Preview Round 8: Essendon vs Hawthorne, Docklands, Saturday 07/05/22 @ 7:25 PM

[JayJ20]

Remember Stewart's goal kicking in 2018? It was essentially why he was dropped.

These things change with confidence and routines.

We'll see how they handle it. I think we'll see Stewart going forward but I could be wrong.

 

[threesixpio]

 

[Nifft]

Hind and Shiel should return

Would love to see Bryan get a go, but Truck seems to have a weird thing for Ham, who I think will get the nod

 

[bombreys]

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Just needs Homer in a Truck and it's complete.

 

[Kyptastic]

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[naraku]

Hind and Shiel should return

Would love to see Bryan get a go, but Truck seems to have a weird thing for Ham, who I think will get the nod

I sure hope not.

We're bad enough right now without Mr.Fumbles out there. Why play with a man down?
VFL is Ham's level, he shouldn't play senior football again.

 

[eth-dog]

Baldwin omitted. Ham or Francis likely sub

 

[andleanback]

Bryan !

 

[The Prosecutor]

Good to see Bryan and Draper play together.

 

[andleanback]

Good to see Bryan and Draper play together.

Can’t wait to see it. It could be a tough night for lunch.

 

[boncer34]

Good to see Bryan and Draper play together.

Took them ******* long enough

 

[owen87]

Baldwin omitted. Ham or Francis likely sub

I assume Ham given Francis hasn’t played for 2-3 weeks

 

[TheGrizz]

Still would have kept Baldwin with Stringer out, but I guess we are going for the extra leg speed up forward

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Can’t wait to see it. It could be a tough night for lunch.

Lynch with the discount Draper haircut

 

[eth-dog]

Will be interesting to see the ruck split. I'd say:

Draper 60/30/10
Bryan 40/50/10

 

[84859300]

Will be interesting to see the ruck split. I'd say:

Draper 60/30/10
Bryan 40/50/10

Just play him at CHF and * "the cage" right off.

Get marks 40m out and give us a chance to score.

 

[eth-dog]

Looking at potential match ups:

Forward:

Frost on Wright
Sicily on Waterman
Grainger-Barrass on Bryan/Draper
Hardwick on Guelfi
Scrimshaw on Perkins
Day/Impey on Hobbs/resting mid

Defence:

Laverde on Callow
Reid on Koschitzke
Kelly on Gunston
Hind on Moore
Heppell on Breust
Ridley/Redman on Bramble/resting mid

We actually match up reasonably well at both ends, apart from Sicily on Waterman and Heppell on Breust. They have a similar defence to ours in that they have a lot of mid sized defenders rather than genuine talls and smalls.

Big advantage for us is that Frost is giving 6 cm and 6 kg to Wright and has a habit of giving away frees (equal 25th in the league on average), DGB will be giving away 8cm and 16 kg to Bryan and 10 cm and 24 kg to Draper. Whereas at the other end, Laverde is only 3 cm and 2 kg smaller than Callow and Reid has 6 cm on Kosi but is giving away 12 kg.

We can exploit those match ups. We need to be feeding Waterman between 50 and 70 as much as possible to not let Sicily drop off and force him to pay respect to Waterman. Get the big blokes one on one as much as possible

 

[justlookingaround]

Still would have kept Baldwin with Stringer out, but I guess we are going for the extra leg speed up forward

Baldwin just doesn’t look at all ready for league footy yet imo

 

[CBombers17]

Nah, plenty of people discussing 6451 days.

Pretty disingenuous to come in here and s**t on us without at least acknowledging our esports supremacy.

 

[windyhill]

I’d rather watch this on loop than listen to his verbal diarrhoea.

 

[andleanback]

Will be interesting to see the ruck split. I'd say:

Draper 60/30/10
Bryan 40/50/10

10% being forward?

 

[eth-dog]

10% being forward?

Bench.

 

[Kyptastic]

I would love to see Hind play forward. We’re severely lacking pace up there and it could help in preventing the easy exits that most teams have been getting against us.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Looking at potential match ups:

Forward:

Frost on Wright
Sicily on Waterman
Grainger-Barrass on Bryan/Draper
Hardwick on Guelfi
Scrimshaw on Perkins
Day/Impey on Hobbs/resting mid

Defence:

Laverde on Callow
Reid on Koschitzke
Kelly on Gunston
Hind on Moore
Heppell on Breust
Ridley/Redman on Bramble/resting mid

We actually match up reasonably well at both ends, apart from Sicily on Waterman and Heppell on Breust. They have a similar defence to ours in that they have a lot of mid sized defenders rather than genuine talls and smalls.

Big advantage for us is that Frost is giving 6 cm and 6 kg to Wright and has a habit of giving away frees (equal 25th in the league on average), DGB will be giving away 8cm and 16 kg to Bryan and 10 cm and 24 kg to Draper. Whereas at the other end, Laverde is only 3 cm and 2 kg smaller than Callow and Reid has 6 cm on Kosi but is giving away 12 kg.

We can exploit those match ups. We need to be feeding Waterman between 50 and 70 as much as possible to not let Sicily drop off and force him to pay respect to Waterman. Get the big blokes one on one as much as possible.

Think it'll be tough for Waterman on Sicily, Waterman isn't a great runner and is a solid player but had 7 touches no goals and isn't a pressure player, watched you lads live last week and he was just dreadful. Sicily should peel off him for fun, so i wouldn't be shocked to see you match him up on someone else.

Sicily is a super one on one player so if we need him to go to Wright or a resting ruck he can and will.

 

[andleanback]

Bench.

I don’t think both are playing 90% game time
I’d say Bryan will play max 75% game time