Preview R11: Changes vs Eagles

[Afcprophet]

Rob's so bad people think he's not rocking up to training lol.

Out: Rob, Mchenry, Rankine
In: Strachan, Schoenberg, Taylor

 

[Crow till I die]

Let’s do this. Curtin on Reid

I genuinely think we have a rolls royce in the making and as a midfielder moving forward with Curtin. If these clowns ruin him by playing him as a defender and keep him in the SANFL for any length of time, i'll vent big time.

 

[spenze]

A couple of years back Thilthorpe was dropped for a few weeks on the back of a poor decision which cost us the game.

Like to see Keays get a few games in the seconds for his effort on Saturday

 

[Gtowncrow]

There needs to be a "man conversion " with RoB.

He barely trains at the moment with his study load, it is showing on game day.


His future is medicine. Time to make a decision.


He used to be a reliable mark of the ball, and albeit a bit "gumby", he was good in traffic as a link up player. Similar with field kicking.


Now struggles around the ground and his tapwork has dropped off in quality as well.




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Is that fact that his training is less because of his greater priorities (study)?
If true, we need to prioritise someone else into our ruck.

Actually, we should do this anyway.

 

[MarcusP2]

Doesn't it though? Where is the line drawn? If it's ok to miss to do a school run, surely there's other reasons that players may request some flexibility. What would they be, or are you that simple that you believe only school runs are a valid reason?

Like any workplace, there's certain minimum expectations to meet.

If I work 9-4 and then a couple of hours at night to get all my work done, my boss doesn't care. If I decide to stop working at all, my boss does care.

This is normal.

 

[Crouch]

Berry should be getting games. It looked like he was ready to explode before his ankle injury. Should be replacing Laird. And Laird should be replacing Smith.

ROB. Complete liability. Strachan may not be much of an upgrade, but atleast he can kick. Haven't seen enough of him to know if he can mark, but if we never play him then we will never know. Traditionally we've developed ruckmen well so if Strachan isn't the best at tapping it's not the end of the world. Put some work into him, rather than the guy that has proven that he can't play football.

McHenry. I understand why Nicks likes him. He gives good pressure, which is a big part of Nicks' gameplan. However he's too fumbly. He needs to learn how to slow down and show a bit of composure. Other than pressure, he's not contributing enough.

Sholl. I used to be a hater, but now believe his class outweighs his negatives, namely being softness. He is too easily shrugged off when tackling. But his link play and I50 entries make up for it. Persist.

Murphy. Very similar to McHenry, but contributes more. If we get Hayward then I expect him to be taking Murhpy's spot.

Cook. Still young so happy to give him a go, but haven't seen much that impresses me yet. To be continued...

Curtin. Looked okay against Port, but definitely took a step back against Bris. We need to get more games into him though, and you usually play your youngsters against teams near the bottom of the ladder. Must bring him in.


What I want:
Out: ROB, Rankine (Inj), Smith
In: Strachan, Berry, Curtin
Sub: McHenry

What probably happens:
Out: Rankine (Inj)
In: Berry
Sub: Berry

 

[Stephen2]

Any evidence this is true? Any at all?

 

[GreyCrow]

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Tom Morris will tweet this tomorrow

 

[cmndstab]

So we'd schedule training around his exams?

I'm not sure if this is a joke I'm missing, or if you're actually asking how he fits his exams in around his training schedule. If it's the latter, every University has an "elite athlete" program which allows students who qualify to get rescheduled assessment dates as needed to fit in with their athletic schedule.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I'm not sure if this is a joke I'm missing, or if you're actually asking how he fits his exams in around his training schedule. If it's the latter, every University has an "elite athlete" program which allows students who qualify to get rescheduled assessment dates as needed to fit in with their athletic schedule.

Does ROB qualify for that?

 

[FR0GGY]

Does ROB qualify for that?

No but they also have the gangly giraffe who tries program.

 

[Southerntakeover]

A couple of years back Thilthorpe was dropped for a few weeks on the back of a poor decision which cost us the game.

Like to see Keays get a few games in the seconds for his effort on Saturday

Experienced players who can't handle 'the moment' are of no use to a football club. Mick Malthouse knew that.

Until we work that out we'll never improve our record in these games.

 

[skam85]

Wonder if Rash will pick up Rankine’s CBAs? Could be in for a big one, him and Soligo have had pretty good connection recently


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It will be Keays.

Our Rankine replacement has been there under our nose the whole time, just like our assistant coaching panel, crazy coincidence.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Experienced players who can't handle 'the moment' are of no use to a football club. Mick Malthouse knew that.

Until we work that out we'll never improve our record in these games.

By the way, Ben's a repeat offender. Out on the full against GWS?

 

[George CantStandYa]

Experienced players who can't handle 'the moment' are of no use to a football club. Mick Malthouse knew that.

Until we work that out we'll never improve our record in these games.

We have a history of experienced players who can’t handle the moment, might go back further but we had senior players shitting the bed as far back in our 2009 loss to Collingwood.

 

[1970crow]

He’d probably let them miss a game for the birth of their kids

As long as it's not a prelim or GF.

 

[jackster83]

A couple of years back Thilthorpe was dropped for a few weeks on the back of a poor decision which cost us the game.

Like to see Keays get a few games in the seconds for his effort on Saturday

Did you see Laird's defensive "effort" straight after that smother?

Basically no attempt to tackle the Collingwood player (Harrison), no diving attempt to intercept the handball, and then just jogs defensively, leaving Daicos and Harrison unmarked in the middle of the ground. Dawson does that great chase on Crisp but those two guys are in the clear.

Keays was unbelievably stupid but Laird was unbelievably lazy.

 

[BACCS]

VB mentioned in his presser yesterday that Schoenberg was crook end of last week, that would explain his absence from even the emergency list after training with the 'A' team at main training before that. VB very happy with his form and I would expect if he's feeling better now that he's a certain inclusion this week.

Also didn't buy into the Rankine running too far stuff, said there were things at the start and end of the game which we got wrong and that cost us. Understands the frustration as he and the players are even more frustrated than us atm.

 

[MRB37]

VB mentioned in his presser yesterday that Schoenberg was crook end of last week, that would explain his absence from even the emergency list after training with the 'A' team at main training before that. VB very happy with his form and I would expect if he's feeling better now that he's a certain inclusion this week.

Also didn't buy into the Rankine running too far stuff, said there were things at the start and end of the game which we got wrong and that cost us. Understands the frustration as he and the players are even more frustrated than us atm.

Which continues to happen and they seem completely unable to fix.

 

[Twist_of_Lemon]

I'm not sure if this is a joke I'm missing, or if you're actually asking how he fits his exams in around his training schedule. If it's the latter, every University has an "elite athlete" program which allows students who qualify to get rescheduled assessment dates as needed to fit in with their athletic schedule.

Sheesh. Where was my "elite idiot" program that allowed me to re-schedule assessments for when my handful of useful neurons were firing away in my brain.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Experienced players who can't handle 'the moment' are of no use to a football club. Mick Malthouse knew that.

Until we work that out we'll never improve our record in these games.

He was also brutal on players who didn’t perform in finals.

 

[BACCS]

Which continues to happen and they seem completely unable to fix.

Hence they are more frustrated than we are, I'm sure they've seen all those things the Roar article highlighted and are banging their heads against the wall as we have been training these situations. Could this game be a turning point for our results in close games? Lets hope so. We are 90% of the way there, but this final 10% is proving to be very hard to get over.

 

[DJ75]

Which continues to happen and they seem completely unable to fix.

The end of game was THEIR fault!
We trained to go slow and defensive. We made the call as soon as we got in front, even though there was still plenty of time left. We were dominating the quarter by being aggressive. As soon as we went defensive, we gave Collingwood the advantage.
The only reason we beat Carlton was because we got in front so late and their wasn't enough time for us to blow it by going full defensive.
It's the coaching that's the problem.

 

[WetCrow1991]

Hence they are more frustrated than we are, I'm sure they've seen all those things the Roar article highlighted and are banging their heads against the wall as we have been training these situations. Could this game be a turning point for our results in close games? Lets hope so. We are 90% of the way there, but this final 10% is proving to be very hard to get over.

Probably should go back to watching the kiddy pool little bro.

 

[cmndstab]

Sheesh. Where was my "elite idiot" program that allowed me to re-schedule assessments for when my handful of useful neurons were firing away in my brain.

Sorry, we're super full of elite idiots already