Autopsy Roast & Toast vs Melbourne & Changes for R6 vs Sydney

[Marcel Proust]

Ccj playing?

Ccj and Chol looks funky

Give Soldo enough rest - ideally play both and get Lynch right , long contract

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Can someone with access to the HeraldSun articles leave a comment and tell Slobbo to just fck off? Or "at" him on Twitter or something? Like seriously, when do we get an actual *ingg break in the media?

First and foremost, look at any Premiership side, especially those that win a few in a short space of time. Tell me that all of those sides don't have a blessed or near-blessed run with injury? You simply have to have your best players out there to win it, system makes a club good but gun players makes it great. You cannot tell me Hawthorn didn't have most of their best players almost always available and match fit?

But, as *ingg always, people still forget...

2017
- Were we not missing Vlastuin for like 10-12 weeks with a shoulder?
- Didn't Houli miss a large patch?
- Didn't Shane Edwards miss a large patch after hurting his hip in round 2 vs. Collingwood?
- Didn't Conca break his foot and miss the rest of the season after round 6? (best 22 at the time)
- Didn't our second tall get concussed for the millionth time, forcing us to play a small forward line that ended up being a boon and a thing to be praised by the very media telling us we were kissed on the dck?
- Didn't we lose like 3 players late in the year, forcing us to play some guys (Broad, Graham, Townsend) that ended up being Premiership players out of nowhere?

2019
- Forgive me if I'm mistaken but did we not lose the generation's greatest defender for the entirety of the season in round 1?
- Did we not continue to lose players consistently (senior, top 8-10 players) up until halfway through the year, barely staying afloat until we finally got them back one by one and then managed to win TWELVE ******* STRAIGHT GAMES ?!
- Despite this, didn't Prestia carry an achilles through the whole season, our best and fairest winner?
- Didn't we cop injuries in the prelim and still win it, but also forcing us to play a debutant in the grand final and win easy?


Seriously, memories are way, WAY too short and that headline annoyed me enough to want to post this rant. Even forgetting the above, how many top players have we lost to injury before they could truly flourish, especially in a time when we really needed more guys to stand up? Just to name a few, Nathan Brown, Nathan Foley, Mark Coughlan... All best and fairest ilk players, all in a time when we needed someone other than Richo, all had their careers ruined by injury.

Just give us a ******* break, 2017 was decent enough injury-wise but only if you're comparing us to Collingwood who did have more than they deserved. Otherwise, we had our fair share too. Just bugger off Slobbo.

THERE WERE NO INJURY 2019

 

[tony__montana]

Syndesmosis is the injury Jack Ross had last year and he wasn't the same player when he came back.

I'll be surprised if it's less than 2 months not factoring in getting some game time into the legs as well.

yep also Stack in the vfl late in the year - I recall both players looking extremely tender at games end, basically couldnt walk, Prestia seemed nowhere near as ginger. Time and scans will tell us soon enough - hopefully its a low grade like lamberts and not like Stacks/Butlers/Ross's

 

[Marcel Proust]

Damn, oh well, looks like CCJ will be debuting this week for certain, very excited to see what he can bring at the top level.

What a surreal time for some of our youngsters to be making their debuts.

We should rest dusty too get him right...

Out. Lynch. Dusty. Cotchin. Prestia. Edwards. Nank

 

[Sir_Rancelot]

Is Stack on the plane?

 

[tigs2010]

Hayden, his the stats guy that sits next to Dimma in the coaches box, great guy

Cheers

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

And another silver lining,some kids get development time into them.

While Hawks & Cats continue with DaD
Dad's army Development

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Is Stack on the plane?

Conti driving him up in the sandman.
Hope they make the border by midnight tomorrow.

 

[Tonymontana344]

Bolton should never have been dropped. I assume it was for him to practice more in the midfield

Bolton should never have been dropped. I assume it was for him to practice more in the midfield

I hope so, I think he has the talent to be a superstar..

 

[Spacedog]

Out: Houli, Edwards, Prestia, Cotchin, Nank, Lynch

In: Graham, Bolton, Stack, Soldo, Pickett, Naish

Use Dusty, Lambert, Graham, Bolton and Pickett as our inside mids. That is still good enough to beat Sydney. McIntosh out for Naish if Lynch can play

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

I'm kinda off Soldo for a bit after his last game if I am going to be honest. I'd like to see what CCJ + Chol as our ruck combination will produce. If we are going raw talent in the hub, then may as well go full on and see what we get. Besides, Sydney are having ruck issues as well at the moment.

I'd show Soldo off to his future employer.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Balta is better than Rance at same age. Just saying

Just hope he's only banging the door of AA selection and not house to house.

 

[Wallaby]

A break (sorry, rest ) might do Lynch good. He's been out of form this year - sure he kicks a few goals - that's because he is a smart player, and gets to the right spots.

But his marking and set shot kicking has definitely been off, and he's back to being the slow, turn-like-the-Queen-Mary lump he was in the early part of 2019. Something is not quite right.

 

[69vintage]

Who dat next to Kent Kingley?

He's the brains behind Dimma .


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[captain blood 17]

Who knows mate, we are an equal chance with 3 other clubs IMO. I can see us winning our next two and from there, with momentum up we could go on a run. There a lot of tiger supporters writing us off, like they did last year, around the same time, yet we got our act together when it mattered and went bang, who can say that wont happen again ?

What was really impressive to me yesterday is that we ran the game out, even with 1 only on the bench, we have not done that since the blues game. That tells me, fitness wise we have turned the cornor. We also have a list of impressive kids, finally being able to get a solid block in the 1's. When posters on here write us off, they forget our kids in the VFL have lost less then 6 games in 3 years, i rate our kids better then most sides, so if any side can handle the injuries we have, its us.

Add a layer that we have not lost in Queensland for 10 years, the afl basically have given us 5 rounds at our home ground. I say belt up and enjoy the ride, as im now invested in the season due to the excitement in watching our kids!

It's funny, all of a sudden i am enthused about the season a bit. Pumped to see what the kids like Balta etc offer. And now they get a decent run at it.

 

[captain blood 17]

While Hawks & Cats continue with DaD
Dad's army Development

Not this DAD?

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

2mums must play if no prestia and chimp

Must?
Why?

 

[Tiges1229]

Just watching replay some very costly turnovers cost us direct goals , need to clean that up a bit

 

[juss]

Out: Houli, Edwards, Prestia, Cotchin, Nank, Lynch

In: Graham, Bolton, Stack, Soldo, Pickett, Naish

Use Dusty, Lambert, Graham, Bolton and Pickett as our inside mids. That is still good enough to beat Sydney. McIntosh out for Naish if Lynch can play

* me. Look at those outs on paper in a one week hit. That's incredibly tough to overcome right away, enormous disruption and loss of experience.

Chol and Martin to play forward with Riewoldt at CHF.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

Just watching replay some very costly turnovers cost us direct goals , need to clean that up a bit

without the s**t umps and our s**t turnovers under no pressure the dees would've only scored 13 pts

 

[Tiges1229]

without the sh*t umps and our sh*t turnovers under no pressure the dees would've only scored 13 pts

Yep they literally got 3 goals in the 3rd and last quarter from direct turnovers

 

[Vaska]

FB: Grimes, Balta, Broad
HB: Stack, Vlastuin, Short
C: Caddy, Martin, Bolton
HF: Aarts, Riewoldt, Higgins
FF: Castagna, Chol, Rioli
R: Coleman-Jones, Ross, Lambert
I: Pickett, McIntosh, Dow, Baker

 

[SavDog23]

Lynch gonna wear a glove for the rest of his career like Richo

Best

 

[Monjike]

we would knock back Rance now anyway if he wanted to make a comeback

Cough cough...we would welcome him with open arms...well, pointed elbows.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Lol, you’ve been on the board for 3 weeks and spoke nothing but sh*t for all of it. You must think we’re stupid.

Hey stoopid.

 

[Marcel Proust]

Must?
Why?

Cause I fear we will get batted inside without him