Preview R5: Changes vs. Carlton

[TRP1996]

Nank. Dowling. Edwards. Marsh. An underdone Draper. Three children duct-taped together. An inanimate carbon rod. That Irish guy who snubbed us. A one-eyed Rory Sloane

9

Rory Sloane

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.7

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

11.9

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

6.6

5star

CL

5.7

5star

D

15.3

4star

K

7.3

3star

HB

8.0

4star

M

1.3

1star

T

3.3

4star

CL

4.2

5star

D

22.2

5star

K

8.6

4star

HB

13.6

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

6.0

5star

CL

4.6

5star

still wearing his media get-up. Jordan Galluci's moustache. That Guy We Kept on the List for 5 Years Without Giving Him a Game.

All these and a great many more probably have more to offer at AFL level than Chayce Jones

1

Chayce Jones

Age

26

Ht

180cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

4.6

3star

M

1.7

2star

T

1.9

4star

CL

1.3

3star

D

8.9

2star

K

4.9

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

1.4

2star

T

1.6

3star

CL

1.1

3star

D

9.4

3star

K

4.4

2star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.6

2star

T

1.8

4star

CL

0.8

3star

and Reilly O'Brien

43

Reilly O'brien

Age

30

Ht

201cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.4

4star

K

5.9

2star

HB

8.5

5star

CL

1.6

4star

HO

23.8

5star

D

14.4

3star

K

5.9

2star

HB

8.5

4star

CL

1.6

4star

HO

23.8

5star

D

12.6

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

7.8

5star

CL

1.0

3star

HO

24.8

5star

, and the present versions of Ben Keays

2

Ben Keays

Age

29

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.1

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.4

3star

D

13.7

3star

K

8.7

3star

HB

5.0

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.7

4star

G

0.3

3star

D

13.0

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

8.2

5star

M

1.4

2star

T

4.4

5star

G

0.4

3star

, Jake Soligo (though I suspect the 'present version' of Jake Soligo is actually a shambling arthritic corpse we've dressed in his guernsey for some reason), and Luke Pedlar.

 

[SellarStardom]

We will likely win this game as Blues are cooked, but won't mean much as we are not going anywhere under Nicks

B: Michaelanny, Borlase, Murray
HB: Laird, Worrell, Milera
C: Cook, Dawson, Cumming
HF: ANB, Walker, Taylor
F: Rankine, Thilthorpe, Fogarty
R: McAndrew, Berry, Rachele
I: Nankervis, Peatling, Edwards, Dowling, Maley

In: Fogarty, Cumming, Edwards, Dowling, Laird, Nankervis
Out: O’Brien, Jones, Pedlar, Keays, Soligo, Bond

Bond unlucky, but imo Laird too similar.

Keays needs to find form in the sanfl.

Soligo needs managing with short breaks.

Perfectly logical, wont happen with the bald flog in charge

 

[WeeBlake]

Out - ROB, Jones, Soligo, Pedlar
In - Edwards, Dowling, Nank, ??Cumming I guess even though he’s been hugely disappointing

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Don't really care at this point. We'll win. Yay. Then what? We aren't going anywhere

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Perfectly logical, wont happen with the bald flog in charge

Yes, unfortunately he is a proven moron.

 

[Bearded Clam]

How is it that I have been commenting here for the last seven years saying this clubs player selection week in week out is just bewilderingly dumb?..

SEVEN ****ING YEARS.

and still nothing has changed.

How is it that there isnt anyone in the media saying.. “jesus.. who the **** does the selecting down there at Adelaide?”

A hell pf a lot of us bigfooty supporters have been seeing it and screaming about it for the best part of a decade now.. but barely a peep from the media..

ROB, mchenry, jones, Keays (70% of the time), Rowe, Murphy, mackay etc.. these players over the nicks period were given/have been given game after game after game and shown they are/were shit.. yet no one in the club can see it and the media barely says anything.

Its almost as if the media being so Vic centric, and in adelaide being very port biased, are sitting back holding their tongues.. “shhh, don’t say anything.. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making mistakes!!”

Remember when we went through that period where Nicksy thought just picking the one tall KPD in defence was a great idea..

And how good were the keays/laird/sloane/crouch midfield years.. remember when those four got 80% of the cb’s and midfield minutes.. how many years did it take Nicksy and the club to finally realise that it was one of the worst midfield combinations in the comp?.. 3?… 4?.. or was it nearly 5?.. ****.. he even went back to Keays and laird during his failed finals campaign last year. Dusted off his little safety blankies..

Remember how long it took Worrell to get a game in the AFL side.. question mark over his attitude was the rumour/excuse.. and then he only got one in the end cause doedee got injured.. and worrell was a gun player from his very first game..

How many of our young players languish in the sanfl for a year or two “proving themselves” whilst complete hacks like laird and old cooked players that are about to retire like brodie smith

33

Brodie Smith

Age

34

Ht

194cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.5

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.2

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.1

4star

MG

500.1

5star

D

17.1

4star

K

12.6

5star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

3star

T

2.3

3star

MG

438.9

5star

D

17.2

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.6

5star

still get/got games in front of them.. “ahhh, they still have things to work on” Nicksy says after a young player gets 35 possession's, 8 clearances and two goals in the midfield in the sanfl.. yet a ****ing dgrade skilled gumby like ROB doesnt need to work on anything right Matthew?

But hey.. I guess we showed “selection integrity” when we publicly shamed and dumped a young lad from the team for a couple of indiscretion's.. a young small forward who a year and a half later became a premiership winner and All Australian.. but hey.. we didnt need his sort of winning in the team.. we had the perfect replacements in mchenry and murphy for our forward line.

This club is rotten.. its well past cooked… it completely ****n rotten.

 

[Kenny Dee]

How is it that I have been commenting here for the last seven years saying this clubs player selection week in week out is just bewilderingly dumb?..

SEVEN ****ING YEARS.

and still nothing has changed.

How is it that there isnt anyone in the media saying.. “jesus.. who the **** does the selecting down there at Adelaide?”

A hell pf a lot of us bigfooty supporters have been seeing it and screaming about it for the best part of a decade now.. but barely a peep from the media..

ROB, mchenry, jones, Keays (70% of the time), Rowe, Murphy, mackay etc.. these players over the nicks period were given/have been given game after game after game and shown they are/were shit.. yet no one in the club can see it and the media barely says anything.

Its almost as if the media being so Vic centric, and in adelaide being very port biased, are sitting back holding their tongues.. “shhh, don’t say anything.. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making mistakes!!”

Remember when we went through that period where Nicksy thought just picking the one tall KPD in defence was a great idea..

And how good were the keays/laird/sloane/crouch midfield years.. remember when those four got 80% of the cb’s and midfield minutes.. how many years did it take Nicksy and the club to finally realise that it was one of the worst midfield combinations in the comp?.. 3?… 4?.. or was it nearly 5?.. ****.. he even went back to Keays and laird during his failed finals campaign last year. Dusted off his little safety blankies..

Remember how long it took Worrell to get a game in the AFL side.. question mark over his attitude was the rumour/excuse.. and then he only got one in the end cause doedee got injured.. and worrell was a gun player from his very first game..

How many of our young players languish in the sanfl for a year or two “proving themselves” whilst complete hacks like laird and old cooked players that are about to retire like brodie smith still get/got games in front of them.. “ahhh, they still have things to work on” Nicksy says after a young player gets 35 possession's, 8 clearances and two goals in the midfield in the sanfl.. yet a ****ing dgrade skilled gumby like ROB doesnt need to work on anything right Matthew?

But hey.. I guess we showed “selection integrity” when we publicly shamed and dumped a young lad from the team for a couple of indiscretion's.. a young small forward who a year and a half later became a premiership winner and All Australian.. but hey.. we didnt need his sort of winning in the team.. we had the perfect replacements in mchenry and murphy for our forward line.

This club is rotten.. its well past cooked… it completely ****n rotten.

Spot on!

 

[Southerntakeover]

Go the tank.

Might as well rebuild, this team isn't it.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Go the tank.

Might as well rebuild, this team isn't it.

No point with how compromised the next few drafts are.

 

[Southerntakeover]

No point with how compromised the next few drafts are.

Can't be worse than losing every home game.

 

[Scorpus]

No point with how compromised the next few drafts are.

We can benefit from finishing as low as possible this year though

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

We can benefit from finishing as low as possible this year though

We can be shit as possible, but there's a host who will still finish below us (Essendon, Richmond, Port, Carlton, maybe Collingwood who we beat, probably North, maybe West Coast) so, in the end, it doesn't do us much favours draft wise.

However, missing the top 10 might see us finally free of Nicks.

 

[TheLeftFist8]

Dowling and Edwards must play this week. Not negotiable

I don't think Nicks could sleep a wink all week at the prospect of not just one more young player, but two!! Rogue bonkers.

 

[Left Foot Punt]

Oh by golly did we overachieve last year! Simply a fluke….

This team is going no where with nicks at the helm!

Love that the club pull the trigger before a ball is even bounced for the season!

Foundation Member losing absolute faith

 

[huludicidal]

for whatever reason, I haven't been overly harsh on Jones in the past , and while I've understood the criticisms that many have thrown his way, I guess I've been hoping that something would click

tonight's game though, basically sums up his career - dropped when on 99 games; late recall that means absolutely no fanfare for his 100th and then he produces that performance - it actually makes me feel sorry for him

I feel a little bit sorry for Chayce too. A once promising midfield career ruined by being van Berloed and Nicksed. Recast into some garbage role than nobody could even begin to explain and confidence shot to pieces to the point where he can’t even execute any basic skills.

Draper’s really coming along well in the crows midfield development factory too.

 

[NTRabbit]

Out: Pedlar, O'Brien, Jones, Soligo
In: Draper, Fogarty, Cumming, Edwards

 

[Left Foot Punt]

I never ever want to see ROB in our jumper ever again. Chayce - you too!

Soligo ain’t right. Needs a spell.

I do love the way Zac Taylor goes about it tho

 

[weekend at bernies]

OUT: Nixs
IN: Ryan Harris

 

[1990crow]

OUT: Nixs
IN: Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris is a winner who knows how to pick talent and install belief. That's the difference.

 

[CrowingInVic]

Go the tank.

Might as well rebuild, this team isn't it.

Last night i saw a team with 8 of its first line players out fight hard and just fall short... i was proud of them. We can give it a shake this year if injuries come good. Last year with no injuries we would have been 4 0.

 

[Kenny Dee]

Nicks out!
Seems reactionary but we will never win a flag with him as coach. Why wait, do it now.

ROB, Jones & Pedlar out
Cummin Dowling Nank in

Fog can earn his spot back, been weak in the contest all year

 

[Mostyn]

Nicks out!
Seems reactionary but we will never win a flag with him as coach. Why wait, do it now.

ROB, Jones & Pedlar out
Cummin Dowling Nank in

Fog can earn his spot back, been weak in the contest all year

Nicks signed a contract extension three months ago.

 

[1970crow]

Nicks signed a contract extension three months ago.

Nicks signed a contract extension three months ago.

One year extension for a coach that delivered a minor premiership isn’t the norm though.

 

[Schutty]

Out: Nicks
In: Simpson, Longmire, Buckley, or Davis

 

[crows dude]

Out - Pedlar Concussion
In Edwards
Out ROB - SANFL
In - Dowling
Out Maley - SANFL (Thilthorpe to back up ruck)
In Laird