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IN – Seedsman, Murphy
OUT – Gallucci, Poholke

Massive loss. Two of the youngest, most inexperienced players get the chop. Couldn't make this shit up.
FFS.
Gooch actually shows something, Mackay showed a stinking pile of shit. But yeah, carry on David. It's all good.

No probs with Seeds and Murph in. Good calls.
 
And this is a big issue.

Unfortunately only 2 reserves players put their hands up last week which gave our selectors the perfect out to lessen the blow on a diabolical effort by the senior players.

We've dropped 2 kids, now you could argue they deserved it, but then so did the majority of the senior players.

Surely on years work, ROB and Wilson deserve a crack, Hampton too probably
Initially I would have been all for Wilson getting a crack but the more I see of him I'm not seeing an AFL midfielder, lacks agility IMO....IMO his best hope of breaking into the AFL team would be at half back or wing, just looks like a straight line player the more I see of him. Whilst he has a super penetrating kick when he goes for it he misses too many targets for my liking.
 

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Look, my problem isn't that we dropped Gallucci and Poholke specifically. Poholke definitely deserved to go, Gallucci line ball.

But when you just drop young players these selections say "the fault for the loss is on the young blokes". When realistically it actually wasn't the young blokes that were abysmal, but senior players like Mackay, Jacobs, Lynch, etc.
Fair enough
They weren't dropping Lynch so Sauce and or Mackay job done
 
I really hope the Gooch can be a quality player for us, especially as I've been watching with envy at Witherden and Hayward pretty much since they debuted.

Interestingly, Gallucci racked up 286m gained against the Demons from only 7 possessions (all kicks), which is pretty amazing as it was higher than Greenwood (21 possessions), Gibson (22) and Gibbs (19) - as well as Doedee (21).

He definitely moves the ball forward whenever he gets his hands on it.
Glad to see someone else on here rate Hayward ... let's get him home .
Witherden showing plenty as well but you would have to wonder what they would be like with 2 years in the stifling system of the AFC two's
 
Just on Gallucci and Poholke - they are playing that high half forward role which is difficult to get into the game in.

Dougie struggled there initially before he got some solid midfield time. Now he goes ok at half forward but it took years.

Milera struggled there. Much better at half back. Knight finds it tough at times to get into the game.

Heck even Andrew McLeod struggled. Had to go to half back to start delivering.

For whatever reason, we refuse to use an easier half back role to ease our promising kids into the team. Instead we use it to extend the careers of Reilly, van Berlo, Mackay.

Sure, Galluci and Poholke have struggled but it's one of the toughest roles on the ground.
They probably could do worse than have Gooch on half-back. Penetrating if slightly erratic kick, quick across the ground and can tackle.
 
Just on Gallucci and Poholke - they are playing that high half forward role which is difficult to get into the game in.

Dougie struggled there initially before he got some solid midfield time. Now he goes ok at half forward but it took years.

Milera struggled there. Much better at half back. Knight finds it tough at times to get into the game.

Heck even Andrew McLeod struggled. Had to go to half back to start delivering.

For whatever reason, we refuse to use an easier half back role to ease our promising kids into the team. Instead we use it to extend the careers of Reilly, van Berlo, Mackay.

Sure, Galluci and Poholke have struggled but it's one of the toughest roles on the ground.
Funny thing with goal kicking. If Poholke kicked 2 goals instead of behinds, we would all say what a good game. He kicks points and now hes not up to it.
The footy club obviously thinks we r in flag contention ( last week was an off week). I donr think we can win it unless all the stars align, so instead of developing players., they bring in experienced average players

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**** it not watching. david mackay kept in whilst a promising junior dropped. bugger it. nup not watching, don't care. we will win and everything will be all good. losing by 90 plus never happened. losing by 50 plus to pies never happened.
 
**** it not watching. david mackay kept in whilst a promising junior dropped. bugger it. nup not watching, don't care. we will win and everything will be all good. losing by 90 plus never happened. losing by 50 plus to pies never happened.
You'll watch.
 
What you're saying might be the case if we continually lose by 10+ goals in consecutive games. We haven't lost like that since Pyke's coaching.

And if you reckon they're playing like that due to the psyche of the fans being soft on them, how would you explain the wins against Richmond (home) and Sydney (away). We didn't look very strong odds playing against formidable teams with some of our stars being injured. Were the fans rocking up expecting a win then?

North Melbourne at Hobart and then Melbourne at home last year ... Not only with Pyke coaching but back to back games . No changes made .
Look at all of our big losses over his tenure and they are almost all on big grounds and against very strong power running teams .
We are yet to find a counter for this . Melbourne twice , North Melb , Collingwood ( draw ) was the same before we fought back , Grand Final .
All of those games we had patches where we were destroyed without laying a finger on the opposition .
 

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Not the 1st coach to back in his senior players after a stinker and won't be the last. Pyke failed to drop players after the North and Ds losses last year, but hey, we made the GF.
Ida brought in O'Brien and dropped Sauce this week as well as the other two outs. The selectors see it differently. Hope Sauce can find form this week. He has been poor.
 

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