Round one selection dilemmas

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Interesting with so many in form forwards, the ruck dilemma not resolved, and the backline in indifferent form. Heres my rough and ready take on it.

Definite starters
Pendlebury
Swan
Fasolo
De Goey
Greenwood
Treloar
Blair
Adams
Brown
VArcoe
Sidebottom
Crisp
Moore
Cloke


So thats 14.....what about the other eight?
Will be from....
Frost should get a gig ahead of Reid who will probably need a VFL game
Grundy or Witts or both (probably only one, on balance I may prefer Grundy)
Ramsay (may be a certainty????)
Maccaffer
Aish
Marsh
Gault
Sinclair
Toovey
Langdon
Maynard

Selecting that last seven will be very interesting!!!!

Elliot Howe Shaz and Goldsack injured....cant see any others in the line for a game.

 

[THATSGOLD]

Tom Langdon?

 

[THATSGOLD]

Woeful. Can't play Sinclair and Marsh in the same side. Shocking kicks in the same backline.

 

[jamieb1983]

Langdon is a lock

 

[THATSGOLD]

Cloke was shocking how is he a definite starter?

 

[THATSGOLD]

Langdon is a lock

Worst on ground. No.

 

[BoxMatrix]

Langdon should definitely be dropped after today's performance. So should Sinclair. Both were awful.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Cloke is a lock because hes Cloke. Argue till youre blue in the face but this thread is about who will be selected not who you want selected and I'm pretty sure most will agree that he will start.

Langdon was poor today but somebody has to be picked to play defence, be that Toovey Maynard Sinclair Williams (who will play but is rusty) Reid Marsh etc. Hence the thread title dilemmas. Langdon will be in the frame but is not a lock.

We have good dilemmas forward and in ruck and not-so-good dilemmas in defence. Short term anyway.

 

[PepperFace]

Witts in

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Witts in

Maybe but is Grundy also in? And if so is Gault out?

 

[Pies_Iceman]

Woeful. Can't play Sinclair and Marsh in the same side. Shocking kicks in the same backline.

Langdon should definitely be dropped after today's performance. So should Sinclair. Both were awful.

Really? Sinclair? He was one of our best defenders today. Not sure how he could be labeled awful. Marsh was poor with his kicking today though.

 

[HFF]

Of the small defenders so far Ramsay and Sinclair are really the only two I have any real confidence in so far.
Reid is a lock if available for round 1.
Aish should also play as part if our midfield rotations. Can never have to many mids especially since his decision making and kicking is very good.

 

[PepperFace]

Maybe but is Grundy also in? And if so is Gault out?

I think both Witts and Grundy round 1. Swans will have tippet/sinclair combo.

Not sure on Gault. But he almost has to play also....i know we would go in tall but so be it

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Langdon should definitely be dropped after today's performance. So should Sinclair. Both were awful.

Weirdly he had a 94.1% disposal efficiency for 73% game time, had 6 marks and 17 disposals.

And still managed to look awful! But maybe there's a lot of off-the-ball stuff we're not seeing that makes him more valuable.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Weirdly he had a 94.1% disposal efficiency for 73% game time, had 6 marks and 17 disposals.

And still managed to look awful! But maybe there's a lot of off-the-ball stuff we're not seeing that makes him more valuable.

I think I read on the running AFl commentary he had a game high in intercepts

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

...Will be from....
Frost should get a gig ahead of Reid who will probably need a VFL game
Grundy or Witts or both (probably only one, on balance I may prefer Grundy)
Ramsay (may be a certainty????)
Maccaffer
Aish
Marsh
Gault
Sinclair
Toovey
Langdon
Maynard

Grundy AND Witts. Sinclair. Maynard. Aish. Maccaffer. Ramsay a certainty. Toss a coin for last one.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Grundy AND Witts. Sinclair. Maynard. Aish. Maccaffer. Ramsay a certainty. Toss a coin for last one.

Youre a key defender short! So Frost Reid or Marsh should be your last man picked?

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Youre a key defender short! So Frost Reid or Marsh should be your last man picked?

Reid! But I assume he will be touch and go so then it would be Frost. Went at 100% DE for all of his 4 damaging disposals

 

[THATSGOLD]

Really? Sinclair? He was one of our best defenders today. Not sure how he could be labeled awful. Marsh was poor with his kicking today though.

I think you need a new set of eyes.

 

[THATSGOLD]

Weirdly he had a 94.1% disposal efficiency for 73% game time, had 6 marks and 17 disposals.

And still managed to look awful! But maybe there's a lot of off-the-ball stuff we're not seeing that makes him more valuable.

We get too hooked on disposal efficientcy it seems. Yes you can rid of the ball to your opponent but when you put him under so much pressure it results in a goal what's the point. How can that be measured as efficient?

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

We get too hooked on disposal efficientcy it seems. Yes you can rid of the ball to your opponent but when you put him under so much pressure it results in a goal what's the point. How can that be measured as efficient?

Pretty much my point. Was a few times when Sinkers actually had the anti-Midas touch. But with all of his faults, he still has pace, heart and great attack on the ball.

 

[THATSGOLD]

Pretty much my point. Was a few times when Sinkers actually had the anti-Midas touch. But with all of his faults, he still has pace, heart and great attack on the ball.

Yep. It doesn't take a genius to release who was poor today then you will have these numbskulls trying to defend them yes they had disposal efficiency. Don't want to hear it. Sinclair Langdon Marsh were bloody shocking!

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Yep. It doesn't take a genius to release who was poor today then you will have these numbskulls trying to defend them yes they had disposal efficiency. Don't want to hear it. Sinclair Langdon Marsh were bloody shocking!

I'm not at all convinced by Marsh as much as I want him to develop. Is he really a defender?

 

[Pies_Iceman]

I think you need a new set of eyes.

Or maybe you could watch the game without your negative bias. Probably not though huh?

 

[Pies_Iceman]

Yep. It doesn't take a genius to release who was poor today then you will have these numbskulls trying to defend them yes they had disposal efficiency. Don't want to hear it. Sinclair Langdon Marsh were bloody shocking!

Do you know who would really improve our kicking efficiency in the back half? Travis Cloke. Good call