Preview Changes: Round 11 vs GWS

[Redleg Crow]

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.

 

[Bicks]

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.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Hasn’t he got another year?

Yes then he will get delisted

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Dropping Gallucci? Get f**ked. Jacobs,Lynch and Mackay should be gone before him.

Way to send a message after an embarrassment last week.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

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

 

[ShadeyP]

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

 

[SuperBashBros]

Douglas just said on 5aa that Gooch was looking a bit tired. Unsure if hes playing SANFL this week or not. Makes a bit more sense why they made the change and arent getting more games into him.

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[hey shorty]

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.

 

[hey shorty]

Douglas just said on 5aa that Gooch was looking a bit tired. Unsure if hes playing SANFL this week or not. Makes a bit more sense why they made the change and arent getting more games into him.

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They have the bye.

 

[jirkago]

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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[thebirdman 24]

**** 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.

 

[hey shorty]

**** 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.

 

[ShadeyP]

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 .

 

[ShadeyP]

Douglas just said on 5aa that Gooch was looking a bit tired. Unsure if hes playing SANFL this week or not. Makes a bit more sense why they made the change and arent getting more games into him.

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What was Dougies excuse for himself and Mackay ??

 

[hey shorty]

What was Dougies excuse for himself and Mackay ??

Douglas had 20 and kicked 2 goals, of all senior guys he probably didn't need an excuse.

Mackay had an acute case of shitmyselfitis

 

[ShadeyP]

Douglas had 20 and kicked 2 goals, of all senior guys he probably didn't need an excuse.

Mackay had an acute case of shitmyselfitis

He had 18 and kicked a couple , so what ... he played lazy as hell .

 

[Jinglebells32]

It was the act of a player begging to be dropped

It was the only part of the game that I saw. Just got home from daughter's dancing lesson, saw Mcspud and went to mow the lawns.

 

[hey shorty]

He had 18 and kicked a couple , so what ... he played lazy as hell .

Not really

 

[ShadeyP]

Not really

What not really that you want to use stats for your argument but you then inflate them ?
Douglas was shit house last week . Played one way .
He was not the only one

 

[AndysOtters]

They have the bye.

Might be even more of a reason to drop him for the week. Gets a rest, without having to leave him out of the sanfl team and explain to the media that it’s not another injury.

No idea if he is tired and needs the rest though.

 

[Schulzycrow]

Not even remotely surprised with these ins and out. Gold cards all round.

 

[ShadeyP]

We hate accountability, don’t we?

There is awareness of what it should be .

 

[jenny61_99]

They have the bye.

In three weeks.

 

[beartoo]

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.

 

[Bicks]

In three weeks.

SANFL