Player Watch #29: Will Phillips - tags N.Daicos vs Collingwood - subbed off at 3/4 time??

[Themanbun]

Hell yeah brother

 

[RossHenshaw]

Phil... grab your chance, stand up, run

 

[Shermanator]

 

[Val Keating]

He will be playing. Which is great news for the young fellow.

Fantastic.

 

[gokangas]

Come on WiPhi - it's your time.

 

[choppy]

Reminds me when Cunners and Jack were being lambasted by this board .

Stick it up em Will

Will play every game for the rest of the year and will go onto to be a 300+ legend of North

 

[The acurate one]

He's playing ! Well I'll be ****ed didn't see that coming

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

I'll be filthy if he is sub.

The midfield mix isn't working at the moment, and we are putting too much workload into Wardlaw. Rotate more heavily and get Simpkin and Phillips in there.

Play Wardlaw in the forward pocket. Tell him is only job is to run like a border collie on cocaine and get 10 tackles inside 50.

Move Jy up the ball (like the name teams suggest) and play Will and Luke with Powell rotating off the HF line.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Might be a bit alarmist. Is it possible he’s working on very specific things in the VFL? Obviously Clarko is not infallible but every one complained about Dawson last year and then he came in and hasn’t looked back. Ford you could say similar: long VFL apprenticeship, comes in and at the level immediately.

Now Philips is a different proposition but I doubt he’s been written off. I think they are giving him every chance to actually hold his spot when he comes in. He needs to be fitter and blowing up in the third quarter doesn’t help a team that’s already shithouse.

Also: the season is five rounds old. We need to develop team cohesion, not just individual players.

That would work if the match selection hadn’t named a bunch of plodders with more holes in their game than Swiss cheese over the last five weeks.

 

[Passmore]

Might be a bit alarmist. Is it possible he’s working on very specific things in the VFL? Obviously Clarko is not infallible but every one complained about Dawson last year and then he came in and hasn’t looked back. Ford you could say similar: long VFL apprenticeship, comes in and at the level immediately.

Now Philips is a different proposition but I doubt he’s been written off. I think they are giving him every chance to actually hold his spot when he comes in. He needs to be fitter and blowing up in the third quarter doesn’t help a team that’s already shithouse.

Also: the season is five rounds old. We need to develop team cohesion, not just individual players.

Alarmist? Big Footy? Never.

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[LuvtheKangas]

Play Wardlaw in the forward pocket. Tell him is only job is to run like a border collie on cocaine and get 10 tackles inside 50.

Move Jy up the ball (like the name teams suggest) and play Will and Luke with Powell rotating off the HF line.

Wardlaw's not playing. He's being "managed". FWIW, I absolutely agree with that decision, it's a long season and the way he plays it's good to give him the occasional rest.

And I'm pumped about WilPhil. Really hope he maximises his chance.

 

[Caracas]

Ball is squarely in Will’s court now. Hopefully, he puts in the same effort as Laz - except with much more success.

 

[Caracas]

Wardlaw's not playing. He's being "managed". FWIW, I absolutely agree with that decision, it's a long season and the way he plays it's good to give him the occasional rest.

And I'm pumped about WilPhil. Really hope he maximises his chance.

Agree to a point. However, I’m sure George is feeling a bit peeved missing out on a game where we start with a fighting chance for a change. His only hope for a Gatorade shower…

 

[the rooboy]

Hope we play him in the guts and let him go to work we need him either get first hands or not allow his opponent to impact the stoppages. The Collingwood game last year I believe he was unbelievable.


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[My Left Foote]

From what I saw of Will over the preseason in the match sims he was always in the best players for the yellow team had some outstanding quarters and good games of football. Just needs to do that tomorrow.

 

[kool kangas]

Spoke to Will today and he said that having a full preseason last year and this year has helped him get his fitness back to a point where he feels he can only go forward and is looking to the rest of the year to try and hold his place in the side..

 

[LuvtheKangas]

I believe he was unbelievable.


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I'm struggling to get my head around this.

 

[Jesslc]

Is he the sub? (Do we think?)

 

[The Nostradamus]

Is he the sub? (Do we think?)

Laz should be the sub again

 

[Devil Fish]

It’s time for Will Phil to deliver. The excuses are gone.
Powell was in the same boat and has lifted. WP must do the same.

 

[Sillygit]

It’s time for Will Phil to deliver. The excuses are gone.
Powell was in the same boat and has lifted. WP must do the same.

Reasons, not excuses.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

It’s time for Will Phil to deliver. The excuses are gone.
Powell was in the same boat and has lifted. WP must do the same.

Maybe give him more than 1 game to see if he can still play at the level?

 

[Zondor]

Maybe give him more than 1 game to see if he can still play at the level?

Hang on a tick FSS. Phillips polled a Brownlow Vote in his last game at the elite level. :stern look

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Hang on a tick FSS. Phillips polled a Brownlow Vote in his last game at the elite level. :stern look

Again, more than all but 5 or so of his teammates did through the year.

 

[Kanga Glory]

get the knees dirty today and we go along way to winning