Changes vs Collingwood @ MCG

[Andre]

We need a scapegoat when the leaders let the team down for another loss this year don't we!

Experience says the leaders will let us down in the middle, with the forwards getting minimal / poor supply. Then rather than drop an underperforming small Eddy will be the sacrificial lamb, with Ken pointing to his lack of goals as justification. We've done this dance too many times under Hinkley to know that smalls its share/pass the blame, but talls, everything that isn't perfect is their fault. The Butcher Chronicles 2, coming to an MCG near you.

 

[manureid]

As long as our full forwards main focus is defending. That is all I ask.

 

[Power Girl]

As long as our full forwards main focus is defending. That is all I ask.

What even is this season?

 

[True__Believer]

What even is this season?

It is a new tactic. It involves Robbie and S Rgay constantly and deliberately missing set shots from 20m directly in front in an effort to lock the ball in the forward line.

 

[badbeats]

That imo is a key question to his selection.

So what's Robbie Gray doing?

 

[Magus]

It is a new tactic. It involves Robbie and S Rgay constantly and deliberately missing set shots from 20m directly in front in an effort to lock the ball in the forward line.

Hahaha exactly. Best way to the lock the ball in is to keep missing shots.

 

[SupportMe]

Young, Neade and Impey all played their best matches last season against the opposition we play this week and at the same venue.

It'll be Pittard for Polec.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Jake Neade beating Collingwood KPP

 

[thundercloud]

Collingwood now play mainly one tall forward moore and richmond reiwoldt, so it can be all about forward pressure. Similar to our last week forward set up.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

I still remember when you said we were gonna get Monfries and we got Toumpas instead... Takes a man a long time to heal after a betrayal like that...

hahah... i dont get it wrong often

 

[jac147]

May I pose two simple questions?

Question 1. Do we have currently have in our AFL side a forward who can take a mark (contested/uncontested) and can confidently kick for goal from 50 metres out - including anywhere on the 50 metre arc.
Answer: No

Question 2. Do we currently have a player currently in the 2's who can do all of Question 1?
Answer: Yes, his name is Brett Eddy

Memo to Selection Committee:

Please select Eddy for the side to play Collingwood this Saturday. The cheer squad already have a special song when he kicks a six pointer. "We have the best Eddy in the State" sung to the tune of "He's got the whole world in his hand".
Please surprise us!!
Regards
jac147

 

[badbeats]

The cheer squad already have a special song when he kicks a six pointer. "We have the best Eddy in the State" sung to the tune of "He's got the whole world in his hand".

Please don't sing this.... he's played a handful of games

 

[Pappaya]

Jake Neade beating Collingwood KPP

Great pass on the end there too.

 

[MALTSY]

Jake Neade beating Collingwood KPP

If only he did that more than once a season

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I just went to check Brett Eddy's accuracy in the sanfl this year and found this on the sanfl website


Do you think we should let them know about the change of club?

 

[Magus]

Grundy is pretty good at falling over.

 

[Pappaya]

Please don't sing this.... he's played a handful of games

Not only that but it's also ridiculously incorrect. With all due respect to Brett nobody in their right mind would pick him over Eddie Betts.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Question 1. Do we have currently have in our AFL side a forward who can take a mark (contested/uncontested) and can confidently kick for goal from 50 metres out - including anywhere on the 50 metre arc.
Answer: No

I'm trying to think of what part of your criteria you're going to argue that Charlie Dixon doesn't meet and I honestly have no idea.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I'm trying to think of what part of your criteria you're going to argue that Charlie Dixon doesn't meet and I honestly have no idea.

And Brett Eddy has been surprisingly inaccurate this year, so I'm not sure how confident I would be with him kicking for goal from 50. Certainly no more than Charlie.

 

[Andre]

I'm trying to think of what part of your criteria you're going to argue that Charlie Dixon doesn't meet and I honestly have no idea.

Dixon for clutch goals maybe. He's not alone there. And even though that area could be improved, he's certainly not in the Hoff 'bank a miss and don't even bother watching the kick' category.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I guess a better question for jac147 to ask would have been "Do we have enough players who can confidently mark in a pack or on the lead and kick truly from 50m?"

Then the answer would be no.

 

[jac147]

Please don't get me wrong about Charlie - I proudly wear his number on my guernsey. Charlie could make the distance from 50 out but would you be confident that the ball would go between the two large uprights. During a game I would not be confident.
I purposely watch the kicking for goal during the prematch warm up. Players who get the yips during the game, namely Charlie, R & S Gray and Westhoff always seem to kick goals 40 out during the warm up, but under game conditions I'm never confident.
I'm always confident when our other main forward, Chad, is lining up 40 to 50 out.
Brett, is the real deal for the Maggies, let's now give him gig with the Power.

 

[Coobk001]

Charlie is VERY hit and miss with his shots. He's improving but he definitely has the odd shank.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Charlie is VERY hit and miss with his shots. He's improving but he definitely has the odd shank.

His kicking is a year behind his marking.

Was a pretty good kick for GC.

 

[MrMeaner]

Jake Neade beating Collingwood KPP

And that, that is why he is so frustrating. He does something at least once a game that makes you think, 'this kid could really be a weapon.' Even during his much derided game on Saturday, his handball into space for Chad's goal was fantastic. It was something that was different from all our other handballs in the forward line, which usually go a metre or so to a bloke under the same pressure as the handballer. But then, he goes missing for 90% of the game.

I am Neade supporter. I like what he brings to the side in his tackling but I don't think we can carry him with SGray, Young and Impey. They are all too similar in their weaknesses.

All that said, I am disgusted by the level of vitriol here directed at individual players. Since he was picked in the side, there has been a stream of negativity with Neade as the punchline. It is over the top and extremely boring.