Preview Rd 9 vs GWS - Changes & prematch discussion

[The Nostradamus]

Zurhaar late in? If Waite isn't 100%

Still think Wright very lucky to stay in, I'd rather play an in form Ahern than trying to get Wright up to speed

 

[Val Keating]

I could see us somewhat orchestrating a late change to facilitate it as well.

I hope you’re right. I’m looking forward to him finally making his debut

 

[Hojuman]

You guys will win this one comfortably. We have injuries, no confidence and can’t score.

Still reasonable team u got Pete. Slightly nervous myself but really, everything in our favour. You guys really under the pump injury wise

 

[Billy Not Really]

Did you miss 2016?

I choose not to remember.

 

[Groin guru]

Are GWS struggling that much for supporters that they've been forced to recruit bigfooty opposition posters? They've got a brisbane mod and freo posters.

They've also gone with "imagine if greene did what ziebell did..."

 

[Only Forwards]

They've also gone with "imagine if greene did what ziebell did..."

Greene kicked a bloke in the face and was let off with a fine.

 

[shinboner magic]

They’ve got a pretty tall backline

Are GWS struggling that much for supporters that they've been forced to recruit bigfooty opposition posters? They've got a brisbane mod and freo posters.

They've also gone with "imagine if greene did what ziebell did..."

Obviously they just started following afl and don’t know what’s jacks copped before.

They owe him more than that.

 

[Waynesworld]

Surprised that Cunnington and Ziebell didn't get dropped.

Both need to find some form in the seconds.

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Wow - they are a really tall team - averaging 190cm.

As expected with their injuries we have them covered for age and games played.

North Melbourne Attribute GWS
188.0cm Height 190.0cm
88.3kg Weight 88.2kg
26yr 3mth Age 25yr 1mth
107.8 Games 79.3

Total Players By Games
North Melbourne Games GWS
7 Less than 50 10
5 50 to 99 5
3 100 to 149 4
7 150 or more 3

 

[Colbys Boots]

Fair enough. Zurhaar will probably travel.

Crikey, they didn't bring back Patton. Cameron will get gang stomped.

I assume Lobb will get forward a bit.

How the hell Jonathan Patton is playing NEAFL is just criminal. And we think our player development blows chunks.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Good, no changes. All the calls for LMac to be dropped were doing my head in.

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Sleep well tonight, Mrs Mac.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

How the hell Jonathan Patton is playing NEAFL is just criminal. And we think our player development blows chunks.

Patton has been ruined by the 2 knee recos. His mobility is just not there anymore.

 

[Yoko and me]

I can.

I think in the circumstance where there's a late out and he's the one to fill it.

I also think we've been a bit understated with him tbh. Hasn't had a huge amount of hype around him.

Not after the deal we did with gws to get him. I think he may have played but you would not rub their noses in it. And who goes out?
Clubs are businesses and who wants him to go out and be mediocre? He will play eventually hopefully. This week would be like a bank manager driving a repossessed car up to a business to now repossess the forklift.

# long game

 

[domiroo]

Ahern to debut against his old club

 

[Jindrrk]

Good, no changes. All the calls for LMac to be dropped were doing my head in.

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Mate dont worry about all the other people. They see what they see and we see what we see. I saw some very good signs from Luke last week and I expect him to improve as the year goes on. I have no doubt about it....just had a slow start to the year.

 

[ansonholt]

Great to see BMac rewarded for consistent VFL form. Over Durdin. At least the AFL selectors aren't believing what the VFL coaches are putting up and appeared to have actually watched the matches closely.

 

[ozzyoslo]

Can’t see Ahern coming in without a the obligatory fluff vid

But we seen a xerri video this week.....

 

[Val Keating]

But we seen a xerri video this week.....

We did. He’s not an emergency though

 

[HongKongRoo]

Clubs are businesses and who wants him to go out and be mediocre? He will play eventually hopefully. This week would be like a bank manager driving a repossessed car up to a business to now repossess the forklift.

# long game

POTY
Seriously I have no idea what this even means

 

[Caracas]

If you’d told me immediately after last season’s GWS game that the next time we played them, all the tipsters in the Age would select us to win, I’d have guessed you’d sourced some seriously high quality mushrooms in Hobart!


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[Snake_Baker]

I reckon this game might end up as a grind, but we really should win considering our better depth of scoring options.

 

[Reginald0]

Yeah nah
New north

Will jump em, then smash em


%age

 

[ansonholt]

Last time: Round 3, 8 April 2017, Blundstone Arena. GWS won by 42 points after leading at half time by 13 and 3qt by 15.

For NMFC:
Outs: Mullett (28 disp), Hansen (21), Gibson (20), Hrovat (20), Preuss (16 +26ho +2g), Garner (14 +1g), Swallow (14), Thomas (13), Durdin (10)
Ins: Wright, Thompson, Jacobs, Simpkin, Wood, Waite, Anderson, Daw, Hartung

All those playing this time around are arguably in better form than the ones they are replacing, for the most part.

Of note also: Ziebell had 28 disposals, Tarrant 23, MWilliams 23, Cunnington 21, McDonald 21, Higgins 18, Turner 17 +1g, Goldstein 12+10HO, Brown 11 +1g2b

For GWS:
Outs: Kelly (31disp +1g), Scully (25), DSmith (23), ZWilliams (23), Greene (19 +3g1b), Mumford (19 +33HO), Kennedy (17), Johnson (15 +1g), Davis (11), Wilson (9)
Ins: Finlayson, Mohr, Cumming, Whitfield, Langdon, Himmelberg, Coniglio, Keeffe, Lloyd, Perryman

Ward had 29 disp +1g1b, Shiel 27, Cameron 19 +3g3b, SReid 19 +2g3b, Hopper 19 +1g1b, Lobb 9 +2g.

Whitfield and Coniglio are proven players, Finlayson and Himmelberg go okay, the others - uncertain. Perryman good at State level apparently last week. Lobb having his 2nd game back from injury.

Their outs are significant, though. Kelly, Scully, Smith, Williams, Greene, Mumford and Davis are all big outs. Johson wasn't easy to deal with either.

On paper our team is better this time around. Theirs is arguably weaker. We are in form, they are not. We fans should be quite confident going into this one.

 

[darko]

How the hell Jonathan Patton is playing NEAFL is just criminal. And we think our player development blows chunks.

Been playing like crap.

 

[Snake_Baker]

If
Cunnington played for Hawthorn or Collingwood or Richmond ...

then
he'd have competition-wide cult status.