Unofficial Preview Rd 4 Changes and Preview Thread Vs Freo

[The Dingrel]

Wood in for garner. And honestly with the interchange cap I don't see any place whatsoever for a specialist small fwd. everyone needs to be able to run through the middle and play fwd. cunners, Ziebell, wells, boomer, Higgins, etc can all do it......Id like like to see Clarke come in for Lindsay. He brings some real intensity run and carry that we could have used against Melbourne. Also puts others on notice. Atley for mine needs to take a game by the scruff of the neck and dominate. If not now then when.

 

[sbdan]

I'm starting to like the term "genuine semi fraud". Am going to make it my business to find a use for it

 

[Firestarter]

I'm starting to like the term "genuine semi fraud". Am going to make it my business to find a use for it

A guy who boasts about boners he doesn't get?

 

[sbdan]

A guy who boasts about boners he doesn't get?

My mind was drifting that way as well.

 

[sbdan]

But back to business, wood must be rewarded and come in for garner. Lt needs his once a season kick up up the pants ( lets do it early) and bring in nahas.
I'm happy to stick with swallow, but if he isn't completely fit, i hope he puts his hand up for a bit of rehab and a couple of half games in the twos. It is too early in the season to be playing injured players and i still believe he will be crucial to this footy club as we get to the business end of the season.

 

[Gone north]

I think all of us want to see north play a kid.
Mountford or Clarke and wells fwd.
All our current mids are capible of rotating fed

 

[Firestarter]

Trigger just needs pulling but the gun has been locked away for the most part.

 

[Gone north]

Sorry ! Forward...
And don't forget we have the best small forward in the game
He's played over 400 of them...

 

[shinboner magic]

Let's hope the coach has more balls those some ppl on here.
Hoping things will change won't jake it happen- bon needs to send a few back to give them a wake up they deserve

 

[ozzyoslo]

Out: Swallow, Brown Thomas, Garner (inj)

In : Dumont, Wood, Nahas and one of Mountford or McKenzie.

It won't happen though. A huge fan of Lindsay, but shit just isn't clicking for him ATM.

he's getting dudded by the umps at the moment.......this is playing on his shot making (thinking he's only going to get 2 chances a game rather the 6-7 not so long ago.

 

[Jasemon]

What we need IMO and what we still lack IMO is speed and foot skills under pressure. Calls to bring in one of either Clarke or Mountford are absolutely spot on. I just don't think it's in Scott's nature to do it though. Would love him to grow some balls and take a chance with one of them however.
Personally I would go with the following:

Out: Garner (injured), Wright, Brown
In: Wood, Mountford, McKenzie

I see Wright and especially Brown as best 22 when confident and in form. Brown is just missing too many marks at the moment and doesn't get enough of the ball otherwise to justify keeping Wood out right at the moment. Nahas, Clarke, Mullet, Dumont and Daw would also be options I'd consider.

Fact is we have depth and leave it to waste continually in the seconds when 'senior' players aren't justifying their positions. The only reason I'm leaving Dal Santo in the side at the moment is that his disposal by foot is what we're lacking.

 

[RobZombie]

I don't know who you are arguing with, but this sounds like an excellent reply.

You have ATG on ignore? You're missing half the fun!

 

[Joshen]

We sit with some pretty undesirable company when it comes to leaking goals, the contrast with other stronger teams in the competition is striking.



We only have one above-average (and he is a very good one at that) defensive runner in the side; Gibson. Ziebell, Cunnington, Swallow, and Dal Santo can't or don't. Higgins and Wells are okay in this respect. When the opposition get out, we cannot catch up and close them down again (contested ball suits us barring last weekend bizarrely).

Fortunately our recruiting staff got ahead of the curve in predicting the impact of the interchange cap and have picked up some handy runners; Fordham, Hibberd, Clarke, Mountford, Wagner. It is not even about the future, it would be better for our team now if we had another natural accumulator who works both ways. The fact that it would be coming from a youngster is an added benefit.

 

[franjon]

Atley gets into the clear before hitting Mzungu on the chest

Thompson declining Waite's lead before getting himself caught HTB in the square

Swallow fumbling, falling over and Griffin (yes Griffin) swooping on the crumb and banging it through from 55 to prompt the commentator to say "gee he's really hurting Goldstein going the other way" (despite Goldie having 8 goals at that stage)

These are all things I have foreseen in the tea leaves.

Atley shouldn't be in the side. Honestly.

 

[Tas]

Let's hope the coach has more balls those some ppl on here.
Hoping things will change won't jake it happen- bon needs to send a few back to give them a wake up they deserve

It's not the lack of balls, it is the waste of time suggesting changes we know the coach wont make.

 

[KiwiRoo]

It's not the lack of balls, it is the waste of time suggesting changes we know the coach wont make.

Well I think they'll get enough of a rocket after last week Tas, and some players will want to pull their socks up. But cant really blame the coach for not making changes when :

1. they won
2. Only been one round of VFL ..so how do you judge who's displayed enough consistent form to warrant replacing someone in the ones ?

 

[Hearts to hearts]

You have ATG on ignore? You're missing half the fun!

Life is short. So my ignore list is long.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Well I think they'll get enough of a rocket after last week Tas, and some players will want to pull their socks up. But cant really blame the coach for not making changes when :

1. they won
2. Only been one round of VFL ..so how do you judge who's displayed enough consistent form to warrant replacing someone in the ones ?

One good VFL game is enough to say players should be in the seniors. Hundreds of good AFL games are not enough to say players deserve another chance to stay there. Bigfooty, bless.

I get the calls to bring in pace, especially now we have lost Anderson. Jacobs needs to tag and tag well or that is a wasted spot. And now Garner's spot is there, it would be great to see Clarke or Mountford get a chance if Turner is not ready.

But it's certainly not time to criticise the coach for not "rewarding VFL form" - there's no such thing after one match - or for not dropping senior players quickly when they all have runs on the board, and I don't think any have been consistently poor enough in the three matches to make the calls obvious. As a team, North still looks rusty. But 12 points is not to be sneezed at, and the chances of experienced players turning that around seem a pretty good bet. I expect the coaches to back them in and I am fine if they do.

 

[Only Forwards]

I'm not generally one to call for a raft of changes, so I won't.

I'd be having a pretty long think about bringing in Clarke or Mountford.

I think a couple of years ago we were playing kids almost to the point of our own detriment. Now that pendulum has swung, I actually think we need an injection of something a bit new. We clearly tried this with Jed but ping and it was gone.

With Garner as the out I'd be giving one of these two a debut.

 

[ArjenTheGreat]

I'm starting to like the term "genuine semi fraud". Am going to make it my business to find a use for it

Great decision.

You can always go semi impostor if semi fraud is too strong, depends of course on the setting. Again just to reiterate, it's somewhere between ordinary and shit, but not verging on being outright cowardly, which naturally is another subset altogether.

But the true origin of the word stems from the Russian word Nyidayobuk.

Now Nyida (for short) or Nyidayobuk is a fascinating word which encompasses semi fraudulence.

It's literal definition being your parents didn't complete the act of sex and by default you are only half a human being.

So yes, he's simply a bit Nyida!

 

[KiwiRoo]

One good VFL game is enough to say players should be in the seniors. Hundreds of good AFL games are not enough to say players deserve another chance to stay there. Bigfooty, bless.

I get the calls to bring in pace, especially now we have lost Anderson. Jacobs needs to tag and tag well or that is a wasted spot. And now Garner's spot is there, it would be great to see Clarke or Mountford get a chance if Turner is not ready.

But it's certainly not time to criticise the coach for not "rewarding VFL form" - there's no such thing after one match - or for not dropping senior players quickly when they all have runs on the board, and I don't think any have been consistently poor enough in the three matches to make the calls obvious. As a team, North still looks rusty. But 12 points is not to be sneezed at, and the chances of experienced players turning that around seem a pretty good bet. I expect the coaches to back them in and I am fine if they do.

nail. head

 

[Gasometer]

It's not the lack of balls, it is the waste of time suggesting changes we know the coach wont make.

But it gives people somefink to do for a week.

Not much hate for Gibbo though. Oh wait that was last week.

 

[The Dingrel]

I'd rather see Swallow moved forward more (while he gets up to speed) he can at least provide some tackling pressure and then bring in Dumont, Clarke, Mountford to give us so more (two-way) run in the middle than bring in Nahas (with all due respect).

Yeah I reckon the days of a specialist small fwd are numbered, need to play through the middle as well. Similarly, and with the greatest respect swallow as much as admire his inside work really offers very little as a fwd. Personally wouldn't play any specialist small fwd. I'm sure guys like Clarke and Dumont can rotate through there and hit the scoreboard. The question for me is can Lindsay and nahas provide a genuine midfield rotation? Looking at the ladder I'm very concerned by how heavily we've been scored against already particularly by quick transition, we need more defensive run and I reckon wood and Clarke need to come straight into the team not only on form but particularly for their endurance running.

 

[The Dingrel]

But it gives people somefink to do for a week.

Not much hate for Gibbo though. Oh wait that was last week.[/QUOTE

I've always been a fan of gibbo since I saw him at a live game. His work rate is mind boggling and something you can't appreciate without being at the game. Although his disposal over the journey has frustrated the hell out of me. But, he can and does kick goals. With capped rotations, he's probably one of the first picked. I'm more concerned that we aren't picking more players based on endurance running.

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

I'm wondering if LT's form slump has coincided with him being made to be more team oriented, he handballs a lot more now and has less shots at goal.