Prediction Changes v GWS

[Miguel Sanchez]

Can't help feeling negative still. I think we will lose and next week it will be Redden for Jetta.

I think they'll give Jetta a few games to try to find form, having him bounce between levels has done him no good.

 

[ep2018]

Simpson has his balls held by Gepp and the club board, anyone expecting us to play a heap of kids is dreaming. We need a complete upheaval of the board.

 

[Marlin01]

Simpson has his balls held by Gepp and the club board, anyone expecting us to play a heap of kids is dreaming. We need a complete upheaval of the board.

What makes you say that about Gepp?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I really hope Lewis makes it here. Seems a nice guy.

 

[ep2018]

What makes you say that about Gepp?

I have long suspected Gepp's true role in the coaching box is to report back to the club board the happenings of the inner circle on game days.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Here's the thing, the best 22 as it is assembled probably IS too old (especially given that they're not like Hawthorn of the last two years and strongly in premiership contention). But you don't look at the players on the field and say "we don't have enough under 25" during the season unless you're toward the bottom of the ladder and have no hope of contending. That's a list management issue. You move guys on between seasons, like Geelong did with Enright and Bartel (even though those guys probably could have had another good year or two left in them). During the year you play your best 22.

Before next season is when they should look at moving on some of the old players as well as the ones who are near 30 and are only of the fringe of being best 22.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Oh well if you've long suspected it then it must be true.

 

[Marlin01]

Which of the following boxes will Jetta tick this week do you reckon?

- 15+ disposals
- 4+ tackles
- 2+ goals
- 85%+ disposal efficiency

 

[flyinghi64]

Join the club. I've been wrong plenty of times and haven't checked before posting something

Yep that club has a high membership, I'm a member couple of times over.

 

[Marlin01]

I have long suspected Gepp's true role in the coaching box is to report back to the club board the happenings of the inner circle on game days.

You mean since Ken Judge said that was Gepp's role when he was coach?

What's that got to do with team selection?

 

[ep2018]

Oh well if you've long suspected it then it must be true.

There have been others on this board who have suspected the same. No need to be a prick.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

There have been others on this board who have suspected the same. No need to be a prick.

I'd make the same statement to them if they made outlandish statements about one bloke on the match committee and linked it to a complete overhaul of the board.

 

[Seadog]

There have been others on this board who have suspected the same. No need to be a prick.

Ooh that's a bit prickly of you.
Simmo's a big boy, if he doesn't agree with something he can stand up and say so. That's if there is anything to your conspiracy theory which I doubt.

 

[Bender_]

There have been others on this board who have suspected the same. No need to be a prick.

But seriously your entire theory is based on what you've read on BigFooty though, right?

 

[boondy]

• Will Schofield,
• Josh Hill,
• Drew Petrie,
• Lewis Jetta,
• Jackson Nelson

Not dramatic changes ,just a few changes . The club at 6/3 isnt quite in the Freo basket case situation at the start of the year and realistically the youngsters en masse are 12 months away from being able to slot into the side and have an effect the Freo youth did . Partington , Mutimer, Cole , Venables ,Rioli and Lamb this time next year should be a different story

 

[ep2018]

Simmo's a big boy, if he doesn't agree with something he can stand up and say so.

Nearly beat Gepp's head in one game day in 2014, is what I heard on the grape vine. Maybe Simmo has fallen in line since?

 

[ep2018]

But seriously your entire theory is based on what you've read on BigFooty though, right?

And on FB and on Reddit. Three of the best, most accurate footy sources around.

 

[Bender_]

And on FB and on Reddit. Three of the best, most accurate footy sources around.

It's where I get all my relationship advice too.

 

[ziad]

What makes you say that about Gepp?

its a good call, Gepp is a cancer

 

[ziad]

• Will Schofield,
• Josh Hill,
• Drew Petrie,
• Lewis Jetta,
• Jackson Nelson

Not dramatic changes ,just a few changes . The club at 6/3 isnt quite in the Freo basket case situation at the start of the year and realistically the youngsters en masse are 12 months away from being able to slot into the side and have an effect the Freo youth did . Partington , Mutimer, Cole , Venables ,Rioli and Lamb this time next year should be a different story

Yep, what were people expecting 10 changes with 8 debutants against the class of GWS.

 

[Marlin01]

its a good call, Gepp is a cancer

I'm not saying he isn't, I just have never heard anything but throw-away, unsubstantiated one-liners, without any substance to them.

 

[eaglespremiers]

I really hope Lewis makes it here. Seems a nice guy.

Feels like one chance too many.
Hopefully he won't squander it.

 

[lewigie]

I'm not saying he isn't, I just have never heard anything but throw-away, unsubstantiated one-liners, without any substance to them.

Ken Judge was probably a good source. And it was a bit odd to bring Gepp back into a bullshit role that would allow him to do the exact same job that he did when Judge was coach.

 

[Keys]

I'm with ep2006 on Gepp

Been there since the Malthouse days and I've no doubt he did some valuable work back then but through our troubled 2000's his role seems somewhat murky. Judge certainly didn't have anything kind to say about him

If there's one thing that epitomises my view it's that he was in Las Vegas "chaperoning" the players in 2006 when Fletcher flatlined - given the secrecy surrounding that I'd suggest Gepp was more Mr Wolf than Mary Poppins

He'd left the club but was brought back in as Chairman of Selectors when Simpson was appointed

It doesn't pass the smell test

 

[MrKK]

Fair chance this changes thread could end up longer than the Gameday one.