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[Steve Dore]

He said when someone else debuted that sub is a great way to ease into your first game. Terrible opinion, but it's the most thought I've heard Ken put into a tactical decision for years.

It actually doesn't ease someone into there first game though. The player is sitting on the bench all anxious and full of nervous energy not knowing if they are going to be subbed on in the first quarter due to an injury or sit on the bench until Donuts decides to put them on half way through the last quarter. For a guy whose strength is supposedly people management he's pretty clueless.

A better way would be to start them on the interchange having told them in advance that they will be rotated on around the five minute mark for ten minutes. Depending on how they go, and providing we don't lose more than one player to injury, their game time can then be managed.

 

[The Hobo]

It's not very odd if you look at through the lens of the Club doing everything they can to tap him on the shoulder without directly tapping him on the shoulder.

Or he's just struggling through a back injury.

 

[Sewer de Lance]

Mead had to be dropped on selection integrity alone. We’re just another franchise making up the numbers thanks to Koch & his merry band of sycophantic ***kwits.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Poor Moraes in the guernsey preso for Liddy he looked depressed as

 

[Windy Cindy]

Mead is starting to venture into “wouldn’t get a game if his name was Jackson Smith” territory.

Way past that, that happened 30 games ago

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol play the 100 year old with a back injury while Lorenz rots. Sound.

 

[Chewy316]

What’s your mail on why the coaches don’t rate Lorenz?

I've got nothing on Lorenz. Your guess is as good as mine.

Or he's just struggling through a back injury.

He's been struggling with his back for years. He's still been telling the Club he's got so much left to give.

 

[TazD]

Boak can give what's left to St Kilda or some other shitheap.

 

[chachi11]

He's been struggling with his back for years. He's still been telling the Club he's got so much left to give.

lol...he's cooked.
Getting rid of Hinkley and Boak and their "more to life than football" mantra is much needed.

 

[rignanv]

Boak managed two weeks after a bye and not playing SANFL. It's been very odd the way his season has played out.

Thought he was alright last week too. Especially in the second half

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Boak managed two weeks after a bye and not playing SANFL. It's been very odd the way his season has played out.

The strange thing is we seem to be managing Boak in home games, but we send him to play in Perth and Canberra. And I'm surprised he did't play in Ballarat.

 

[Steve Dore]

The strange thing is we seem to be managing Boak in home games, but we send him to play in Perth and Canberra. And I'm surprised he did't play in Ballarat.

Strange really. Sitting in a commercial aircraft seat never does any good for my back even on a short flight to Malbun.

 

[Jonts]

I love how every Sunday game we name a ruck as an emergency and every time people freak out but this time it was finally worth it

 

[Jonts]

Wasn't one of Boaks earlier managed "I have a cold"

 

[Tibbs]

Dixon was never elite. One AA season in 9 years at Port is not elite. He only led our goalkicking 3 times in the 9 years we had him.

He was by far the best we had over that period, but he was nowhere near as good as you make it out.

The problem with Dixon was NOT Dixon! At any of the good clubs, under a better system, he would have been a champion & had multiple AA's.

He was dudded by the game plan of the same oaf that he kept defending!

 

[RossFC]

Wasn't one of Boaks earlier managed "I have a cold"

I thought it was his back?

 

[Mr Gor]

I was going in to bat for Mead a month or so ago when he was getting 15-20 touches a game and going at around 80% efficiency. But the guy has been a passenger since then. The reluctancy of the coaches to drop him, especially when they're not playing guys like Lorenz, is indicative of the lack of accountability at the club.

 

[MrChow]

i dont mind the two rucks.

Perhaps they can unsettle any Gawn rhythm, and at least we get first hands on it for 5-7 minutes Gawn sits on the pine.

I reckon Vis will go forward a bit more than Sweet, and surely him and Sweet can bring the ball to ground better than what Jez did last week.

The question is whether they can get Georgi more space

 

[afl2004]

Two teams who make scoring look difficult and love to bomb in hope

It's going to be a shitfest

 

[It Just Is]

Visentini on a wing? Or is our plan to pretend wings don’t exist anymore.

It’s not a strong field but one of Boak, Lorenz and Moraes is better than Mead and a Drew being cut up by outside runners, again.

 

[davesnothere]

Should have given Whitlock a crack, couldn't be any worse than Fin or a RUCK forward.

That is going to be the take out post game.

If it wasn’t for the “fact” we are in the premiership window we would not be playing a non forward in a forward role.

Whitlock isn’t ready but at least there’s an upside.

 

[davesnothere]

i dont mind the two rucks.

Perhaps they can unsettle any Gawn rhythm, and at least we get first hands on it for 5-7 minutes Gawn sits on the pine.

I reckon Vis will go forward a bit more than Sweet, and surely him and Sweet can bring the ball to ground better than what Jez did last week.

The question is whether they can get Georgi more space

Gawn isn’t going to be fazed by 2 rucks doing what one ruck should.

Melbournes midfield rotations may end up looking a bit better than ours.

I don’t think rucks can “rest” forward anymore. It’s not 1995 you play within a kick of the ball or we are a player down and they have a player loose.

See how it plays out but not liking Dante or Sweet playing forward.

 

[TeeKray]

My thoughts before selection were that we'd be better off playing no ruckman and just picking an extra runner because Gawn is going to slaughter us no matter what and they actually went the other way and picked two of them to get annihilated, great stuff lol.

 

[240volt]

This two rucks bs is taking me back to the 60s when we had Salmon and Spencer playing.
Just when you think the selections can’t get anymore stupid they pull this move.
We’re shitting ourselves before the game has even started.

 

[SC_Power]

I reckon we should have played Soldo first half to just run into Gawn and try to wear him down with Dante as a resting forward, then vis into the middle in the 3rd qtr to wear down Gawn some more whilst Sweet comes in as a sub for Soldo, then hopefully we are within 3 goals so Sweet can go into the ruck in the 4th to break even with an exhausted Gawn so our midfield can try and win us the game.

4d chess in a paragraph.