Prediction Changes and pre match discussion vs Adelaide.

[Chump Change]

We averaged about six changes a game for the first eight weeks of the season.

The last few weeks we’ve been able to put close to the same 22 out there each week. Let’s see if a settled lineup helps things.

At this point we just don't have the cattle. Too many players either non-AFL grade or unfit. On top of that add lack of form, lack of confidence, and potential confusion of game plan (or so set in guarding grass that it's hard to adjust).

With the settle team I'd like to get some sort of feel for what game plan Simmo is going with. I just haven't really been able to decipher it yet and a settles team should start to develop a pattern. I would be ok if he just went to old school man on man in the short term just to teach the "guarding grass" out of them.

 

[WA footy mad]

So the eagles are looking towards the future by selecting the oldest team to play adelaide

 

[Chris_6678]

Surely Naish in as a wingman to compliment Gaff and then Clark to the midfield and Nelson out the team. He offers nothing as a wingman and not sure why we play him there?

 

[bzparkes]

So the eagles are looking towards the future by selecting the oldest team to play adelaide

Who replaces who in that team, other than Nelson?

 

[Chump Change]

So the eagles are looking towards the future by selecting the oldest team to play adelaide

The youth cupboard is bare. We just have to wait until AO, Chess, and new draftees are available. Bazzo and Williams will lay when they're ready. We want these guys to be dominant in the WAFL before they come in.

 

[Chump Change]

Who replaces who in that team, other than Nelson?

Even with Nelson, he's shit but you can only replace him with another shit player. I reckon Nelson is better than Naish at this point.

 

[Goroyals22]

Even with Nelson, he's shit but you can only replace him with another shit player. I reckon Nelson is better than Naish at this point.

Naish played his first 4 games this year better than Nelson has played almost his 100 games. Naish got screwed when we had to put credits in the bank Gaff back in the side.

 

[ziad]

The youth cupboard is bare. We just have to wait until AO, Chess, and new draftees are available. Bazzo and Williams will lay when they're ready. We want these guys to be dominant in the WAFL before they come in.

Sadly is the best available. Good young prospects are injured or transitioning to mens footy in the WAFL, and not ready for AFL.

 

[Bender_]

How much longer can Nelson be debated?

 

[Feeling Groovy]

How much longer can Nelson be debated?

 

[Altum Volantes]

Surely Naish in as a wingman to compliment Gaff and then Clark to the midfield and Nelson out the team. He offers nothing as a wingman and not sure why we play him there?

Naish burns the ball more than NeLsOn and that is saying something in itself…

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Naish or Nelson is like:

Or like certain politicians jumping up and down about welfare cheats when big business pays no taxes, or dumbarse yanks blaming everything except guns for mass shootings.

Totally irrelevant to the situation we're in but for some reason becomes a massive focus. Makes me wonder if the posters who bring up Nelson ad nauseam are actually the West Coast strength and conditioning team, or Nizzy, or something else that's an actual issue

 

[greatwhiteshark]

When he rushed Yeo and Shuey in earlier in the year Simmo grandly defended those selections saying you simply have to play them.
What has changed his mind? why has he not just put Sheed and Yeo straight back in?

Changes his mind weekly

 

[Altum Volantes]

When he rushed Yeo and Shuey in earlier in the year Simmo grandly defended those selections saying you simply have to play them.
What has changed his mind? why has he not just put Sheed and Yeo straight back in?

Changes his mind weekly

…or adjusts his opinion based on previous experience?

What else is he meant to do?

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

When he rushed Yeo and Shuey in earlier in the year Simmo grandly defended those selections saying you simply have to play them.
What has changed his mind? why has he not just put Sheed and Yeo straight back in?

Changes his mind weekly

It was a mistake.

I would have thought realizing something was a mistake and doing things differently the next time would be a good thing.

 

[WCErevival]

Maybe their fitness was better then too.

 

[dajesmac]

When he rushed Yeo and Shuey in earlier in the year Simmo grandly defended those selections saying you simply have to play them.
What has changed his mind? why has he not just put Sheed and Yeo straight back in?

Changes his mind weekly

Season was still to play for at the time.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

…or adjusts his opinion based on previous experience?

What else is he meant to do?

Yeah this.

I saw it a lot during covid too, people being criticised because their position on certain things shifted (borders, restrictions), despite the situation we were dealing with changing too (vaccinations, different strains).

Anyone seriously think that rushing players back was a good idea? Why criticise the club for coming to the same conclusion?

"No Simmo, you keep rushing players back even as they keep breaking down you silly kent, because that's what you did before".

 

[Chad in Vegas]

Oh yeah way too early to say what level he'll reach, but he definitely will be a good player for a long time.

Evasiveness, good side step, throws himself into contests even though he's a twig, good skills, especially in traffic, good vision.

Arguably his worst moment in the game wasn't even his fault. An ump blocked his path into the corridor so he tried to hit up Duggan on the boundary but Duggan slipped and it went out of play.

Looked like poor skills in real time but on the replay not his fault.

His vision was the big take-away for me from his last game. Seemed to have great peripheral vision/awareness and took options other than bombing away even when under pressure.

 

[WestCoast05]

I think we may just all need to realise with Team Selections and even player positioning that we're gunning for WarLord at season's end.
Gov, Barrass, HEdwards, Hurn, Witherden in the same backline? It couldn't be more obvious.

And I'm all for it. One season of brutal pain to pick up the remainder of our future midfield (after Chesser last season) - would rather a sharp spike down and then next season start to get games into the future midfield than a protracted period of mediocrity.

Quite genius really, I don't think we planned it but after a few weeks when we realised where we were actually at we certainly are taking advantage of it to the fullest!

 

[GlennTwenty]

Surely Naish in as a wingman to compliment Gaff and then Clark to the midfield and Nelson out the team. He offers nothing as a wingman and not sure why we play him there?

I know Nelson is noitionally named on a wing but he played as a half back for the nearly the whole game last week. He was also our equal 3rd highest possession getter last week.

 

[Chris_6678]

I know Nelson is noitionally named on a wing but he played as a half back for the nearly the whole game last week. He was also our equal 3rd highest possession getter last week.

Swear after each goal he lined up on the wing..

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

He moved around a bit, was on the wing at times, went into the middle (might have been tagging Bont?) and switched with Duggan into defence.

 

[GlennTwenty]

Swear after each goal he lined up on the wing..

Promise you he didn't - it was mostly Gaff / Clark / Duggan on the wings. Nelson was nearly always in D50 and you could also see Nelson with the backs in the half time footage. #notobsessedjustafan

 

[Westend]

Good to see another game pumped into nelson and waterman ...what's that now 97 games for Nelson and 63 for waterman

Really great to see these two in there prime and dominating for west coast ..................