Preview Changes: Round 11 vs GWS

[ams4crows]

I feel for O'Brien he honestly deserves a game, He's been playing well in the SANFL but Sauce knows if he says he's hurt he'll miss more than one game and O'brien might shine.

 

[Scorpus]

Hasn’t he got another year?

Poholke is signed to the end of 2020

 

[GreyCrow]

Better to make a statement than win a crucial game.

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Do you think Mackay is going to be the difference? Do you think ROB is going to be so bad that it changes the game if he plays and Sauce rests?

If Sauce doesnt rest then winning crucial games may be the last thing that matters

 

[Scorpus]

Do you think Mackay is going to be the difference? Do you think ROB is going to be so bad that it changes the game if he plays and Sauce rests?

If Sauce doesnt rest then winning crucial games may be the last thing that matters

Yep, having Mackay in the side instead of Gallucci will be the difference. Apparently.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Our vision rarely extends beyond the weekend

 

[GreyCrow]

Our vision rarely extends beyond the weekend

Its not a new problem either

 

[CrowinNT]

When we're getting beaten at the start of a game, would the senior players be thinking:

****! This could be my career on the line here. Better absolutely bust my arse to help us get back in this. Would rather lose my right arm than lose my spot.

Or are they thinking:

Gee! This isn't like us. Not our day. Happens sometimes I guess. Event not a trend. We'll do better next time.

I am sure I listened to an Interview with Eddie. He was somewhat helpless in what he could do on Sunday.
Everyone on here knows my love of Indegenous players.
When I heard his comment I thought you have a senior voice buddy speak up of what needs to be fixed

 

[1970crow]

You can only laugh and shake your head at this point

If there's a young player to drop, Mackay must survive. They really are a joke. Was he named in the field?

 

[spenze]

Cool, at least we know who is to blame for that debacle in Alice Springs

 

[dplggr47]

Sauce was the one senior player that deserved to be dropped above all else. Followed by Lynch, but I guess the coach is giving them a second chance to redeem themselves.

I feel for O'Brien he honestly deserves a game, He's been playing well in the SANFL but Sauce knows if he says he's hurt he'll miss more than one game and O'brien might shine.

Honestly, don't think O'Brien could do any worse than what Sauce put up last week and doubt we'll really know what O'Brien is capable of until we give him a few games in a row at AFL level. Might as well see if he's worth persisting with or delist material.

 

[CrowinNT]

If there's a young player to drop, Mackay must survive. They really are a joke. Was he named in the field?

You darn well know he's named on the bench most times.
When he is omitted please tell us his SANFL history of redeeming form b4 he gets back. Your harsh

 

[FantasticShirt]

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.

The problem remains that other than perhaps O’Brien for Jacobs we have no ready replacements for Mackay, Lynch or any of the other handful of shit performers. Our SANFL side is being smashed every week and no one there is knocking the door down for AFL selection. Do you reward shit SANFL performance to punish shit AFL performance?

If we had a fully fit list then players like CEY, Fogarty, Mackay, Murphy, Atkins, Milera, Hartigan etc etc are all much more likely to be playing SANFL which gives us options.

That said I would’ve liked to see Jacobs omitted/rested. He’s some combination of too old, drastically dropped off in form and/or his back is really bad. Either way O’Brien could do the job he’s currently doing.

 

[dplggr47]

Everyone knows there's no point in dropping Mackay. From previous history, Mackay always returns two weeks later after a single average SANFL game, so what's the point in putting everyone through that? Just leave him in the team.

The problem remains that other than perhaps O’Brien for Jacobs we have no ready replacements for Mackay, Lynch or any of the other handful of shit performers. Our SANFL side is being smashed every week and no one there is knocking the door down for AFL selection. Do you reward shit SANFL performance to punish shit AFL performance?

Hampton could probably play Mackay's role? Or Atkins can play whatever role Mackay plays.

 

[hey shorty]

Our vision rarely extends beyond the weekend

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

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

IN – Seedsman, Murphy
OUT – Gallucci, Poholke

Massive loss. Two of the youngest, most inexperienced players get the chop. Couldn't make this shit up.

My question is would we lose much playing the Gooch ahead of either Gibson or Mackay... given the Gooch has a far bigger upside?

 

[hey shorty]

My question is would we lose much playing the Gooch ahead of either Gibson or Mackay... given the Gooch has a far bigger upside?

Gibson I can see, we need midfield depth, but Mackay...... I'm not sure what he brings with Seeds back in.

 

[rocket18]

Don't we ever learn?

Why are our coaching team so pathetic at the selection table, truly bizzare.

If only our coaches were of the same calibre as our recruitment team.

 

[SugarShane]

Classic Crows. Drop the two young blokes while our serial underperformers get another golden ticket because they've played more games.

And round and round we go.

Shame sportsbet don't take bets on selection.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Gibson I can see, we need midfield depth, but Mackay...... I'm not sure what he brings with Seeds back in.

Gooch may get less of the ball until he develops, but both Gibson & Mackay have little hurt factor with their possessions & imo it's a mistake to have both in our team.

 

[Elite Crow]

The problem remains that other than perhaps O’Brien for Jacobs we have no ready replacements for Mackay, Lynch or any of the other handful of shit performers. Our SANFL side is being smashed every week and no one there is knocking the door down for AFL selection. Do you reward shit SANFL performance to punish shit AFL performance?

If we had a fully fit list then players like CEY, Fogarty, Mackay, Murphy, Atkins, Milera, Hartigan etc etc are all much more likely to be playing SANFL which gives us options.

That said I would’ve liked to see Jacobs omitted/rested. He’s some combination of too old, drastically dropped off in form and/or his back is really bad. Either way O’Brien could do the job he’s currently doing.

What would Galluci look like off half back?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

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

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.

 

[spenze]

Gooch may get less of the ball until he develops, but both Gibson & Mackay have little hurt factor with their possessions & imo it's a mistake to have both in our team.

Even when Mackay fumbles the ball, it costs us goals these days

 

[SES SA]

I would have dropped a 3rd but also dropped those 2 . The 3rd would have been either Sauce or Mackay . Prob Sauce

Why not both?

 

[Bearded Clam]

My question is would we lose much playing the Gooch ahead of either Gibson or Mackay... given the Gooch has a far bigger upside?

And given gooch has a much bigger potential future with the club..

I can’t see why gooch goes out and mackay holds his spot... it’s simply dumbfounding.

 

[fabs33]

It's easier to win a Brownlow than it is for a senior player out our club to get dropped. We couldn't bring ourselves to do it with Thompson, leaving it until after our season was over. Now we have Jacobs in poor form for a while now and O'Brien ready and waiting, and we still can't do it.