Preview Round 19, 2021: West Coast v St.Kilda - Optus Stadium, Saturday 24th July, 4:35PM AEST *SHARMAN DEBUT*

[sammm]

You can tell by training and game sense is uncoordinated & slow to react, would get monstered by KF.

oh well, we will see how he goes this weekend.

 

[bergholt]

You can tell by training and game sense is uncoordinated & slow to react, would get monstered by KF.

I haven't seen that yet, I think he stays in the contest pretty well and is solid at impacting it, not great but ok. Could still improve.

 

[CursingFijian]

You can tell by training and game sense is uncoordinated & slow to react, would get monstered by KF.

Keplar Bradley like qualities?

 

[KingsRansom]

Keplar Bradley like qualities?

I'd be happy if clav played 100 games like Kepler lol

 

[CursingFijian]

I'd be happy if clav played 100 games like Kepler lol

Exactly.

 

[kernelT]

Is hanners training the house down back in Melbourne?

 

[Sully111]

Is hanners training the house down back in Melbourne?

I read somewhere he was opening a tin of baked beans and did a hammy.

 

[kernelT]

I read somewhere he was opening a tin of baked beans and did a hammy.

Unlucky, should have reached for the canned spinach instead.

 

[puppy_dog7]

The good thing about injuries is always that we get a look at inexperienced guys. After this week:

Clavarino: 3 games
Hunter: 5 games
Connolly: 5 games
Joyce: 8 games
Highmore: 10 games
Byrnes: 13 games
Bytel: 14 games

And the only ones we don't know anything about are Allison, Alabakis, Heath, Sharman.

Puts us in a really good position to make calls on all 7 of those guys who've played this year. Based on what we've seen, I reckon:

Clavarino: probably one more year to prove himself
Hunter: gone
Connolly: lock him in long term
Joyce: probably one more year as backup
Highmore: lock him in long term
Byrnes: lock him in long term
Bytel: give him another couple of years to see how he develops

Great to be able to make all those calls fairly easily, it's the silver lining in a frustrating season.

Absolutely agree. It’s a great situation for us to be in compared to previous years when we had blokes like Murdoch, Saunders, White, Wright etc and just kept them on the list for the sake of having extra kids.

You can just tell that of the inexperienced players we’ve seen at AFL level 90% should work out well. Verdicts out on Joyce and Clav but they’ve played well when in the team unlike Jackson Ferguson.

it’s a good sign when we’re prepared to play Clav instead of rushing Frawley back. In years gone past we’d have rushed back Luke Delaney or Nathan Brown instead of playing a younger player.

 

[bergholt]

You can just tell that of the inexperienced players we’ve seen at AFL level 90% should work out well. Verdicts out on Joyce and Clav but they’ve played well when in the team unlike Jackson Ferguson.

Don't think it's 90%, imo about 50%, but that's a pretty solid ratio.

 

[gringo2011]

Don't think it's 90%, imo about 50%, but that's a pretty solid ratio.

Yeah, if you got 50% it would be solid.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Saints are like the Philosophy of the World.

 

[puppy_dog7]

Don't think it's 90%, imo about 50%, but that's a pretty solid ratio.

I said of the ones exposed to AFL level, so that doesn’t include Alison, Sharman, Heath.

Ive never been more confident in kids like Highmore, Byrnes, Bytel and Connolly making it. Still think one of Joyce or Clav can at least become a serviceable backup going forward, they’re still only 24 & 22 respectively.
To put into perspective, Higmore and Wilkie both Debuted as 23yr olds. Even McGovern debuted at 22

 

[gringo2011]

I said of the ones exposed to AFL level, so that doesn’t include Alison, Sharman, Heath.

Ive never been more confident in kids like Highmore, Byrnes, Bytel and Connolly making it. Still think one of Joyce or Clav can at least become a serviceable backup going forward, they’re still only 24 & 22 respectively.
To put into perspective, Higmore and Wilkie both Debuted as 23yr olds. Even McGovern debuted at 22

The older players have a higher strike rate generally. The players are getting called a lot earlier these days. we let go Young, Parker, Hind, Phillips despite having only a few picks in most of those drafts. We don't seem to hang on to players under Satan. They cull hard so the players left tend to be the best of them. Clav and Joyce might be lucky that so much deadwood needs trimming and we don't have masses of picks. They are the types that usually get culled.

 

[Diehard Saint]

You can tell by training and game sense is uncoordinated & slow to react, would get monstered by KF.

I would say that any new player would need time to adjust to the speed and intensity of an AFL game.
That's why it's best not to chuck the baby out with the bathwater too early.
It took #1 pick BJ Goddard a few years if I remember correctly.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Is hanners training the house down back in Melbourne?

Moving as well as I’ve ever seen him.




Nek Minnit...

 

[Bill Mohr]

Claverino not up to it, yet to be convinced.

Probably not cob, but I am with the rest on here and he has to be given a solid chance to prove himself over the next 4/5 games and possibly even another summers training.. He is quite a tall unit and they do take time to come on.

 

[St Kilda Death]

Saints are like the Philosophy of the World.

 

[George]

Steele is in for the ol jack steven treatment.

Opposition sit on him and win the game in a canter.
That's the problem when you are a 1 man team

Doesn't seem to be working this year, guys the highest rated player in the league.

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Can’t tag Steele. He’ll just tackle you

 

[Saint_Dos]

Is hanners training the house down back in Melbourne?

Saints should be teeing him (and Sal) up to get involved in some of those multi team scratch matches.

 

[Bill Mohr]

Doesn't seem to be working this year, guys the highest rated player in the league.

See that Mcguane had him 5th in his midfielders list in the Sun today, gave him a huge rap.

 

[SaintBilly]

Why isn’t the autopsy thread up yet?

 

[sammm]

I read somewhere he was opening a tin of baked beans and did a hammy.

I read somewhere he took his dog for a walk, fell over and did a hammy

 

[Plugger35]

See that Mcguane had him 5th in his midfielders list in the Sun today, gave him a huge rap.

I didn't know McGuane was a rapper.