Possible Changes v Essendon
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Possible Changes v Essendon
In:King Out: McEvoy or no change.
Raph,Max ,Goose and Armo all pressing hard but no-one deserves to be dropped at this stage.
Geary perhaps the most vulnerable.
Thoughts?
Raph,Max ,Goose and Armo all pressing hard but no-one deserves to be dropped at this stage.
Geary perhaps the most vulnerable.
Thoughts?
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Re: Possible Changes v Essendon
saint patrick wrote:In:King Out: McEvoy or no change.
Raph,Max ,Goose and Armo all pressing hard but no-one deserves to be dropped at this stage.
Geary perhaps the most vulnerable.
Thoughts?
i think you're right. no change.
geary's going to be a player though.
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Eddy missed as he was crook prior to the game (I think I heard someone in the crowd say gastro?) rather than the matchup change I originally thought it was...but I agree. Maybe Armo can have a turn, Goose needs every minute on the park we can give him.Eastern wrote:Both Eddy & Raph missed last week (?emergencies). I'd like to think that they will BOTH play somewhere this week !!saint66au wrote:No change
Emergencies: Eddy, Raph, Goose/Armo
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interesting one, isn't it.Eastern wrote:both Eddy & Raph missed last week (?emergencies). I'd like to think that they will BOTH play somewhere this week !!
on the one hand it makes a nonsense of having match fit and hardened players to come in the following week if these guys are getting stale sitting in the stands.
on the other, what if an emergency is genuinely needed?
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It wouldn't surprise me if there was something about this written into the alignment contract !!bigcarl wrote:interesting one, isn't it.Eastern wrote:both Eddy & Raph missed last week (?emergencies). I'd like to think that they will BOTH play somewhere this week !!
on the one hand it makes a nonsense of having match fit and hardened players to come in the following week and these guys are getting stale in the stands.
on the other, what if an emergency is genuinely needed?
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In: Maguire, R Clarke
Out: McEvoy, Geary
Gardiner good enough now for 75 - 80% ruck time. Blake can releive with Maguire playing a swing-man.
Give King a couple VFL games (last time it got him 2x premierships).
R Clarke is a best 18 player and one of our back 6 for finals. He has done his dues in the VFL. Geary has fallen back a little from his early games. Appears to lack a little freshness that can be associated with players in their first seasons of AFL. His decision making has dropped and he is not burtsing through like in the early rounds.
I would like to see our team something like below around rd 13 - this is contingient on those reurning proving their worth more than the current contributions of the incumbents:
B: Hughton Dawson Gilbert
HB: SFisher Maguire R Clarke
C: Montagna Ball Dal Santo
HF: McQualter Riewoldt Goddard
F: Milne Koschitzke Schneider
R: Gardiner Hayes Jones
Int: Baker King Blake Ray
Emg: McEvoy Eddy Gwilt
Out: McEvoy, Geary
Gardiner good enough now for 75 - 80% ruck time. Blake can releive with Maguire playing a swing-man.
Give King a couple VFL games (last time it got him 2x premierships).
R Clarke is a best 18 player and one of our back 6 for finals. He has done his dues in the VFL. Geary has fallen back a little from his early games. Appears to lack a little freshness that can be associated with players in their first seasons of AFL. His decision making has dropped and he is not burtsing through like in the early rounds.
I would like to see our team something like below around rd 13 - this is contingient on those reurning proving their worth more than the current contributions of the incumbents:
B: Hughton Dawson Gilbert
HB: SFisher Maguire R Clarke
C: Montagna Ball Dal Santo
HF: McQualter Riewoldt Goddard
F: Milne Koschitzke Schneider
R: Gardiner Hayes Jones
Int: Baker King Blake Ray
Emg: McEvoy Eddy Gwilt
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Some comments on your team awesome_days....
- We have the best defensive record for the past 50 years, and you want to change change 2 of our back 6!!!! I don't think so!
- Maguire has proved nothing to me that he still has the speed and skill to fit with Ross's 2009 game plan.... don't be fooled by a few goals in a 2nd rate feeder competition that is the VFL
- Geary not in your best 25, having fallen behind the likes of Eddy, Gwilt and Raph Clarke.... hmm I think you misjudge how good this kid is going to be (and how good he already is)
Apart from that, nice work!!![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
- We have the best defensive record for the past 50 years, and you want to change change 2 of our back 6!!!! I don't think so!
- Maguire has proved nothing to me that he still has the speed and skill to fit with Ross's 2009 game plan.... don't be fooled by a few goals in a 2nd rate feeder competition that is the VFL
- Geary not in your best 25, having fallen behind the likes of Eddy, Gwilt and Raph Clarke.... hmm I think you misjudge how good this kid is going to be (and how good he already is)
Apart from that, nice work!!
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RL has already said KIng not this week in the press.
No Change.
Maguire - played 5 or 6 reserves games and getting somewhere but really only 1bog for his team in what is a pretty ordinary standard of footy ( relative to AFL). Injuries aside do not consider him until after mod season.
Why no love for Geary? Was quite impressed by what he did the other night. A few errors but they were made trying to take risks etc.
No Change.
Maguire - played 5 or 6 reserves games and getting somewhere but really only 1bog for his team in what is a pretty ordinary standard of footy ( relative to AFL). Injuries aside do not consider him until after mod season.
Why no love for Geary? Was quite impressed by what he did the other night. A few errors but they were made trying to take risks etc.
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I think Ross & crew were just being kind saying Eddy was crook - reckon it was trying to expose the filth with an extra tall. (and a good opportunity for Ben)saint66au wrote:Eddy missed as he was crook prior to the game (I think I heard someone in the crowd say gastro?) rather than the matchup change I originally thought it was...but I agree. Maybe Armo can have a turn, Goose needs every minute on the park we can give him.Eastern wrote:Both Eddy & Raph missed last week (?emergencies). I'd like to think that they will BOTH play somewhere this week !!saint66au wrote:No change
Emergencies: Eddy, Raph, Goose/Armo
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Had a career-high 26 disposals against the Pies. Is now a regular in the team. Would have to have a string of poor performances to lose his place I would think.howlinwolf wrote:Geary's workrate has been very high with great tackling pressure. Our game this year has been based on that exactly.
The kid is keen as mustard to impress.
Successful teams are usually full of hungry players and he is hungry.
We should not consider dropping him imo
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that would mean kosi spending some time in the ruck and that we'd have only riewoldt as a key forward (which i'm wary of).Bernard Shakey wrote:Eddy will be back this week and Mac will give Sandy a lift. No need for extra talls this week, we need pace and pressure, Mac gives neither of these.
ross said in his post-match press conference the club's preferred structure is two ruckmen and two key forwards. so in that sense, what we had on the weekend was not extra talls at all. it was the normal number of talls.
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Personally I can't see us going in with one ruckman... the structure was beautiful with Kosi able to stay deep forward.
Im constantly stunned that Geary is mentioned as a possible out. The kid is going very well & developing nicely.
Let the guys knocking on the door keep knocking until we really need them. There are bound to be opportunities eventually but dropping guys for the sake of bringing blokes in is foolhardy.
No change.
Im constantly stunned that Geary is mentioned as a possible out. The kid is going very well & developing nicely.
Let the guys knocking on the door keep knocking until we really need them. There are bound to be opportunities eventually but dropping guys for the sake of bringing blokes in is foolhardy.
No change.