Preview Changes: R6 vs Hawthorn, Sunday April 23, 12.40pm ACST @ York Park (Tasmania)

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What's the over/under for the number of times we kick out on the full?

 

[Scorpus]

Will Nicks finally teach our players not to play from behind when the wind is causing the ball to drop well short?

 

[jackster83]

Will Nicks finally teach our players not to play from behind when the wind is causing the ball to drop well short?

You'd want Sicily in your SC team this week.

 

[rabidcrow]

The thing is, it will get harder to rest Tex as the season goes on.

Games will get more important, results more significant, premiership table tighter.

This would be early and I'm sure he could get by without it but do you rest him before he needs it? Pre-emptive rest before he starts displaying the effects of a full season. Rather than waiting until he gets sore / tired / injured and maybe prevent those things from occurring

Mid winter when it’s wet and cold and the ball is going to be on the ground all night. Bank early wins and then you can start to manage players


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[Mattrox]

But then when can rest? Against Collingwood? Fitness staff will likely have a slightly flexible plan.

The Darwin trip.... then there is a game... then Bye Round.

That is a solid plan.

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[spexau]

Weather is going to be fine

 

[Punchy Bassett]

If every game is important then none of them are important

You know what I mean though Drugs, we've been down this get ahead of ourselves path plenty of times.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Mid winter when it’s wet and cold and the ball is going to be on the ground all night. Bank early wins and then you can start to manage players

What if you don't though?

What if you're 50/50 or thereabouts the whole season like we're likely to be?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

You know what I mean though Drugs, we've been down this get ahead of ourselves path plenty of times.

We've never been down this path!

Best 22 all the way. Nose to the grindstone.

We've lost very winnable games in the past because of sucky players / sucky coaching / sucky selections, not because of resting veterans.

We've only recently started resting our oldies the last couple of years, and only because we've been out of the finals race by about Round 8

 

[George Kramer]

If we rest Tex, we are not shy of quality options, we’ve got Gollant and McAdam plus heaps of other avenues to score goals.

 

[Betts are off]

So if Tex does play, he only needs 4 goals to get to 550 (remember when we all wondered if he would make it to Modra's 440?)

At which point he will leapfrog Port's highest ever goalkicker Warren Tredrea

Warren Tredrea

Age

45

Ht

194cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.3

4star

K

10.1

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

6.9

5star

T

1.4

3star

G

2.2

5star

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D

5.4

2star

K

2.8

1star

HB

2.6

3star

M

1.2

2star

T

0.6

3star

G

1.0

4star

, and push himself into the top 50 goalkickers list of all time.

After that he could move up many ranks on that list in a short time. Lots of players clustered between 550 and 600

 

[CrowBloke]

This would be early and I'm sure he could get by without it but do you rest him before he needs it? Pre-emptive rest before he starts displaying the effects of a full season. Rather than waiting until he gets sore / tired / injured and maybe prevent those things from occurring

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Think it's got to be either this week or the Geelong game (which we can all 100% pencil in as an automatic loss).

See this:

Guess the best person to ask would be Burgess..

I trust in Burgess. He will know what to do. My guess is he'll take the Drugs Are Bad Mackay? approach --- prevention is better than cure.
Walker's first goal on Thursday (good kick in from Sholl) after giving Young a get-lost noodge, Crows 4th, was pure Tex.
If Tex is moving well, marking strongly, kicking 2-4 goals/game, recovering well, play him.

 

[CrowBloke]

how did we lose vs GWS.

--- poor goalkicking, 12.18
--- the heat/humidity; ran out of gas.

We'll clobber them at AO.

 

[Brenton Davy]

If anyone needs an extended break by mid season it will probably be Michalanney. He’s already copped some decent hits and might be struggling a bit by then.

 

[jbanger]

Will Nicks finally teach our players not to play from behind when the wind is causing the ball to drop well short?

You'd hope they'd be able to figure that out for themselves

 

[CrowBloke]

Will Nicks finally teach our players not to play from behind when the wind is causing the ball to drop well short?

There's the added blunder which still haunts me, from R7, 2017.
Gotta have someone behind the pack when kicking with the wind, for the off-hands sliders.
But this is right:

You'd hope they'd be able to figure that out for themselves

Both are taught at schoolboy level.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Please rest Tex

From Hawthorn.

 

[spenze]

Who is on our injury list ATM?

just trying to figure out who will be sub this week

 

[Danger in Texas]

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Jake Kelly

Age

29

Ht

190cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

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Last 5

D

14.5

4star

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8.3

3star

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6.3

4star

M

4.6

4star

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2.6

4star

MG

157.8

2star

D

8.1

2star

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6.3

3star

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1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.6

4star

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104.1

2star

D

14.8

4star

K

9.0

4star

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5.8

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.2

5star

MG

107.0

2star

’ Butts (if you know you know)

 

[MrBarry]

So if Tex does play, he only needs 4 goals to get to 550 (remember when we all wondered if he would make it to Modra's 440?)

At which point he will leapfrog Port's highest ever goalkicker Warren Tredrea, and push himself into the top 50 goalkickers list of all time.

After that he could move up many ranks on that list in a short time. Lots of players clustered between 550 and 600

Crazy that walker has never made an all Australian team considering his career.

 

[spenze]

Crazy that walker has never made an all Australian team considering his career.

Well he self sabotaged the year he would have been picked

 

[rabidcrow]

What if you don't though?

What if you're 50/50 or thereabouts the whole season like we're likely to be?

Then you make the call as to how he is travelling with his body

I am starting to wonder whether we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. While we are playing exciting footy we have lost to two teams that have 1 other win between them - a last gasp win over Hawthorn!
Our wins have been good and our style of play great but we are no sure thing this weekend down in Tassie and then play Pies Cats and Saints. Get through the next 4 weeks and then worry about resting people


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[crows dude]

Who is on our injury list ATM?

just trying to figure out who will be sub this week

Only Bond. 3-5 weeks

Worrell should be good for this week

 

[MsTopG]

Caminiti out for our match against Saints in 4 weeks. Stengle and Rhys Stanley

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Rhys Stanley

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33

Ht

200cm

Wt

102kg

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13.6

3star

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7.2

3star

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6.4

4star

CL

3.4

5star

HO

27.6

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

4.5

3star

CL

5.0

5star

HO

21.5

5star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

6.4

4star

CL

3.0

5star

HO

33.0

5star

out for Geelong match in 3.

 

[Crows I Am]

If we rest Tex, we are not shy of quality options, we’ve got Gollant and McAdam plus heaps of other avenues to score goals.

I think Thilthorpe plays better when we only go in with the 2 key talls up forward. If we do rest Tex and bring in McAdam or Gollant I can see TT having another big game against the Hawks in Tassie like he did in his debut.