Preview Changes round 9 vs West Coast Eagles

[crows dude]

They are taking the piss. Murray and Worrall to come in late.

 

[hey shorty]

I can see us fronting the AFL Commission trying to justify this very point at season's end

But the run and carry Your Honour...?

Can we please see some video evidence of this "run and carry"?

Ummm... that was destroyed in the big video room fire. But the experience, the leadership, the versatility, the professionalism... just the vibe of the guy

Theyve got bigger issues on their hands than us

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Theyve got bigger issues on their hands than us

Sure if you missed last year then you might think that

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Another week with no second key defender. We cant keep doing this already cost us 4 points against hawthorn. Allen and Daring will kick 5 each on Kelly and Doedee

Nicks is a genius

 

[Bearded Clam]

Mookay will be in the side the rest of the season.

And will get another year contract next year.

Lock it in eddie.. the club thinks he’s an absolute gun.

 

[huludicidal]

As much as I dislike Frampton and don’t rate him as an AFL player, at least he’s shown good form at SANFL level since his demotion. With Walker being rested AND Himmelberg begging to be dropped, it kinda makes some sense to bring him back.

Stoked to see O’Connor in. Equally stoked that we didn’t bring Hately back. Hately and Keays can’t co-exist in my opinion (both have poor foot skills and you can’t carry two players like that as full time mids at AFL level).

McAdam is only in because we needed another true smallish forward with the injuries to Murphy and McHenry. He’s done nothing to earn his spot, but the only other option on the list was Newchurch, who has even more holes in his game than Shane. I’m ok with this, but if he plays poorly, McHenry will displace him next week.

I like that we have resisted the temptation to bring McPherson back into the 22. Needs to go back to SANFL footy and regain confidence.

I like that Fog will essentially take Walker’s role. I think a lot of people forget he’s still only 21. Walker probably has about 25 games of AFL footy left in him. Fog’s time will come after that, and games like this are great experience.

I don’t know what the hell we are doing with our defense. There’s probably an obsession with rebound / pace going on, but we’ll be flat out bringing the ball to ground with that lineup.

HAVING SAID THAT, we all said the same thing prior to the Round 1 clash against Geelong. We were kissed on the collective dick that day with Cameron missing the game and the Cats selecting Jenkins instead of literally any other tall who can actually play though, so facing the 3-headed monster of Kennedy, Darling and Allen is quite clearly going to get ugly if West Coast’s F50 delivery is anything approaching decent. All we needed to do was drop EITHER of Kelly or Mackay for Murray to solve this. Personally I would’ve dropped both, made Mackay the sub, and brought in Murray and Worrell, but hey, that would make too much sense.


Rahilly has already flagged Seedsman and Sloane to spend quite a bit of time up forward, and we’ve seen each week that Berry and Schoenberg have spent quite a bit of time up there, so with Fogarty, Frampton, Rowe and McAdam as the permanent forwards, it will be interesting to see if Thilthorpe maybe floats into defence at times as an interceptor. Realistically, one of him or Fog really has to.


Here’s hoping that next week we might finally see Worrell (it’s getting silly now), and that the impending 15 goals that the trio of Darling, Kennedy and Allen are going to kick prompts us to select one of Murray or McAsey moving forward too.

 

[chrisso crow]

Let's be honest, even with a 2nd rookie KPD we weren't winning

But we would be getting experience into the kid, albeit we'll be on the end of a flogging with the ball coming in regularly, but he'd be getting some experience.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Let's be honest, even with a 2nd rookie KPD we weren't winning

But why play Mackay?

 

[hey shorty]

Sure if you missed last year then you might think that

I watched Hawthorn and North Melbourne both try and lose a game today, just Hawthorn were better at it

 

[TRP1996]

I reckon Fogarty will kick both of our goals

Quite possible Fog, Frampton, McAdam, Rowe, and Thilthorpe will struggle to get more than 25 possessions between them.

 

[hey shorty]

Quite possible Fog, Frampton, McAdam, Rowe, and Thilthorpe will struggle to get more than 25 possessions between them.

Probable

 

[Jack is Back]

Nah mate, need games into Jake Kelly and David Mackay. The future of this club lies in their hands.

The "least of our problems" as some would say. No issues there

No comment on yet another debutant?


You did write off Ronin after his first ever SANFL game earlier this season, so I guess you still don’t rate him?

 

[Ian_Perries_Glove]

The lack of at least a second tall is actually bizarre with Darling, Kennedy, Allen all playing. Their insistence on playing Doedee as the second tall every week is really odd, it’s clearly not his position. Not sure why we wouldn’t at least swap Kelly for Murray. Their three talls are going to have a field day. Himmelberg could play CHB on Allen as another option.

Of course we will lose this game with any side and it’s all about getting games into youngsters, but you still have to at least try and get the basics right at the selection table. Especially when the tall defenders missing are up and comers like Murray, Fish or even Himmelberg.

 

[maxlilly]

Officially tanking with those matchups in the D50.

Did you see the Hawks today, we'll show those guys how to tank.
Next week we will replace Butts with Newchurch

 

[Jack McKraken]

I can see us fronting the AFL Commission trying to justify this very point at season's end

But the run and carry Your Honour...?

Can we please see some video evidence of this "run and carry"?

Ummm... that was destroyed in the big video room fire. But the experience, the leadership, the versatility, the professionalism... just the vibe of the guy

The non-statistical role your Honour!

 

[maxlilly]

The lack of at least a second tall is actually bizarre with Darling, Kennedy, Allen all playing. Their insistence on playing Doedee as the second tall every week is really odd, it’s clearly not his position. Not sure why we wouldn’t at least swap Kelly for Murray. Their three talls are going to have a field day. Himmelberg could play CHB on Allen as another option.

Of course we will lose this game with any side and it’s all about getting games into youngsters, but you still have to at least try and get the basics right at the selection table. Especially when the tall defenders missing are up and comers like Murray, Fish or even Himmelberg.

It reminds me when Bassett was our full back, and that worked well

 

[Scorpus]

No comment on yet another debutant?


You did write off Ronin after his first ever SANFL game earlier this season, so I guess you still don’t rate him?

I don't rate him but he's now got an AFL game to prove me wrong.

What I will say (like I said earlier in this thread which you seemed to miss) is that he deserves his chance to show what he has at the level and that better not be for just one game

 

[Kezza86]

Some of the least inspiring ins I've seen in a while. West coast play 2 key talls in Kennedy and Darling and we go in short again. It's so frustrating play the ******* KPDS

Who’d you picked?

 

[Scorpus]

Quite possible Fog, Frampton, McAdam, Rowe, and Thilthorpe will struggle to get more than 25 possessions between them.

We will likely have more inside 50s than they will possessions

 

[hey shorty]

We will likely have more inside 50s than they will possessions

I know thats a joke, but it's a poor one

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Who’d you picked?

Either Murray or McAsey, along with Worrell.

 

[hey shorty]

Either Murray or McAsey, along with Worrell.

I hope they don't pick Moose as the sub, pick a tall

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I hope they don't pick Moose as the sub, pick a tall

For 2 reasons... as he needs a rest too.

Worrell is the perfect sub... but a s**t way to debut.

Ideally the will make late changes & go taller in defence

 

[Deaneus!]

The WSE have moved to $1.08 now

should have been Newchurch, not McAdam
And McAsey, Murray, Worrell to fix our back 6

 

[CrowInFiji]

Nothing wrong with these changes except that Frampton came in.