Unofficial Preview Changes & Pre-match Discussion - Round 3 vs. Geelong. Sat 02/04, 7:25pm MCG

[JB007]

i think geelong will eat him alive. hes ok against weaker opponents but i think their pressure on the defender will expose him. im not about the last game im about who is best for the next one.

He will devour Stengle re.

He was very good today…….and he isn’t my favourite player.

 

[Good Horse]

He will devour Stengle re.

He was very good today…….and he isn’t my favourite player.

I hope your optimism is well placed.

If he gives Stengle a bath I will be happy as a pony with a rocket launcher re

(\,,/)

 

[sr36]

Essendon coughed it up coming out of defence thanks to the pressure put on by the Cats, often poor kicking under pressure enabling a cats player to come in and mark across the front or spoil when the Dons thought they were free and clear.

I'd argue that you don't try to beat Geelongs strength and pressure with size. You try to beat it with pace and quick ball movement. Noble is one of the very best runners in the league and in the more direct game plan, he's moving it really quickly. Plus you can't drop a player who is excelling - you've got to give him the opportunity to overcome something that you are concerned about.

 

[iGNITER]

INS: Maynard, Cameron
OUTS: Krueger (inj), Brown

B - Quaynor Howe Maynard
HB - Crisp Moore Pendlebury
C - J.Daicos DeGoey N.Daicos
HF - WHE Cameron Sidebottom
F - Elliott Mihochek McCreery
R - Grundy Adams Lipinski
INT - Henry Ginnivan Madgen Noble

 

[KillerMagpies]

Has Johnson even played a VFL game? I’m hopeful he will be handy, but I think he’s a fair ways off.

Yeah. Great point. Though, we need that extra med that plays tall and who is a natural forward. For me, Johnson is the man. Played SANFL seniors as a forward that was a live wire. We need somebody that at least can threaten to kick a couple of goals and not allow the Cats defenders to zone off. Last year we played bloody Madge in the forward line as a tagger to stop Stewart from running around, doing whatever he wanted.

 

[KillerMagpies]

Oh ok.

I went to the Cats v Dons match with mates and two things particularly apparent were

Geelong looked physically much bigger and intimidated the bombers right round the ground.

Essendon coughed it up coming out of defence thanks to the pressure put on by the Cats, often poor kicking under pressure enabling a cats player to come in and mark across the front or spoil when the Dons thought they were free and clear.

I'll be the first to admit I just don't rate Noble and he's one I would always only play as depth, so I am sure Im a little biased, but I do think he is not suited to the game we are about to play. I doubt the match committee or most supporters agree with me and that's cool.

I agree!

 

[magpies42]

But early to jump, when you don’t know how the vfl has performed.

Maynard obviously straight back in, I’d prefer Cameron over Cox for Krueger.

Wouldn’t be against giving one of the kids a spell to give another one a go depending on whether they’ve earn it.

 

[Deleted member 133504]

First Geelong game with my baby daughter around. Surrounded by feral Geelong fans down here in the pivotonian wildnerness, and she already has a cats onesie. Please god of kek, Mr McLaughlin, rig this game so that my daughter can be nauseated away from being a Geelong nuffie, and barrack for the black and white!

 

[jmac70]

First Geelong game with my baby daughter around. Surrounded by feral Geelong fans down here in the pivotonian wildnerness, and she already has a cats onesie. Please god of kek, Mr McLaughlin, rig this game so that my daughter can be nauseated away from being a Geelong nuffie, and barrack for the black and white!

The pivotonian wilderness is a difficult place for a magpie.
Truly hope your daughter follows the black and white path.

Geelong are a god awful pack of A holes who should be shot straight into the sun.

 

[Deleted member 133504]

The pivotonian wilderness is a difficult place for a magpie.
Truly hope your daughter follows the black and white path.

Geelong are a god awful pack of A holes who should be shot straight into the sun.

Been down here since COVID started. Massive error. I have asked every one of them why they hate on pies fans, and not one has ever given me a good answer. They give me a filthy look when I point out they are all brainwashed

The best thing for Saturday night is reading the advertiser Sunday seeing us flog the cats. Add that to shops being absolutely deserted.

What do you reckon would be better than that? Flogging the blues when we play them, when they are top of the ladder? Payback for 2012

 

[grayza2018]

In. Maynard
Out. Kreuger (inj) T.Brown

B. Maynard Madgen Quaynor
HB. Howe Moore Pendlebury
C. Sidebottom Crisp J.Daicos
HF. Elliott Mihocek Lipinski
F. McCreery Cameron Ginnivan
R. Grundy Adams De Goey
I. Noble N.Daicos Henry Hoskin-Elliott
E. Macrae (sub) Bianco T.Brown Cox

Not sure if we'd go with the height as sub again, as Fly mentioned in the presser for today's game. Will try watch the VFL tomorrow and adjust accordingly here, would love a big game from Macrae though

 

[Jen2310]

Probably just

In: Maynard
Out: Brown

In: Cameron
Out: Kreuger (inj)

 

[CaptainHowdy87]

You have a good imagination if you think Stanley has done well on Grundy

Well.... he has. Sorry

 

[Chrispiesssss]

With the VFL to play today there’s a couple of spots up for grabs.

Out: Madgen, Kreuger, Cameron, T.Brown

In: Maynard, Cox (my preference).

The 2 other spots (sub & inside mid) should be from the best players this week.

Also a note, although WHE played okay, we should keep an eye out on him. He needs to be playing on his limit each week. The numbers he produces could be replicated by a younger player. That’s how we evolve.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Let’s see if I can go 2/2

Out: Kreuger (inj), Brown (omitted)
In: Maynard, Cox or Cameron

I say or only because I don’t know if Cox is over his ankle yet. McRae didn’t seem sure in the presser either.

So if Cox isn’t physically ready, it’ll be Cameron. If he is, then Cox comes in

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Who’s going to second and ruck and play key forward?

After yesterday, I would select Cameron. Did well when he came on.

 

[legendstatus]

For me it’s starts in the middle v Pussies. Limit their use and it doesn’t matter if we have weaknesses like Noble & Madge down back

Start with Adams, JDG & Maynard in the middle and ravage them!

“ the Bull ring “


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[TheGreatGrundy]

Didn't Kreuger dislocate his shoulder? No way he plays next week.

Not really sure what the point of Tyler Brown playing is? Just floats around and gets 1 or 2 useless handballs every quarter.

In: Maynard Cox

Out: Kreuger Brown

Whatever his injury, in his press conference McCrae was resigned to him not playing next week.

 

[Ulahoopski]

f*n lol Noble was one of our best today

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

For me it’s starts in the middle v Pussies. Limit their use and it doesn’t matter if we have weaknesses like Noble & Madge down back

Start with Adams, JDG & Maynard in the middle and ravage them!

“ the Bull ring “


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Why call Noble a 'weakness'? He has played well both weeks. Madgen on the other hand ....

 

[Mick F]

Why call Noble a 'weakness'? He has played well both weeks. Madgen on the other hand ....

Needed Roughead for Geelong.

 

[unplugged]

Interestingly enough there was a game Round 7, 2020 when Bucks in the pre-game said we'd look to exploit them for pace. At the time I thought it was a bit of a stretch because I didn't see us as a particularly fast team, so it was probably more about how slow Geelong are by foot than saying anything about us.

We went on to beat them that day (granted it was in a weird covid year with short quarters, in a season where although Geelong made the grand final, we also made a semi) and made them look particularly slow.

Even though they're still probably a good side (to be determined), that's what Sydney did to them. But by the same token if you don't bring the pressure, they'll do to you what they did to Essendon.

Out current game plan gives us a good chance to sneak one here, but AGAIN I have to try keep my expectations low

 

[Chrispiesssss]

Darcy Moore

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Darcy Moore

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28

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203cm

Wt

100kg

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11.1

3star

K

7.0

3star

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4.1

3star

M

4.8

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1.6

4star

MG

169.1

3star

D

13.9

3star

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7.3

3star

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6.6

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

0.7

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MG

182.0

3star

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6.8

2star

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4.2

2star

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2.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

87.4

2star

on Cameron. Who’s going to play on Hawkins?

 

[stormskye]

Darcy Moore on Cameron. Who’s going to play on Hawkins?

Maynard can take Cameron, he’s not a contested marking beast like Hawkins. I’d like to think Moore and Howe can cover Hawkins. Playing off him as is their stength. Nobody can man up Hawkins that we have available, but Howe or Moore are excellent third men up. It’s really going to be won in the midfield

 

[well left]

Moore has to go to Hawkins. I’m comfortable with either Howe or Maynard on Cameron.

I think we’ll go just the two changes with Maynard for Brown and one of Cox/Cameron in if Kreuger doesn’t come up.


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