Prediction Round 13, 2025: Changes vs North Melbourne

[eaglesnutcase]

Comparing two key forwards and saying you’re comparing them as footballers, not key forwards, is absolute nonsense.

Obviously in your weird little world being a key forward has nothing to do with being a footballer.Now my friend; THATS nonsense!

 

[random260]

Lol, you don't drop the forward who kicked 2 goals and was involved in the most score's for his team. That's a genius move.

Reid should've been dropped for Bailey, then perhaps he could go to the WAFL and finally earn a game by doing something crazy, like hitting the scoreboard.

Maybe let's not drop our ruck for the future?

Archer against the right opponent in the ruck is our best ruck by a mile.

Archer against the wrong opponent is still better then Williams by a mile. But flynn due to his mature body.

Until jack williams turns into a better ruck then he will he displaced.

Yes the difference between jack williams and Archer against easier ruckman is big

 

[Carbine Chaos]

While he didn't hit the scoreboard I thought Reid contributed the other night.

 

[Shuestar13]

Reid certainly contributed. As a back up ruck - wasn’t in the F50 for the full game.

It would be nice if JW can go into the ruck, but possibly his fitness won’t allow it right now. Can only go to the edge of the 50 can our Jack. Never mind, he is still young that’s all that matters

 

[THE A5]

Reid certainly contributed. As a back up ruck - wasn’t in the F50 for the full game.

It would be nice if JW can go into the ruck, but possibly his fitness won’t allow it right now. Can only go to the edge of the 50 can our Jack. Never mind, he is still young that’s all that matters

Or JW played forward cause he actually kicks goals and we needed to replace Jake with a goal kicker. BtW Jack has rucked this year and has been fine

 

[twce13]

i heard jwill showed really soft hands when he tapped several double quarter pounders down his own throat

Spoiler: several*

7

 

[FootyOutlier]

Surprised as anyone here that we didn't bring B. Williams in to help Flynn out...

Having said that, not unhappy either as I'm digging the fact that we get to see J.Will and Arch out there together.

Those lads are our future after all.

Arch & J.Will to snag 2 each this week

Arch to kick 2 behinds

 

[eaglesnutcase]

For all our bitching we are in a rather good space going forward.
Look at Port; good midfield but nothing to kick to ; ditto Sydney;
Big fellas take more time. We are sitting on a goldmine.AReid,JW,Shanahan? BBW great 2nd ruck;Livingstone seems to be getting mentioned,Barnett had his best game ( f’ me could he make it). Another season into these guys we will start to look scary.

Arch to kick 2 behinds

As long as one of them is yours

 

[TheBudgies]

Flynn is not our best ruck at all. He loses virtually every ruck contest. His only value is taking the odd mark around the ground. Bailey is the opposite - he is pretty bad around the ground but at least gets first hands on the footy. The problem with Bailey is that even if he gets first hands to it, he taps it straight to the opposition every time. Archer and JW are a much better ruck combination, but they don’t have the fitness or body conditioning yet to do it all game, hence bringing Bailey in to at least stop Xerri from tapping it wherever he wants like he will do with Flynn in the ruck.

Flynn is almost twice as likely to get the ball to an Eagle from a hit out than Bailey. He's also more likely to get a contested mark. We need a ruck that will get our young midfield the ball and present a marking option. Bailey is worse at both of these. He is the worse ruckman of the 2. Neither of them is a top 12 ruckman in my view but if we are playing someone based on how they are as a ruckman Flynn is the better option.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Preview thread is up and teams are selected. Over we go.