Preview Changes: R6 vs Western Bulldogs - Saturday April 23, 1.15pm ACST @ Mars Stadium (Ballarat)

[Scorpus]

IN:
Hately

OUT:
Sloane (knee)

 

[GROTTO]

Do we have a game at Blundstone as well?

FMD, another shit hole.

 

[Kraven]

Jesus I thought Rabbits blind rage for the Crouch brothers was bad. Kane on another level with the Frampton hate. Sleep with your mum did he.

 

[Interloperer]

Smith, Keays, Doedee or Laird all good choices.

Smith is most experienced and has been consistent for years.
Doedee (1v1 defending) and Keays (disposal) both have big flaws in their game that would only be magnified by being captain
Laird was my favourite to take over after Walker until he had that 2 year period where he was consistently terrible.

 

[OldCrowBloke]

No mention of Ned in the changes?
Started well, but he was a non-entity for 3 quarters. One of only 3 Crows with under 10 possessions (not counting Rowe)
Repeatedly bumped off the ball.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Sloane for Hinge will be the only change. There won't be any unforced changes after that. If there was any I'd do, it's be Brown for Parnell but I highly doubt they'd do that. Frampton has no issues as both McAsey and Murray were poor in the SANFL.

 

[BACCS]

I thought he had a bit of everything. Some good plays, some poor skill errors and was mostly ok defensively.

Agree, I honestly thought he was better than Doedee today. Tommy got better in the 2nd half, but seemed just off early.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Hinge in for Sloane you'd assume.

Cook to slide up to half forward? Rowe stays sub? Don't know if we've had anyone back-to-back subs though.

 

[BACCS]

Do we have a game at Blundstone as well?

Edit: yep, in R15. FFS.

We really got the trifecta this year, Geelong, Tassie and Ballarat

 

[BACCS]

Hinge in for Sloane you'd assume.

Cook to slide up to half forward? Rowe stays sub? Don't know if we've have anyone back-to-back subs though.

Rowe plays less than a quarter but still sets up a direct goal, just makes his disposals count

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

If Butts is out with his various knocks who would come in?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Jesus I thought Rabbits blind rage for the Crouch brothers was bad. Kane on another level with the Frampton hate. Sleep with your mum did he.

Our team will go nowhere if we keep players of Frampton's ilk in the side.

Crouches can actually play decent footy.

 

[hey shorty]

If Butts is out with his various knocks who would come in?

Borlase.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

If Butts is out with his various knocks who would come in?

Has to be Borlase.

 

[CrowToon]

Out: Sloane, ROB, Frampton
In: Parnell, Strachan, Let's play with 21

 

[CroCrow]

He's behind Murray, Borlase and Worrell. I don't know what's wrong with him? Is he too homesick to improve?

Has no weapons at all, slow by foot and mind and worse of all can keep his feet and lacks core strengths

 

[CroCrow]

I think McAdam and Gollant are too similar, so you could potentially replace Gollant with someone. Both are slight players who want to leap at the ball, but McAdam probably offers more defensive pressure.

TT if you want to go taller, or Rowe/Pedlar if you want to go smaller.

Geez people talk rubbish Gollant is 1cm shorter than Walker and jumps at full stretch. McAdam is 182 cm tall if that . I think Gollant is very important to our structure going fwd

 

[Rags_118]

Interesting that having one player (Hinge) out affected our structure significantly.

Meant Dawson had to play at half back the whole game. Was very good and his aerial work was timely but we missed those stints on the wing, possessions and runs in the forward half & pinging at the goals.

Sholl and Cook perhaps don't have the versatility to switch between roles at the moment so Dawson was Mr Fixit tonight. Credit to the coaches for adjusting and getting the result but I like the dynamism Hinge brings to the line up. Hopefully he's back soon

Agree on Hinge, a great pick up for bugger all, but I think that Cook will be much the better player.

That’s was a fine and tough effort from a kid playing his 7th game or so today. Cook is an excellent powerful kick, he rarely fumbles and he is evasive on receiving the ball to create time/space for disposal of the ball.

 

[CroCop]

Out: Sloane (injured), Frampton (in the bin)
In: Hately, McAsey

You i___t go watch their games in the SANFL before you come on here and voice your opinions .

 

[Rags_118]

Has to be Borlase.

TT as a temp KPD might be worth a try, but almost certainly it would be Murray.

 

[LeftyLuke]

You i___t go watch their games in the SANFL before you come on here and voice your opinions .

Surely they were trolling. I would drop mcasey from our SANFL team. Hately was awful as well.

 

[CroCop]

ROB was shocking, but he needs to break a leg for us not to pick him sadly.

I hope he does . At least Strauchan can kick a snap kick goal like he did yesterday and is a better field kick and tap ruckman than ROB

 

[hey shorty]

I hope he does . At least Strauchan can kick a snap kick goal like he did yesterday and is a better field kick and tap ruckman than ROB

Umm.... You hope a player breaks a leg.

Wow

 

[StonesThrow]

****ing Ballarat. Can't wait to see us kick it out of bounds on the full 20 times.

 

[LeftyLuke]

TT as a temp KPD might be worth a try, but almost certainly it would be Murray.

I wouldn't mind seeing TT down back. Would help to develop his game.

 

[CroCop]

Surely they were trolling. I would drop mcasey from our SANFL team.

Me trolling ? Did you watch MCAsey yesterday . All that will happen is he will get rag dolled again by AFL forwards . Can’t keep his feet , poor disposal and slow .