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Won't get any disagreement from me on that, especially against Port the players to a man looked lost.
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Right now I think it's a case of either having Butts or McAsey in the side
Once Fischer gets a bit of the rookie year burnout, I'm sure Butts comes in to fill the void
Dunno but that might be the only thing we have going for us on Sunday. They won't be used to it, drink their own bathwater and not bring their A game.
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In a perfect world that's how it should be.
After all, the head coach is the one that gets sacked, or falls on his sword like Pyke, meanwhile the Harts and Campos seem to persist for an incompetently long tenure.
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We have just told Smith, Laird, Lynch, Seedsman, Atkins and others via selection that their performances were good enough.
It as pretty clear early in the week that we weren’t going to see changes this week. I kind of understand it, if we have a similar output and similar selection next week, then we’ve got serious problems with the new coach.
Surely the review sorted this out? It focused on running of the footy program so you would hope it covered this. It just seems so far there has been a massive shift in selection philosophy, only time will tell if that lasts.
No way Hart is here next season.
I hope you’re right and you may be. Other side of the coin is thst the people that selected Nicks did so as he was most aligned to their philosophies on football. Gets a pass this week, but if we’ve got underperforming senior players on Sunday there had better be changes that don’t include Mackay, Hartigan or Gibbs.
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Told you there would be minimal changes. Only one I thought he would drop would be Atkins but its his 100th so it was always going to be harsh to drop him.
Hamill in front of Gibbs, MacKay is all that matters for me. If players back up poor performances, Nicks has the justification after giving them a chance to respond.
Hamill in front of Gibbs, MacKay is all that matters for me. If players back up poor performances, Nicks has the justification after giving them a chance to respond.
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How do you think they're going to line up?
Key match ups I'm thinking
Sloane vs. Swallow
B Crouch vs. Rowell
M Crouch vs. Miller
Talia vs. King
Collins vs. Fogarty?
Key match ups I'm thinking
Sloane vs. Swallow
B Crouch vs. Rowell
M Crouch vs. Miller
Talia vs. King
Collins vs. Fogarty?
B Crouch vs. Rowell and game over.
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What happened to that guy who went on and on and on and on about Mackay being an emergency and it was literally impossible that Hamill, Sholl or McPherson would get a game before Mackay.
Slim pickings for the selection trolls this year.
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Half the bet up! Now just have to get Scholl in b4 Mackay...
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Nah I'll go with Malcolm Blight's version not yours if that's OK. ....
“It’s rubbish”: Blight blasts Adelaide’s defensive priority
The Crows have started the season with two defeats.www.sen.com.au
“There are three rules in football if you are going to keep it as basic as you can. The first one: you’ve got to plan to get the ball. If you’re not planning to get the ball and you’re prioritising defence, you’ll run second to the ball all the time, you’ll be beaten all the time. You follow your man, all you do is chase.
“The second thing is: use the ball. So plan to get the ball and then use the ball. Hopefully you get a goal.
“And the third and final thing is: if they get it, the nearest player puts on pressure. That’s as simple as the game is in its most simple philosophy.
“To say that you prioritise defence means that those blokes in the middle of the ground are going to be too worried about a midfield player getting the ball.
“It’s rubbish.
“Unless you’ve got the best team and the greatest defence and the best forward line, you’re not going to win. So you can’t pinch games by playing like that (defensively). I guarantee you now you’ll end up kicking five goals like they did.
“They’ll go up to the Gold Coast and if they can’t win this one they are gone.
“To actually prioritise defence, it’s rubbish.
“It is a rookie coach with a rookie idea. I’ll tell you now, it won’t work.”
Malcolm Blight had been a coaching advisor at Gold Coast from 2012 to 2015. By that he had played a rather significant role in what has been the greatest disaster the AFL has seen this decade with an absolutely stacked list talent wise (and with the AFL desperate for them to succeed due to wanting to break into that market) barely lasting 6 weeks in the top 8 throughout their existence.
In 2020, one of the last people you should be listening to with how to build a side is Malcolm Blight. Whilst a legend the game has passed him by, like it will do to everyone, eventually.
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I can’t really remember, I’d forgotten altogether. But now you mention it, haven’t I already lost?
Interestingly the general consensus was that Mackay being emergency meant he couldn’t get selected as only players with a run under the belt in scratches can. Now we see no seniors out and Mackay dumped into the scratch and yet this is now proof of the opposite for the same people. It’s difficult following people’s logic when they do a complete 180 on a firm belief from the week before and don’t even realise it.
Collins will likely take Fogarty so I’m keen to see Tex goes against a smaller Lukosius or Ballard.
He should dominate but his continued awful habit of regularly not even contesting the mark but going for the body or just sticking one hand in the air has me worried.
He should dominate but his continued awful habit of regularly not even contesting the mark but going for the body or just sticking one hand in the air has me worried.
I think the team would really benefit from a selection rule this year stating the worst performed senior player is out. Odds are at least one or two are going to stink it up so we should always have options. We really need to shake it up. Making no changes tells Atkins, Laird, Lynch, Tex, Seedsman, Smith, Brad etc that their spot in the team is secure no matter what. They certainly take this for granted and we have now this attitude that senior players are exempt from the rules.Sam Jacobs past year was a prime example of this entitlement.
I'm encouraged by the non selection of Mackay and dropping of Gibbs but we really needed to drop someone from the loss as a statement. It would help our other players perform if we did this frequently and not after months of poor performance.
I'm encouraged by the non selection of Mackay and dropping of Gibbs but we really needed to drop someone from the loss as a statement. It would help our other players perform if we did this frequently and not after months of poor performance.
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Nicksy has made a comment regarding experienced players by the non-selection of Gibbs, Hartigan and Mackay but these are the low hanging fruit. The next step is to drop one or more of Brown, Laird, Smith, Kelly, Atkins, Seedsman, Crouch x 2, Lynch and Walker if they have several poor games in a row. It is however early days, effectively game two in the restarted season.
Why perform microsurgery on who is named as an emergency unless you are looking for something to whinge about? None of the four emergencies from round one were promoted in round two, we brought in four different players (Doedee, McHenry, Crocker and Keays). None of the four emergencies from round two were selected this week, Hamill is our only in at this stage. So far the emergencies have had zero predictive power for changes in the following match but it is very early days.
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This! Very good post. The Crows' drubbing by PA reminded me of 2019 post-bye and every other hiding we copped when it all got too hard 2018-19 (shades of the Alice Springs debacle vs Melbourne, what an embarrassment that was).
The Crows are not picking up loose men, not running hard for each other, not showing any cohesion --- Nicks is talking team-first, hard-running, accountable footy, but I didn't see that last week.
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You're blaming the Suns lack of success on Blight......come on!!!
Malcolm Blight has a football brain. Discount what he says at your own peril.
What part of what he said in that article do you think is past its use by date?
Couldn’t agree more , I can’t think of a more bruise free leadership group in the comp than this lot
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Those last two sentences are especially damning/critical. I'm biased towards Blighty ever since he was playing SANFL; many years now, but he's right. GET THE BALL, first. A defensive mindset is reactive and won't do that.
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