Prediction Changes vs West Coast Eagles

[RossFC]

Bit annoying that Johnson flattened Atley so we could only see him play for 3 quarters. Would have been great for him to get a 30+ possession game.

 

[rumoursofwinter]

I love this thread. Emotional roller coaster. Attttleeeeee in! Imagine the love for Kenny if we get breaddy for broady.

 

[rocket18]

Yeah, it's amusing reading both boards about their respective coaches. Pyke is no longer God either.

Sorry to go off topic but he just brought Thommo back in ffs.

We still have MacKay in and you guys think you have problems.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Sorry to go off topic but he just brought Thommo back in ffs.

We still have MacKay in and you guys think you have problems.

Heavily off topic post here, but you should be glad to have Thompson back in, maybe now you'll have somebody who might actually help Sloane out against his tagger in the clearances rather than focusing on boosting their own Dream Team scores like the Crouch brothers.

Come Showdown time I'd be more worried about a midfield of Sloane, Thompson, Greenwood than Sloane, Crouch, Crouch. Either way it's Sloane + plodders but at least the first set of plodders will play a team-oriented game.

 

[Byron!!!]

Counter attack was great until teams start sitting extra players back on us and blocking the slingshot. We'd then lose in a scrap.

We tried it for 2 more years after 2014 and it didn't work because the formula to counter it was so easy.

Yet Bulldogs won a flag playing it and we lose to it every second week.


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[rumoursofwinter]

Sorry to go off topic but he just brought Thommo back in ffs.

We still have MacKay in and you guys think you have problems.

Don't worry you got otten back.

The great thing is every clubs supporters think their team is shit and that the coach should be sacked. Strange times.

 

[MutleyDog]

Eddy Eddy Eddy.

 

[RossFC]

Eddy won't get picked. He'll be 3rd emergency.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Sorry to go off topic but he just brought Thommo back in ffs.

We still have MacKay in and you guys think you have problems.

But at least your fiveaa callers will be most satisfied. He could be a bit slow but I'm guessing it will be wet anyway. One fella the other day on fiveaa threatened to withdraw his membership if Thompson was overlooked again

 

[MutleyDog]

Wishful thinking I know.

 

[rumoursofwinter]

Richmond supporters are the only happy supporters. They have hated Hardwick for years. It's opposite land. Maybe eddy will get a run.

 

[Coobk001]

Really not looking forward to the Melbourne game.

It's not shaping up too bad. They'll be without Viney, Jones & Bugg minimum, so it's not totally hopeless.

 

[Byron!!!]

Counter attack was great until teams start sitting extra players back on us and blocking the slingshot. We'd then lose in a scrap.

We tried it for 2 more years after 2014 and it didn't work because the formula to counter it was so easy.

Doesn't what style we play I guess as long as our skills and goal kicking are poor. Maybe burgess shares some blame with more load on fitness than skills, maybe it is all Hinkley, maybe it is whoever put skills coach is, maybe our players just will never be skilled enough. Hopefully they change soon.


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[El_Scorcho]

Yet Bulldogs won a flag playing it and we lose to it every second week.

Teams actively started to set up to counter us after 2014 and we missed the finals (despite being flag favourites or thereabouts) in 2015.

Counter attacking is an important arrow to have in your quiver but if we try to use it as plan A, teams will just sit back and wait for us like the have done for the past 2 years. We needed to be less predictable.

 

[Byron!!!]

Teams actively started to set up to counter us after 2014 and we missed the finals (despite being flag favourites or thereabouts) in 2015.

Counter attacking is an important arrow to have in your quiver but if we try to use it as plan A, teams will just sit back and wait for us like the have done for the past 2 years. We needed to be less predictable.

Agree, although last year it was the fact we would bomb it long to Dixon 12 on 1 regardless of other options that were the problem. Now we pass it short to matt White who misses from 35 [emoji27]


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[El_Scorcho]

Doesn't what style we play I guess as long as our skills and goal kicking are poor. Maybe burgess shares some blame with more load on fitness than skills, maybe it is all Hinkley, maybe it is whoever put skills coach is, maybe our players just will never be skilled enough. Hopefully they change soon.

Skills are an issue, but we've changed the way we move the ball out of defence this year and the result has been leading the league in Inside 50s. We could barely get the ball out of our own 50 last season.

Skills look better under a better system. Our forward entry system sucks, so players don't know where to kick, they don't have targets presenting, so they kick to contests near the line. We really need some better personnel up there. Imagine if Dixon didn't fall into our laps.

 

[Lagooner]

Haha Breddy into the 25 just to f@#k with us!

 

[manureid]

Clog up our forward line and make us bomb in multiple inside 50s to a legion of Frodo's and 1 key defensive forward being led to the ball by his defender, and then after we get fed up counting how many inside 50s we have had, run in numbers down the other end and score. Game planning against Port 101 (semi decent teams need only apply).

 

[Byron!!!]

Skills are an issue, but we've changed the way we move the ball out of defence this year and the result has been leading the league in Inside 50s. We could barely get the ball out of our own 50 last season.

Skills look better under a better system. Our forward entry system sucks, so players don't know where to kick, they don't have targets presenting, so they kick to contests near the line. We really need some better personnel up there. Imagine if Dixon didn't fall into our laps.

Or Wingard just bombs it over Trengove's head to Rance's advantage because he doesn't trust him?

One of my fav Eddy moments was in the preseason against Hawks I think when dixon lead, two defenders went with him, the ball went over them all into Eddy's lap. We miss that!


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[drazah]

Sorry to go off topic but he just brought Thommo back in ffs.

We still have MacKay in and you guys think you have problems.

Thommo + Mackay > Neade and Toumpas

Although the bar is so low it may as well be a Cooper Pedy pub.

 

[badbeats]

1 hour till official reveal

I honestly think it will be
Hombsch and Atley for Broadbent and Hartlett.

 

[JUSTWORK]

1 hour till official reveal

I honestly think it will be
Hombsch and Atley for Broadbent and Hartlett.

So badly want to add Eddy for Neade but considering he only came in when he did that's fairly unlikely !

 

[SureBuddy]

If Neade stays in this team, I will be far more pissed than Eddy not being picked.

 

[badbeats]

If Neade stays in this team, I will be far more pissed than Eddy not being picked.

Could be Atley for Neade, but I dont envisage Hartlett getting up.

 

[Trewth]

The only blokes coming out of this side are the ones carrying injuries. Neade is as safe as houses unforch.