Preview Changes: R2 vs Collingwood - Saturday March 26, 1.15pm ACDT

[Scorpus]

Official changes for this week's match, beginning Saturday March 26, 1.45pm (1.15pm Adelaide time) at the MCG

IN: Gollant, Pedlar, Cook, Sholl

OUT: Thilthorpe, McPherson, Milera, Soligo

 

[Slippery Pete]

See!

I see I’ve started this trend of people quoting how right they were, and I’ve gotta say, I’m finding it very unsavoury.

 

[beartoo]

you have to love crows Facebook supporters especially the elderly ones, if you even bring up captain courageous in a bad light they start swearing at ya, I think I’ll stick to bigfooty.

How do you know they're elderly? Do they put their age in their posts. Might be 12 yo for all you know.

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[Kane McGoodwin]

With half our team catching covid only a month ago, it's likely many are still a little lethargic.

Was Sloane one of these, given he had to isolate at home for 2 weeks... or is he past it? Will be interesting to see if they appeal his suspension as didn't look to be much in it.

If they don't...

B: Brown, Butts, Doedee
HB: Smith, Murray, Dawson
C: Sholl, Crouch, Hinge
HF: McHenry, Fogarty, Rowe
F: Gollant, Thilthorpe, Rachele
R: O'Brien, Keays, Schoenberg
I: Jones, Pedlar, Milera, Cook
Sub: Soligo

Ins - Outs
Sholl - McPherson (inj)
Gollant - Himmelberg
Pedlar - Sloane (susp)
Soligo - Cook

Same as above but Sloane stays in for Cook.

Give Laird another week to make sure he is ok.

 

[Geoffa32]

Good result.

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[Interloperer]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-tribunal-round-1-adelaide-to-appeal-rory-sloane-ban/news-story/cff55c9407408d7cb0ceaad04b1ad9d5

Sunday’s incident — on Docker Blake Acres in the first quarter — was assessed as intentional conduct, low impact and high contact.

Sloane, who had surgery on a detached retina last year and had previous eye procedures, said: “I’m very aware of what even just a little scratch in the eye can do, even just a poke. There’s no way I’d go after anyone’s eye because I’m very aware of the damage it can cause”.

“I was super close to being finished in football and close to losing my eyesight so there’s no way I’d go near anyone’s eye,” Sloane told the tribunal.

Adelaide skipper Rory Sloane says he was unaware he made contact to Blake Acres’ eye when he was “scrapping for the ball”.

Sloane said he knew his hand was resting on the Fremantle midfielder’s forehead but not near the eye during the first-quarter incident.

Trying to argue it was careless rather than intentional, Sloane told the tribunal that Acres’s head landed in his bicep and he was trying to get up and push off his elbow to get the football.

The tribunal agreed the eye region was not simply the eye but also the eyebrow and upper cheekbone.

Adelaide’s legal counsel, Tom Duggan QC, said the only digit near the eye was Sloane’s pinky, the thumb was in Acres’s hair and the index was close to the Docker’s hairline.

Duggan suggested Sloane did not adjust his finger and the crook of the arm was already in that position, indicating it was a careless act, not a deliberate one.

“He has no ability of his own motion to gouge or move the hand,” Duggan said.

Duggan also showed viaion of Fremantle’s Andrew Brayshaw lifting Sloane up, which he said had a large bearing on any contact to the eye.

Acres did not require any further treatment and will not miss this week’s game.

This describes no actual offense. Yet the "careless" claim still stuck.

Very much a decision to make the issue go away.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Got my answer in the end, thanks.

Jones was fine in the 2nd half, people like you just have his papers stamped already

Not stamping papers, he’s just been a disappointment up to this date

 

[Cap]

Just on that predicted team , if it was accurate and I'm not saying it is.

But isn't Gollant a FF and Fog been doing CHF duties?

 

[Golumless]

Just on that predicted team , if it was accurate and I'm not saying it is.

But isn't Gollant a FF and Fog been doing CHF duties?

Gollant would be more capable at CHF then Fog if given the choice. Though, both have really been FFs for the most part though and both are probably third talls in the long run.

Really though, Thilthorpe is the most capable of the three.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Pedlar has to come in.

 

[Betts are off]

See!

Apparently that was Rory's opening and closing statement

 

[1990crow]

Well, Sloane getting off and reports Laird will be fit are interesting.
Harsh on Jones, but with Dawson more suited to half back and a seemingly long line of half backs, Jones misses out for me.

Out: Himmelburg, McPherson (inj), Soligo, Jones
In: Gollant, Pedlar, Sholl, Laird

Brown ~ Butts ~ Doedee
Smith ~ Murray ~ Dawson
Sholl ~ Crouch ~ Schoenberg
O'Brien ~ Laird ~ Keays
Sloane ~ Thilthorpe ~ McHenry
Rachelle ~ Fogarty ~ Gollant
Pedlar ~ Milera ~ Hinge ~ Rowe
Sub: Jones

 

[Scorpus]

B Brown - Butts - Doedee
HB Jones - Murray - Smith
C Sholl - Dawson - Hinge
HF McHenry - Thilthorpe - Rachele
F Rowe - Fogarty - Gollant
R O'Brien - Schoenberg - Pedlar

I Laird - Sloane - Keays - Crouch
S Soligo

 

[1990crow]

B Brown - Butts - Doedee
HB Jones - Murray - Smith
C Sholl - Dawson - Hinge
HF McHenry - Thilthorpe - Milera
F Rowe - Fogarty - Gollant
R O'Brien - Schoenberg - Pedlar

I Laird - Sloane - Keays - Crouch
S Soligo

Rachelle stiff. Five goals on debut not good enough?

 

[Scorpus]

Rachelle stiff. Five goals on debut not good enough?

Oops!

 

[1990crow]

Oops!

You would drop Milera ahead of Jones?
I wouldn't.

 

[Scorpus]

You would drop Milera ahead of Jones?
I wouldn't.

Yep, he was crap. Needs a month in the SANFL ideally

 

[Jirkago75]

Macpherson injured out, Gollant in.
Give them 1 more week to perform.

Milera shouldn’t have played as he’s completely underdone. Himmelberg was awful but not sure Fog or Tilly can crash a pack constantly. What can we do with Sloane?? Can only play half forward, no more midfield time.

Time to leave Himmelberg, Jones and others for a month and them decide if we will waste no more time on them.

 

[rabidcrow]

Macpherson injured out, Gollant in.
Give them 1 more week to perform.

Milera shouldn’t have played as he’s completely underdone. Himmelberg was awful but not sure Fog or Tilly can crash a pack constantly. What can we do with Sloane?? Can only play half forward, no more midfield time.

Time to leave Himmelberg, Jones and others for a month and them decide if we will waste no more time on them.

Harsh on Jones. Wasn’t great on the weekend but took ownership of that defensive role last year. Can’t sack him on one bad game


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[hey shorty]

You would drop Milera ahead of Jones?
I wouldn't.

I wouldn't have picked him in the first place.

 

[Cap]

One of the podcasts I listened to said Hatley played well in the 2s

Could he come good ?

 

[CroCop]

Josh Worrel was switched from playing defence mostly for the Sandringham Dragons in the NAB League to playing Key Forward for Vic Metro at the U18's Championship and wound up VM's leading goalkicker for the Championships.....McAsey Vic Metro's M.V.P. playing Key Defence.

Been saying this about Worrell since Day 1 . You seem to have your finger on the pulse how about putting this to the club coaches cause it never seems to be mentioned (Worrell being played up forward) in any interviews or the like but many observers on here seems to be saying the same thing. What are the coaches missing or are we not seeing something they see.

 

[hey shorty]

One of the podcasts I listened to said Hatley played well in the 2s

Could he come good ?

I thought he was about 5 back

 

[George Kramer]

When?

So you haven’t seen him run back into packs? If not perhaps you’re not qualified to comment.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

I thought Laird was going to be out for about a month?

Quicker than expected recovery...

It’s 3 weeks this Saturday so almost a month , definite for showdown and 50/50 for this week

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Or “Keays’y” god forbid I criticise him
Soo.. many kool aid drinkers
The guys an honest trier nothing more

Maybe so, but we would have lost by 5 goals without him