Unofficial Preview Changes round 14 vs Adelaide

[Bulldog Brent]

The Crows centre bounce make up is real hard to predict week to week. Feels like they have settled on Berry/Peatling/Dawson as the preferred in recent weeks, I don't expect Rankine to get many rotations coming back in from his latest calf injury.

Also Crows first game at Marvel all year which seems weird.

Was our first game at the G last week (after three Adelaide Oval matches this season!) - fixture is screwed.

 

[bresker]

He's quicker than Sam Collins and probably on par with Weitering.

We won a flag with Fletch at FB.

He needs continuity and to build strength. That's going to take time.

A lot of good full backs aren't particularly fast , they're big & strong

 

[bigbulldog67]

I’d guess Kennedy will probably more play the roaming HF role Treloar has been playing. Versatile though so I’m sure he’ll play a few roles like McNeil.

Libba yeah needs to be in the middle, surely doesn’t push Sanders out though he’s been way too good. I’d definitely have him take Kennedys & Freijahs minutes. Freijah is much more damaging running up and down the field as an inside/outside mid but not necessarily around the coalface I feel. Hes a bit inbetween at the moment, he’s definitely not a purely outside player I think he does some of his best work inside still but not as an in & under.

Interested to see how we work the mix but need to find a way to get it right.

Still feels a bit slow overall, I want to get Buss in but dunno how, we’re too slow as it is. He probably just bides his time until one of Coff or Buku shit the bed which they almost certainly will at some stage.

 

[Golden_6]

I’d guess Kennedy will probably more play the roaming HF role Treloar has been playing. Versatile though so I’m sure he’ll play a few roles like McNeil.

Libba yeah needs to be in the middle, surely doesn’t push Sanders out though he’s been way too good. I’d definitely have him take Kennedys & Freijahs minutes. Freijah is much more damaging running up and down the field as an inside/outside mid but not necessarily around the coalface I feel. Hes a bit inbetween at the moment, he’s definitely not a purely outside player I think he does some of his best work inside still but not as an in & under.

Interested to see how we work the mix but need to find a way to get it right.

Still feels a bit slow overall, I want to get Buss in but dunno how, we’re too slow as it is. He probably just bides his time until one of Coff or Buku shit the bed which they almost certainly will at some stage.

I think he's been given too many roles and he's just entirely out of rhythym during the game.

With Williams injured and Davidson out of form, I would have loved to simplify things and just allowed him to play a pure wing role (that he was drafted as). He can still push hard forward and be damaging but also to give him some confidence in a relatively familiar role.

 

[BEaston]

Welcome to the era of Lennedy and Mennedy.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Kennedy has a very, very quick brain in stoppage/clinches situation. Beyond just the tackling, he does the little things like just stick out an arm to knock down an opposition handball in tight spaces.

I'm excited. More excellent drafting.

 

[Some Idiot]

I'm sorry but that still doesn't make any sense mathematically. Even if the vast majority of time on field is spent at low speed that doesn't mean extra TOG is going to dilute your average.

There is no reason to believe the proportionate mix of standing vs jogging vs sprinting is any different (or at least not definitively slower) in the 40% of the game Treloar spent off the ground than the 60% of the game that he spent on the ground.

Statisitically, he is correct. Under the sub rule, the subs were most often having the highest average speed. It does make sense, even your jogging speed will slow down when you're cooked. Higher TOG% exhausts more of a player's endurance. Fatigue accumulates across the entire game. A rest on the bench doesn't completely erase fatigue.

 

[3rdgenbulldog]

Would like to see one of jaques or dolan in as well both are class

 

[HK_Bulldog]

Would like to see one of jaques or dolan in as well both are class

I see the signs with Dolan but imo, he’s been disappointing this year. Just hasn’t taken his chances. Hope he knuckles down and figures it out. Still plenty of time. Jacques has been good, no idea why he’s not in the team.

 

[Scott Tracy]

Amazing to think we have already played 38 of our 43 listed players this year, and we're only just over halfway through the season.

 

[Doggies7]

Luke Kennedy has won or finished top 3 in the last couple pre-season 2km time trials if i'm not mistaken. Good to have another young endurance beast along with Crofty coming through the ranks, especially with how the modern game is played.

 

[Foxman98]

I see the signs with Dolan but imo, he’s been disappointing this year. Just hasn’t taken his chances. Hope he knuckles down and figures it out. Still plenty of time. Jacques has been good, no idea why he’s not in the team.

2nd year blues for Dolan

Until he fills out he will struggle

 

[doggiesin08]

Statisitically, he is correct. Under the sub rule, the subs were most often having the highest average speed. It does make sense, even your jogging speed will slow down when you're cooked. Higher TOG% exhausts more of a player's endurance. Fatigue accumulates across the entire game. A rest on the bench doesn't completely erase fatigue.

What you typed makes sense and was already agreed with, but that’s not the point that was being made.

The assertion was that because the majority of the game is slower transition jogging rather than sprinting, then a higher TOG% reduces a players average speed. That makes no sense. Asserting that lower TOG means lower average fatigue and therefore higher average speed when on the field does have merit.

 

[Dazb86]

Is there an injury?

 

[Testekill]

Is there an injury?

McNeil is confirmed out with a concussion

 

[Dougs Wing]

After the L.Kennedy announcement it looks like Libba is a big chance for a spot in the 23
Davidson also right in the mix.

 

[TiAn_]

Libba back would be a huge boost. Wonder if he’ll spend some time at half forward. Perhaps not if Matt Kennedy is managed.

I’ll also be interested to see where they play Lennedy, he’s been used as a jack of all trades in the VFL.

Croft and Hynes have been covering the ground well. Another running machine can only help our press/man to man setup.

 

[Wizard17]

Really liked Kennedy in his draft year and was ecstatic when we picked him up. He is basically Libba V2.

 

[Fossie 32]

 

[WAbulldog]

Great to hear Luke Kennedy is going to debut this week. Hope he goes well

 

[BigFloppa]

Has any team in history had more Kennedys than us?

 

[bresker]

Kennedy comes from the Irish surname the Ó Ceannéidigh which means "helmet head". An old Viking name, from the famed clan of Brian Boru..

 

[Oliver G]

Has any team in history had more Kennedys than us?

Carlton's had 9 play senior V/AFL footy, Melbourne has had 6, Essendon and Hawthorn have had 5, and we'll be at 4 after Luke debuts on Thursday.

 

[SackofTaters]

We should draft a Lachie Kennedy and form a Supergroup

 

[low impact and reckless]

Busslinger has 40 spoils (not 1%ers) in his 4 games. Has an elite 1-on-1 loss rate and goes at 84% disposal efficiency.

Small sample size sure but he absolutely deserves a run at it on current form

Buss and Jacques in racing parlance "have not been fully tested"