Roast Matthew Lloyd

[Seedsfan]

I'd love to see Wellingham back, we really miss his delivery in to the forward line.

I loved him to but in the long term I would prefer Grundy

 

[mike123]

I'd love to see Wellingham back, we really miss his delivery in to the forward line.

Maybe you should be called bring back sharrod

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

I loved him to but in the long term I would prefer Grundy

If he's grown up a bit we could try to lure him back

 

[Seedsfan]

If he's grown up a bit we could try to lure him back

What would we give up?

 

[THATSGOLD]

I heard his comments and they specifically related to our two way running and I agree as a midfield we haven't worked hard enough both ways since 2010. It goes hand in hand with Blaze's thread yep we look great on paper, but just haven't been getting the job done!

Its now time for the players to put up or shut up and I can't think of a bigger test than Freo first up who are the kings of two way running ATM.

This. Lloyd is probably right. We'll see if our players have learned anything.

 

[THATSGOLD]

Lordo usually makes sense. Love him fighting with Caro he'll usually win the argument on footy classified. Rate him.

 

[Twiggys_Torpedo]

I think Lloyd was one of the best new talents when he first hit the media, but last year was his first year where he had a massive conflict of interest and he suffered. He has now reverted to the Hutchy method of say anything so it gets you a headline, just like our former coach Mr Shaw.
The game is overtaken by the media personalities, it's a sad state of affairs.

 

[Old Spice]

I heard his comments and they specifically related to our two way running and I agree as a midfield we haven't worked hard enough both ways since 2010. It goes hand in hand with Blaze's thread yep we look great on paper, but just haven't been getting the job done!

Its now time for the players to put up or shut up and I can't think of a bigger test than Freo first up who are the kings of two way running ATM.

My opinion was that Swan didn't do enough defensive work a few years ago but last year he was much improved. I expect that to bleed through to Beams too.

Ball, Macaffer and Adams are very defensively minded mids. Pendlebury will rack up even more and if Swan continues from last year, we're in a good place. Josh Thomas I think needs to keep this front of mind.

 

[Seedsfan]

My opinion was that Swan didn't do enough defensive work a few years ago but last year he was much improved. I expect that to bleed through to Beams too.

Ball, Macaffer and Adams are very defensively minded mids. Pendlebury will rack up even more and if Swan continues from last year, we're in a good place. Josh Thomas I think needs to keep this front of mind.

Beams does the team thing and defends but he hardly played last year, also thought you were a bit harsh on Swan, I think the problem comes from the fact that we no longer have guys like Davis, Thomas and Wellingham who all defended well. I think Macaffer will help us out in this regard now he has had a full pre-season under his belt

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

What would we give up?

Give up a small forward we've got too many

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

What would we give up?

Whatever he's worth when he becomes available, would be a great story to get a premiership player back.

 

[rustyg70]

Give up a small forward we've got too many

Hell. Lets get Krak Egan and davis back while we're at it.

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

Hell. Lets get Krak Egan and davis back while we're at it.

Don't know about Egan but Krak and Leon would be awesome to have back at the club

 

[Benkinnear]

What I didn't like was that he cited our record against Freo, Sydney and Hawthorn (of course he didn't mention Geelong for some reason) to criticize our mids. He didn't bring up any key midfield stats, just that we lost the game and that it is apparently all the midfield's fault. I'd say our dysfunctional forward line had a fair bit more to do with our losses in those games (the Hawthorn games admittedly an exception as their midfield always kills ours). When we had our near full strength midfield back in round 20 v Sydney it blew theirs off the park.

He also failed to mention issues such as injury and our ruck problems. All in all it was pretty unconvincing

 

[Seedsfan]

What I didn't like was that he cited our record against Freo, Sydney and Hawthorn (of course he didn't mention Geelong for some reason) to criticize our mids. He didn't bring up any key midfield stats, just that we lost the game and that it is apparently all the midfield's fault. I'd say our dysfunctional forward line had a fair bit more to do with our losses in those games (the Hawthorn games admittedly an exception as their midfield always kills ours). When we had our near full strength midfield back in round 20 v Sydney it blew theirs off the park.

He also failed to mention issues such as injury and our ruck problems. All in all it was pretty unconvincing

He says that we can not compete with those sides but **** we have won 12 of our last 14 against the Swans

 

[jjsmitty8]

Whatever he's worth when he becomes available, would be a great story to get a premiership player back.

I've got a feeling that if we ever did get him back he'd be worth more than what he was when we parted ways. I rate him.

 

[jjsmitty8]

He says that we can not compete with those sides but **** we have won 12 of our last 14 against the Swans

All reporters/journos/analysts whatever you want to call them, pick and choose stats to support their argument. We all just need to pick and choose who we respect and ignore the opinion of those who we don't. As far as I'm concerned, we've got the wood over Sydney, Geelong and Fremantle.

Like mentioned, were 12 of 14 against Sydney. We've won 4 of the last 5 against Fremantle (that taking us back as far as 08.), and we're even with Geelong from the last 10. 5 wins a piece, but we've won the last 3.

 

[Seedsfan]

All reporters/journos/analysts whatever you want to call them, pick and choose stats to support their argument. We all just need to pick and choose who we respect and ignore the opinion of those who we don't. As far as I'm concerned, we've got the wood over Sydney, Geelong and Fremantle.

Like mentioned, were 12 of 14 against Sydney. We've won 4 of the last 5 against Fremantle (that taking us back as far as 08.), and we're even with Geelong from the last 10. 5 wins a piece, but we've won the last 3.

It are the Hawks who even when they were bad we have struggled against

 

[Old Spice]

Lordo usually makes sense. Love him fighting with Caro he'll usually win the argument on footy classified. Rate him.

Wow, Lloyd slams the Pies and you see stars.

This is totally unexpected.

 

[jjsmitty8]

It are the Hawks who even when they were bad we have struggled against

As of late for sure, we did beat them in the 2011 prelim, but they generally pull our pants down.

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

I've got a feeling that if we ever did get him back he'd be worth more than what he was when we parted ways. I rate him.

I agree.

 

[Seedsfan]

As of late for sure, we did beat them in the 2011 prelim, but they generally pull our pants down.

Yeah in 2010-11 we got the better of them but that is it

 

[mike123]

Yeah in 2010-11 we got the better of them but that is it

We still lost to them last round 2010. And 2011 some say they should have beat us in the prelim. As i recall when we beat them in 2010 it was the first time in a while.

 

[Seedsfan]

We still lost to them last round 2010. And 2011 some say they should have beat us in the prelim. As i recall when we beat them in 2010 it was the first time in a while.

But lets be honest we were not trying that game and they won by less then a kick

 

[THATSGOLD]

Wow, Lloyd slams the Pies and you see stars.

This is totally unexpected.

Slams? He pointed the obvious out. Blaze made a whole thread about it.
Lloyd speaks the truth and isn't afraid to say it.