Oppo Camp Opposition Watch

[Jirik13]

Geez, Max King had another surgery on that troublesome knee

 

[Brenton87]

Giants looking switched on

 

[The Kings Ransom]

Be interesting to see whether these high scoring games are consistent across the league.

Can see West Coast losing by 100+ every week.

Hopefully we can get a good % boost next week.

 

[GC2015]

Looks like Charlie Cameron

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Charlie Cameron

Age

31

Ht

180cm

Wt

76kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.1

3star

K

8.4

3star

HB

3.7

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

3.2

5star

G

1.5

5star

D

9.6

2star

K

7.9

3star

HB

1.7

1star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.7

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

9.6

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

4.2

4star

M

1.4

2star

T

3.4

5star

G

1.2

4star

is going to give Budarick another bath tonight. Already has two goals early in the second quarter and ran down Budders for a htb decision just before.

 

[TheGoldPersons]

Nice goal

 

[Jen2310]

Great game by Connor
27 disposals, 9 score involvements, 515 MG and a goal

 

[GC2015]

Great game by Connor
25 disposals, 9 score involvements, 515 MG and a goal

I find it hard to judge a defender in this situation because I thought he was great offensively, but defensively he made some mistakes that cost them goals and Brisbane's small forwards like Cameron + Lohmann had big games tonight. Maybe that's just the reality of being a defender. I think I'll continue to wonder if playing him as a defender is the correct use of his ability.

 

[Jirik13]

Great game by Connor
25 disposals, 9 score involvements, 515 MG and a goal

Funny, I watched only the first half and I thought except the goal he was poor. A lot of mistakes, mis-kicks, turnovers. I thought he should stick with defensive pressure forward (played the role quite well late for us).

Glad he turned it around and was good in 2nd half.

 

[Jen2310]

I find it hard to judge a defender in this situation because I thought he was great offensively, but defensively he made some mistakes that cost them goals and Brisbane's small forwards like Cameron + Lohmann had big games tonight. Maybe that's just the reality of being a defender. I think I'll continue to wonder if playing him as a defender is the correct use of his ability.

No defenders game is perfect. Rarely anyone can stop elite small forwards full stop, so you take the good with the bad.

 

[Jen2310]

In the last quarter he had 10 disposals, 4 SI and went at 100% efficency. So he clearly worked his way into the game

 

[Big Red Machine]

No defenders game is perfect. Rarely anyone can stop elite small forwards full stop, so you take the good with the bad.

Heck yeah.

Happy for Budders

 

[GC2015]

No defenders game is perfect. Rarely anyone can stop elite small forwards full stop, so you take the good with the bad.

That's true. I just wonder if he should be playing a different position if he's able to put up offensive numbers like that. Budders always had speed and I personally think we didn't use his speed as much as we should have by choosing to play him as a lockdown small defender for most of his Suns career, but in saying that Dimma obviously had his favourites in terms of running halfbacks with Rioli and Noble. Then we gave him a chance as a small forward last year and he had some good moments but I could tell he was struggling with the contested marking / leading pattern side of it. He made it clear that he wanted to play as a defender in the off season and probably knew he wasn't going to get the opportunity to play that role for us for a long time with Patterson joining the list this year.

So what can you do? If we don't have an available position in his preferred spot on the ground and he doesn't want to play anywhere else on the field, then there's really only one option going forward and that's to be traded to another club. That's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. I always liked Budders and I wish him all the best (except against us), as I'm sure our players do. Maybe our guys will get to reunite with Budders in an Origin match one day and he'll get to play his preferred position as a running halfback.

 

[Jen2310]

That's true. I just wonder if he should be playing a different position if he's able to put up offensive numbers like that. Budders always had speed and I personally think we didn't use his speed as much as we should have by choosing to play him as a lockdown small defender for most of his Suns career, but in saying that Dimma obviously had his favourites in terms of running halfbacks with Rioli and Noble. Then we gave him a chance as a small forward last year and he had some good moments but I could tell he was struggling with the contested marking / leading pattern side of it. He made it clear that he wanted to play as a defender in the off season and probably knew he wasn't going to get the opportunity to play that role for us for a long time with Patterson joining the list this year.

So what can you do? If we don't have an available position in his preferred spot on the ground and he doesn't want to play anywhere else on the field, then there's really only one option going forward and that's to be traded to another club. That's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. I always liked Budders and I wish him all the best (except against us), as I'm sure our players do. Maybe our guys will get to reunite with Budders in an Origin match one day and he'll get to play his preferred position as a running halfback.

You answered your own question, the defensive role is the one he felt was his best position and the one he wanted to play. Why he left the suns. He was pushed out of that role in recent times with the likes of rioli and noble coming in.

 

[Jirik13]

You answered your own question, the defensive role is the one he felt was his best position and the one he wanted to play. Why he left the suns. He was pushed out of that role in recent times with the likes of rioli and noble coming in.

I did not watch 2nd half but I consider Budarick a poor defender one on one especially when he plays against small, fast forwards.

 

[lommy]

**** I hope St Kilda are still shit

 

[Brenton87]

**** I hope St Kilda are still shit

They looked pretty good in the pre season games but so do I lol

 

[The Kings Ransom]

I just watched the last 10 minutes of the game. If that’s anything to go by… still shit.

 

[RowellAnderson12]

Their fans thought they won the flag against us in preseason

 

[Young_Guns]

Saints played with more intensity and dare up 10 goals in the 4th period of a scratch match against our VFL squad than they did down 2 goals with 5 minutes left tonight. Says it all.

 

[Supersuns]

Why would the Northern academics do this to St Kilda

 

[Big Red Machine]

Their fans thought they won the flag against us in preseason

This is what they get for singing "When the Saints go marching in" during a gosh darn MATCH SIM

 

[DTLSchulzy16]

Happy to see the Saints lose

Lost the game on Wednesday. Didn’t want to tag Nick and then decided oh maybe we should. But they don’t want to use Windhager who’s beaten Nick before

Then had nothing to do with NAS thinking he was going to get a mismatch forward and didn’t

Saints played with more intensity and dare up 10 goals in the 4th period of a scratch match against our VFL squad than they did down 2 goals with 5 minutes left tonight. Says it all.

The flooding back off turnover with 5 minutes left was mind boggling. Was about the only thing Ross did all night was get the message to the players to stop the flood. But it was far too late. Surely one of the over priced recruits could’ve led on field

 

[TheGoldPersons]

Sucked in Tom Lynch

 

[GC2015]

Sucked in Tom Lynch

Had the game in his boot multiple times and choked big time.

 

[Brenton87]

Biggest flog in the game