Worrell hasn't even played a game this season coming off multiple hamstring issues and a late out from the SANFL you can't seriously be suggesting he's ready for the heat of an AFL Game against the rampaging pies.
I'd love to get Worrell in just dont see it happening after so many weeks out on the shelf. Probably going to need a couple weeks in SANFL.
Cook may be ok as a sub, doesn't seem to stay involved for full matches but perhaps coming on just to try get involved later in a match would be ok? I think realistically they'll stick with Schoenberg.
This was a massive issue we had under Don Pyke.agree
Coaches don’t look at form on a one game baseline, they would review form in 3-4 week blocks
Sig was horrible against Carlton but has been very good in all other games
If coaches drop players after one howler all players would be playing nervous footy, we don’t want that
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Reeves has played 23 games. ROB 83.
Didn’t realise he had reinjured himself and clearly didn’t check SANFL stats / game so ignore that ill informed suggestion of mine. If he was indeed fit, he may have been a decent replacement under the circumstances.
4.10pm start on a Sunday really doesn't help though
This is a MAJOR issue. And thank you for raising it. Our crowds have been in structural decline in recent years. Look at averages since AO and I can’t imagine we got many games under 40k there 7-8 years ago which have become more common the last year or 2. We are in the unfortunate position of having been “fully sold out with waiting lists for years“ to become a member from 1991 to perhaps a decade ago and therefore many of the younger demographic who weren’t aligned started following Port Power in this extended period. A cursory glance at any TV angle shows a significantly younger - and admittedly less attractive / higher bogan component - crowd at their games. I would expect their lower socioeconomic group (a previous Herald Sun survey showed Poort Power fans had lowest average incomes in the league, most amount of missing teeth and one other stat I fail to recall right now but I imagine it was possibly the lowest level of educational attainment perhaps being year 10 average? — this isnt taking the pi$$ either as was a real article with perhaps only the last point embellished). So a lower socioeconomic group on lower incomes buying cheaper/more limited memberships. macro changes for the economy (higher IR, rents) will very likely impact the discretionary expenditure (AFL spend) of Powers demographic much more than our own with a higher % of boomer wealth as our members. Bl00dy boomers…haha)
Agree totally. Getting caught htb on the wing in the last shows his sleepy lack of awareness. McHenry seems to have impact only when the Crows are dominating.
Enjoyed your 4-scenario speculation, but EH for Thilthorpe? I would be perplexed. No thanks.
You do want "that sort" of player to come in as the sub. You really want to put them on wiht 8 mins left in the 3rd quarter when they are fresh, put them in the mids, and get that extra burst of energy.
If the Dees win tonight we are 5th...thus "potential"
Shoey>Ned
Time slot is awful..but I guess what you lose by it being a late Sunday game you gain by local / amateur sport not being on? Also is it still school holidays? If we can get 47k on a Thursday night, I really hope we can return to the '17 glory days and have a crowd befitting the footy we have been playing...
I don't think Nicks has much choice but to play young players even after a bad game as we shipped off most of our experience and the experience that isn't being played isn't AFL standard anymore(crouch). Whether Nicks would be any different from Pyle is debatable if he had the same list. The experience in the team is performing and Nick's has shown a willingness to replace a underperforming young player with another young player which is good.
Ridiculous question to be asking, unless you have an agenda.
The club's probably waiting for Keane to get some good games in before we have the luxury of dropping / resting Butts. Keane didn't appear to get a lot of it in the SANFL, so he's a few weeks away yet, one would think.
Most? Michalanney. Future AA and 200-gamer for us. Hard to believe his skills/composure for his age and only 6 games played.
agree
