Preview Changes: R19 v Carlton

[Samcro24]

Well there is another option.

We retain Jacobs, Douglas and Mackay for another year. We retain everyone and go in with a largely unchanged senior side again, delaying the rebuild, ensuring we finish mid table while the older players we should be trading out in a rebuild lose value

Reckon if we go in with the same side next year then we slide to bottom 6. Which is why its bazzare that theyre clinging on to these older players.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Anyone else notice yet again this week Scott has managed another player. He has given most of his defensive unit a game off over the last month or so.

His concept of managing players is before they are injured, rather than because they are injured.

Then again we won't even manage some older players when they are clearly injured.

Our player management developing squad depth is shithouse!

 

[Scrogdogg]

I honestly think this is the worst state the crows list has been in since I started seriously following them. some of those names on the team sheet and emergency list simply should not be on an afl list or are cooked.

Yeah but the club is backing in Mackay, Hartigan, Knight etc and is confident they will respond. gloom.

 

[skam85]

Brad has never been held accountable in his entire career, his far too frequent failings have always been blamed on something and someone else. All season long he's defended nothing, created little, and largely jogged around avoiding work. I wish my job reviews sailed by as smoothly as do at the AFC.

If he's leading our B&F it really is a an example for the textbooks on sunk cost fallacy, and lack of objectivity.

If he's leading our B&F it simply proves you are once again wrong about a Crouch.

 

[hey shorty]

If he's leading our B&F it simply proves you are once again wrong about a Crouch.

He knows he's wrong, he just has to continue to pedal that line.

 

[skam85]

At least we're giving Wilson a go in case Greenwood or CEY leave.

His two AFL games of experience will be huge coming into 2020.

 

[hey shorty]

At least we're giving Wilson a go in case Greenwood or CEY leave.

His two AFL games of experience will be huge coming into 2020.

Sturt will be the real winners.

 

[skam85]

What quarter will we swing Otten forward after we find there is no suitable match up for him?

Pre-game

Tex late out, Douglas in from Emergencies.

 

[jackster83]

Do we know who travelled over as emergency?

 

[skam85]

To call him a "flog" is about the dumbest thing ever written on this forum.

and it's not even something written by marty

 

[skam85]

Remember when jack used to call Don the maestro and would pre-emptively declare the premierships we'd already won?

Don't forget bran nue mackae, who has not shown a single 'nue' quality since 2009.

 

[feenix67]

If he's leading our B&F it simply proves you are once again wrong about a Crouch.

Except he's not. It's just that we reward the wrong things.

 

[feenix67]

He knows he's wrong, he just has to continue to pedal that line.

I'd like you to give me your opinion on why we folded in the third last week.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

How on earth has Murphy continued to survive? Unbelievable. Also, would have been perfect game to get gooch back. Knight or McKay should have made way for him

Murphy and Kelly are the new Douglas and Mackay. Will play hundreds of okay games for us.

 

[Murray2503]

Yeah but the club is backing in Mackay, Hartigan, Knight etc and is confident they will respond. gloom.

Club would rather see Keath leave which seems likely at round 19 than retire Mackay, Douglas, Otten, Jacobs. You can't tell me we can't afford to match an offer with the salary cap space from these 4 retiring players.

 

[Deaneus!]

At least we're giving Wilson a go in case Greenwood or CEY leave.

His two AFL games of experience will be huge coming into 2020.

To be fair, after this weekend he'll have twice as much AFL experience as before

 

[Interloperer]

Murphy is doing a good job. He's a massive downgrade from the days of Cameron of course, but he's playing a role and clearly earning his spot.

My issue is that you get past Murphy and there are still forward line spots to pick.

 

[Geoffa32]

Murphy and Kelly are the new Douglas and Mackay. Will play hundreds of okay games for us.

Kelly is actually our best one on one defender at the moment.

Murph is still a kid. Taken as a Rookie and has some great raw traits for a small forward. Does lack polish but that will come with experience. I dont get the Murph hate given how much negativity there is about not playing youth.

I said after the GC that he Stengle and Eddie could be a good trio. Maybe going forward swap out Eddie for McHenry and we have a pretty decent trio of Small forwards.

Add in Fog and Hberg as the key forwards and that is a pretty decent forward line for the 2020s.

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[Murray2503]

At least we're giving Wilson a go in case Greenwood or CEY leave.

His two AFL games of experience will be huge coming into 2020.

Wilson is not the answer. He is not Afl standard and never will be. They are clasping at straws now. It's a sad state of affairs.

 

[footy4ever]

Anyone else notice yet again this week Scott has managed another player. He has given most of his defensive unit a game off over the last month or so.

His concept of managing players is before they are injured, rather than because they are injured.

Then again we won't even manage some older players when they are clearly injured.

Our player management developing squad depth is s**thouse!

He can afford to do that when the Cats are games clear on top of the ladder.

He's also lost 3 of the last 5. If the club was sitting 7th 8th 9th it wouldn't have been such a genius move.

 

[DJ75]

Claiming West Coast tanked is a bit unfair to them.

They had peaked in 2005-06 when they made two GFs and won one. They had an experienced list. Key players like Cousins, Chick, Braun, Banfield, Wirrpanda and Stenglein were just about done and Judd wanted to go home shortly after. A number of their other periphery players fell away too.

With all those players they basically had seven 200 gamers finish up around the same time. So they rebuilt the list.

The difference is that their 'just about done' players moved on. At Adelaide our 200 game 'just about done' players play another 50 games...

 

[Deaneus!]

Q. How many 30+ possession games has David Mackay played?

Spoiler

2 - vs Brisbane (R8, 2009) and Collingwood (SF, 2009), from 215 games

Q. How many 30+ possession games has Paul Seedsman played?

Spoiler

3 - vs Port (R14, 2013), West Coast (R22, 2013), and

Essendon (R4, 2015), from 98 games
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[Murray2503]

Don Pyke : "Age is just a number." Clueless.

 

[GreyCrow]

What's wrong with the emergency list ?? Keath aside it's exactly as it should be.

There is some validity in what you say in that naming those 3 doesn't impact on the naming of players

I take the view that your emergency list should be for injury concerns IE Fogarty for Tex.

And I think it should be used as a bait for "emergent" young players to let them know that with a little bit more work they will be selected.

If I am a junior player I see that emergency list and I don't get angry and want to fight for my spot, I get depressed knowing nothing has changed

 

[Deaneus!]

Don Pyke : "Age is just a number." Clueless.

Don Pyke: "Slow is just a speed"