Preview Changes Vs Carlton Round 2

[eaglesfan84]

Who exactly are this great new crop of players? In the midfield they have Bontempelli, Macrae - both of them are good - followed by Picken, Wallis, Honeychurch, Jong, B Goodes, Dalhaus - are there any others? If the last six played for us they'd be torn up and spat out on here before you could say jack robinson. Honeychurch would be lucky to kick over a jam jar. Can't see the WB spiralling up towards the top of the ladder in a big hurry which is what makes last night's loss the more painful.

Out: Griffin, Cooney, Higgins, Giansirucusa, L. Jones.
In: Bontempelli, Honeychurch, Jong, Boyd, Johanissen.

Macrae Stringer Redpath Wallis, all young players too.

I never said they will SPIRAL towards the top of the ladder, just that they have given their youth a chance to embrace a new game plan and have a crack, our youth spends their time languishing in the WAFL whilst the senior team spuds it up.

 

[Suma Magic]

Out: Griffin, Cooney, Higgins, Giansirucusa, L. Jones.
In: Bontempelli, Honeychurch, Jong, Boyd, Johanissen.

Macrae Stringer Redpath Wallis, all young players too.

I never said they will SPIRAL towards the top of the ladder, just that they have given their youth a chance to embrace a new game plan and have a crack, our youth spends their time languishing in the WAFL whilst the senior team spuds it up.

The Eagles team on Saturday night was younger than the Doggies team.

I agree that we should be playing a lot of youth this season though. Duggan, Waterman and Newman especially should be getting games soon.

 

[steve hucka]

So who plays on Carltons other KPF?

I was happy with how we defended against the dogs, obviously if schofield is ready to go you would play him, But i mean who else is there mcinnes ?

 

[Godfather32]

I was happy with how we defended against the dogs, obviously if schofield is ready to go you would play him, But i mean who else is there mcinnes ?

I dunno, we're running out of players pretty quick, it Schofield is fit then I'd play him.
To be honest I'd just prefer Yeo wasn't minding one of their talls because I've got him in my draft league fantasy team

 

[Keys]

The Eagles team on Saturday night was younger than the Doggies team.

I agree that we should be playing a lot of youth this season though. Duggan, Waterman and Newman especially should be getting games soon.

Is this anywhere official or just from Simmo's presser

I did a quick add of games played and we averaged about 12 games more than the bulldogs 85-73

 

[Suma Magic]

Is this anywhere official or just from Simmo's presser

I did a quick add of games played and we averaged about 12 games more than the bulldogs 85-73

You are right we are more experienced, but we are also younger. Full stats on all the weekend's games are on footywire.

 

[steve hucka]

Interested in seeing our boy make his debut tonight

 

[Godfather32]

Is this anywhere official or just from Simmo's presser

I did a quick add of games played and we averaged about 12 games more than the bulldogs 85-73

Even if it is true, it's not true for our midfield which is where we were soundly beaten, we are a couple of years older on average there.

 

[eaglesfan84]

If you want WAFL form rewarded, you're forgetting Lucas, Newman and Waterman as well. The majority of our players will usually perform well in the WAFL, except for a select few.

I think Waterman, Sheed, Priddis, Colledge are all competing for the same spot, I have Colledge as the guy I want in there atm.

Newman is competing with Cripps and LeCras at this point I think, he's not a lock down defensive forward like McGinnity, so he will have to wait atm.

Lucas's disposal skill is not as good as Hill, Duggan, LeCras, Bennell and he is not capable of dual position play, so he has to wait also.

 

[Jiggyman]

Who exactly are this great new crop of players? In the midfield they have Bontempelli, Macrae - both of them are good - followed by Picken, Wallis, Honeychurch, Jong, B Goodes, Dalhaus - are there any others? If the last six played for us they'd be torn up and spat out on here before you could say jack robinson. Honeychurch would be lucky to kick over a jam jar. Can't see the WB spiralling up towards the top of the ladder in a big hurry which is what makes last night's loss the more painful.

Dalhaus and Jong in particular absolutely carved us up around the stoppages and served us up on a platter surrounded by roast veggies in the 2nd half. Stringer monstered us all night and Bont flashed in and out but will be a star. If we have clean ball from Naitanui and/or Priddis motors through 4 quarters (he stopped dead at half-time imo, which really limited the amount of ball we won), we're a chance to match speed and pure clearance power. We fall apart when this isn't the case; players like Dahlaus, Bont and (we shall see) Jong are our list deficiencies. We have the troops and linkers that could work with and around them. An up and about Wellingham would help enormously.

If the doggies play like that most weeks, they'll give the top 8 a real shake. Just watch Boyd and the other talls around him grow as the season progresses.

 

[Smotie]

Really concerned about Henderson. I still think McGovern will get exposed one on one against big bodied opponents; let's be honest, if there was any side we were going to do okay against with a makeshift defence it was the Dogs. Schofield isn't a KPD, I remain unconvinced that McGovern is too.

Is Henderson that big? I thought he was more McGovern's size anyway?

 

[Chris_6678]

I went to training.

Very low key.

- Missing: Mcgovern, Schoey, Nic Nat, shep, lamb, darling, scooter.

- Ellis in full training looked ready to go.

- Newman walking laps with maggie.

- rosa, main and sinclair doing some work with Hurn.

- waterman was in full training so sign of an injury.

- barrass and mcinnes were doing some contested marking with nico. Barrass is a good size and looked good.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

I think Waterman, Sheed, Priddis, Colledge are all competing for the same spot, I have Colledge as the guy I want in there atm.

Newman is competing with Cripps and LeCras at this point I think, he's not a lock down defensive forward like McGinnity, so he will have to wait atm.

Lucas's disposal skill is not as good as Hill, Duggan, LeCras, Bennell and he is not capable of dual position play, so he has to wait also.

Couldn't disagree more with that statement mate. Cripps is quite versatile and can easily play through the middle and off half forward. Newman also has this capability, where as McGinnity is terrible at everything except running around. Newman should come in straight away and McGinnity should be in the WAFL all year.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

I went to training.

Very low key.

- Missing: Mcgovern, Schoey, Nic Nat, shep, lamb, darling, scooter.

- Ellis in full training looked ready to go.

- Newman walking laps with maggie.

- rosa, main and sinclair doing some work with Hurn.

- waterman was in full training so sign of an injury.

- barrass and mcinnes were doing some contested marking with nico. Barrass is a good size and looked good.

Was Hutch training mate?

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

No Schofield? Uhoh

 

[Chris_6678]

Was Hutch training mate?

Yep in the main group.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Yep in the main group.

Ok great. So he's not restricted by injury anymore?

 

[Chris_6678]

No Schofield? Uhoh

Heaps of players were not there wouldnt stress.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Heaps of players were not there wouldnt stress.

It's not taking much to set me off at the moment

 

[WCEswift]

Schofield was going to train but as he got out the car a meteor fell on him... such is our luck

 

[bombard]

Schofield was going to train but as he got out the car a meteor fell on him... such is our luck

Meteor also contained radioactive ore - so, while he survived the initial impact (the manbun cushioned the blow) - he is now battling severe radiation poisoning.

 

[bombard]

Honestly, let's just bite the bullet and play Barass. Sometimes greatness is thrust upon you.

 

[Chris_6678]

Ok great. So he's not restricted by injury anymore?

Looked fine to me, sure he be playing wafl after the buy.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Looked fine to me, sure he be playing wafl after the buy.

Cool. Cheers for the updates.

 

[WCEbrody]

Honestly, let's just bite the bullet and play Barass. Sometimes greatness is thrust upon you.

Can't be any worse than playing Yeo on key position players an Brad Sheppard playing on Jake stringer .