Strategy Changes & Pre-match Discussion - Round 19 vs. Port Adelaide, AO 22/07, 7:40pm

[Silky23]

If Butters plays, I expect him to play deep forward. Surely there’s zero chance he plays a full game in the guts.

Still better than most in that role.

 

[No SPIN]

If Butters plays, I expect him to play deep forward. Surely there’s zero chance he plays a full game in the guts.

Still better than most in that role.

Not sure about this - with his back to the goals, the twisting to take a shot, when he gets a ground ball, will make the injury worse.

 

[MyManLynch]

Wait, what?
I'm not supposed to play with my dodgy groin?

It’s fine…just complete the ice bath routine afterwards

 

[Kirby]

He should hit himself in the groin with a cold spoon

 

[Doc1763]

He should hit himself in the groin with a cold spoon

its overrated (apparently)

 

[JOELY]

Hope Butters gets a groin injection Micky McGuane style and can't kick the thing.

 

[Fat Jesus]

Hope Butters gets a groin injection Micky McGuane style and can't kick the thing.

Or hinders him in producing a father son future selection.

 

[neilk]

Hope Butters gets a groin injection Micky McGuane style and can't kick the thing.

What's he "kicking" the ball with?

 

[riddick78]

Butters groin is cooked. Dixons knee is cooked.

Genuine desperation if they're sending both of them out there Sat night.

You could smell the desperation last week, they were too concerned about the game with us, it lost them the game against Carlton.

McCreery is a weapon. Will not be dropped.

McCreery is a weapon, i'd just wish he'd hit the scoreboard a bit more.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

You could smell the desperation last week, they were too concerned about the game with us, it lost them the game against Carlton.

McCreery is a weapon, i'd just wish he'd hit the scoreboard a bit more.

I wish he'd get more possessions and feature in more passages of play. He started the year like he'd stepped up a level but hasn't sustained that level of performance.

 

[JuniorB]

Wait, what?
I'm not supposed to play with my dodgy groin?

A little sildenafil will fix it.

 

[LuckyLee]

Hope Butters gets a groin injection Micky McGuane style and can't kick the thing.

That was one of the funniest things I’ve seen on a footy field. Poor old Mick was air-swinging or dribbling it along the ground every time he tried to kick the pill. And getting more frustrated every time it happened.


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[swoop42]

I wonder if last weeks use of Mitchell and by extension Pendlebury as sub is a sign of things to come and we'll increasingly look to use the position of 23rd man as way to manage the load on our veterans or players carrying a niggle?

 

[unplugged]

I wonder if last weeks use of Mitchell and by extension Pendlebury as sub is a sign of things to come and we'll increasingly look to use the position of 23rd man as way to manage the load on our veterans or players carrying a niggle?

I think (at least with regards to subbing off) we'll only sub a veteran like Adams off if we have the game under control, like we did on the weekend against Fremantle.

If the game is close you sub your quietest off or do a complete tactical change (tall for a small etc)

 

[sr36]

I wonder if last weeks use of Mitchell and by extension Pendlebury as sub is a sign of things to come and we'll increasingly look to use the position of 23rd man as way to manage the load on our veterans or players carrying a niggle?

I think we're running with one more mid than we need in the 22, now that Nick is playing there.

 

[CaptainHowdy87]

Bruz said pre game on MMM that he has 'hyper mobile' shoulders. Essentially they can dislocate and relocate more easily than normal. This causes impingement but settles rather quickly as well. He's a genuine maniac though so i can't see it keeping him out of the side over the next few weeks. Once top 2 is sown up then he is someone you'd put on ice and give a decent freshen up heading into the first final.

If Bruzzy dislocates a shoulder he'll just pop it back in like Mel Gibson does in Lethal Weapon

 

[Zzorse]

If Bruzzy dislocates a shoulder he'll just pop it back in like Mel Gibson does in Lethal Weapon

Or, depending on the problem, the way Clint Eastwood does in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

I think we're running with one more mid than we need in the 22, now that Nick is playing there.

That’s it, last in first out - see ya Nick.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

That’s it, last in first out - see ya Nick.

Give him a run in the ruck.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Give him a run in the ruck.

It was the making of Tyler Brown’s career, why not?

 

[South of the Yarra]

Butters will melt

 

[PowerBaz]

You could smell the desperation last week, they were too concerned about the game with us, it lost them the game against Carlton.

McCreery is a weapon, i'd just wish he'd hit the scoreboard a bit more.

Not sure it’s desperation. A few of our players are cooked, I mean Dixon had a week or two off before the bye and seemingly going to be managed the whole way through.

Our form although we we’ve been winning seems to have been on a downward trend over the last month and the inevitable loss was coming, meanwhile Carlton’s form was getting better, maybe they placed resting players over trying to win 14 in a row. JHF didn’t do a full preseason and had surgery so nothing odd giving him a spell.

Not sure I can see us winning, just hope it’s a much better effort and closer game than last week.

 

[Harry O]

JDG missing from training again this morning
Illness apparently

 

[unplugged]

JDG missing from training again this morning
Illness apparently

Elliott missed all week last week, so won't be counting him out yet.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

JDG missing from training again this morning
Illness apparently

Good sign

Elliott was sick last week and kicked 4 goals

Put De Goey down for 35 and 3