Preview Changes: R4 vs Essendon - Sunday April 10, 12.40pm ACST @ Marvel Stadium

[Bay62]

Official changes

In Sloane Tex
Out Fog Cook

 

[ams4crows]

Rutten won't be coaching as he is in isolation, Blake Caracella

Blake Caracella

Age

47

Ht

186cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.5

4star

K

10.1

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

4.7

4star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.4

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

0.6

3star

will coach Essendon instead.

Unsure if this is good for us or not

 

[SuperBashBros]

Prob going to be Pedlar out, Cook to sub and Sloane straight into the guts.....

 

[FR0GGY]

Fog does f*** all without the ball which means he needs to have it on a string or he’s a net negative

And yes pressure does count for alot or you concede goals from your own F50 and kick less yourself

Re Fog - He didn’t even kick it well in showdown and that was his last remaining trait

If anyone here wants to still back up Fog on his current ( and career performances other than a handful ) then you really don’t know much about football

Do agree Jones is horribly out of form again . Hamill for Jones I’d be happy with this week

Love it, Fogs been terrible other than a handful of games.
Yet jones is just out of form

 

[FR0GGY]

Rutten won't be coaching as he is in isolation, Blake Caracella will coach Essendon instead.

Unsure if this is good for us or not

Probably won’t make much difference.

 

[ams4crows]

Article on AFC.com doesn't suggest that Sloane is right to go and has a few more boxes to tick, we should just continue to rest him for another week.

 

[Mutineer]

 

[footy4ever]

Tex back makes me happy. The guy is the most natural Key forward on the team by a landslide. Makes us a much harder opponent

Let's hope he kicks off this year similarly to how he kicked off last year.

I hope he can ignore the hostile reception he's surely going to get.

 

[footy4ever]

Our game is on Sunday and the club is Confirming Tex playing on the Wednesday? What is the point in that?

...and confirming that Fog's been dropped. I thought teams came out on Thursdays.

It's what most of had been expecting though - Fog out Tex in.

Next, how do we get Berry in, and not just as sub?

 

[crows dude]

Murphy, Seeds Inj

AFL - Sunday
Rowe Gollant Berry
Rachele Walker Sloane
Dawson Keays Hinge
Jones Worrell Smith
Brown Butts Doedee

O'Brien
Schoenberg
Laird

Crouch, Cook, Himmelberg, Sholl

Hamill - Sub


SANFL - Saturday

McAdam Fogarty Nankervis
Soligo Thilthorpe McHenry
Davis Hately Newchurch
Parnell Murray Milera
Frampton McAsey McPherson

Strachan
Pedlar
Taylor

Borlase, Wright, Freeman, Sharrad

 

[Truck25]

The only advantage?

Try foot skills on for size too.

Maybe on the short stuff because Murray can roost the long one alright. Billy is just too soft, where as I think one day Murray will put somebody in hospital the way he crashes the pack.

 

[Mutineer]

Maybe on the short stuff because Murray can roost the long one alright. Billy is just too soft, where as I think one day Murray will put somebody in hospital the way he crashes the pack.

Hopefully it won't be one of our own players...he has history remember.

The position is still up for grabs because none of Frampton, Murray or McAsey have nailed it down yet.

We might even look at Centrals 2022 KPP draftee Brodie Tuck if one of them doesn't nail the spot down by season's end.

 

[Ciao Giacomo]

Tex played ONE SANFL game after a 12 month break with an ACL. This time he was fit and leading the.Coleman when he was suspended, has had a full preseason and is ready to go.

If we had decided to pick FOG over Tex this week we could have lost draft picks for tanking.

 

[Truck25]

Hopefully it won't be one of our own players...he has history remember.

The position is still up for grabs because none of Frampton, Murray or McAsey have nailed it down yet.

We might even look at Centrals 2022 KPP draftee Brodie Tuck if one of them doesn't nail the spot down by season's end.

There is that. I still haven't given up on McAsey yet like many have. He was an 18yr old kid thrown to the wolves in his first year and did a couple of nice things to make me think there is something there. The ideal scenario is McAsey comes on, but until then Murray is my pick. I would take a wrecking ball over the marshmallow, hell, Billy made Marshall look good.

 

[texanmike]

Ben Rutten

Ben Rutten

Age

41

Ht

190cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.4

3star

K

6.3

2star

HB

7.0

4star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.3

3star

No current season stats available

D

10.6

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.0

3star

can’t coach at the ground he’s under covid protocols, Blake Caracella

Blake Caracella

Age

47

Ht

186cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.5

4star

K

10.1

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

4.7

4star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.4

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

0.6

3star

to step in, is this an advantage to us?

 

[Vader]

Tex played ONE SANFL game after a 12 month break with an ACL. This time he was fit and leading the.Coleman when he was suspended, has had a full preseason and is ready to go.

If we had decided to pick FOG over Tex this week we could have lost draft picks for tanking.

What about playing Tex in the SANFL, to get him match fit, while replacing Fog with TT?

I have no firm opinion either way about bringing Tex straight back, or via the SANFL. On that front, I'm happy to go with whatever the club decides. I am a little bit wary of bringing him straight back, given that he hasn't played a game at any level this year.

Right now, there are 3x positions in the AFL team for tall forwards - and 5 candidates to fill them (Berg, Gollant, Walker, Fog, TT). Fog has made sure that he's currently 5th in line for those 3 positions.

 

[Mutineer]

What about playing Tex in the SANFL, to get him match fit, while replacing Fog with TT?

Yeah what about it?

Thilthorpe was sent back to the SANFL to work on certain elements of his game wasn't he?

After 1 game?

 

[texanmike]

What about playing Tex in the SANFL, to get him match fit, while replacing Fog with TT?

TT will be back next week to replace Himmelburg. Unless Big E has another blinder which I doubt he will.

 

[Vader]

Yeah what about it?

Thilthorpe was sent back to the SANFL to work on certain elements of his game wasn't he?

After 1 game?

He's had 2 SANFL games, and was (reportedly) much better last Friday.

 

[Mutineer]

He's had 2 SANFL games, and was (reportedly) much better last Friday.

There's only been 1 round of the SANFL.

Trial/scratch matches are hardly going to count.

If the coaching panel is fair dinkum the only way Thilthorpe plays is if there's a late out caused by Walker, Gollant or Himmelberg not coming up.

 

[Vader]

There's only been 1 round of the SANFL.

Trial/scratch matches are hardly going to count.

If the coaching panel is fair dinkum the only way Thilthorpe plays is if there's a late out caused by Walker, Gollant or Himmelberg not coming up.

I don't think there's any chance at all that TT plays this week. I think you've missed the point I was making - probably fair enough, given that my previous post was a poorly written ramble.

Ciao Giacomo's post was full of "Tex over Fog is an easy decision". I was pondering a slightly different question - what they would/could/should have done, if they decided to bring Tex back via the SANFL (given his lack of match fitness)?

CG said that we would be done for tanking if we selected Fog ahead of Walker, and it's hard to disagree with that statement. But would we still have been candidates for tanking accusations if we'd selected TT, ahead of both Walker (gaining match fitness in the SANFL) and Fog (woefully out of form & lacking confidence)?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

We could really do with a win this weekend, our next 5 games do not look pretty.

Richmond (Home)
Bulldogs (Away)
GWS (Home)
Carlton (Away)
Brisbane (Home)

Richmond the most winnable.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Prob going to be Pedlar out, Cook to sub and Sloane straight into the guts.....

Murphy in doubt.

 

[Interloperer]

CG said that we would be done for tanking if we selected Fog ahead of Walker, and it's hard to disagree with that statement. But would we still have been candidates for tanking accusations if we'd selected TT, ahead of both Walker (gaining match fitness in the SANFL) and Fog (woefully out of form & lacking confidence)?

If that's the one that gets the club done for tanking then it's probably the last on a long list of tanking-esque selections.

 

[MrBarry]

Maybe on the short stuff because Murray can roost the long one alright. Billy is just too soft, where as I think one day Murray will put somebody in hospital the way he crashes the pack.

Murray crashing packs is gutsy, but it borders on idiotic at times.

He will absolutely take out one of our own. He needs to learn when to do it and when not to.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Would rather Murray than Frampton, at least he has a crack and not afraid to kill a pack. the only advantage Billy has is height.

Think Billy got thrown to the wolves a little bit

He won't cop a forward the quality of Todd Marshall each week