Preview Round 22 Changes vs. Melbourne

[apuchar]

Clearly we have liabilities apart from Mzungu. Not sure we have enough new players to replace them all.

Exactly.
I think we expected our second tier to perform better than the have this season.

 

[332docker]

crozier and D.Pearce would be the ones most under gun based on pure stats and my view of the match...

 

[Proud SJW]

Barlow was not near our best. He butchered it going forward far too often.

Yeah, but if you're suggesting he should be dropped when compared to the likes of De Boer and Gu, then your credibility rating goes to about zero.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Yeah, but if you're suggesting he should be dropped when compared to the likes of De Boer and Gu, then your credibility rating goes to about zero.

It's about weeding out the bad kicks. All 3 deserve to go really.

 

[Proud SJW]

It's about weeding out the bad kicks. All 3 deserve to go really.

Fine. So that's three players you'll need to find to replace them, two games out from finals and with a few of the more likely replacements all out injured.

Gu and De Boer I'd be willing to take Tabs and Weller on one leg atm, but who the name of blind Freddie do you think could possibly come in for Barlow???

 

[sij1981]

How we cant have someone attacking as our sub gets me. And we need duffield as pure small forward shutdown player.

 

[rgauci]

IN: Pavlich, C.Pearce, Duffield
Out: Dawson, DeBoer, Mzungu

With an alternative of Dawson staying in instead of Griffin. Then him playing 2nd ruck.

 

[Spoken4]

It's about weeding out the bad kicks. All 3 deserve to go really.

No, Barlow needs to go back to the midfield as an inside/under player. That's where he belongs and that's where he does his best work. Try playing Priddis as a half forward and see how effective he is.

 

[Spoken4]

IN: Pavlich

Really? Surely you'd want to give Pavlich at least two weeks off to get his achilles injury right.

 

[Kram]

It's about weeding out the bad kicks. All 3 deserve to go really.

For who to come in?

 

[Bradesmaen]

No, Barlow needs to go back to the midfield as an inside/under player. That's where he belongs and that's where he does his best work. Try playing Priddis as a half forward and see how effective he is.

Bad kicking is bad kicking no matter where you are on the field. Stop trying to hide him.

 

[Spoken4]

Bad kicking is bad kicking no matter where you are on the field. Stop trying to hide him.

And yet Priddis is highly effective and is a terrible kick.

 

[Bradesmaen]

And yet Priddis is highly effective and is a terrible kick.

Because he knows when not to kick.

 

[Proud SJW]

He will play up the ground, when we get a proper forward line in the future. His pace and pressure will be very valuable up the ground.

Mayne's as much a casualty of our forward line issues as anyone else, really.

 

[apuchar]

No, Barlow needs to go back to the midfield as an inside/under player. That's where he belongs and that's where he does his best work. Try playing Priddis as a half forward and see how effective he is.

ross said on 6pr last week that Barlow has never played as mainly an inside midfielder under his reign. Always high half forward or wing mainly. Does any one agree with that.

 

[apuchar]

Mayne's as much a casualty of our forward line issues as anyone else, really.

He always played as a leadup/ high half forward for Perth. He used to run his opponents off their feet with his endless repeat leads.

 

[salim malik]

ross said on 6pr last week that Barlow has never played as mainly an inside midfielder under his reign. Always high half forward or wing mainly. Does any one agree with that.

Ive revisited a lot of our games this and last season and he does start on the wing a hell of a lot.He is around the ball at clearances around the ground but not at centre bounces .

 

[apuchar]

IN: Pavlich, C.Pearce, Duffield
Out: Dawson, DeBoer, Mzungu

With an alternative of Dawson staying in instead of Griffin. Then him playing 2nd ruck.

Yeah right

 

[schnoods]

Out DeBoer, Mzungu, A Pearce (rest)/or one of Crozier/Sheridan.

In Pavlich, C Pearce, Tabener/Duffield

 

[apuchar]

Ive revisited a lot of our games this and last season and he does start on the wing a hell of a lot.He is around the ball at clearances around the ground but not at centre bounces .

Noticed it more this year. I remember him being on the wing last year but he seems to be forward more this year. It can be hard to tell if a player is wing or high half forward, but I'm sure he is playing more as a stay home forward this year than last.

 

[Proud SJW]

He always played as a leadup/ high half forward for Perth. He used to run his opponents off their feet with his endless repeat leads.

I've got a lot of time for him; I think if some other things up forward come right, Mayne comes right. Lot of knee jerk reactions these days.

 

[apuchar]

I've got a lot of time for him; I think if some other things up forward come right, Mayne comes right. Lot of knee jerk reactions these days.

Our forward line either looks clogged or empty. nothing in between most of the time.

 

[Spoken4]

ross said on 6pr last week that Barlow has never played as mainly an inside midfielder under his reign. Always high half forward or wing mainly. Does any one agree with that.

No, this is not correct.

 

[salim malik]

No, this is not correct.

He does start on the wing a lot.

 

[free at last]

I don't understand the risk of playing PAV one bit.Another two weeks off you'd think would be pretty beneficial to the great man.

Maca can have two weeks off too.