Preview Round 21, 2023: St.Kilda v Carlton - Marvel Stadium, Sunday 6th August, 3:20PM AEST

[Joffaboy]

All over signing off.
Don't know who will play, Max, Skunk and Hayes all completed the whole session.
We will see tonight.

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[beside the seaside]

All over signing off.
Don't know who will play, Max, Skunk and Hayes all completed the whole session.
We will see tonight.

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Thanks for the updates, much appreciated

 

[Ducky Tie]

Was there word on if Owens trained with the mids?

 

[CaptainRisky]

I reckon you could add Mason to that trio Watching Byrne's take off with ball in hand running past oppo players and drilling passes inside 50 is delicious, Hill motoring through the middle and aiming for a target I50 is poetry in motion...Hunter hunting the ball around the pack and sublimely either passing it off or nailing the goal whilst running off the square is exquisite. And all 3 hitting the Sharmanator on the lead lace out

You might need this

 

[TheNewEnsign]

Acres is named as a starting midfielder in there 22 , knowing our lucky we will turn him into a superstar

He has been really good this year on the wing, career best numbers all around. However I spat my drink a few weeks ago during one game when Richo said 'of all the Carlton players, he's the guy you want delivering inside 50'.

To be fair, he's helicoptering and kicking out on the full much less than he used to and some of his low penetrating short passes are really good; but his disposal by foot is still very much 'I wonder where this will go?'.

 

[SWSainter]

All over signing off.
Don't know who will play, Max, Skunk and Hayes all completed the whole session.
We will see tonight.

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Much appreciated, kept bashing refresh for 2+ hours. My employer is so unlucky...

 

[Ads734]

I feel we’ve pretty much got four elimination finals coming up. Perfect preparation for finals.

Reckon we need to win 2/4.

 

[Ads734]

He has been really good this year on the wing, career best numbers all around. However I spat my drink a few weeks ago during one game when Richo said 'of all the Carlton players, he's the guy you want delivering inside 50'.

To be fair, he's helicoptering and kicking out on the full much less than he used to and some of his low penetrating short passes are really good; but his disposal by foot is still very much 'I wonder where this will go?'.

I’m stoked for him. Was effed around development wise for years and has built a career.

 

[Winmar2Lockett]

All over signing off.
Don't know who will play, Max, Skunk and Hayes all completed the whole session.
We will see tonight.

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Thanks Joffa, nice work

 

[Joffaboy]

Was there word on if Owens trained with the mids?

Yes, was training with Steele,,Crouch and Byrnes to Roh.

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[Ads734]

Also after watching the replay again. Mason wood

32

Mason Wood

Age

31

Ht

192cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

CL

0.3

2star

D

8.3

2star

K

2.7

1star

HB

5.7

3star

M

1.7

2star

T

1.3

2star

CL

0.0

1star

D

15.8

4star

K

8.6

4star

HB

7.2

5star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.6

3star

is some player. I know he made some mistakes but he’s seriously an elite winger. Elite marking, running and contest skills. He bailed us out last week on multiple occasions.

 

[TheNewEnsign]

I’m stoked for him. Was effed around development wise for years and has built a career.

Yeah he was one of my favourite players for us, thought he could be a mid/fwd beast in the Fyfe mould and just thought we developed poorly as you said. Wish him all the best.

 

[stfan]

DMAC and Doogs on the far side playing kick to kick, Doogs not marking anything, ball being kicked to a trainer who hand it to Doogs

Can we do that when he plays too

 

[Jesuswasacarpenter]

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I will be there....bit inappropriate in public,
tho if my partner did it for me...I believe that's referred to as a PDA.

 

[Premium]

He has been really good this year on the wing, career best numbers all around. However I spat my drink a few weeks ago during one game when Richo said 'of all the Carlton players, he's the guy you want delivering inside 50'.

To be fair, he's helicoptering and kicking out on the full much less than he used to and some of his low penetrating short passes are really good; but his disposal by foot is still very much 'I wonder where this will go?'.

Carlton picked him up on a good contract too , 300k was what was said in the media , Acres was a player that could always find space and could open up play. No world beater but a very useful player.
No reason our midfield can't get on top of there midfield this game and it should set us up for a good showing.

 

[DougalHoward]

No good delist . So many I forgot Pou

Nice crowd todayView attachment 1764174

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Up in the stand away from the plebs I see Joff

 

[Tommy Wigs]

All over signing off.
Don't know who will play, Max, Skunk and Hayes all completed the whole session.
We will see tonight.

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Play them all and delist Wilkie. Midget.

 

[Minga]

There’s definitely a vibe building about this game, gonna be a big crowd, possibly game of the round given the top 8 ramifications, lots of green flags on our end…

 

[MordySaint]

No good delist . So many I forgot Pou

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Thanks for the updates mate, great work

 

[The Cobra]

Owens is a midfielder and has the upside to be anything , however settling into the position could take some time they why he has been thrown around.

Reckon ultimately he will be 50/50 forward/mid depending on where we need him most - think Petracca.

Windy - think Touk Miller (minus the squirrel grip!)

 

[Mavefromdelburn]

Hey all, just gonna add my write up of what I saw - looks like others mostly covered it but here's the notes I had:

-Early stuff was mostly ball movement drills, seperate 5v5 teams practising half back to inside 50 entry. Not much different here, skills were okay considering wind I reckon. Hunters hands were good, Owens was playing FF initially, then went into the guts.

Almost full team v team with an umpire:
-Initially I thought one team was clearly the 1s and the other the 2s but the shifted.
-Max in the 1s both times. Membrey was in the 2s for this.
-Seemed to my eye to be a couple of different play styles. The 1s would chip wider from kick in and play control down the wing. The other team would go more direct through the middle. I suppose just training both methods through.

Smaller team v team:
-Max initially on Wilkie briefly. Quickly switched and moved higher up the ground to a high HF almost wing position. Outlet kick to him from HB and delivered to running player. Then back to Wilkie at next stoppage. Liked to see this, think there's a lot of use and play generation if he gets on his bike more than normal. Maybe this shoulder injury forces that a bit more in the early stages. He looked.... a bit tentative to me. Maybe I was looking too hard.
-Sharman then played this same role, with Max staying deep.
-The entries i50 were very deep. All the way to the goal square, over opposition defenders who were pressing up at the kicker.
-Nas nice as always.
-Wood and Byrnes providing plenty of defensive run.
-Lots more calls here for "corridor". Seemed to be a big focus.

Proper team v team, all in:
-Hard to tell who will play from this, seemed a mix. Membrey, Stocker, Clarke, Pou, Webster, Hayes in orange, King, Hill in Blue. So maybe grain of salt type stuff? or just for balance of teams.
-Skills iffy as others have said, but it was very flipping windy.

-At the end King and Wilkie did one on ones sitting under a high ball, wrestle and compete for the mark. Here it looked like he was testing his shoulder as much as possible, and he actually seemed decently confident in it, especially compared to earlier in the sim stuff. I'd say he won 75% of the contests on Wilkie. Was reaching well, competing well. Hard to tell if he's confident internally, but it seemed okay to the eye.

-Hayes and Keeler 1v1 in the air. Keelers jump is something. Wow.

-Dougs doing some ball work one handed, and some light running.
-Ross doing some real high pace running. Looks like he wouldn't be that far away to my completely untrained eye.

That's about it for me.

As others have said, find it tough to pick who comes in. Lots of changing between "1s" and "2s" team.
If I were to guess, I'd say King and Hill perhaps.

Cheers.

 

[gringo2011]

This makes me nervous, Membrey was pretty bad earlier this year and from what people have said hasn’t exactly set the VFL alight. I hope they are both 100% and switched on cause we need contributions from everyone if we are to beat Carlton in their form.

In that Carlton game early in the year they were obsessed with him and he still nearly got hold of them. He's always played well against them, they fear him.

 

[gringo2011]

I feel we’ve pretty much got four elimination finals coming up. Perfect preparation for finals.

Not quite, only need one or two out of four. If we lose this we need to knock off Geelong, Richmond or Brisbane. Richmond and Carlton are the most winnable but Geelong aren't what they were either.

 

[gringo2011]

Acres is named as a starting midfielder in there 22 , knowing our lucky we will turn him into a superstar

he's been good this year, still prone to the odd weird decision but it makes him hard to play on. I think he had 36 disposals last time we played them or something.

 

[AirWinmar]

Clark isn’t a wingman, Wood would finish the trio.


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I actually reckon Clark is probably best suited to wing. His cruising speed is actually not too bad and in my view you can get away without having explosive pace on the wing.