Preview Changes: R10 vs Melbourne - Crows drop Hamill but keep Mackay

[DJ75]

Assuming Tex and McHenry are available for selection this week.
Some big decisions required. We simply can't go in with 1 big defender again. The tanking is getting too obvious.

So, my team looks like the following:

B: Brown Butts Jones
HB: Doedee Murray Smith
C: Seedsman Sloane Sholl
HF: Thilthorpe Tex Schoenberg
FF: Rowe Fogarty McAdam

1R: ROB Laird Keays

Int: Hamill ROC McHenry Berry

That means:

IN
Tex, Murray, McHenry

OUT
Kelly, Frampton, Mackay

Decisions:

Murray in for Kelly. Kelly unlucky to be squeezed out, but we need that extra tall defender. Kelly is the weakest and easiest to replace.
Jones looked good, so we need to settle him there. He should play the rest of the season in that same role. Hamill is part of the defensive rotations.
Tex for Frampton is easy. Forward line looks more dynamic with Thilthorpe and Fog alongside Tex. Please talk to the players about not kicking it to Tex all the time and instead honouring the leads of the forwards no matter who they are. This might encourage McAdam to keep leading. He is much more dangerous when he gets moving.
ROC deserves another game. Based on the physical size of Melbourne's midfield, it would be a good game for him.
Mackay simply has to make way. No justification in keeping him. McHenry in.

Is it just me or does this line up look much better than what we have been running with in the past month or so?

 

[crows dude]

Or we could play them both this week as key defenders lol.

Hey not the worst idea. Berg has played back before and none reason Billy cant go back there

 

[DJ75]

Hey not the worst idea. Berg has played back before and none reason Billy cant go back there

Actually is the worst idea.
We have Murray who has played and done well as a key defender. We have McAsey who is a top draft pick and a key defender. We have Worrell who is almost Key position size and in need of a game.

Pushing Frampton or Himmelberg in to those roles, without trying the actual defenders first would be awful for morale.

 

[1970crow]

Actually is the worst idea.
We have Murray who has played and done well as a key defender. We have McAsey who is a top draft pick and a key defender. We have Worrell who is almost Key position size and in need of a game.

Pushing Frampton or Himmelberg in to those roles, without trying the actual defenders first would be awful for morale.

exceptional for continuity among the 22 though. So ticks all the boxes.

 

[DJ75]

exceptional for continuity among the 22 though. So ticks all the boxes.

 

[jackster83]

Actually is the worst idea.
We have Murray who has played and done well as a key defender. We have McAsey who is a top draft pick and a key defender. We have Worrell who is almost Key position size and in need of a game.

Pushing Frampton or Himmelberg in to those roles, without trying the actual defenders first would be awful for morale.

It would also see us investigated for tanking.

 

[crows dude]

Actually is the worst idea.
We have Murray who has played and done well as a key defender. We have McAsey who is a top draft pick and a key defender. We have Worrell who is almost Key position size and in need of a game.

Pushing Frampton or Himmelberg in to those roles, without trying the actual defenders first would be awful for morale.

Worrell is actually 195cm so taller than Murray and most certainly could play key. I was trying to make a bad joke before but hey id still rather Berg on a 200cm monster than Doedee or Kelly who are 187cm.

 

[Mutineer]

Worrell is actually 195cm so taller than Murray and most certainly could play key. I was trying to make a bad joke before but hey id still rather Berg on a 200cm monster than Doedee or Kelly who are 187cm.

Nope, he's not a KPD, He's a 3rd tall forward/defender/interceptor who could possibly play on a wing if developed that way. Murray plays more like a KPD than Worrell.

 

[RoweyThePainter]

Doubt any players will be promoted this week since no SANFL game last week. Hell, they couldn't get promoted showing good form.

 

[DJ75]

Doubt any players will be promoted this week since no SANFL game last week. Hell, they couldn't get promoted showing good form.

You under estimate training form...

 

[Mutineer]

 

[Slippery Pete]

Hey not the worst idea. Berg has played back before and none reason Billy cant go back there

No reason?

I could give you 20 right off the bat. I could wake up from a drunken stupor and still give you about nine

 

[Bazz_27]

No reason?

I could give you 20 right off the bat. I could wake up from a drunken stupor and still give you about nine

He actually said none reason so assume it's a joke, not a funny one but a joke.

 

[MrBarry]

We are paying £5.40 for the win here $9.80ish for all you chaps back home.

The gambling degenarate in me is tempted to stick a bit of money on us, as I genuinely think we are a silly chance. Am I dillusional?

 

[1970crow]

You under estimate training form...

training firm keeps underperforming seniors in the side, it can't be used to promote inexperienced juniors.

 

[Slippery Pete]

training firm keeps underperforming seniors in the side, it can't be used to promote inexperienced juniors.

I gotta say that is something I’ve never tried, it sounds awfully uncomfortable

 

[1970crow]

We are paying £5.40 for the win here $9.80ish for all you chaps back home.

The gambling degenarate in me is tempted to stick a bit of money on us, as I genuinely think we are a silly chance. Am I dillusional?

so your stake is in $au but they pay out in GBP? We should all be getting on.

 

[MrBarry]

so your stake is in $au but they pay out in GBP? We should all be getting on.

Nah stake is in GBP, it's on Betfair - doubt you can access it from outside GB.

What are the odds back in Oz?

 

[1970crow]

I gotta say that is something I’ve never tried, it sounds awfully uncomfortable

I can't do it. As soon as I do any form of excercise old mate reacts as if I've jumped into an ice bath. No blood for you!!!

 

[1970crow]

Nah stake is in GBP, it's on Betfair - doubt you can access it from outside GB.

What are the odds back in Oz?

what I was saying is that your 5 pound 40 is our $5.40 because your stake is in pounds, ours in $, the ratios are the same.

 

[MrBarry]

what I was saying is that your 5 pound 40 is our $5.40 because your stake is in pounds, ours in $, the ratios are the same.

Yes correct, which favours me massively! You'd think they would adjust the ratios.....

 

[1970crow]

Yes correct, which favours me massively! You'd think they would adjust the ratios.....

how does it do that?

 

[MrBarry]

how does it do that?

Well if the odds in Australia are $5.40, I'd have thought that would make us about £2.70 over here - but seems like they aren't doing that.

 

[WeedsMullet84]

Actually is the worst idea.
We have Murray who has played and done well as a key defender. We have McAsey who is a top draft pick and a key defender. We have Worrell who is almost Key position size and in need of a game.

Pushing Frampton or Himmelberg in to those roles, without trying the actual defenders first would be awful for morale.

And yet we did this with Fogarty going into midfield, when there were multiple better options who were performing in the SANFL ahead of him.


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[BrissyCrow]

And yet we did this with Fogarty going into midfield, when there were multiple better options who were performing in the SANFL ahead of him.


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True but just because we did that with Fog doesnt mean will will do a similar thing with our defense. Although I admit this is the AFC.