Key Match-Ups

[B&W Army]

Some of the key match ups:
T.Cloke vs. Bradley - could be one to look out for...
Tarrant vs. Fletcher - IMO Fletcher will do a good job on Taz and we may need to protect him... Taz has kicked a few in recent week and may get double teamed could be a loose player advange for us?
Caracella vs. McPhee - McPhee looks a bit underdone and hopefully Caracella can exploit it!
Wakelin vs. Lucas - Lucas kicked a bag a few weeks ago Wakelin will need to hold him...
Clement vs. Hird - Clement should be able to hold Hird as Hird looks slow at the moment...
Prestigiacomo vs. Lloyd - Lloyd kicked 5 last week and a problem if he gets going...
Licuria vs. Peverill - Licuria has been on fire this season hopefully can take Essendon's midfield out of the game...

Comments?

 

[diehard pie]

I'd say all those matchups will happen at some stage on Monday. Unfortunately I think Tarrant will get double-teamed the whole match. Didak will have to do a lot of roving to pick up the spoils.
Good match ups

 

[B&W Army]

Looking at all the possible starting match-ups we should win all over the ground but that said it will probably be a scrappy game where the hard ball gets count most and the team with the most heart wins...

 

[hilly69]

Some of the key match ups:
T.Cloke vs. Bradley - could be one to look out for...
Tarrant vs. Fletcher - IMO Fletcher will do a good job on Taz and we may need to protect him... Taz has kicked a few in recent week and may get double teamed could be a loose player advange for us?
Caracella vs. McPhee - McPhee looks a bit underdone and hopefully Caracella can exploit it!
Wakelin vs. Lucas - Lucas kicked a bag a few weeks ago Wakelin will need to hold him...
Clement vs. Hird - Clement should be able to hold Hird as Hird looks slow at the moment...
Prestigiacomo vs. Lloyd - Lloyd kicked 5 last week and a problem if he gets going...
Licuria vs. Peverill - Licuria has been on fire this season hopefully can take Essendon's midfield out of the game...

iComments?

i reckon you have done pretty well i would like to see mcphee and tarrant man up on each other

 

[Pie 4 Life]

Good work, should be close. Go Pies!!!

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Slightly Different, but they have worked before.

Clement v Lloyd
Morrison v Hird
Fletcher v Tarrant
Prestigiacomo v Lucas
Trav Cloke v Bradley
Caracella v Welsh
Licuria v Jas Johnson
Cam Cloke v Henneman
Woewodin v McPhee

A bit strange...but I think they could be usefull match ups on the day.

 

[Coin_Toss]

i reckon you have done pretty well i would like to see mcphee and tarrant man up on each other

Tarrant was too good for McPhee last time we met Essendon.

Kevin Sheedy probably won't put McPhee on Tarrant this time around..

 

[guess_who]

I doub't that our key tagger will tag their main tagger in peverill, even though we are low on midfielders I think he may tag some one else.

 

[hotpie]

Presti needs first crack at Lloyd.

No matchups, just play our players in their best positions and see what happens.

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Tarrant was too good for McPhee last time we met Essendon.

Kevin Sheedy probably won't put McPhee on Tarrant this time around..

Adam McPhee was best on ground last time they played. Taz took 10 marks or so, but played on Fletcher, and only kicked the 2 goals.

McPhee would most likely play on-the-ball/wing, and rest at Half Back, I would put Woewodin on him in the midfield and see how he goes.

 

[Jabso]

McPhee won't play on Tarrant he is too unfit to cover a leading player such as Tarrant. They will try to play him loose on one of our small forwards.

 

[Lonie_from_50]

McPhee won't play on Tarrant he is too unfit to cover a leading player such as Tarrant. They will try to play him loose on one of our small forwards.

A chance to play in the midfield considering he has played there most this year?

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Game Over - Hale goal...this is a thrashing

!!!!!

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Half Time
Kangaroos 3.4 9.8 (62)
Hawthorn 3.3 4.5 (29)

Goals
Kangaroos: Rocca 4, Hale 2, Wells, Archer, Jones
Hawthorn: Barker, Crawford, Thurgood, Vandenberg

Ball Magnets
Kangaroos: Sinclair 12, Watt 11, Harvey 11, Grant 10, Colbert 9, Jones 9, Harris 9
Hawthorn: Bateman 15, Mitchell 14, Jacobs 14, Everitt 11, Croad 10, Clarke 9

Report
After a good contest in the first quarter, the Roos ran rampant in the second quarter, kicking the last 6 goals of the match. Shannon Watt has been good with Sinclair from defence but Rocca has been the man, kicking 4 goals from 4 marks. Drew Petrie and Blake Grima are to spend the rest of the game on the pine with injuries while Michael Stevens also spent time on the bench with a broken nose. David Hale has also been good running down forward. For the Hawks, Bateman and Mitchell have found it, but Everitt was the main standout dominating the ruck and finding the ball 11 times throught the centre. At the moment it is all Kangaroos but the Hawks can fight back due to costly misses from the Roos to have the Hawks in touch.

 

[Lonie_from_50]

Bugger, wrong thread!!!

 

[twaters]

No mention in all these match ups for our main fast run-with player in RShaw. He had stuff all touches last year vs Bombers perhaps for the same reason - no-one fast enough of his size in that Essendon team to be worth running with? No game for him?On the other hand Jason Cloke seems happy with the Dons' slower approach getting up the ground and has good stats vs Dons last year and before. Not sure where Rowe fits into this either -seems to mirror too closely the Dons' now you see me now you don't wil o' the whisp theme at the moment.

I may not applaud the MM "game plan" of let's go forward by going backwards, sideways, and then to the pockets and then let's claim we are a direct long kicking team when we accidentally happen do it for a half, but I think he and his coaching team are peerless at defensive match ups - perhaps because we pick sooo many defensive players in the team that there just simply must be one best set of matching buttons in here somewhere - if we just shuffle them all till they fit in our pre-game heads.

Statistically MM makes fewer changes during the game than anyone else because most of the defensive team choices, and match ups are all pre-computed. Just needs a re-jig here or there in game time. Why would we even pre-guess them. I guess it's better than a planned flood. But it's less better than a planned attacking brand of football.

For that we may need to take a risk and put someone in the forward pocket who - though young - may kick us either nothing or five goals in a game (though defensively a touch "loose") rather than someone who will kick us nothing or up to a game high of one or two goals if we are lucky (but ostensibly is less loose in a touchy-feely intuitive sense).

MM said of Eade that a leopard doesn't change spots in what MM was expecting of Eade's flooding game plan for round one versus us (and yet couldn't figure ahead how to counter it and win). Others must be saying the same of MM - once a back pocket, always a back pocket - the forward pocket for such as these is only a back pocket at the other end of the ground.

Those who say different just do not either compute (eg Terry Daniher - inventor of the let Taz be a creative roaming forward plan) or get sacked, though in Terry's case it was integral to our 2003 success.

Have we got anyone there with Terry's bottle to remind MM and crew that ummm.... forward match ups are supposed FOREMOST to beat their opponents... on the score board... on the forward goal assists... not only on how many rebounds they stopped from the forwardly-positioned-but-really-back pocket.

We don't have the luxury of MM's WC Eagles' premiership teams of the greatest playing slab of bricks at CHB and FF and a great quarter back who now happens to be coaching at CFC (and can he really say, to his old boss: no boss this is a decade out of date and you have no fingertip nuancing of what forward X-factoring is because you hated it then and still do: you got us by the grace of Burns/Licca/Bucks to the scrappiest/toughest/most defensesomeness top of two years (thanks boss great job), but this is shortly over with the new ruck & clearance rules and retiring players and we'll shortly need to like aahh....

kick goals.