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Danger Game.
Preview 2024 Round 01 Thursday March 7 v Melbourne 7:20 @ SCG
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3 fired up forwards in the VFL. I like it
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Reid is not competing for a forwards role , he is a tall utility that can go forward, back and pinch hit in the ruck and fit he's good at it
That sounds like the role of a 3rd tall forward. Someone who can play up the ground when needed to take that 'get out of jail' mark when the ball is coming out of our defence,, someone who can pinch hit in the ruck,, someone who can apply pressure around the ground,, and someone who can kick a goal (or two) per game. Someone who can do all this while there is still two tall forwards playing (and attacking) forward of the ball.
Unpopular,, but I reckon Logan and Amartey are the two most dangerous (capable of kicking goals) tall forwards. Reid will be competing with McLean as the 3rd tall for the 1st game.
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Will the Dees be able to field a team or is Round 0 the walkover round ?
Kingy said it best like he does every week.
Kingy said it best like he does every week.
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Rather fox play and Campbell sub if they are both picked on the 22.
Reid plays before amarty imo
Reid plays before amarty imo
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taking the mickey? Amartey is streets ahead of Reid. Reid needs 10 games to prove himself in the 2s.
Also can't agree with your first comment. Fox will likely be thrown forward if he's in the 22, no thankyou. Atleast Campbell is versatile.
I’d have to disagree.
Sam Reid is a premiership player & when fit in 2022 was one of our most important in the drive to the GF. Easy to forget how good he actually is.
Armatey has shown flashes of talent when given games in the AFL, but has nowhere near the Sam Reid CV as yet.
The only parallel: they’re both frustratingly injury prone.
Depends on the weather...
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So what's different to what i said ?
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Everywhere you go
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We will discuss that going forward
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People want to know , who we are
and where we come from.
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not for me.
Reid deserves 10 matches in the ressies for declaring himself fit to play in the granny.
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Seriously do you think that , what about the coach , the same one in 16 that played 4 f'd up players
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yeah, i do. A veteran like Reid who is injury prone. He would've known if he was fit or not. He put his hand up and said "im good to go". Selfish.
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Last person here to defend Sam Reid who has basically taken money year after year because he kicked a nice goal in 2012, but turn it up.
Players play sore and hurt all the time in sports. He would have done his treatments, done the testing and told the docs how he felt and given the feedback. He probably felt based on the feel and what he was doing for the testing and with physios that yeah I can play. So he probably thought he was genuinely capable of getting through.
Secondly he didn't pick the team, they put him through his paces and saw what he could do and picked him, If they didnt do that properly that is on the selectors.
I mean also where does it end, where is Luke Parkers 10 games in the reserves for being named in grand finals and never showing up?
FWIW, I don't know so I don't know.
What I do know is that it is terribly hard to pick our team. The burning questions at the selection table will be:
1. Do we play Hamling/Melican/Francis against a smaller Melbourne forward line or stick to using Blakey as the third tall back for this game?
I think we go with Blakey and using Fox as the sub.
2. How many of Campbell, McInerney, and Jordon can play in the same side when we are at full strength?
I think only two and it is between Jordon and Juzz.
3. Does Wicks play as a specialist pressure-forward or can a rotating mid do a good enough job?
I think we start the season with Wicks in the team but eventually we replace him with a combo of Adams/Gus/Gulden resting forward.
What I do know is that it is terribly hard to pick our team. The burning questions at the selection table will be:
1. Do we play Hamling/Melican/Francis against a smaller Melbourne forward line or stick to using Blakey as the third tall back for this game?
I think we go with Blakey and using Fox as the sub.
2. How many of Campbell, McInerney, and Jordon can play in the same side when we are at full strength?
I think only two and it is between Jordon and Juzz.
3. Does Wicks play as a specialist pressure-forward or can a rotating mid do a good enough job?
I think we start the season with Wicks in the team but eventually we replace him with a combo of Adams/Gus/Gulden resting forward.
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I 100% agree that they're the three main questions that I think lie ahead of round 1 selection, although I think we differ in terms of the answers haha
I think we went after Hamling (and also played Melican in last year's final) because we want another key defender. I don't think we want Blakey to be doing contested roles on tall forwards, and I don't really think we want Rampe to be doing it at this stage, either. It would have to be one of Melican or Hamling IMO.
I think that all of Campbell, McInerney and Jordon can play in the same side when we're at full strength but it would be reliant on someone else on a flank or something going out of the team. I think most likely Roberts misses out and McInerney rotates between half back and the wing while Campbell & Jordon are in the side.
I also think that Wicks (or Fox, whose been trialled in this role, though I didn't like what I saw of it in glimpses last year) will only be out of the team if any of those you mentioned - Adams, Sheldrick, Gulden or the other popular choice in Parker - can bring what Wicks/Fox brings in terms of pressure. Massive TBD on that one.
By all accounts Wicks has been having a cracker preseason making it as hard as possible to not pick him. Good game against GWS too, whereas Foxy apparently seemed "a bit lost" according to one poster.
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Yeah when I mentioned the other day how acts that create turnovers should be counted as score involvements, I was thinking specifically of Wicks, as I felt like there were about half a dozen times the turnovers he created led to scoring chances for us. Lo and behold I read today that we created 10 front half turnovers in the first term against GWS. Horse would've been absolutely frothing over that.
I agree that we will play Hamling/Melican 90% of the time but this Melbourne game might be an exception rather than the rule. Maybe not. FWIW, my "best team" currently looks like this:
Back 7: McCartin, Rampe, Blakey, Lloyd, Florent, Cunningham, Hamling
Mid 8: Grundy, Gulden, Rowbottom, Warner, Adams, Campbell, McInerney, Parker
Forward 7: McDonald, McLean, Amartey, Hayward, Wicks, Papley, Heeney
Sub/Unlucky: Fox, Jordon, Sheldrick, Roberts
BTW, I didn't include Parker as an option to replace Wicks as he can't bring the pressure. Parker will spend plenty of time forward but I think he will swap more with Heeney and play an offensive role.
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