Preview Round 17: Port Adelaide vs Essendon, Adelaide Oval, Saturday 12/09/2020 @ 5:00 PM AEST

[Lore]

Defence is gonna be pretty funny looking with no Hooker, no Hurley, no Francis, no Redman.


Captain's run training groups:

Defence: Zerk, Ridley, Stewart, Gleeson, Smith, Saad, Guelfi (emg: Hooker, Redman)
Ruck: Draper, Phillips
Midfield: Langford, Shiel, Merrett, Snelling, Ham, Cutler, Hibberd, Parish (emg: Mutch)
Forwards: Daniher, Stringer, Townsend, Walla, Clarke (emg: Begley)

Italics are named on the bench.

 

[TheGrizz]

BZT as our only KPD against Dixon? This will be interesting.

Either this could be the making of the boy, or we are going full tank-mode

 

[Duckworth]

At least I finally get to see Hibberd again.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The second half against Hawthorn was pretty much the best football we’ve played all year.

We did it on the back of quick ball movement and having a big forward line of Daniher, Hooker, Stewart and Stringer to stretch the * out of their defence.

Hooker dropped, Stewart back. Good to see they’ve abandoned the only dangerous forward setup we’ve had all year.

Because why? It didn’t work last week.

When we had 30 inside 50s. 30.

Wow.

 

[Drummer_19]

Playing Draper and Phillips in the same team, surprised they couldn't squeeze in Belly as well for the tri towers of dumb selection. Some real clowns steering this ship.

 

[ShaunWDT]

Was baffled to see Phillips and Draper as a neutral, neither have ever done anything as forwards.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Why is Gleeson playing over Redman? While it’s not saying much, I thought Redman was one of our better (aka not totally useless) players last week.

 

[Stopher]

I'm not one to generally pot selections, but wtf is this?

 

[JT_the_Man]

Was baffled to see Phillips and Draper as a neutral, neither have ever done anything as forwards.

I think they confused Phillips and Francis and are planning on playing Flipper at full back.

 

[essendon]

Could get ugly tomorrow night.....

 

[blitzer]

Was baffled to see Phillips and Draper as a neutral, neither have ever done anything as forwards.

That is a completely fair and valid point. There was this one practice match where Draper kicked like 4 goals. Maybe they think he will channel that. Realistically they will both run around like headless chooks that have no idea how to play forward.

 

[eth-dog]

I don't understand Cutler or Phillips. We've probably seen enough to make a call on them. Why not give McQuillan and Bryan a go?

 

[Dave]

Cue meet rack, rack meet cue.

 

[Andronicus]

Could get ugly tomorrow night.....

Selection committee obviously hope so.

 

[Mikevk123]

It’s only recently that I have really woken up to how bad our list is.

 

[andleanback]

So we rush Heppell back in and now he’s gone in for ankle surgery. It’s amateur hour at this club.

 

[ghostdog]

If we're dropping a player like Hooker on form, why not try the tall Irish bloke? Also, since when do we drop players on form? Hooksy has every right to claim Zaka kisses someone's sweet spot.

 

[Donakebab]

Devon Smith named at CHB.

 

[eth-dog]

I don't understand Cutler or Phillips. We've probably seen enough to make a call on them. Why not give McQuillan and Bryan a go?

I'm not saying I'd cut Phillips, just in case anyone misinterprets this. I'm just saying we can find out more with the kids.

 

[Mikevk123]

Why haven’t they pumped games into
Irish boys, Jones, Bryan or Crauford?

 

[carloss]

Hopefully Phillips in means Draper gets a run up forward.

 

[Mikevk123]

Our midfield depth is shocking

 

[ghostdog]

...maybe this means Joey goes to CHB and cuts off every PA entry, returning fire with 70m bombs to our forward 50. That sounds like a game plan.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Sums up Hooker's career really. Any other player with his standing and his position would be managed, but poor Cale just gets straight dropped.

Worst team selection ever.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It’s only recently that I have really woken up to how bad our list is.

We have a great 16 or 18.

After that it gets ugly.

And a big chunk of the 16 or 18 miss a LOT of footy.