Preview Changes: R21 2019 vs West Coast

[hey shorty]

Yep. He will be eyeing off Tim English in the final game as an opportunity to dominate and get himself a contract and R1 berth for next year.

He wont be playing R1 here

 

[Tex200]

Sauce, Dougy, Otto and DMac:

The band is back together

 

[Betts are off]

Sauce, Dougy, Otto and DMac:

The band is back together

Has this been announced?

 

[hey shorty]

Sauce, Dougy, Otto and DMac:

The band is back together

Ive never been as ashamed of the club as I am now

 

[Tex200]

Has this been announced?

Gaskin just tweeted Sauce is in

 

[Betts are off]

Gaskin just tweeted Sauce is in

Kind of assumed that when he was named on the field. I'm still praying some of the other members of the Bucketlist Patrol might still be left out!

 

[ThePrideOf]

Adelaide Crows... "In with the old... Thats how we roll". Makes the majority of our demographic supporter base happy. They old AF will still back the boys in through and through...

Always said this club is short sighted AF

 

[Cap]

Ive never been as ashamed of the club as I am now

Aren't we being a bit dramatic?

Sure our development has been shit, but the situation presents means these guys are getting a game.

Not ideal in anyway but hardly a shameful position. I really don't see any value in dropping them for a bunch of guys who are going to get belted in Perth.

 

[relapse]

Sauce, Dougy, Otto and DMac:

The band is back together

 

[Murray2503]

Sauce has obviously had a massive sook, and our weak as piss coaches and selection committee have rolled out the tissues.

There will be a positive out of this. 1 game of sauce getting smashed in ruck and plodding around the large confines of optus stadium will ensure he will not be on our list next year. Very smart crows. Not as stupid as you look.

 

[Tex200]

Aren't we being a bit dramatic?

Sure our development has been s**t, but the situation presents means these guys are getting a game.

Not ideal in anyway but hardly a shameful position. I really don't see any value in dropping them for a bunch of guys who are going to get belted in Perth.

Nah it’s shameful.

And you can’t assess that based on this weeks selections in isolation.

The shame is the club leading this playing group to the edge of a cliff and not doing anything about it.

15 players from R1 2016 will run out this Sunday. Seedsman and JJ would have made it 17.

Only players missing Thommo, Cheney, VB, McGovern and Lever.

That is a damming indictment on our list management.

 

[GetInMyVanBerlo]

This is up there with one of the worst calls we've made, putting player achievements ahead of team success while we're in the hunt for a spot in the 8, it's so unbelievable but also very believable at the same cause it's the us which is just so sad.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

This is up there with one of the worst calls we've made, putting player achievements ahead of team success while we're in the hunt for a spot in the 8, it's so unbelievable but also very believable at the same cause it's the us which is just so sad.

We've reached Neil Craig levels of delusional selection now. Even Sando's persistence with rubbish players like Petrenko and Kerridge didn't stink this badly.

 

[Scorpus]

Sauce, Dougy, Otto and DMac:

The band is back together

Reminds me of that time North played four veterans right to the end of their careers

Harvey, Petrie, Firrito, Dal Santo

Well past their prime, still getting games over youngsters, club stagnating in the mid table for years, no idea what the youth looks like, club wasn't successful with that group but squeezed every last drop out of it

We are strikingly similar to North in many ways IMO

 

[jackster83]

Reminds me of that time North played four veterans right to the end of their careers

Harvey, Petrie, Firrito, Dal Santo

Well past their prime, still getting games over youngsters, club stagnating in the mid table for years, no idea what the youth looks like, club wasn't successful with that group but squeezed every last drop out of it

We are strikingly similar to North in many ways IMO

Freo much the same with Sandi, Ballantyne, Dawson, Mundy and Johnson.

 

[Scorpus]

Aren't we being a bit dramatic?

Sure our development has been s**t, but the situation presents means these guys are getting a game.

Not ideal in anyway but hardly a shameful position. I really don't see any value in dropping them for a bunch of guys who are going to get belted in Perth.

Why should they be getting a game?

The blokes who should be playing are O'Brien/Himmelberg, Jones, Gallucci and Butts in their exact positions

 

[Big Gazoongas]

Maybe like you, they've decided we can't make the finals, so why not give Sauce his 200 and a farewell game. Who the fu** does it hurt?

Since when are we a f**king charity organisation.

Novel idea, lets now apply that across the board to blokes that are on 100 and 150 games. What does it matter, we wont be competing for any silverware soon so lets gift games to anyone to get them to 200.

But this mentality for this club shouldn't surprise.

 

[jenny61_99]

Since when are we a f**king charity organisation.

Novel idea, lets now apply that across the board to blokes that are on 100 and 150 games. What does it matter, we wont be competing for any silverware soon so lets gift games to anyone to get them to 200.

But this mentality for this club shouldn't surprise.

So can we make the finals?

 

[mattymac]

Since when are we a f**king charity organisation.

Novel idea, lets now apply that across the board to blokes that are on 100 and 150 games. What does it matter, we wont be competing for any silverware soon so lets gift games to anyone to get them to 200.

But this mentality for this club shouldn't surprise.

We are a disgrace.

Pains me to say that after being pretty excited for a while there when we rejigged the gameplan and won 7-2 or whatever it was, I'm now hoping for another unmistakable failure.

They've embarrassed the supporters this year.

Things need to change.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

So can we make the finals?

The question you should be asking is:
1) are we a football club or a charity
2) do we want to reward performance over non performance
3) what are our culture standards
4) what are the consequences of player selection policy
5) what are our list management and player development plans for our next crack at a flag.

 

[hey shorty]

We are a disgrace.

Pains me to say that after being pretty excited for a while there when we rejigged the gameplan and won 7-2 or whatever it was, I'm now hoping for another unmistakable failure.

They've embarrassed the supporters this year.

Things need to change.

This is the thing. We actually started the year with a positive change of gameplan and not needlessly bringing senior players back into the fold too quickly.

I want that club back.

 

[jackster83]

This is the thing. We actually started the year with a positive change of gameplan and not needlessly bringing senior players back into the fold too quickly.

I want that club back.

It all changed after the Geelong game. We had Davis, Gallucci and Himmelberg in that team with Mackay playing SANFL.

 

[GameofSloanes]

There will be a positive out of this. 1 game of sauce getting smashed in ruck and plodding around the large confines of optus stadium will ensure he will not be on our list next year. Very smart crows. Not as stupid as you look.

It could actually be good management of ROB. He's definitely sore, and the Optus Stadium has been shown to create more soreness/injuries, particularly for big guys. ROB playing there could cripple him for the 2 games we could actually win this year (ie more than 0% chance like this week). Not sure I believe this is what is happening, but if it is and ROB is straight back in, I'm ok with it

 

[hey shorty]

It all changed after the Geelong game. We had Davis, Gallucci and Himmelberg in that team with Mackay playing SANFL.

The whole club feels like its changed after the bye.

Its ****ed

 

[hey shorty]

It could actually be good management of ROB. He's definitely sore, and the Optus Stadium has been shown to create more soreness/injuries, particularly for big guys. ROB playing there could cripple him for the 2 games we could actually win this year (ie more than 0% chance like this week). Not sure I believe this is what is happening, but if it is and ROB is straight back in, I'm ok with it

I think we all are, its just it is unlikely to play out that way