Changes for Round 6 v Adelaide

[DanWCE]

Don't poke the bear. Looking forward to the first bounce!

 

[xInfected_Virus]

He doesn't know that Nic Nat beat Max Gawn in round 1.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Oh that tweet is glorious.

Over to you Nic

 

[SloppyJoe]

My god I can't stop laughing at Reilly "IT skills of an octogenarian" O'Brien inadvertently spilling the beans on his masterplan.

 

[Coasters7]

Any danger of the boys not being on just disappeared I reckon

Im pencilling Nic in for a 16km game with 90% TOG after that. Reilly better lube up.

 

[WCEswift]

What on Earth is going on at Adelaide?

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Adelaide Crows ruckman Reilly O’Brien posts bizarre tweet about Nic Naitanui
West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui is ‘lazy and unfit’, according to a tweet posted from the social media account of the man he will go head-to-head with this week.

West Coast star ruckman Nic Naitanui is “lazy and unfit”, his Adelaide Crows counterpart Reilly O’Brien has posted on social media.
In what looks to be an unintended public posting O’Brien has derailed the plan to stop the Eagles star when the Crows play them on Saturday.
In the now deleted tweet, O’Brien posted some of the ways the Crows may try and stop Naitanui.
“Run off him hard, he is lazy and unfit,” O’Brien’s Tweet said.
“Will have a field day getting ball and marking everything.
Get to front and have grunt around the ground, and get ball on deck, beat him in this area.”
O’Brien is now the Crows No. 1 ruckman after the departure of Sam Jacobs to GWS in the off-season.
The Crows have been contacted about the Tweet.

Well hes probably just pissed him off

 

[Karim Abdul Yeo]

Last week was literally the first time all season we went that tall in the forward line. Before that Waterman was out of the team and Allen (or Hickey, as the second ruck) spent little to no time up forward.

It worked very well against Sydney in fine conditions and we’ll probably look similar this week, but what makes you think we’ll just automatically line up like that every week from here on out?

Fundamentally speaking we go tall most of the time because it suits our game Plan. Allen was out but Hickey was in and Brander is semi tall similar to snake. I have no issues with this strategy if conditions are ideal. Good luck to any team in AFL including tigers trying to beat us in dry conditions, It is going to be very hard for them. The problem is that the difference between our best and our worst ( I am referring to worst as a combo of actual form and incorrect game plan in rainy conditions which our coach or any coach never admits) is too great. That is our problem in a nutshell.I look at great teams in Lions, Cats, Hawks even our great 04-07 team and see one common theme- They found ways to win even if conditions didn't suit them. To me as a fan, I just like to know why we don't try to develop plans for worst case scenarios that are different to our core game plan. I am sure plans are there but clearly players haven't bought into it or adjusted. Footy is a different game in the wet versus dry, never mind if your team's key strengths are kicking and marking, the exact two areas where in the rain you would expect less than average ROI.
I am happy to go tall in the rain as well, but I would love to see a different plan altogether in the rain, handball dogs style run and carry and we get caught so be it, it is still a better approach. at least we are trying different things. It is a joke watching the boys trying pin point kicks and looking for marks in rainy conditions. I don't know, that is pretty basic observation but who am I to speak. Just a fan we no medals or premierships or anything.

 

[Astro7]

To me as a fan, I just like to know why we don't try to develop plans for worst case scenarios that are different to our core game plan. I am sure plans are there but clearly players haven't bought into it or adjusted. Footy is a different game in the wet versus dry, never mind if your team's key strengths are kicking and marking, the exact two areas where in the rain you would expect less than average ROI.
I am happy to go tall in the rain as well, but I would love to see a different plan altogether in the rain, handball dogs style run and carry and we get caught so be it, it is still a better approach. at least we are trying different things.

Plan A (Dry) = The Harlem Globetrotters
Plan B (Wet) = The Grinding Groundhogs

* Great, some added spice in the centre this week re mis-tweet! Can't wait...

 

[Ok Boomer]

Nice publicity stunt by O'Brien ahead of the big fight but I am predicting a first round knockout with Nic Nat the victor.

 

[FreeTK]

 

[Chris_6678]

I actually wish the players could actually say stuff like that and if they cant back it up ah well!

Better than hearing the um ahhs and taking it a week at a time garbage we hear week in week out.

 

[Rowan18]

Just to move the discussion back about actual changes in the changes thread, here’s my crack at today’s announcement:

In: Cameron, Brayshaw
Out: Jones, Shuey

B: Sheppard, Barrass, Cole
HB: Hurn, McGovern, Duggan
C: Gaff, Kelly, Redden
HF: Cripps, Darling, Waterman
F: Ryan, Kennedy, Ah Chee
R: Naitanui, Sheed, Yeo
I: Nelson, Allen, Cameron, Brayshaw
E: Williams, Rotham, Petruccelle, Reid

Brayshaw to debut in Shuey’s place, although not with the same midfield minutes and CSAs that Shuey normally has, Sheed will probably be the guy to pick up more than he’s been getting. Redden to stay on the wing (for some reason) in the continued absence of Brander who I suspect won’t get up.

Cameron a straight swap for Jones.

No unforced changes. Reid into the emergencies since he’s apparently training the house down.

Considered Partington, Mutimer and Josh Smith for Shuey’s spot but ultimately decided Brayshaw was a better choice.

Dude, have you even read this thread? Brayshaw will have to play HFF.

In seriousness, is there actually a HFF anymore? I remember a few years ago, the AFLCA brought out their own version of All-Australian that had the position listed the way the teams actually structure up these days. It was a very different looking list to your traditional structure. That was too much for the media to handle, so it never got traction.

 

[DickDunn]

RIP ROB

 

[Rowan18]

Is it just me or our game plan and team selection is heavily suited to perfect conditions. If it rains, we are screwed. I am not blaming any of these individuals due to combination of their current form and obvious history of performing and senior status.Having NN, JK, JD, OA and Waterman in a same lineup is terrible terrible coaching selection playing with fire. Our game relies heavily on kicking and marking, so smart teams will take that away from us by exploiting this. If the weather is bad, they are pretty much just have to show up knowing we are gonna go tall again. now you cant fix this by replacing talls with short either. Us going short does not automatically fix our problem cuz of our game plan of kick mark. I am just perplexed why Simmo continues to persist with tall timber all the time. That's your plan A, it works under specific circumstances, we get it. That game against tigers at the G last year was a perfect example of two half of footy impacted by conditions and obv the opponent was a quality one too who showed up. watching that tape over and over again should be their priority. It is easy said than done, I know but when you lose and the coach same old regurgitation of " we back our boys every week" where conditions are terrible for tall, is pointed at the coach and his support not necessarily the individuals. If from now until GF every week was sunny pitch perfect, you would be silly to bet against us any where in AUS.

Good thing that due to the COVID delays, most of this season will be played in spring with the GF possibly in summer (or at least late spring) and at Optus. Dry weather gameplan will get the win.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Fundamentally speaking we go tall most of the time because it suits our game Plan. Allen was out but Hickey was in and Brander is semi tall similar to snake.

Fundamentally speaking we are going tall of late because we’re short (no pun intended) on small players who warrant a spot. We’re missing Rioli, Venables and hopefully until this week Cameron, and Petruccelle and Cripps have been in terrible form, in the former’s case so much so that he was dropped.

We tried to make do for the first few weeks, then bit the bullet last week and brought in Waterman, while also putting our resting ruckman in the forward line rather than on the bench - one of Naitanui or Allen was on the bench just 56% of the time last week, the previous week with Naitanui/Hickey that was 96% and the week before that with Naitanui/Allen it was 86%. So that made our forward line significantly taller than it had been in previous weeks.

Brander has been running around on the wing playing Masten’s role. I fail to see how his extra height compared with Masten has any real impact on our overall team balance.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Anyway back to Parto, he was robbed.

 

[squashface]

Anyway back to Parto, he was robbed.

Wouldn’t mind Reilly O’Brien coming in for Parto

 

[JohnW]

Last week was literally the first time all season we went that tall in the forward line. Before that Waterman was out of the team and Allen (or Hickey, as the second ruck) spent little to no time up forward.

It worked very well against Sydney in fine conditions and we’ll probably look similar this week, but what makes you think we’ll just automatically line up like that every week from here on out?

It won us a flag pretty much. Sub Waterdog for Lecca.

 

[JohnW]

Anyway back to Farto, he was robbed.

EFA

 

[RookiePick]

He looks more than just a bit sheepish.

He knows he's going to get an absolute bath on the weekend.

Guarantee he broke the phone as he realised he had just posted to twitter.

"Wait, wait, wait! Oh ****, **** ****! Delete, delete DELETE!" Giant lummox fingers stabbing at phone screen and destroying said device.

 

[DanWCE]

Anyway back to Parto, he was ROB'd.

Fixed

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

It won us a flag pretty much. Sub Waterdog for Lecca.

Yes, very good point.

Changes between the premiership 22 and last week’s 22:
Naitanui for Lycett
Allen for Vardy
Waterman for LeCras
Jones for Rioli
Gaff for Masten
Kelly for Hutchings
Ah Chee for Venables
Sheppard for Schofield
Nelson for Jetta

Waterman/LeCras is the only one that makes us taller, and LeCras circa 2018 wasn’t exactly the most agile guy going around.

 

[Chris_6678]

I dont think there will be debut today.

Ryan Daniels usually gets a sniff for debuts.

It will end up being Cameron & Ainsworth/Brander.

Not phased if we bring in Ainsworth and see if he worth persisting with.

 

[Numero Uno]

Ainsworth and Cameron for mine

 

[Chris_6678]

Well looks like i was right.