Prediction Round 4, 2025: Changes vs GWS

[twce13]

Time to actually play the kids. Need to get some of these small fwds out for mids imo. Too many having no impact.

Waterman for Jwill -- He was ok but I think we're too tall

Bo for hunt -- junk time touches aside he was poor and the type we need to be replacing in the 22.

Gross for long -- I still like long a lot but a run in the wafl will do no harm

Hall for gov -- move Allen to def

Hewett into 22 (HFF, rotating into the middle), brockman to sub

Also happy to keep long in instead of owies, but suspect they will keep him in for his fwd pressure. He sucks tho.

 

[twce13]

Feel like Jack Williams HAS to stay in. He's a future star.

If GWS can have Stringer, Hogan, Cadman/Riccardietc

Why can't we set up with JW, Waterman, Archer and 3 smalls (Owies, Ryan, Cripps)



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i think it's their other players who -- and gws have a lot of strong runners -- who allow this. Not sure eagles have that. Us going in to tall is too easily exposed.

 

[Elite Pete]

i think it's their other players who -- and gws have a lot of strong runners -- who allow this. Not sure eagles have that. Us going in to tall is too easily exposed.

Plus Stringer plays a lot more mobile.

Can’t have the 3 talls and the talls not come to ground in our F50 like today.

 

[Barrybran]

i think it's their other players who -- and gws have a lot of strong runners -- who allow this. Not sure eagles have that. Us going in to tall is too easily exposed.

Are we too tall though? Ideally, Bailey is in the ruck, Oscar and Archer are up forward and Jack is on the bench. When Bailey has a break, Archer goes into the ruck and Jack has a run forward. We shouldn't have any more than three RUC/FWD talls on the field at any one time. If Waterman is ready next week and McGovern isn't injured, sure, Jack probably needs to come out but if McGovern is injured, Allen goes down back and we still only have three RUC/FWD talls on the ground at any one time.

 

[quackish]

Out: Gov, H.Reid, Long, Hunt
In: Waterman, Allan, Gross, Allan

 

[Cuzz09]

Actually I reckon Jack Graham will have a little holiday after that hit.

Reckon they'll say we don't want that in the game

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[Pully]

I would love a younger team but i know it won't happen.

Hough, bazzo, grego
Gibney, brock, maric
Dewer, baker, johnstone
Cripps, shanahan, H reid
J williams, Waterman, ryan
A reid, hall, gross
Hewitt, Allan, 2 out of duggan, graham allen or kelly, or even davis
Sub petch

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Not sure what the changes will be? Gov out we know.
Bring Hall back in purely because he should not of been dropped.
Graham should have played half back and Hall as a mid.
Hewitt must play as a mid and Ryan should be moved to the wing permanently.
Long is not good enough, neither is brockman. Stop expecting something they can’t deliver on
Allen to permanently play back, trying to save his career.

Let the midfield be Reid, Hewit, Hough, Allen, Hall, Baker.

But it clearly looks already that Baker abd graham will be the favourite sons and young players will miss out on experience because of them

Let me footnote that by saying Baker has been very good except for his disposal.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Actually I reckon Jack Graham will have a little holiday after that hit.

Reckon they'll say we don't want that in the game

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What’d he do?

 

[Cuzz09]

What’d he do?

Took out serong way off the ball and he was down a while

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[THE A5]

Out: gov, long, jack williams (unlucky) hunt
In brock hall Waterman gross

Move graham hff

Honestly speaking TK needs to go to and cole perhaps.

Allen is getting close to a spell at wafl level

 

[eaglevision]

Blow it up

FB: Hough Edwards Baker
HB: Ginbey Shanahan Maric
C: Dewar Hall Allan
HF: Ryan Allen Hewett
FF: Brockman Waterman, A.Reid
R; Flynn Reid Graham
I/C: Gross Duggan Grego J Williams
S: Johnston

Shanahan to Cadman, Edwards to Hogan, Hough to Greene

Unless halving the ruck, Flynn subbed out halfway through 3Q with J Will to ruck rest of game with F50 chop out from Archer.

 

[sharps24]

Brockman is probably the first man out but hasn't really done anything to warrant being dropped.

All due respect to Noah Long and his mystery role none of us understand, meanwhile small forward Tyler Brockman just casually KICKING GOALS every game and looking silk af.

 

[Smotie2]

Out: gov, long, jack williams (unlucky) hunt
In brock hall Waterman gross

Move graham hff

Honestly speaking TK needs to go to and cole perhaps.

Allen is getting close to a spell at wafl level

Drop Allen and leave Williams in.

Allen's not interested. Williams is the future

 

[Godfather32]

Didn't Edwards go off injured as well or was it just cause he was playing shit?

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Didn't Edwards go off injured as well or was it just cause he was playing shit?

No injury, Mini confirmed that they just wanted to try something different.

 

[stallon]

Didn't Edwards go off injured as well or was it just cause he was playing shit?

hes not injured

 

[Smotie2]

Based on attitude and performance.

Out
Allen, Reid, long, hunt, Hewitt, Kelly

In.
Kids who give a **** and want to play AFL with passion and hunger

 

[eaglevision]

Not understanding the disdain for Hewett when he only got just over a quarter of footy

 

[Godfather32]

No injury, Mini confirmed that they just wanted to try something different.

Right...so shit.

This is not what I would do (I'm in the blow it all up and play the young guys camp) but guessing it ends up as something like:
Out: Gov, Long
In: Allan, Gross
No Hall, because we can't possibly play Hall and Graham in the same team with our absolutely stacked midfield.

 

[quackish]

Harley’s just screaming for a run in the WAFL, could do him a world of good

 

[Godfather32]

Not understanding the disdain for Hewett when he only got just over a quarter of footy

And he was looking quite good in that quarter

 

[Boohemian]

Just want Allen out tbh, as extraordinary as that may sound.

He’s offering absolutely nothing at the moment. We’re effectively playing a man down.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Out: Gov, TK, Long, J.Williams
In: Brock, Hall, Gross, Waterman

Sub: Brockman

I’ve had a gutful of TK’s laziness. Send him to the twos as a wake up call. If he doesn’t come back in the right frame of mind I’d much prefer to overpay Warner to get him to come and let TK walk than to hand him 700k plus a year playing like this.

 

[Kaboodleer]

The people who try to drop Cole every week drive me crazy - plays his role really well.

Out: Owies, J.Will, Gov (inj), Hunt
In: Gross/Hall, Allan, Waterman (if ready), Best performing KPD