Preview Round 6 vs Port Adelaide

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The issue with the centre bounces is that we don't have people in there with both pace and tackling intensity. We get first hands often enough, but when we get it, we get caught. When the opposition gets it, they get out into space we can't get it back.
- Cunnington is a bull, but very very slow and can't put pressure on anyone he can't reach.
- LDU has great burst pace for an inside mid, but his defensive game/application and second efforts are very poor.
- Ziebel is currently Cunnington without the good bits.
- Higgins is not defending.
- Polec is only half-hearted defending
- Dumont is only ok defending and not quick.
- Anderson is great, but we only have one of him. No surprise we look a whole lot better when he is there.

Ironically, this is after a big investment into our midfield and we have supposedly the best mid-depth ever with patent weaknesses at both ends.
This is not going to be fixed with any clever new positioning around the ball. The problem is the cattle on the park.

Zurharr into the ruck it is...
Jacobs is a big miss because him and Anderson provide the majority of the defensive pressure
 

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DISGUSTING CHANGES. ******* campaigners on the match committee. Bring in Nick Larkey who’s akin to a giraffe, Luke McDonald the worst player in the league, and Tarryn who is the only player I’m happy thats back in. The Outs are despicable. Bailey Scott and Ahern?!?. Speechless
 
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DISGUSTING CHANGES. ******* campaigners on the match committee. Bring in Nick Larkey who’s akin to a giraffe, Luke McDonald the worst player in the league, and Tarryn who is the only player I’m happy thats back in. The Outs are despicable. Bailey Scott and Ahern?!?. Speechless
That giraffe is a young Frosty Miller Medallist.
 

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No senior player dropped. Weak as piss
Yyyyyyyyyyup. Also congrats to Bailey Scott, he is now a member of the 'you **** up and we'll drop you instantly' club.

Look, I'm glad Larkey is in and I'm glad Thomas is in. But we DO have a lot of SENIOR PLAYERS who are in elongated shit form. At this stage I'd rather persist, where possible due to balance, with Bailey and Ahern than those senior blokes. We regularly run players into the ******* ground playing them out of form. The other two are still recent acquisitions and might just bounce back brilliantly if backed in.

It's all just so tiring.
 
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