Preview Round 6 - Bloods v GWS - Saturday 27 Apr 2019

[caesar88]

Who to drop... take your pick... Reid, Parker, Thurlow, Ronke, Jack, Mills... all have been, let’s face it, crap this year. Thurlow probably the only one in that bunch whose actually had at least one good game so he is probably saved.

Horse needs to get serious about his senior players who are performing so poorly and getting away with it every week.

But who am I kidding, the outs will probably be Ronke and Rowbottom.

 

[Cadsky]

Were in trouble. 50 point loss coming up

 

[RUNVS]

People try and equate our poor start to the season in 2019 with our poor start in 2017 (opposition fans mostly) but forget that in 2017 we were missing a huge stack of our best players, and in the first 6 weeks they all started slowly filtering back into the side. That is not the case this year as other than Naismith and Menzel we have essentially had our full strength side out there, it is just our full strength side is rubbish.

 

[The King!]

People try and equate our poor start to the season in 2019 with our poor start in 2017 (opposition fans mostly) but forget that in 2017 we were missing a huge stack of our best players, and in the first 6 weeks they all started slowly filtering back into the side. That is not the case this year as other than Naismith and Menzel we have essentially had our full strength side out there, it is just our full strength side is rubbish.

and werent carrying so many cooked players

eg some people think grundy and smith will improve things

 

[The King!]

reid should go and get some form, he hasnt earned a spot

 

[caesar88]

reid should go and get some form, he hasnt earned a spot

He won’t be dropped. Some players have immunity with Horse

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

He won’t be dropped. Some players have immunity with Horse

Will be interesting to see if KJ's immunity card has expired. He had a shocker.

 

[RUNVS]

Will be interesting to see if KJ's immunity card has expired. He had a shocker.

It won't. Last big named player Longmire properly dropped because of decreased performance was O'Keefe.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

It won't. Last big named player Longmire properly dropped because of decreased performance was O'Keefe.

True. Though he did drop Grohan and Reg last year because of poor performances.

 

[RUNVS]

True. Though he did drop Grohan and Reg last year because of poor performances.

Grundy might have been because of his depression, and I am not sure Rohan was a big name.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Grundy might have been because of his depression, and I am not sure Rohan was a big name.

Depression became public a few weeks after he was originally dropped. Agree Rohan was not a 'big name', but his selection had been inked in when fit for a number of years.

In his legacy year I hope Horse does not ink in under-performers like Reid and Jack. I think it is soul destroying for players like Dawson and McInerney to be selected for just one game when poorly performing senior players serve up dross weasel but are still selected.

 

[caesar88]

Depression became public a few weeks after he was originally dropped. Agree Rohan was not a 'big name', but his selection had been inked in when fit for a number of years.

In his legacy year I hope Horse does not ink in under-performers like Reid and Jack. I think it is soul destroying for players like Dawson and McInerney to be selected for just one game when poorly performing senior players serve up dross weasel but are still selected.

In fairness Horse took a gamble on McInerney and realised it was clearly a mistake. But agree with guys like Dawson COR etc who are thrown in and out of the senior side. This is exactly why this may be yet another wasted year. We are stuck between our old champions and the next generation.

We won’t be able to fully embrace and prepare the next generation if we keep thinking that a) senior guys like Parker, Reid etc are too good to be dropped, and b) Grundy McVeigh Jack etc will make a difference.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

I would have given McInerney at least another game. He was not at all well used.

 

[RUNVS]

Depression became public a few weeks after he was originally dropped.

Yes but it is possible the real reason he was dropped was because of depression and not because of form. The Swans would not admit a player is out because of depression if said player did not want that information out there.

 

[caesar88]

I would have given McInerney at least another game. He was not at all well used.

He was very out of his depth and to put him through another senior game I think would have been detrimental to him at this early stage of his development.

But I have to ask wtf Horse is doing with McInerney? He’s been NEAFL one week, travelling emergency the next, then NEAFL, then senior team, then travelling emergency again. I know Horse clearly loves him but he’s stuffing around with this kid’s form. What he needs to be doing is playing footy, at the same level, every weekend, for a month at least.

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

If Carlton beat the doggies today, we’re in danger of being bottom next week if we get a pasting.

 

[RUNVS]

If Carlton beat the doggies today, we’re in danger of being bottom next week if we get a pasting.

Carlton are going to win. They are 35 points up with 14 minutes to go.

 

[The King!]

Imagine Longmire with pick 1 yuck

 

[RUNVS]

Imagine Longmire with pick 1 yuck

We would pick the best quick half back in the land.

 

[momentbymoment]

My view is that we simply don’t know who we are as a football team. We have lost our ‘brand’ ...

Horse has to either reboot the bloods culture and give the team a vision that is worth fighting for, or move aside for someone who can.

 

[Syd]

We would pick the best quick half back in the land.

We would pick the best midfielder of the last 10-years drafts and play them in a back pocket....

 

[MarkP]

We always seem to come up against teams just as they lose a game they should not have.

I expect a pasting to be honest. GWS just have so much fire power.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Who to drop... take your pick... Reid, Parker, Thurlow, Ronke, Jack, Mills... all have been, let’s face it, crap this year. Thurlow probably the only one in that bunch whose actually had at least one good game so he is probably saved.

Horse needs to get serious about his senior players who are performing so poorly and getting away with it every week.

But who am I kidding, the outs will probably be Ronke and Rowbottom.

This is part of the problem that some Fanboys on here won't acknowledge.

 

[The King!]

Taranto looking the pick of the 2016 draft, pretty strong top 3, but enjoy watching him play more than mcgrath

 

[Longbombswans]

Still have nightmares from the pasting we copped in the SCG elimination final last year. We are a worse team this year so could get very ugly.