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Checkers had a ripping game against Melbourne. He beat May.The 'who deserves it' part of me wants a hungry and desperate Noble as sub ready to explode fresh.
The 'realistic' part of me says Frampton structurally keeps us straight. Just on Frampton he really stepped up when we needed him early in the season and he can always swap with Howe if needed. He does give options including taking the forward ruck role.
While I am at it stop knocking Lipinski, anyone who says a player pulls out of a contest or shirks it should be embarrassed. You have to have strength of character just to be out on an AFL field. When he is on he delivers the ball inside fifty superbly. Yes he has had a couple of bad quarters. He is in our bottom six picked and a role player. Let's be real he was not alone fumbling last week. We have had some players out of form. Elliot and Mihocek have been really quiet past two games. Lipinski is a Collingwood player. I support all players that play for us including Noble and Frampton.
Fly got us to here. I think he knows what he is doing.
Let's get behind the boys this week and support them all.
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I meant the exact opposite. Andrews will leave Frampton to effect the contest with Miho/Elliot etc.I think this is good though isn't it? Frampton won't be our main target so forcing Andrews to peel off to deal with him means one less guarding Mihocek or even Elliot.
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of course we want him to do well...channel 9 footy classified last night highlighted his lack of intensity ..not to mention the ..fumbling and turnovers ..we can't win the premiership with players doing that,,,.it was all there on the footage and we saw it live on Friday and the game before...its not personal..and of course you have to have courage to be an AFL player ..some just have more than others and some have greater intensity...If he stays in the team I hope he lifts big time because he will need to..we don't want anymore rhyce shaw -allistair Lynch grand final moments 20 years laterThe 'who deserves it' part of me wants a hungry and desperate Noble as sub ready to explode fresh.
The 'realistic' part of me says Frampton structurally keeps us straight. Just on Frampton he really stepped up when we needed him early in the season and he can always swap with Howe if needed. He does give options including taking the forward ruck role.
While I am at it stop knocking Lipinski, anyone who says a player pulls out of a contest or shirks it should be embarrassed. You have to have strength of character just to be out on an AFL field. When he is on he delivers the ball inside fifty superbly. Yes he has had a couple of bad quarters. He is in our bottom six picked and a role player. Let's be real he was not alone fumbling last week. We have had some players out of form. Elliot and Mihocek have been really quiet past two games. Lipinski is a Collingwood player. I support all players that play for us including Noble and Frampton.
Fly got us to here. I think he knows what he is doing.
Let's get behind the boys this week and support them all.
Go Pies
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Overstated event.of course we want him to do well...channel 9 footy classified last night highlighted his lack of intensity ..not to mention the ..fumbling and turnovers ..we can't win the premiership with players doing that,,,.it was all there on the footage and we saw it live on Friday and the game before...its not personal..and of course you have to have courage to be an AFL player ..some just have more than others and some have greater intensity...If he stays in the team I hope he lifts big time because he will need to..we don't want anymore rhyce shaw -allistair Lynch grand final moments 20 years later
Exactly this.of course we want him to do well...channel 9 footy classified last night highlighted his lack of intensity ..not to mention the ..fumbling and turnovers ..we can't win the premiership with players doing that,,,.it was all there on the footage and we saw it live on Friday and the game before...its not personal..and of course you have to have courage to be an AFL player ..some just have more than others and some have greater intensity...If he stays in the team I hope he lifts big time because he will need to..we don't want anymore rhyce shaw -allistair Lynch grand final moments 20 years later
Except that McStay would have been a much more difficult opponent for Andrews as he was for Taylor of GWS.
I don't really think that GWS need to pay a great deal of respect to Frampton. If he tries to drag Andrews into no man's land, why would Andrews bother to follow him? A second string defender could as easily switch on to him and leave Andrews to remain in a position where he is likely to be most involved in the play. I don't see Frampton dictating to Brisbane where their key interceptor and defender will play on the ground.
Sorry - it was a general comment on the narrative and not specifically directed to you.I never suggested WHE so you can't accuse me of lunacy. I also wanted to maintain the forward structure, though with Kreuger not Frampton. One way or another we are going to be experimenting in the GF.
Solid session yesterday, with some mixed results.
The bad news is that Tay basically did his hammy again. I knew it wasn't a good sign when he was only able to complete 20 mins of the session; even if his session was just meant to be light work, the fact he wasnt out there for long suggested something was wrong. Which then got confirmed to us later.
Frampton, Ginni were initially in white when they came out onto the ground, and Noble black. But once match play started, they swapped. Frampton and Ginni in black, both were up forward (Ginni served as that 7th forward off the bench) and Frampton FF, seemed to be filling the Mcstay role.
Noble had changed to white to play on Nick, who was playing half forward.
Howe, Moore didn't participate, they did some drills, but then did a few run throughs.
Lippa was on the wing.
Not sure where Sidey lined up. Maybe he was on the bench. But I noticed this was the set up.
Wing:
Lippa _> Draper
Josh -> Wilson
Mid:
Pendles ->Allan
Mitchell ->Macrae
De Goey -> Carmichael
FWD:
Checkers -> Begg
Frampton -> Dean
Hill -> Noble
Jamie -> Ruscoe
Nick -> Ryan
Beau -> Bianco
Cameron -> Cox
DEF
IQ ->Richards
Crisp - > Murley
Markov -> Reef
Murphy -> Kreuger
Maynard -> HH
WHE -> Steene
on the bench
Ginni. Sidey.
They worked a lot about moving the ball forward, using the angles around stoppages and contest.
Did work on contest fight 1v1 work
Fly had a chat to Ginni post training, very easily going chat, talking about set plays I suppose, as they were pointing fingers to certain areas of the ground, and left smiling once they were done having a discussion.
The boys mingled a bit, before giving away footies to the kids in the crowd.
Thurs is the next main session.
Andrews will have no choice but go to Frampton because Gardiner and Lester will be giving away 10cm, and 10kg’s and 16kg’s respectively.Except that McStay would have been a much more difficult opponent for Andrews as he was for Taylor of GWS.
I don't really think that GWS need to pay a great deal of respect to Frampton. If he tries to drag Andrews into no man's land, why would Andrews bother to follow him? A second string defender could as easily switch on to him and leave Andrews to remain in a position where he is likely to be most involved in the play. I don't see Frampton dictating to Brisbane where their key interceptor and defender will play on the ground.
Andrews will have no choice but go to Frampton because Gardiner and Lester will be giving away 10cm, and 10kg’s and 16kg’s respectively.
It's going to pose a conundrum for their selection.Sounds like Payne might be back in, presumably for Gardiner. Apparently he passed a fitness test on his ankle yesterday.
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But then there is the speed at which an action or reaction travels from brain to lower body parts, and Frampton's delayed movements could be captured on film and used as instructional videos to budding glaciers. At least Kreuger would have bounded and loped around a little to keep Andrews on his toes.Andrews will have no choice but go to Frampton because Gardiner and Lester will be giving away 10cm, and 10kg’s and 16kg’s respectively.
Exactly this.
The reality is he’s uber slow which also doesn’t help his ability to contest ie. closing space, chasing and getting to loose ball contests in his vicinity are often problematic.
And for mine, it’s not just 1 or 2 contests last week, he’s noticeably been protecting or favouring his reconstructed shoulder since his return from injury. Sub-consciously this is understandable and not surprising at all. Will it be costly for the team in a GF, who knows. Do you have to consider other options if they’re available, other options that play with more aggression and physicality, of course you do.
To be fair, the knock on him at Western Bulldogs and the reason stated as to why he couldn’t settle in the seniors was both his lack of pace and lack of aggression /hardness in the contest.
But he’s in the team and we all wish & hope he rips it apart on Saturday, kicks a couple, sets a couple up and drives kiddy Coleman into the turf with a ball ‘n all tackle in minute 1, to set the team alight.
Also provides that extra to stoppage and contest, and a link up chain through the middle, through transition.He's got some weaknesses in his game for sure. But his strengths are that he has elite endurance and disposal. He's one of our best inside 50 kicks.
I don't think he will ever be quick, but does need to work on some evasive tricks, Pendles and Sidey are both slow, but have the tricks to get themselves out of trouble. Misses too many tackles, perhaps a it's amplified from his shoulder injury, but needs to get stronger in the contest, especially his goal is to play inside minutes.
Kreugers ground ball reaction time, and speed are better, but Framptons size, and positional flexibility are far more valuable.But then there is the speed at which an action or reaction travels from brain to lower body parts, and Frampton's delayed movements could be captured on film and used as instructional videos to budding glaciers. At least Kreuger would have bounded and loped around a little to keep Andrews on his toes.
I think you use the term structure differently to me.Frampton allows us to retain our fwd structure - the idea we would experiment in a GF with WHE or going small is just lunacy.
I think you use the term structure differently to me.
To me, structure is where you want a bloke to position and thus the role. Eg. it's the same structure in defence whether you've got Darcy Moore or Maynard standing in a particular spot - it's not a structural difference that Darcy is stronger in the air.
To me, Frampton is a risk in terms of fwd structure as he's the one you can rely on the least to get to the right spots and give us the structure we want.
What he'd give us though is McStay's skillset to play the role in the same style - as opposed to an AJ style, which is more like how WHE or Howe would play the role - try to get a bit of separation to leap and have little hope of shifting a bloke in strong position or holdin position under a ball.
In other words, it's not really structure that would make you pick Billy - it's that Billy is more likely to clunk a mark in the hotspot or be harder to shift and thus make it more likely to come to ground or easier for others to clunk a mark in the hotspot - but we are taking a risk with our forward structure - as he's also more likely to not be where we want him to be.
After having been very anti Frampton as a forward, I've come on board. It's a Granny. It's going to be messy with lots of bombs forward. And Billy and Cox competing give us the best chance of scoring from bombs to the hotspot either with a mark or from dangerous spills.That makes sense but as someone who dies on hills, I’ll remain consistent and back my man Frampton to get the job done.
I said numerous times throughout the year that unless we’re playing Melbourne in the GF, we won’t win the flag if Frampton isn’t playing, particularly against Brisbane.
I’ll continue to remain consistent in this train of thought.
I don't think Billy is a lumbering, slow footballer. For his size he is quite mobile.But then there is the speed at which an action or reaction travels from brain to lower body parts, and Frampton's delayed movements could be captured on film and used as instructional videos to budding glaciers. At least Kreuger would have bounded and loped around a little to keep Andrews on his toes.
Lumbering isn’t the right term. He’s just slow to react sometimes, and doesn’t show a lot of initiative. Physically he’s fineI don't think Billy is a lumbering, slow footballer. For his size he is quite mobile.
Pretty sure TGG was referring to his reaction time and in-game instincts, not his mobility.I don't think Billy is a lumbering, slow footballer. For his size he is quite mobile.
Yep. That's his weapon. Numbers around the contest wins the contest more often than not and Lippa gets around the contest more often than any replacement would.Also provides that extra to stoppage and contest, and a link up chain through the middle, through transition.