs a few warm up games to find touch, his first is almost always an absolute mare.

Hope to be proved wrong!

XON out is just...baffling. our entire first string midfield are going to be rusty/underdone.

Can see us blowing up by three quarter time and being overrun comfortably.

Le sigh, fingers crossed the ins are raring to go.

 

[illegaleagle]

bad calls here, rushing all these players into the team. Cripps and Rotham should be WAFL. O'Nell getting dropped is terrible decision now the midfield will be unfit and struggle to run out the game

 

[Ochre]

Cripps is in for Waterman though. You can criticise O'Neill being dropped and Cripps being selected, but it's not as if it's one for the other

 

[Nuke Fremantle]

He's past his best but Kennedy out (the Sydney one) is a bonus for us.

How is Cripps coming straight back? If it was good enough for Yeo to play WAFL (and Shuey last year) why not him?

Really tough on O'Neill. Simpson has talked a lot about "synergies" yet he drops someone who is now just making his mark.

Can't wait for these underdone midfielders to blow up halfway through the 3rd. Bulldogs @ Optus 2021 style.

 

[Crimson King]

Previous history in regards to rushing back the seniors is concerning. Whenever we seem to back the youth, we play fearless, attacking footy, only for the seniors to be rushed back in and our playing style to go back to being conservative. Really hope this time is different.

 

[Spooky17]

Some crazy decisions there, really rough on XON, Hough and even West to an extent.

Wow.

 

[Keys]

Williams for Naitanui is forced as is HEdwards for McGovern

Rotham for Hough I don’t understand. Thought Hough played well and barely noticed Rotham in the last quarter when he came on to replace LEdwards. It also makes our backline look a little top heavy

Cripps for Waterman. Whilst I’m a fan of Waterman I don’t think he’s been playing well enough to hold his spot do his omission is fair enough. Whether Cripps is the right replacement see below

Shuey, Yeo, Kelly for LEdwards, O’Neill, West is a significant improvement no matter how well those 3 young guys played against Collingwood- on paper. Bringing all 3 back plus Cripps in the same game is a substantial risk given they’ve all had interrupted preparations

It feels like one too many changes and I think we could have give O’Neill another run to see how he goes with a little bit more quality around him. Hopefully I’m wrong and it doesn’t bite us on the arse.

That said it does feel good to be looking at team changes and being able to say there’s a couple of players genuinely unlucky to be omitted and there’s pressure on the 22 named to play well enough to hold their spots

 

[Biggie]

there’s pressure on the 22 named to play well enough to hold their spots

Is there though?

 

[Seadog]

Xon is the only unlucky player, everything else is the usual suspects throwing the toys out the cot.

 

[Woobla Stainz]

Sydney are a hard running team, don't think those ins are match fit enough to run with the swans for 4 qtrs

 

[new breed]

O'Neil probably our most solid midfielder coming through and I said this pre season when O'Neil wasn't "Cool" I copped it !! ......now dropped again , tough on Xavier but he's showing capable of playing AFL ....Wait and See