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Prediction Changes v Bombers
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Hill knows for the most part when to tackle. If he pressures someone from the front and they have to loop a handball over the top, he is one of few on our team who can close the second option out straight away with pace and a quick turning circle.
Saw Duggan try it last night and Masten at stages but they lack the pace to make an impact on the handball receiver. Wellingham can do it as well. I think there's a very fine line on when they should corrall and when they should tackle (allowing the handball but taking the player put of the play)
Saw Duggan try it last night and Masten at stages but they lack the pace to make an impact on the handball receiver. Wellingham can do it as well. I think there's a very fine line on when they should corrall and when they should tackle (allowing the handball but taking the player put of the play)
Miguel Sanchez
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Unless Cripps has completed a miracle recovery, no change.
Hutchings to carry the bags.
Hutchings to carry the bags.
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Hill is fast. I'd say he, Wellingham, Shep, Shuey or Priddis would win in a 30-40m foot race.
Darling or Schofield maybe over a longer distance.
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Agree. His pressure acts are awesome. So underrated.
The Falcon Strike
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Only change I'd make is bring in Nelson if fit for butler
Against green, fantasia and the smiling assassin we need the pace down back,
Against green, fantasia and the smiling assassin we need the pace down back,
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Not sure how we are going to cover one speedy small forward let alone 3.
Barrass can't go with Daniher on the lead, so I suspect it would need to be McGovern. They won't be bringing it in high, so we can do without the web. Will be good test of our coaching flexibility.
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The Essendon forward setup is a rather unique challenge - three genuine talls (Daniher, Hooker and Stewart) and three genuine smalls (Fantasia, Tippa and Greene) with seemingly no in-betweeners.
Hurn and Sheppard are likely to struggle for agility on the smalls and don't have the height to go with their talls
Going to be some interesting matchups
Hurn and Sheppard are likely to struggle for agility on the smalls and don't have the height to go with their talls
Going to be some interesting matchups
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Agreed, but I have confidence that the Essendon running brigade is one of the few that our midfield should be able to match in terms of pace. Heppell, Watson, Goddard, Myers, Kelly are all fairly slow and even Zaharakis/Merrett etc. aren't exactly blistering.
If we focus on pressuring them up-field then we can restrict their scoring with McGovern and Barrass intercepting poor entries.
Though we'll have to come up with an effective defensive gameplan over the wider expanses which we never seem to get going.
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Oh, for some reason I thought it was at the G. Which is stupid because obviously we aren't there until Sheptember.
I'm pretty confident of getting a result next week.
So I had a quick look at Essendon's ruck stocks and it seems they're only sticking with Leuenberger. He wasn't overly influential tonight, only breaking even with Zac Smith in hitouts at 32 vs 30, and I think he got around 5 more hitouts to advantage if I remember correctly.
So going on that quick glance, I'd back the McInnes and Vardy compo over bringing in Giles for ruck dominance.
In terms of their forwardline, Green isn't a real threat and James Stewart should be well held by a proper defence. Against the likes of Daniher and Hooker, I'd back our zone to limit their space and Shep/Yeo/Wellingham/Hurn to stop Fantasia and Tippa.
Simmos got a couple options from the 2s:
* Mackenzie was BOG in the WAFL and has regained confidence according to Keys and RL. He could be used to completely shutdown Daniher.
* Nelson's back from a wrist injury and should be an automatic inclusion.
* Cripps has apparently made a miraculous recovery and could be availible.
* Hutchings could be brought in to tag Merrett.
Here's what I think will happen:
IN: Nelson
OUT: Butler (rest)
So going on that quick glance, I'd back the McInnes and Vardy compo over bringing in Giles for ruck dominance.
In terms of their forwardline, Green isn't a real threat and James Stewart should be well held by a proper defence. Against the likes of Daniher and Hooker, I'd back our zone to limit their space and Shep/Yeo/Wellingham/Hurn to stop Fantasia and Tippa.
Simmos got a couple options from the 2s:
* Mackenzie was BOG in the WAFL and has regained confidence according to Keys and RL. He could be used to completely shutdown Daniher.
* Nelson's back from a wrist injury and should be an automatic inclusion.
* Cripps has apparently made a miraculous recovery and could be availible.
* Hutchings could be brought in to tag Merrett.
Here's what I think will happen:
IN: Nelson
OUT: Butler (rest)
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That I could live with. Wise.
Righteo Dick Tface. Every time you;ve been confident of an away win we've lost this year. How about you zip it for a week, hey?
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Why is width an issue? The ball can't be switched any quicker at mcg than any other ground. Plus same for both teams.
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Cut off the midfield supply!
All starts from there!
I noticed hill helping out the backs Friday night a lot, so might see him back there again!
Sheppard vs fantasia could be a good match up, shep has a bit off toe!!
Mackenzie might be a good addition to handle the 3 Essendon mobile tall forwards.
Also we need to handle the high tackling count of Essendon. They laid 81 tackles yesterday.
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Agree the Vardy + Mcinnes combo is a winner and could be very effective .McInnes has matured now after 80 odd Wafl games and didn`t look out of place ..
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Because it means there's more space to cover with the web, which means more gaps, which means teams find it easier to get through
Barass made a few blues but Schofield is not great man on man. I think Barass stays but he has to lift his game as we have 2 good options in eMac and Schofield if he doesn't tighten his defence up.
