Team v Crows

[King Max]

IN
Riley Bonner, Zak Jones
OUT
Bradley Hill (Personal Reason), Marcus Windhager (Injured)

[Beno88]

First game Bonner misses, our best performance of the year.

Response : Bonner straight back in.

The mind boggles.

[WellardSaint]

Brad Hill out for birth of second child.
Bonner had to come back, I suppose.
Plays a role for RTB

[Rubyjo]

Brad Hills wife having a baby I believe.

[1971]

Jones in for the betterment of the future I suppose. What about Garcia?

[B.M]

Meh

[darylcowie]

Thank goodness, I wondered why Hill pulled out of contests and lacked spatial awareness.
It seems that his mind was on other things!
Absolute last chance for Jones, but I think his cards have been played already.

[Saintmatt]

Really shithouse ‘ins’.

At the very least - Hugo for Windy.

Bonner’s really not worth commenting on but fkn Jones though - I just don’t get the point of that.

[Scollop]

First game Bonner misses, our best performance of the year.

Response : Bonner straight back in.

The mind boggles.

The coaching group and all the team have improved as a collective

The performance against Sydney was our team improvement on display and not because King or Bonner weren't playing.

I think the scapegoating of a single player is unjustified. It's wrong to blame losses on 1 or 2 individuals

He's been playing better than Brad this year in my opinion.

If you check player ratings for Hill vs Bonner their stats are quite similar

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_ ... 2=S&type=A

[skeptic]

Tend to agree with most… disappointed with the selections. I’m not as down on Bonner as most, but he’s hardly a walk-in inclusion for me. Paton and Jones to me should be on the way out. I’d have been happier with Hugo and Stocker

[B.M]

They play different positions

Bonner plays HB and Hill plays wing/hhf

If I were to be reincarnated- I’d want it to be as an AFL half back

[King Max]

Bonner will be handy if they get lost on the way to the ground.

[Killa]

Jones was an Emergency last week, along with Hall and Campbell

And, from the write up of the AFL Coach, he performed well for Sandringham last weekend (again)

He brings pace and aggression noting that his best is definitely good enough

Bonner has been selected for every game until last weekend when he was a late withdrawal with injury

Lyon has said we pick a side to win each and every week

Hill will be badly missed both offensively and defensively - he is a highly skilled player and central to the team performance

And I agree that it is team performance which delivers results

Adelaide Oval has narrow wings plus numbers among one of the longer grounds so there will be some adjustments from playing at Docklands

[Scollop]

Bonner will be handy if they get lost on the way to the ground.

Harsh.

He's from Adelaide

[Yorkeys]

Bonner will be handy if they get lost on the way to the ground.

Impossible to get lost in Adelaide.

[HardSaint]

Paton, Bonner and Jones

Pretty much playing for their careers - the kids can wait for a week

Lets see what they've got

[B.M]

Don’t we know what they’ve got

They are 29, 27, 25yo

[HardSaint]

do they know what they've got?

lets see what they've got left

[skeptic]

Don’t we know what they’ve got

They are 29, 27, 25yo

Agreed. I’d keep Bonner on the list but the other 2 should be cut

[Vortex]

Sometimes when clubs are out of finals contention they select players to either discharge contract obligations that work in the interests of the club and/or are fattening the player up for market.

Do we have any players in that category at the moment, I’m thinking specifically does Zac have a future beyond this season at another club? Or is he cooked?

Or is it just a case of being forced to play Zac because Windy has gone out and we just don’t have any of the younger players ready for AFL yet and Ross is picking teams to win?

[B.M]

Seb Ross was BOG in the twos

Garcia has been very good in the twos

[SaintPav]

I didn’t think Ross liked farewell games.

[older saint]

I guess it is a bit of a like for like type with Hill and Jones , as outside runners
Bonner is the Zac Dawson of this RL generation.
Champion data says he is above average in most areas ( including tackles which is amazing) . It should be noted kicks over 40 m do not rate as turnovers when they go to the opposition so makes the stats a little better than reality.

Can say Garcia is stiff but perhaps he isn't doing yet what is needed at AFL level and needs to "work on his craft" in the 2s like Pou?

or perhaps the inclusions shows he is tanking ...hahahaha

[Beno88]

First game Bonner misses, our best performance of the year.

Response : Bonner straight back in.

The mind boggles.

The coaching group and all the team have improved as a collective

The performance against Sydney was our team improvement on display and not because King or Bonner weren't playing.

I think the scapegoating of a single player is unjustified. It's wrong to blame losses on 1 or 2 individuals

He's been playing better than Brad this year in my opinion.

If you check player ratings for Hill vs Bonner their stats are quite similar

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_ ... 2=S&type=A

You've taken a lot from a short comment. I never mentioned King.

I'm all for stats, but they can't always be trusted. To suggest Hill and Bonner are on par as footballers is laughable.

I know who Adelaide would rather be playing against.

[sks023]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.." Mark Twain said that

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours," I said that