Preview R1: Changes for 2025

[Golumless]

Alex Van Berlo ??

I'd say more Athletic Volleyball.


I think I've made that mistake every time I've tried to write ANB.

 

[MsTopG]

Michalanney Keane Worrell
Cumming Murray Hinge
Dowling Dawson Curtin
Rachele Thilthorpe Neale-Bullen
Keays Fogarty Pedlar

ROB Soligo Rankine

Walker Draper Peatling Bond

 

[crows dude]

My Best 23 if all fit

F Rachele Walker Fogarty
HF Keays Thilthorpe Neal-Bullen
C Sholl Crouch Soligo
HB Cumming Murray Michlanney
B Worrell Keane Laird
R O'Brien Dawson Rankine
I Curtin Hinge Peatling Draper
S - Dowling

 

[Trigger13]

My Best 23 if all fit

F Rachele Walker Fogarty
HF Keays Thilthorpe Neal-Bullen
C Sholl Crouch Soligo
HB Cumming Murray Michlanney
B Worrell Keane Laird
R O'Brien Dawson Rankine
I Curtin Hinge Peatling Draper

Pretty spot on. I reckon Bond could make a sneaky case for pushing Laird out at some stage.

 

[1970crow]

My Best 23 if all fit

F Rachele Walker Fogarty
HF Keays Thilthorpe Neal-Bullen
C Sholl Crouch Soligo
HB Cumming Murray Michlanney
B Worrell Keane Laird
R O'Brien Dawson Rankine
I Curtin Hinge Peatling Draper

That’s 22, it’s missing the sub.

 

[crows dude]

That’s 22, it’s missing the sub.

Forgot dowling

 

[Ciao Giacomo]

Top level in depth analysis of our team. Spoiler Murphy doesn’t cut it.

Lots of stats to state the bleeding obvious?

1) Picking Borlase over Murray shows a Murphy-like lack of awareness.

2) Laird and Crouch in the midfield?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

My Best 23 if all fit

F Rachele Walker Fogarty
HF Keays Thilthorpe Neal-Bullen
C Sholl Crouch Soligo
HB Cumming Murray Michlanney
B Worrell Keane Laird
R O'Brien Dawson Rankine
I Curtin Hinge Peatling Draper
S - Dowling

Now that's a team

Don't blow it, Nicks.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I actually love the idea of Soligo on the wing.

I know he's very capable as an inside mid but it's just so squeezy in there. Impossible to fit everyone in. Someone needs to get squeezed out and impact from outside.

Keays has done it, becoming that high half forward.

The beauty of Soligo is that he can be multi-faceted. He can win a hard ball when needed but also work into space. Be an inside/outside player. Dual threat. Sometimes your outside receivers get lost in tough, scrappy games but I don't think he will.

 

[Coopers]

Forgot dowling

Forgot Nank, you mean?

 

[1970crow]

Now that's a team

Don't blow it, Nicks.

If you added a poll I reckon you'd get 90% agreeance that the below would be our round 1 side. The 10% would be arguing Keane over Butts, maybe Dowling as sub and perhaps Sholl on a wing, but that 22 would be pretty close to universally popular.

 

[Cromulant]

If you added a poll I reckon you'd get 90% agreeance that the below would be our round 1 side. The 10% would be arguing Keane over Butts, maybe Dowling as sub and perhaps Sholl on a wing, but that 22 would be pretty close to universally popular.

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Pretty much.

Both Keane and Buttsy have their faults but its a close run thing.

 

[Bob Neil]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

 

[cleanhands]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

Then sack him now




And not because of his spelling

 

[Stephen2]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

Post of the Year by Bob Neale!

 

[MsTopG]

My Best 23 if all fit

F Rachele Walker Fogarty
HF Keays Thilthorpe Neal-Bullen
C Sholl Crouch Soligo
HB Cumming Murray Michlanney
B Worrell Keane Laird
R O'Brien Dawson Rankine
I Curtin Hinge Peatling Draper
S - Dowling

Take Laird Crouch Sholl out and it's a good team. Laird wasn't even best 22 last year.

 

[Cromulant]

Take Laird Crouch Sholl out and it's a good team. Laird wasn't even best 22 last year.

Sholl was, so was Crouch.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I actually love the idea of Soligo on the wing.

I know he's very capable as an inside mid but it's just so squeezy in there. Impossible to fit everyone in. Someone needs to get squeezed out and impact from outside.

Keays has done it, becoming that high half forward.

The beauty of Soligo is that he can be multi-faceted. He can win a hard ball when needed but also work into space. Be an inside/outside player. Dual threat. Sometimes your outside receivers get lost in tough, scrappy games but I don't think he will.

Most of our midfielders are capable of playing as inside & outside midfielders. Given we have more midfield depth, we should be using some players in both roles & horses for courses on the day as to proportion they play in each role.

 

[FR0GGY]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

It’s Cummings like our Australian cricket captain, not coming.

 

[DarthMader]

It’s Cummings like our Australian cricket captain, not coming.

An incredible amount of sarcasm has been missed here, I am just trying to work out who missed it, you or me

 

[crows dude]

It’s Cummings like our Australian cricket captain, not coming.

Cumming actually. lol. And the Cricket captain is Cummins

There are spelling mistakes in most of them. Think he was just taking the piss.

 

[FR0GGY]

An incredible amount of sarcasm has been missed here, I am just trying to work out who missed it, you or me

Definitely not me!

 

[FR0GGY]

Cumming actually. lol. And the Cricket captain is Cummins

There are spelling mistakes in most of them. Think he was just taking the piss.

Oh dear!

 

[Scorpus]

Have done a deep dive on historical posting by the Crom supporters and I think Nick's team might look something like this...

FF: Josh Rachelle - Riley Thilthorp - Isaac Rankine
HF: Ben Keys - Darcy Fogerty - Alex Neil-Bullen
C: Lachlan Scholl - Jordon Dawson - Isaac Coming
FOLL: Riley O'Brien - Jake Siligo - Dan Curtain
HB: Wayne Millera - Jordan Butts - Max Michelanney
FB: Josh Worrall - Mark Keene - Chase Jones
INT: Braden Cook - Harry Schonberg - Kieran Strauchan - Brody Smith
SUB: Syd Draper

I knew this wasn't a real Matthew Nicks side when I couldn't find Lachlan Murphy in it.

Nearly had me fooled with Syd Draper as the sub and Brody Smith though