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

[Bay62]

Official changes

In Sloane Tex
Out Fog Cook

 

[Sanders]

It's interesting how quickly after one of the club's greatest wins that this board reverts back to being muck central.

It was a cool win, lots of fun but one of greatest wins?

C’mon be serious

 

[Carmo]

Interesting that we kept our tall defense despite Bombers not having a particularly tall forward line.

Hopefully Berg, Tex and Gollant can stretch their middlesized defense as well.

 

[MrBarry]

It was a cool win, lots of fun but one of greatest wins?

C’mon be serious

Yes, period.

We've won 2 games in 32 years after the siren and we were 19 points down with what like 10 mins to go? I didn't see us winning that.

It's absolutely in our top 5-10 wins.

I personally think it might be one of those defining wins where things start to slowly turn around for the club.

 

[Thylacinus]

Crouch, Worrell, Hinge, Rowe, pedlar.

Hinge can sub

No way Hinge subs! He will be in the team, or I will eat my dirty jocks and socks and mow my lawn with a pair of tweezers.

 

[LeftyLuke]

No way Hinge subs! He will be in the team, or I will eat my dirty jocks and socks and mow my lawn with a pair of tweezers.

Hinge has been very good. Agree there is no way he will be dropped.

 

[Bearded Clam]

No Berry??..

But captain Rory “the snail” Sloane comes back in to continue to show the young players how an out of form and completely cooked old bloke can play..

After all.. Gotta have that experience in the side. The youth can learn a lot from that..

 

[MrBarry]

No Berry??..

But captain Rory “the snail” Sloane comes back in to continue to show the young players how an out of form and completely cooked old bloke can play..

After all.. Gotta have that experience in the side. The youth can learn a lot from that..

When they bring Berry in, it better be a 'he's now in for the season' in and not a yoyo in and then out.

If he dominates again this week in the middle, they can't ignore it.

 

[Bay62]

Schoey named in the guts, Sloane at HF

Could we..?? COULD WE..???

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

When they bring Berry in, it better be a 'he's now in for the season' in and not a yoyo in and then out.

If he dominates again this week in the middle, they can't ignore it.

AFC … hold my beer …

You clearly haven’t heard we have a stacked midfield already!

 

[LeftyLuke]

Berry and Hamill were the standouts in the SANFL last week. Strange that neither are in the extended squad. Taylor and Thilthorpe also played well.

 

[MrBarry]

Schoey named in the guts, Sloane at HF

Could we..?? COULD WE..???

That was a typo.

 

[Sanders]

This is in the top five most deluded things you’ve ever written, and that’s quite a feat.

Think it might be part of his application for ambassadorship

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Berry seems to be on the outer, he was a lot better than Hately. No speed brought into the team and the inclusions make us slower. Sloane, Crouch, Keays in the middle again.

Maybe Hately will be the sub?

 

[Bearded Clam]

Keaysy has made a mockery of all those people on here saying he 'wasn't good enough'. The bloke is actually really ******* good and pretty dynamic. He is literally non stop and will likely be in our midfield for at least another 4-5 years.

no one has ever questioned Benny’s effort..

What is questioned, and rightfully so, is his skills and execution..

To be fair to benny though… I reacon out of our main four “guns” (sloane, crouch, laird, Benny) Keays’s been the best in the first three games..

But thats says a lot more about the quality of our main go to midfielders than it does anything else..

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Maybe Hately will be the sub?

For his sake I hope not. He only played half of the sanfl game last week as he was taken off as a spare in case needed at afl level

 

[Sanders]

Nobody has ever doubted his willingness to give 100% of the time, like a manic version of the energizer bunny.

The doubts over Keays relate to his poor kicking & decision making skills, both of which were on show again in the Showdown. How many times did the commentators mention a "bad kick from Keays" (or words to that effect)? The answer is several times... to the extent that these flaws are character defining for him, as much as his manic never-stop-working efforts are.

Yes, he's "literally non stop" - and sometimes that's a good thing. However, when his disposals are completely random, both through skills & decision making, then being "literally non stop" can also hurt the team. Like most players, Keays is neither black or white - he's a very middling shade of grey.

That’s some quality screen scraping. Watch the game next time though, it’s easier

 

[FR0GGY]

No Berry??..

But captain Rory “the snail” Sloane comes back in to continue to show the young players how an out of form and completely cooked old bloke can play..

After all.. Gotta have that experience in the side. The youth can learn a lot from that..

The snail

 

[feenix67]

Nobody has ever doubted his willingness to give 100% of the time, like a manic version of the energizer bunny.

The doubts over Keays relate to his poor kicking & decision making skills, both of which were on show again in the Showdown. How many times did the commentators mention a "bad kick from Keays" (or words to that effect)? The answer is several times... to the extent that these flaws are character defining for him, as much as his manic never-stop-working efforts are.

Yes, he's "literally non stop" - and sometimes that's a good thing. However, when his disposals are completely random, both through skills & decision making, then being "literally non stop" can also hurt the team. Like most players, Keays is neither black or white - he's a very middling shade of grey.

Went at 81% but whatever

 

[MrBarry]

For his sake I hope not. He only played half of the sanfl game last week as he was taken off as a spare in case needed at afl level

Really the midfield should be Keays and Crouch 50% of the time each and the rest of the midfield made up of Shoey, Berry, Pedlar, Laird and Hately.

We seem incapable as a club of being able to understand/manage that rotation policy.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Ned and Chayce are lucky boys.

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Don’t know how Jones gets ahead of Hinge

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Sure the Tex booing/furore will peak and likely disappear.

However "It" is that our club is showing insensitivity towards racism, seen to be celebrating a player returning from a suspension for racism. Just a tone deaf action from the club.

I thought booing players was bad

 

[GetInMyVanBerlo]

I love that we're backing Jones in, but geez he'd have to be on some thin ice, awful so far this year

 

[texanmike]

Another week of inspiring changes I see, how in the hell is Berry not named in the extended squad?

 

[ad victoriam]

Hately making the extended squad over Berry is a bit of a surprise even if neither were going to play

Hately started the SANFL game well before he was put on reduced minutes.

 

[WheresGroomgone]

If we play Hately or Pedlar as sub or a travelling emergency we are being incredibly dumb with their development. Either give them a game at AFL level or let them play a full SANFL game to improve their case to actually get a game - flying to Melbourne is hardly "a learning experience" or a taste - play Jones/McHenry/Rowe as sub to give them the message they should be getting and let these yoyo guys play a full game.