Preview Changes vs Sydney

[bringbackbucky]

Matthew Nicholls' Wikipedia page is screaming out for an update...

 

[Schulzenfest]

Not sure about the clearance players as sub is a bad thing. Young has played best as sub and Ah Chee has looked good as well. There maybe something to it, that and we don't have a decent outside player to run as sub maybe. If Moore stays in then maybe thats his spot against the Swans?

There's no point in playing him as a sub. He's not an impact player who's going to come on and give us an instant lift. He's a big body who gives a consistent output and helps out his teammates with contested ball wins and one percenters. He should be either in the starting 21 or not in the team at all.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Anyone who plays in the SANFL showdown on Sunday, isnt going to be playing in Sydney 4 days later, unless they are rested at half time

 

[scottjr]

Maybe makes it tough to play the emergency players as well?

 

[RossFC]

Rest Clurey and Amon, I'd want them to be in the squad for the Sydney game.

 

[MrChow]

Ryder in. Its time for fresh blood. Butch, Amon, Clurey. And my wildcard is our Neade for speed- also cause he has skills. Out Schulzy, Mitchell, Jonas, Moore and sorry Monfries (he has been good- but we need speed)

 

[scottjr]

Ryder in. Its time for fresh blood. Butch, Amon, Clurey. And my wildcard is our Neade for speed- also cause he has skills. Out Schulzy, Mitchell, Jonas, Moore and sorry Monfries (he has been good- but we need speed)

Shulzy is struggling but Butch can't replace him maybe Paddy offering a little bit up forward will help.

 

[LeoMessi]

I got a feeling we will at least make something out of this game. Whatever the problem is, it seems to be mental rather than anything else. We seem to perform a lot better when we're going in as underdogs rather than favourites.

 

[croweyrocks]

I got a feeling we will at least make something out of this game. Whatever the problem is, it seems to be mental rather than anything else. We seem to perform a lot better when we're going in as underdogs rather than favourites.

I actually can feel a good performance coming also. The thing is we need to be playing with that "nothing to lose" mentality all the time. We are a total weapon when playing on instincts and free flowing football. We are very well below average when hesitant and not confident. This break will do us good and I look forward to see how the group responds.

 

[Steve Dore]

From the PAFC website;

.... Speaking to Adelaide radio station FIVEaa, Power coach Ken Hinkley confirmed the star ruckman would return to the senior line-up.
"Paddy's expected to play the next game, and that's exciting for us," Hinkley said. ...

Link

 

[Henezzz]

Got excited to see the team changes and then I remembered we had a bye.

 

[John the Butcher]

Matthew Nicholls' Wikipedia page is screaming out for an update...

Hehehe that revision history

 

[Steve Dore]

Hehehe that revision history

..... Remarkably, Nicholls has continued to officiate games up to and within the 2015 AFL season despite not understanding the rules, fixing matches as he pleases, and being bald. ...

The "being bald" comment is out of line.

 

[SgtSchulz]

Matthew Nicholls' Wikipedia page is screaming out for an update...

Done.

Lets see how long it takes us to get it padlocked.

 

[QPower]

The 'Last time' video on the Port website is actually the time before last i.e. at the SCG in 2014.

Quietly air brushing the insipid rd 2 2015 effort at AO from history.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Editing an umpires wikipedia page is probably no way to get him to pay us more frees in the future.

 

[SgtSchulz]

 

[SgtSchulz]

Editing an umpires wikipedia page is probably no way to get him to pay us more frees in the future.

Shoosh

 

[bacharach]

Editing an umpires wikipedia page is probably no way to get him to pay us more frees in the future.

You never know, he might 'over compensate' for his bias against us.

 

[Robbie4PM]

FF: Justin Westhoff, Patrick Ryder, Angus Monfries
HF: Nathan Krakouer, Jay Schultz, Chad Wingard
C: Brad Ebert, Travis Boak, Sam Colquhoun
HB: Hamish Hartlett, Jack Hombsch, Matthew Broadbent
FB: Jackson Trengrove, Alipate Carlile, Jarman Impey
Foll: Matthew Lobbe, Ollie Wines, Robbie Gray

Interchange: Jasper Pittard, Brenden Ah Chee, Tom Clurey, Andrew Moore (sub)

I think this forward line looks very dangerous, obviously Westy will play his normal role of moving through the midfield and down back and that is where the midfielders can rest. If we are going to show faith in Pittard, which I don't think he deserves then I think you have to send Krak forward. Krak is a very capable player on the ground and in the air and maybe can be another target on the half forward line. I think this team looks a lot stronger than what we have been sending out on the field.

I've tried to put a legitimate segment to Nicholls Wikipedia page, even had a reference. Some bas***** keeps removing it

 

[PowerBaz]

R

Done.

Lets see how long it takes us to get it padlocked.
View attachment 146494

Gold

 

[TimmyD11]

I liked the ins for the Carlton game, I called for the midfield to be bolstered with inside mids like Young/Moore/Ah Chee so the work load on Boak, Wines, Hartlett wouldn't be so great. All you have to say to Ah Chee is go hunt the ball like Wines in his first year, you know if he has a full game he'll get 20 odd touches and all he has to do is win the ball and distribute it to our best players and it means if our better players aren't having a good day we aren't so reliant on them. But with other players like Hoon, Amon, Mitchell who are more outside players if our top midfielders aren't getting the ball then they suffer as well. It means that if our fringe players are winning the ball then it's our best players on the outside so they're the ones making the key decisions, executing more important passes instead of the other way round with Boak and Gray fighting hard to win the ball to farm it out to a fringe player whose more likely to not make the most of it under pressure and obviously players like Boak, Gray and Hartlett have their own standards and key indicators to hit and in a game you want to make your presence felt so if the likes of Ah Chee and Moore and are winning a good amount of ball it means our A-graders pile in on top of them when they want to get more physical; Eg. Boak and Gray both have 12 contested possessions and clearances if that's on top of Moore and Ah Chee having half a dozen each that would be enormous compared to Hoon and Mitchell having 4 between them. Obviously I'm not saying pile all inside mids into the team, but an extra inside midfielder allows for Gray and Wingard to have more impact bursts in the midfield and have more forward line time, but also I've thought with Hartlett struggling this season we could drop him back on to half back like he used to earlier in his career and play a Goddard/Gibbs role and really use his booming leg to bust out of presses and allow us to push Pittard forward onto a wing to create run further up the field and help offset the loss of White and Polec. We are far too predictable at the moment, my pet hate is Westhoff going into defense, its a massive signal to the opposition to set up their best defensive structure that we won't be able to get through at our current confidence or skill level and to double team and brutalise poor Schulz. We wonder why Schulz does so poorly in our losses, it's because he gets double teamed and rubbish delivery, having said that his easy misses against Richmond and Carlton when we were coming are on Schulz, however he's got credits in the bank on his goal kicking to cut him a break.

Team balance is everything and I do subscribe to the theory that with Ryder being added when at full strength we're an extra runner and just as important a ball winner down, so we have to get the team balance right, that's why I thought Mitchell would come in because White went out with injury. When we played Brisbane we replaced Jacko with O'Shea but also played our 4 half back flankers, so we weren't just an extra tall top heavy but also of the players left we were too many half back heavy and if you look at that team its easy to see the average disposals of the team would be less than if we replaced one of the talls and half back with ball winning midfielders, so I believe that's why we got beaten in the midfield, there wasn't enough support for our front line midfielders. The two biggest differences that won Geelong the game was the stark difference in ruck but also Guthrie and Caddy making our midfield look slow and bursting from congestion with ease, this was made even more obvious when you see Stanley bound away from Lobbe like prince Harry had had his legs amputated. When you look at our midfield Wines, Boak, Hartlett, Ebert, Gray are all very one paced and players like Broady and Monfries who play in positions at half back and forward are also one paced when perhaps other teams would have faster players in those positions. Obviously it doesn't help when Polec gets injured and I don't think its a coincidence that since he's been out we've really struggled. The difference in ruck would have been offset a lot with Ryder. So after that game I thought we definitely needed some speed, which Moore doesn't help much with but I think Ah Chee does and I picked Mitchell in the Carlton game purely for outside run even though I'm like most people in the belief that I'd rather play Amon and Hoon if given a choice. For mine I was a massive fan of Jonas the last couple of years but his year hasn't even been average, outmarked by Betts & Johnson and out muscled by Martin, it's hardly the pinnacle of brute key forwards and a far cry from pantsing Walker in the first showdown in 2013.

As for the Sydney game I strongly believe that if Ryder is fit he has to come in as a straight swap with Jonas to keep team balance and simply because Jonas needs to go back to the SANFL and find form. Jonas just hasn't performed its that simple, the only problem I see with dropping Jonas this week is that Trengove/Carlile Vs Tippett/Reid and Hombsch Vs Buddy are obvious match ups but who takes Goodes? We don't seem to have an obvious match up for Goodes if Jonas goes out, but realistically Clurey has earned his spot more than Jonas if we still need a 4th tall. The other change in the side is to bring Neade back into the side for pure excitement, forward half pressure and speed as his X-factor outweighs his obvious mistakes at times. We put up with Pittards mistakes because we know he creates run, well I have the same philosophy with Neade. I think we need to reward Ah Chee and give him the starting gig as he's got more speed and is the most unique out of him, Moore and Young who can fight it out for the last inside mid spot and we should be picking Hoon and Amon over Mitchell for outside mid spot as their up side is much greater and more importantly I think there's more genuine footballing ability to start with anyway. Neade should be played over Gray as he clearly has more unique abilities. Both Mitchell and Sam Gray are unexceptional footballers with less potential so with the team in it's current predicament we have to play the players that are going to bring the most to the team to give the side the best chance to win, therefore Neade's X-factor trumps Gray similarly Hoon and Amon seem to have greater natural ability than Mitchell. Furthermore, even if the side doesn't win the players mentioned will develop and gain more experience than the limited improvement with players like Mitchell and Gray.

One thing I loved about the Carlton game was Kraks going forward and I just think having him playing the swingman role would work brilliantly instead of Westhoff as we all know he doesn't run games out that well so not having to be worn out from one on one contests as much and having a free license to go down back and be a sweeper or go up forward and bring some magic to the forward line would be better than sacrificing our whole forward line structure by sending Westhoff down back and signaling to everyone to attack us. Krak is our best distributor out of defensive 50 but also he is great delivering it inside forward 50 as well. If we're down to 3 talls Krak can play the 7th Defender and 7th forward depending on the circumstances of the game. As I said earlier if Hartlett drops into defense he could go forward which might be the time Gray and Chad have midfield time to allow his move forward to work. I just imagine bringing in Neade, moving Krak forward at times and bringing in Ryder and just telling them to ignite the team and my mind lights up with the possibilities, add Chad for good measure and its an exciting forward line.

The problem of where is the run going to come from is still present but if Ah Chee can win his own ball and we can rotate our half backs and half forwards then Ebert can play his line breaking game, Pittard can run and run..and run all day off a wing as well as Neade providing pace in the forward half, Impey in the back half and hopefully Hoon can play a good uncontested, link up game with Ebert. Moore to get the sub purely because I think we need Hoons run, but I don't see why Moore, Ah Chee, Hoon, Krak and Impey can't rotate it based on match ups.

In: Ryder Neade
Out: Jonas Mitchell

FF: Ryder Schulz Neade
HF: Monfries Westhoff Wingard
C: Hartlett Boak Ebert
HB: Pittard Trengove Broadbent
FB: Hombsch Carlile Impey
FO: Lobbe Wines Gray
Inter: Ah Chee Krakouer Colquhoun Sub: Moore
Emerg: Amon Clurey

At the end of the day the team needs to get angry and 'draw a line in the sand' and take a 'you'll have to kill me before I let you get an inch' mentality into the Sydney game and every game for the rest of the season. I've loved the way Hawks go about it over the last decade but this year I think they've stepped over the line of toughness and gone into thug/sniper territory at times. I don't want us to go too far but we definitely need to bring aggression. We've been too easy to play this season, something Ken said he wanted us not to be. If there's a free man in our 50 that player need to be made WELL aware that if their gonna play the soft, easy 'Troy Chaplin' role that they're in for a flogging. He needs to be made well aware that any mark he wants to take WILL NOT be uncontested or easy and we need to literally make him fear for his safety by bashing and crashing him every single chance we get so that every time he's standing under a high ball he's thinking it could be the last time. That then needs to be expanded to everywhere on the field. When Collingwood in 2010 were the best team, they pressured the life out of their opponents. Teams who play us need to be scared to attack the ball, scared to take possession of the ball knowing they'll get thumped if they do, that there's a player baring down waiting for an opportunity to belt them (legally). Every single player makes mistakes under pressure, we aren't exerting enough proper pressure and in turn persevered pressure. If we come out with ruthless intent to tackle to make a statement we will make our opponents second guess and easy mistakes. We have to make them feel uncomfortable and force them to play on our terms.

 

[Willsy10]

The 'Last time' video on the Port website is actually the time before last i.e. at the SCG in 2014.

Quietly air brushing the insipid rd 2 2015 effort at AO from history.

Played them twice since then.

 

[Nemisis]

I liked the ins for the Carlton game, I called for the midfield to be bolstered with inside mids like Young/Moore/Ah Chee so the work load on Boak, Wines, Hartlett wouldn't be so great. All you have to say to Ah Chee is go hunt the ball like Wines in his first year, you know if he has a full game he'll get 20 odd touches and all he has to do is win the ball and distribute it to our best players and it means if our better players aren't having a good day we aren't so reliant on them. But with other players like Hoon, Amon, Mitchell who are more outside players if our top midfielders aren't getting the ball then they suffer as well. It means that if our fringe players are winning the ball then it's our best players on the outside so they're the ones making the key decisions, executing more important passes instead of the other way round with Boak and Gray fighting hard to win the ball to farm it out to a fringe player whose more likely to not make the most of it under pressure and obviously players like Boak, Gray and Hartlett have their own standards and key indicators to hit and in a game you want to make your presence felt so if the likes of Ah Chee and Moore and are winning a good amount of ball it means our A-graders pile in on top of them when they want to get more physical; Eg. Boak and Gray both have 12 contested possessions and clearances if that's on top of Moore and Ah Chee having half a dozen each that would be enormous compared to Hoon and Mitchell having 4 between them. Obviously I'm not saying pile all inside mids into the team, but an extra inside midfielder allows for Gray and Wingard to have more impact bursts in the midfield and have more forward line time, but also I've thought with Hartlett struggling this season we could drop him back on to half back like he used to earlier in his career and play a Goddard/Gibbs role and really use his booming leg to bust out of presses and allow us to push Pittard forward onto a wing to create run further up the field and help offset the loss of White and Polec. We are far too predictable at the moment, my pet hate is Westhoff going into defense, its a massive signal to the opposition to set up their best defensive structure that we won't be able to get through at our current confidence or skill level and to double team and brutalise poor Schulz. We wonder why Schulz does so poorly in our losses, it's because he gets double teamed and rubbish delivery, having said that his easy misses against Richmond and Carlton when we were coming are on Schulz, however he's got credits in the bank on his goal kicking to cut him a break.

Team balance is everything and I do subscribe to the theory that with Ryder being added when at full strength we're an extra runner and just as important a ball winner down, so we have to get the team balance right, that's why I thought Mitchell would come in because White went out with injury. When we played Brisbane we replaced Jacko with O'Shea but also played our 4 half back flankers, so we weren't just an extra tall top heavy but also of the players left we were too many half back heavy and if you look at that team its easy to see the average disposals of the team would be less than if we replaced one of the talls and half back with ball winning midfielders, so I believe that's why we got beaten in the midfield, there wasn't enough support for our front line midfielders. The two biggest differences that won Geelong the game was the stark difference in ruck but also Guthrie and Caddy making our midfield look slow and bursting from congestion with ease, this was made even more obvious when you see Stanley bound away from Lobbe like prince Harry had had his legs amputated. When you look at our midfield Wines, Boak, Hartlett, Ebert, Gray are all very one paced and players like Broady and Monfries who play in positions at half back and forward are also one paced when perhaps other teams would have faster players in those positions. Obviously it doesn't help when Polec gets injured and I don't think its a coincidence that since he's been out we've really struggled. The difference in ruck would have been offset a lot with Ryder. So after that game I thought we definitely needed some speed, which Moore doesn't help much with but I think Ah Chee does and I picked Mitchell in the Carlton game purely for outside run even though I'm like most people in the belief that I'd rather play Amon and Hoon if given a choice. For mine I was a massive fan of Jonas the last couple of years but his year hasn't even been average, outmarked by Betts & Johnson and out muscled by Martin, it's hardly the pinnacle of brute key forwards and a far cry from pantsing Walker in the first showdown in 2013.

As for the Sydney game I strongly believe that if Ryder is fit he has to come in as a straight swap with Jonas to keep team balance and simply because Jonas needs to go back to the SANFL and find form. Jonas just hasn't performed its that simple, the only problem I see with dropping Jonas this week is that Trengove/Carlile Vs Tippett/Reid and Hombsch Vs Buddy are obvious match ups but who takes Goodes? We don't seem to have an obvious match up for Goodes if Jonas goes out, but realistically Clurey has earned his spot more than Jonas if we still need a 4th tall. The other change in the side is to bring Neade back into the side for pure excitement, forward half pressure and speed as his X-factor outweighs his obvious mistakes at times. We put up with Pittards mistakes because we know he creates run, well I have the same philosophy with Neade. I think we need to reward Ah Chee and give him the starting gig as he's got more speed and is the most unique out of him, Moore and Young who can fight it out for the last inside mid spot and we should be picking Hoon and Amon over Mitchell for outside mid spot as their up side is much greater and more importantly I think there's more genuine footballing ability to start with anyway. Neade should be played over Gray as he clearly has more unique abilities. Both Mitchell and Sam Gray are unexceptional footballers with less potential so with the team in it's current predicament we have to play the players that are going to bring the most to the team to give the side the best chance to win, therefore Neade's X-factor trumps Gray similarly Hoon and Amon seem to have greater natural ability than Mitchell. Furthermore, even if the side doesn't win the players mentioned will develop and gain more experience than the limited improvement with players like Mitchell and Gray.

One thing I loved about the Carlton game was Kraks going forward and I just think having him playing the swingman role would work brilliantly instead of Westhoff as we all know he doesn't run games out that well so not having to be worn out from one on one contests as much and having a free license to go down back and be a sweeper or go up forward and bring some magic to the forward line would be better than sacrificing our whole forward line structure by sending Westhoff down back and signaling to everyone to attack us. Krak is our best distributor out of defensive 50 but also he is great delivering it inside forward 50 as well. If we're down to 3 talls Krak can play the 7th Defender and 7th forward depending on the circumstances of the game. As I said earlier if Hartlett drops into defense he could go forward which might be the time Gray and Chad have midfield time to allow his move forward to work. I just imagine bringing in Neade, moving Krak forward at times and bringing in Ryder and just telling them to ignite the team and my mind lights up with the possibilities, add Chad for good measure and its an exciting forward line.

The problem of where is the run going to come from is still present but if Ah Chee can win his own ball and we can rotate our half backs and half forwards then Ebert can play his line breaking game, Pittard can run and run..and run all day off a wing as well as Neade providing pace in the forward half, Impey in the back half and hopefully Hoon can play a good uncontested, link up game with Ebert. Moore to get the sub purely because I think we need Hoons run, but I don't see why Moore, Ah Chee, Hoon, Krak and Impey can't rotate it based on match ups.

In: Ryder Neade
Out: Jonas Mitchell

FF: Ryder Schulz Neade
HF: Monfries Westhoff Wingard
C: Hartlett Boak Ebert
HB: Pittard Trengove Broadbent
FB: Hombsch Carlile Impey
FO: Lobbe Wines Gray
Inter: Ah Chee Krakouer Colquhoun Sub: Moore
Emerg: Amon Clurey

At the end of the day the team needs to get angry and 'draw a line in the sand' and take a 'you'll have to kill me before I let you get an inch' mentality into the Sydney game and every game for the rest of the season. I've loved the way Hawks go about it over the last decade but this year I think they've stepped over the line of toughness and gone into thug/sniper territory at times. I don't want us to go too far but we definitely need to bring aggression. We've been too easy to play this season, something Ken said he wanted us not to be. If there's a free man in our 50 that player need to be made WELL aware that if their gonna play the soft, easy 'Troy Chaplin' role that they're in for a flogging. He needs to be made well aware that any mark he wants to take WILL NOT be uncontested or easy and we need to literally make him fear for his safety by bashing and crashing him every single chance we get so that every time he's standing under a high ball he's thinking it could be the last time. That then needs to be expanded to everywhere on the field. When Collingwood in 2010 were the best team, they pressured the life out of their opponents. Teams who play us need to be scared to attack the ball, scared to take possession of the ball knowing they'll get thumped if they do, that there's a player baring down waiting for an opportunity to belt them (legally). Every single player makes mistakes under pressure, we aren't exerting enough proper pressure and in turn persevered pressure. If we come out with ruthless intent to tackle to make a statement we will make our opponents second guess and easy mistakes. We have to make them feel uncomfortable and force them to play on our terms.

Is there more?

 

[70sDinosaur]

I liked the ins for the Carlton game, I called for the midfield to be bolstered with inside mids like Young/Moore/Ah Chee so the work load on Boak, Wines, Hartlett wouldn't be so great. All you have to say to Ah Chee is go hunt the ball like Wines in his first year, you know if he has a full game he'll get 20 odd touches and all he has to do is win the ball and distribute it to our best players and it means if our better players aren't having a good day we aren't so reliant on them. But with other players like Hoon, Amon, Mitchell who are more outside players if our top midfielders aren't getting the ball then they suffer as well. It means that if our fringe players are winning the ball then it's our best players on the outside so they're the ones making the key decisions, executing more important passes instead of the other way round with Boak and Gray fighting hard to win the ball to farm it out to a fringe player whose more likely to not make the most of it under pressure and obviously players like Boak, Gray and Hartlett have their own standards and key indicators to hit and in a game you want to make your presence felt so if the likes of Ah Chee and Moore and are winning a good amount of ball it means our A-graders pile in on top of them when they want to get more physical; Eg. Boak and Gray both have 12 contested possessions and clearances if that's on top of Moore and Ah Chee having half a dozen each that would be enormous compared to Hoon and Mitchell having 4 between them. Obviously I'm not saying pile all inside mids into the team, but an extra inside midfielder allows for Gray and Wingard to have more impact bursts in the midfield and have more forward line time, but also I've thought with Hartlett struggling this season we could drop him back on to half back like he used to earlier in his career and play a Goddard/Gibbs role and really use his booming leg to bust out of presses and allow us to push Pittard forward onto a wing to create run further up the field and help offset the loss of White and Polec. We are far too predictable at the moment, my pet hate is Westhoff going into defense, its a massive signal to the opposition to set up their best defensive structure that we won't be able to get through at our current confidence or skill level and to double team and brutalise poor Schulz. We wonder why Schulz does so poorly in our losses, it's because he gets double teamed and rubbish delivery, having said that his easy misses against Richmond and Carlton when we were coming are on Schulz, however he's got credits in the bank on his goal kicking to cut him a break.

Team balance is everything and I do subscribe to the theory that with Ryder being added when at full strength we're an extra runner and just as important a ball winner down, so we have to get the team balance right, that's why I thought Mitchell would come in because White went out with injury. When we played Brisbane we replaced Jacko with O'Shea but also played our 4 half back flankers, so we weren't just an extra tall top heavy but also of the players left we were too many half back heavy and if you look at that team its easy to see the average disposals of the team would be less than if we replaced one of the talls and half back with ball winning midfielders, so I believe that's why we got beaten in the midfield, there wasn't enough support for our front line midfielders. The two biggest differences that won Geelong the game was the stark difference in ruck but also Guthrie and Caddy making our midfield look slow and bursting from congestion with ease, this was made even more obvious when you see Stanley bound away from Lobbe like prince Harry had had his legs amputated. When you look at our midfield Wines, Boak, Hartlett, Ebert, Gray are all very one paced and players like Broady and Monfries who play in positions at half back and forward are also one paced when perhaps other teams would have faster players in those positions. Obviously it doesn't help when Polec gets injured and I don't think its a coincidence that since he's been out we've really struggled. The difference in ruck would have been offset a lot with Ryder. So after that game I thought we definitely needed some speed, which Moore doesn't help much with but I think Ah Chee does and I picked Mitchell in the Carlton game purely for outside run even though I'm like most people in the belief that I'd rather play Amon and Hoon if given a choice. For mine I was a massive fan of Jonas the last couple of years but his year hasn't even been average, outmarked by Betts & Johnson and out muscled by Martin, it's hardly the pinnacle of brute key forwards and a far cry from pantsing Walker in the first showdown in 2013.

As for the Sydney game I strongly believe that if Ryder is fit he has to come in as a straight swap with Jonas to keep team balance and simply because Jonas needs to go back to the SANFL and find form. Jonas just hasn't performed its that simple, the only problem I see with dropping Jonas this week is that Trengove/Carlile Vs Tippett/Reid and Hombsch Vs Buddy are obvious match ups but who takes Goodes? We don't seem to have an obvious match up for Goodes if Jonas goes out, but realistically Clurey has earned his spot more than Jonas if we still need a 4th tall. The other change in the side is to bring Neade back into the side for pure excitement, forward half pressure and speed as his X-factor outweighs his obvious mistakes at times. We put up with Pittards mistakes because we know he creates run, well I have the same philosophy with Neade. I think we need to reward Ah Chee and give him the starting gig as he's got more speed and is the most unique out of him, Moore and Young who can fight it out for the last inside mid spot and we should be picking Hoon and Amon over Mitchell for outside mid spot as their up side is much greater and more importantly I think there's more genuine footballing ability to start with anyway. Neade should be played over Gray as he clearly has more unique abilities. Both Mitchell and Sam Gray are unexceptional footballers with less potential so with the team in it's current predicament we have to play the players that are going to bring the most to the team to give the side the best chance to win, therefore Neade's X-factor trumps Gray similarly Hoon and Amon seem to have greater natural ability than Mitchell. Furthermore, even if the side doesn't win the players mentioned will develop and gain more experience than the limited improvement with players like Mitchell and Gray.

One thing I loved about the Carlton game was Kraks going forward and I just think having him playing the swingman role would work brilliantly instead of Westhoff as we all know he doesn't run games out that well so not having to be worn out from one on one contests as much and having a free license to go down back and be a sweeper or go up forward and bring some magic to the forward line would be better than sacrificing our whole forward line structure by sending Westhoff down back and signaling to everyone to attack us. Krak is our best distributor out of defensive 50 but also he is great delivering it inside forward 50 as well. If we're down to 3 talls Krak can play the 7th Defender and 7th forward depending on the circumstances of the game. As I said earlier if Hartlett drops into defense he could go forward which might be the time Gray and Chad have midfield time to allow his move forward to work. I just imagine bringing in Neade, moving Krak forward at times and bringing in Ryder and just telling them to ignite the team and my mind lights up with the possibilities, add Chad for good measure and its an exciting forward line.

The problem of where is the run going to come from is still present but if Ah Chee can win his own ball and we can rotate our half backs and half forwards then Ebert can play his line breaking game, Pittard can run and run..and run all day off a wing as well as Neade providing pace in the forward half, Impey in the back half and hopefully Hoon can play a good uncontested, link up game with Ebert. Moore to get the sub purely because I think we need Hoons run, but I don't see why Moore, Ah Chee, Hoon, Krak and Impey can't rotate it based on match ups.

In: Ryder Neade
Out: Jonas Mitchell

FF: Ryder Schulz Neade
HF: Monfries Westhoff Wingard
C: Hartlett Boak Ebert
HB: Pittard Trengove Broadbent
FB: Hombsch Carlile Impey
FO: Lobbe Wines Gray
Inter: Ah Chee Krakouer Colquhoun Sub: Moore
Emerg: Amon Clurey

At the end of the day the team needs to get angry and 'draw a line in the sand' and take a 'you'll have to kill me before I let you get an inch' mentality into the Sydney game and every game for the rest of the season. I've loved the way Hawks go about it over the last decade but this year I think they've stepped over the line of toughness and gone into thug/sniper territory at times. I don't want us to go too far but we definitely need to bring aggression. We've been too easy to play this season, something Ken said he wanted us not to be. If there's a free man in our 50 that player need to be made WELL aware that if their gonna play the soft, easy 'Troy Chaplin' role that they're in for a flogging. He needs to be made well aware that any mark he wants to take WILL NOT be uncontested or easy and we need to literally make him fear for his safety by bashing and crashing him every single chance we get so that every time he's standing under a high ball he's thinking it could be the last time. That then needs to be expanded to everywhere on the field. When Collingwood in 2010 were the best team, they pressured the life out of their opponents. Teams who play us need to be scared to attack the ball, scared to take possession of the ball knowing they'll get thumped if they do, that there's a player baring down waiting for an opportunity to belt them (legally). Every single player makes mistakes under pressure, we aren't exerting enough proper pressure and in turn persevered pressure. If we come out with ruthless intent to tackle to make a statement we will make our opponents second guess and easy mistakes. We have to make them feel uncomfortable and force them to play on our terms.

I tried to read this, I really did, but I started to get a headache.

Can anyone give me an executive summary?