Preview Changes/Preview – Round 15 vs. North

[Topkent]

And the point of that is exactly what..

 

[mrmonkey]

It's a weird season though. So even. Get on a roll for a few weeks and you're top 4. Drop a couple you shouldn't(like us, and you're 12th). While I now think the flag isn't a realistic possibility, finals are surely still a chance. With the form we're in who knows, but we should be winning 2 of the next 3 which should put us back in the 8 with 7 rounds to go.

I guess we have different view on 'season over'. To me it's top 4 and a genuine crack. I was pretty optimistic early in the season but now I'm actually quite concerned about our personnel, too many players starting to show their age and we aren't seeing the youth come through. I also think we've lost too many should wins this year to trust the team anymore. I would rather the team bite their losses and start giving other players ago instead of persisting with the same players.

 

[Crusty Demon]

I guess we have different view on 'season over'. To me it's top 4 and a genuine crack. I was pretty optimistic early in the season but now I'm actually quite concerned about our personnel, too many players starting to show their age and we aren't seeing the youth come through. I also think we've lost too many should wins this year to trust the team anymore. I would rather the team bite their losses and start giving other players ago instead of persisting with the same players.

Wasn't that long ago that we'd all froth at the prospect of making finals. I still think that should be any teams goal. Sure, I get why we should tank and go for a higher position on the draft board. And hey, it might turn out that way without trying, but I still think it's an achievement to play finals. We've missed finals for so long that being a part of it should always be the goal.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Pretty sure our recent record after byes has been garbage. Here is hoping for that trend to continue.

 

[Topkent]

never wanted a loss more than this

 

[Mikevk123]

B- McVee May Tomlinson
HB- Rivers Petty Bowey
C- Langdon Oliver Hunter
HF- ANB Brown Chandler
F- Jefferson Van Rooyen Fritsch
FOLL- Gawn Salem Viney
I/C- Windsor, McAdam, Sparrow, Woewodin
Sub- AMW

 

[jhong]

Guess which game is being televised on FTA next sat night ?

 

[Demon 16]

Wasn't that long ago that we'd all froth at the prospect of making finals. I still think that should be any teams goal. Sure, I get why we should tank and go for a higher position on the draft board. And hey, it might turn out that way without trying, but I still think it's an achievement to play finals. We've missed finals for so long that being a part of it should always be the goal.

Agreed.

And I know it’s proven practically impossible to win it from outside the 4, but once you’re in finals anything could happen on the day.

I’ll be pleased if we scrape into the 8 this year.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Agreed.

And I know it’s proven practically impossible to win it from outside the 4, but once you’re in finals anything could happen on the day.

I’ll be pleased if we scrape into the 8 this year.

Either tank and go for bottom 4 or try for finals. I fn hate that middle ground of 9th to 14th. Happy to play the kids to see what they have if we're deciding to go for a top 4 draft pick. Maybe there's a kid we have our eye on, like we did with Humphrey. If that's the case, then play the kids and let's see what they've got. But I'll be happy if we get into finals as well as quite frankly, I've seen too many finals series without us a part of it.

 

[Blackas87]

never wanted a loss more than this

More than the Tom Scully cup?

 

[Topkent]

More than the Tom Scully cup?

Yep. Any little wins now just prolong the inevitable cliff. I'd rather it hit us like a truck than continue circling the drain

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

More than the Tom Scully cup?

At least we have a competent guy making the picks this time. JT would have selected Martin, im convinced.

 

[Daemon]

Losing to West coast was really bad. Getting flogged by Freo sucked. But by crikey if we lose to North just burn it all down. That would be absolutely shambolic.

So saying all that I expect a 32 point loss coming up next week.

 

[Demon 16]

Either tank and go for bottom 4 or try for finals. I fn hate that middle ground of 9th to 14th. Happy to play the kids to see what they have if we're deciding to go for a top 4 draft pick. Maybe there's a kid we have our eye on, like we did with Humphrey. If that's the case, then play the kids and let's see what they've got. But I'll be happy if we get into finals as well as quite frankly, I've seen too many finals series without us a part of it.

Having lived through the tanking disaster, I definitely don’t want to see that again.

I’m all for trying to improve, noting that the way to improve might be by getting some games into kids etc.

It would be nice to get a high draft pick though that’s for sure - hopefully we can do something clever at the trade table.

There are a few good midfielders in that top 6 or so this year and we desperately need another quality young mid coming through.

Smillie, O’Sullivan, Smith, Draper and Moraes all look pretty good. There’s also a tall defender named Trainor who will go very high and he would be a good fit too.

 

[Fork n Hell]

the way we're going we won't have to tank, we're shithouse. i doubt we win many games for the rest of the year.

 

[Toump Ass]

I have no problem with tanking. If we'd picked Fyfe and Martin instead of Scully and Trenners absolutely no one would be sooking about it.

 

[PerfectFooty]

I have no problem with tanking. If we'd picked Fyfe and Martin instead of Scully and Trenners absolutely no one would be sooking about it.

I would, because idk about Fyfe but i feel for sure we would have butchered Martin's development the way the club was then

 

[Toump Ass]

I would, because idk about Fyfe but i feel for sure we would have butchered Martin's development the way the club was then

Absolutely. Pretty much everything we did sucked back then: development, list management, drafting, trading.
Tanking was the only right decision lmao.

 

[raven echo]

Genuine 50-50 game next week with our form and the way North have played the last couple.

 

[booshboy]

In fairness 7 other teams would kill to be in our position.

 

[Bluelegs]

In fairness 7 other teams would kill to be in our position.

I'd kill to be in Norths position. Best kid in the comp

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

In fairness 7 other teams would kill to be in our position.

This comes off as very jealous of the MFC. Don't support us then.

 

[Demon 16]

I have no problem with tanking. If we'd picked Fyfe and Martin instead of Scully and Trenners absolutely no one would be sooking about it.

Yeh but we didn’t.

Tanking doesn’t guarantee anything.

 

[The Dr]

Norf are incredible value at $5.50. Honestly think they deserve to be favourites


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[Crusty Demon]

Norf are incredible value at $5.50. Honestly think they deserve to be favourites


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I'll drop a $20 on them at that price. Ridiculous value