Preview Changes & Preview Thread for Round 2, 2026 vs Essendon @ Adelaide Oval

[Scholz Supremacy]

The start of the Josh Carr

Josh Carr

Age

46

Ht

179cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.8

4star

K

10.6

4star

HB

7.2

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.3

5star

CL

2.0

4star

No current season stats available

D

12.2

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

0.8

3star

era was so disastrous that you now don’t even feel confident against Essendon at home.

BZT or Ramm in for the injured Marshall.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Need to send a message at selection

 

[RossFC]

IN: Sweet, Lukosius, BZT, Zadow, Brodie, Lai
OUT: Visentini, Lord, Marshall (ankle), Mackinlay, Wehr, Jones

 

[Doctor Feel]

When is Marshalls funeral?

 

[Rigs]

IN: Sweet, Lukosius, BZT, Zadow, Brodie, Lai
OUT: Visentini, Lord, Marshall (ankle), Mackinlay, Wehr, Jones

Id leave Jones in over Lai but agree on the rest

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

Out: Lord, Visentini, Marshall (injury), Wehr, Watkins, Mackinlay, DBJ
In: Lukosius, Sweet, Ramm, Lai, Brodie, Moraes, Zadow

• Lord just isn't good full stop. Stop playing him for goodness sake.
• Visentini got belted against Xerri. Look at the contested possessions differential and his tapwork was just awful and kept tapping it to the North's mids.
• Ramm comes in even though he was meh in the pre-season because do we really want a team of Aliir, Ratugolea and BZT kicking the ball?
• Wehr was barely sighted and got caught out a few times and his efforts were putrid at times.
• Watkins was meh and we need some clearance beasts. Brodie would have been handy today.
• Mackinlay was not the worst but how he allowed Simpkin to mark the ball like that is droppable.
• DBJ because we should play the youth and Zadow does some things.

 

[RossFC]

Id leave Jones in over Lai but agree on the rest

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

 

[2121]

If Lord plays ever again for us ill burn the ****ing club rooms down.

 

[Rigs]

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

True

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

Jones is on watch. He had a few good moments but the amount of times he allowed Curtis to roam around. He was lucky Curtis missed a bit and that dropped mark infuriates me so much. Six years and he still cannot mark properly. Oh my god dude.

 

[Schulzenfest]

We're not dropping like 8 players after Round 1 guys. And given that this is a development year there's no point dropping Visentini for Sweet, especially after he just won the ruck against one of the best rucks in the league in Xerri despite being beaten around the ground.

Out: Lord, Watkins, Wehr
In: Luko, Brodie, Lorenz

Marshall for BZT if we have to but I hope we don't. If we have to lose Marshall I'd rather bring in Ramm, but I think he hurt himself in the SANFL over the weekend so I doubt he'll come in.

 

[Windy Cindy]

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

I thought he was okay.. showed some intent..

 

[Windy Cindy]

We're not dropping like 8 players after Round 1 guys. And given that this is a development year there's no point dropping Visentini for Sweet, especially after he just won the ruck against one of the best rucks in the league in Xerri despite being beaten around the ground.

Out: Lord, Watkins, Wehr
In: Luko, Brodie, Lorenz

Marshall for BZT if we have to but I hope we don't. If we have to lose Marshall I'd rather bring in Ramm, but I think he hurt himself in the SANFL over the weekend so I doubt he'll come in.

They’ll coaches apparently love wehr so he won’t get dropped.

 

[davesnothere]

There will be four changes maximum.

Mead was an emergency. Luko. Brodie. BZT.

Marshall injured?

I was disappointed with so many of the senior players.

Pick three

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

There will be four changes maximum.

Mead was an emergency. Luko. Brodie. BZT.

Marshall injured?

I was disappointed with so many of the senior players.

Pick three

I don't want Mead anywhere near the team. Please give Lai his debut.

 

[Shane_Mag]

I really want Lord to make it but it's hard to see it ever happening with another performance like today. Feel like Luko or even Sweet could have offered more up forward today.

 

[240volt]

I’d rather play Jordie Hinkley than Mead.

 

[Scodges]

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

Correct, I don’t know where you play jones, but it’s definitely not defence. Drops marks and fumbles, you cannot have these types defending,

 

[Schulzenfest]

How many more fumbles do you need to see?

I'm not a Jones fan at all but he was just about our best player in the first half. You're not dropping a bloke who tried his arse off for one bad fumble in a game where most of our guys were bad for 100 minutes, not just 1.

 

[Skindy]

Paul Curtis is one of the best small forwards in the comp and his side smashed ours today. Jones kept him to 7 touches and a goal. People need to reset expectations.

 

[jackag24]

I don't want Mead anywhere near the team. Please give Lai his debut.

Lai is a state league player. He wasn't even playing VFL if i'm correct? Feels like too often we build these players up only to immediately jump off them when it's evident they're just not up to it.

 

[jackag24]

Paul Curtis is one of the best small forwards in the comp and his side smashed ours today. Jones kept him to 7 touches and a goal. People need to reset expectations.

I didn't think Jones was that bad, i think the less you notice him, the better he's playing.

 

[jackag24]

If Marshall isn't injured, I'd be playing him forward over Lord, and put BZT back.

 

[Schulzenfest]

If Marshall isn't injured, I'd be playing him forward over Lord, and put BZT back.

Marshall back was literally the only thing we did today that worked and people want to change it?

 

[RossFC]

I'm not a Jones fan at all but he was just about our best player in the first half. You're not dropping a bloke who tried his arse off for one bad fumble in a game where most of our guys were bad for 100 minutes, not just 1.

Not 1 bad fumble in 1 game, it's 100 bad fumbles in almost every game in his career. He will never fix this problem.