Preview Changes: R5 vs Richmond - Saturday April 16, 4.05pm ACST @ Adelaide Oval

[Scorpus]

IN:
McAdam, Cook, Berry

OUT:
Hinge, Rowe, Schoenberg

Hinge dropped and named as an emergency, not injured

 

[Bay62]

Berg's resurgence will be temporary, if history is any guide. But for the time being, there's definitely no case for dropping him.

It is, as you say, a big discussion.

Nice to finally have four players in good form in the same part of the ground and therefore a dilemma on who to leave out

Let’s hope it spreads to other parts

 

[Bay62]

ROB is playing like late-career Sauce but without that first part of Sauce's career where he was great for us.

The 7 Ages of ROB:

1. Plays better than Sauce but can’t push him out of the team
2. Pushes him out of the team/Sauce finally retires
3. Plays well
4. Wins the gold jacket
5. Gets injured and plays crap
6. Recovers, joins the leadership group, still plays crap
7. Dropped for Strachan??

 

[BRL121]

The 7 Ages of ROB:

1. Plays better than Sauce but can’t push him out of the team
2. Pushes him out of the team/Sauce finally retires
3. Plays well
4. Wins the gold jacket
5. Gets injured and plays crap
6. Recovers, joins the leadership group, still plays crap
7. Dropped for Strachan??

You forgot to integrate his long contract into the list: will there not be a correlation?

 

[Bay62]

Don't mind it, basically gives us an extra midfielder at the centre bounce.

Two things that might stop it happening

• We all want him to be the big marking forward we crave and who we saw in his first game
• We’re all worried he’ll do an ACL playing in the ruck

 

[Bay62]

You forgot to integrate his long contract into the list: will there not be a correlation?

Good point. As in, dammit.
4.5 We sign him up for way too long, then he gets injured and…

 

[BucketsNj]

Very good is a bit of an exxaggeration don't you think?

It was a better showing but North were without several of their best talls due to Covid prorocols and injury.

I'd like to see him back it up a couple more times before I got too excited.

Worrell is the player that deserves a crack before McAsey IMO if we're promoting a defender.
Worrell only played the 3 quarters in the SANFL and was flown over as the emergency for the Bombers game, does that indicate he's next in line?

Possibly. But I don’t think he’s a replacement for Frampton/Murray. I think neither of those is quite the right fit and we need to give Macasey a bit of a go - see if he’s the answer.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Berg has been going ok but I want to see TT in the forward line with Tex. Tex takes the main defender and no one better for TT to learn from about positioning etc

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

 

[jackster83]

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

It worked so well the last time we tried that against them...

 

[Bay62]

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

Wondered about that. Would normally think it’s too tall, but Gollant plays a bit x-factor style, so with Rachelle and a couple of other smalls it could work. Especially this week as you say

 

[Redline]

My main criticism of Crouch is he takes too long to move the ball on which stops momentum and allows the opposition to man up. He isn't the only player in our side guilty of it.

I agree, I feel like we must be missing something though as it is so obvious and something easily fixed that it makes me think the coaching staff are not that unhappy with it. Even if he is dropped this week I don't think it's because of that.

 

[LeftyLuke]

The 7 Ages of ROB:

1. Plays better than Sauce but can’t push him out of the team
2. Pushes him out of the team/Sauce finally retires
3. Plays well
4. Wins the gold jacket
5. Gets injured and plays crap
6. Recovers, joins the leadership group, still plays crap
7. Dropped for Strachan??

You forgot step 4b: Our idiot list management group sign up a very average ruck for 5 years after he plays out of his skin. Once that contract is signed he returns to his usual form.

 

[DJ75]

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

Especially given TT could play wing as well

 

[SellarStardom]

Possibly. But I don’t think he’s a replacement for Frampton/Murray. I think neither of those is quite the right fit and we need to give Macasey a bit of a go - see if he’s the answer.

As I keep saying, bring in Worrell to play Doedee role and allow Dude to play wing or midfield. Worell doesn't get a go because of Doedee but it's narrow thinking

 

[LeftyLuke]

Especially given TT could play wing as well

Or you could move Thilthorpe down back. Would add an extra string to his bow and likely help him when forward.

 

[Gtowncrow]

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

Any reason why we couldn't play all of Tex, TT, Berg & Gollant? 1 would usually be on the bench or in ruck.

Could be a good week to go tall to stretch Richmond’s backline.

Possibly.
And the extra tall might be handy cover to help out Butts and Frampton with a couple of handy forwards.

 

[BrissyCrow]

What for?

Like it or not Crouch is a driving force in our team. I question his speed and the quality of some of his disposals like many on here do but at this time he is still important. I guess the division on here is whether you want to win now or whether you want to play only the youngsters and count the losses this year. Getting that mix right is the difficult part but I believe that Crouch is still needed and gives our team the ability to get the ball.

 

[kick it to me_]

Cook for Mchenry
Worrell for Hinge(inj)
Strachan for ROB

Sub
Hately

Send a msg to the team to clean up your skills.

Jones on thin ice, as other posters have said Schoenberg needs to regain some form, run in sanfl might be what he needs or back to HF role.

I'm over making excuses for Mchenry, give him a run in sanfl to find his skills and goal kicking again.




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[BrissyCrow]

My earliest memories of watching cricket on tv

"Hadlee's a Wayne Kerr...."

I can go back to my childhood (now 72) when we used to walk down the street and we would say the magical F word. But if some adults were coming towards us we would stop swearing either out of respect or just scared of getting told off. Then about 30 years ago The F word made its movie debut (cant remember the name of the movie) but I turned to my wife and said "thats given the world the license to say the F word. So our tolerance has been eroded and everyone say's the F word. But I still dont believe that it should be tolerated at certain functions and one of those is where there are young kids. As adults we should be able to express our feelings without using the F and C words.

 

[1970crow]

I’d keep Billy in over Murray. A below average 1on1 defender can be hidden to an extent in the modern game via zones and the third tall coming over the top. What can’t be hidden is diabolical kicking, and Murray very firmly sits in that category at the moment. Bad D50 ball users are team killers almost everytime, both directly (turnover goals) and indirectly (slow chip play to get it in someone else’s hands or predictable dump kicks).

In a perfect world, everything clicks and Mcasey remembers why he was so highly rated as a junior, then we don’t have to pick either of them.

All our defenders would look better if we had a midfield that was capable of slowing ball movement. But they’re simply a red carpet when oppo have the ball. Have been for years.

 

[1970crow]

You forgot step 4b: Our idiot list management group sign up a very average ruck for 5 years after he plays out of his skin. Once that contract is signed he returns to his usual form.

re-contracting a player based solely on their contract year output is often a mistake. Unless it’s a developing player on the up. ROB was line ball in that sense. He doesn’t seem to get his knees as dirty as he used to. It’s like players get promoted to a certain level at our club and just stop improving straight away.

 

[conVINCEd]

Like it or not Crouch is a driving force in our team. I question his speed and the quality of some of his disposals like many on here do but at this time he is still important. I guess the division on here is whether you want to win now or whether you want to play only the youngsters and count the losses this year. Getting that mix right is the difficult part but I believe that Crouch is still needed and gives our team the ability to get the ball.

We’re rebuilding so I see the answer as clear, especially when we desperately need to regenerate our midfield.

If not now, when?

 

[BRL121]

You forgot step 4b: Our idiot list management group sign up a very average ruck for 5 years after he plays out of his skin. Once that contract is signed he returns to his usual form.

You're a bit late with this one.

 

[jackster83]

Like it or not Crouch is a driving force in our team. I question his speed and the quality of some of his disposals like many on here do but at this time he is still important. I guess the division on here is whether you want to win now or whether you want to play only the youngsters and count the losses this year. Getting that mix right is the difficult part but I believe that Crouch is still needed and gives our team the ability to get the ball.

Except we're not winning right now.

 

[maxlilly]

Like it or not Crouch is a driving force in our team. I question his speed and the quality of some of his disposals like many on here do but at this time he is still important. I guess the division on here is whether you want to win now or whether you want to play only the youngsters and count the losses this year. Getting that mix right is the difficult part but I believe that Crouch is still needed and gives our team the ability to get the ball.

The only driving Crouch is doing for the team is backwards and sideways
If he was winning us games of footy, he may have a case but we are losing to the bottom teams with this midfield looking like a big reason for it.

 

[GudOnya]

Sorry for the intrusion but do you guys have any insight to offer on how far away Zac Taylor might be from getting a game?

My wife is a Crows supporter and I talked him up to her as being a steal in the draft but I haven't really heard anything about him since. Has he been playing ok in the SANFL?