Changes v Dogs round 3.

[mattsmob]

They aren't moving rayner up the ground. Just my 2 cents.

Not sure who else they’d move out of the backline for Kiddy

 

[mattsmob]

Also if you want to drop a small forward the only reason is to look for more defensive pressure and defensive run. I don't think that is Kai's game either putting aside consistency issues etc.

Slightly disagree with that, from what I saw of Kai last year he was pretty manic at times once the ball hit the ground. Had good running numbers as well so fitness shouldn’t be an issue.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Fort needs to stay, i'd drop hipwood

 

[Milux]

Not sure who else they’d move out of the backline for Kiddy

They selected rayner and kiddy in the back line round 1. Just not sure that's changing so soon. Fages and co will have a plan and will stick to it until it doesn't work. Right now that plan looks to be rayner playing back and i feel like he played a cracking game last night and done some impressive things rd 1.

Rayner is strong. Can take a mark. He will worry alot of small defenders as they won't be strong enough to compete with him. It's a good move I think.

 

[Milux]

Fort needs to stay, i'd drop hipwood

Gunston looks cooked at the moment. I'd drop him. Every time he goes jogging around in the warm-ups he runs like a busted crab. Maybe give him 6 weeks off to get his body.

 

[mattsmob]

They selected rayner and kiddy in the back line round 1. Just not sure that's changing so soon. Fages and co will have a plan and will stick to it until it doesn't work. Right now that plan looks to be rayner playing back and i feel like he played a cracking game last night and done some impressive things rd 1.

Rayner is strong. Can take a mark. He will worry alot of small defenders as they won't be strong enough to compete with him. It's a good move I think.

Yes but they also brought Joyce in, I think we need the 3 tall defenders.

I think our back 7 will be the 3 talls, Starce, Rich, Kiddy and McKenna.
Not to say Rayner won’t spend time back there similar to how Gunston has at times but I don’t think he’ll be a full time defender when we’re fully fit.

 

[briztoon]

Yes but they also brought Joyce in, I think we need the 3 tall defenders.

I think our back 7 will be the 3 talls, Starce, Rich, Kiddy and McKenna.
Not to say Rayner won’t spend time back there similar to how Gunston has at times but I don’t think he’ll be a full time defender when we’re fully fit.

Rayner being groomed to succeed Rich?!?

 

[mattsmob]

Rayner being groomed to succeed Rich?!?

Could be but Rich is still there at the moment. I don’t mind Rayner being the swing man if things aren’t going to plan or at the end of quarters.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Rayner= Shannon Hurn

25

Shannon Hurn

Age

37

Ht

187cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

15.7

5star

HB

5.2

4star

M

7.0

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

389.5

5star

D

16.1

4star

K

12.1

5star

HB

4.0

3star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.0

2star

MG

271.6

4star

D

19.0

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

7.4

5star

M

6.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

?

 

[Sanchez365]

Also if you want to drop a small forward the only reason is to look for more defensive pressure and defensive run. I don't think that is Kai's game either putting aside consistency issues etc.

Solid point, personally I would be interested to see what Blake Coleman can do in that role, but McCarthy was credited with 4 tackles so that's a good effort. We also got 5 from both Cameron and Zorko so overall we had good forward pressure.

Our weakest forward was probably Gunston, followed by Bailey who I thought defensively was our least effective half forward, alot of broken tackles. However he was so dynamic in the fwd line with 2 great goals and winning another free that equated to a walk in by Danniher.

As opposed to last week, we had so many contributors so will be hard to find how to drop someone for Kiddy.

 

[mpal6]

Yes but they also brought Joyce in, I think we need the 3 tall defenders.

I think our back 7 will be the 3 talls, Starce, Rich, Kiddy and McKenna.
Not to say Rayner won’t spend time back there similar to how Gunston has at times but I don’t think he’ll be a full time defender when we’re fully fit.

I liked Rich going up few times to midfield move last night. He knows his craft in there and will be another bigger body who's hard to negotiate for opposition. I think Rayner n Rich swapping in the middle as part of rotations might be another way to sort this out.

 

[Tom14]

Gunston will be a work in progress and should be persisted with. The 2 shanks were bad but I can’t criticise the kick into the corridor - it’s what we have to do to move the ball better against good defences.

Sometimes it won’t come off and we have to live with that (Bailey being flat footed and not coming to the ball made it look worse too).

 

[McIvor]

W/o knowing who is out for the Dogs i did see an article on Fox or AFL that said Trelor and Lobb have already been ruled out for next week - I dont follow Dogs closely so dont know if they played last week or not - maybe Shack will get a game against us next week.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

W/o knowing who is out for the Dogs i did see an article on Fox or AFL that said Trelor and Lobb have already been ruled out for next week - I dont follow Dogs closely so dont know if they played last week or not - maybe Shack will get a game against us next week.

Didn't they delist him ?

 

[lionshine]

W/o knowing who is out for the Dogs i did see an article on Fox or AFL that said Trelor and Lobb have already been ruled out for next week - I dont follow Dogs closely so dont know if they played last week or not - maybe Shack will get a game against us next week.

Shack plays for Demons now

 

[Quested]

Coming in to the third game in 12 days I would think it more than reasonable to rest a few. Not to discredit the Dogs but I'm more concerned about who we put up against the Pies the following week, and would rather anyone that's needing it take the break. For me, I'd rest Zorks, Rich and Gunston and have them super fresh for the following week.

 

[martinson]

Coming in to the third game in 12 days I would think it more than reasonable to rest a few. Not to discredit the Dogs but I'm more concerned about who we put up against the Pies the following week, and would rather anyone that's needing it take the break. For me, I'd rest Zorks, Rich and Gunston and have them super fresh for the following week.

Just my personal take but I wouldn't be taking next week easily at all.

I'm more worried about next week than this week.

Despite how crap the Dogs look tonight.

 

[Sherrinator]

Joyce brings something different to Payne and Andrews. Has better pace and ground coverage, couple of kicks early in the game were flat sizzlers, by third quarter he was the only tall who turned around to see if he can impact an earlier contest before ball enters D50 than wait for a deep kick to the goal square to fist it through. I think he has the pace/tank to play on medium forwards too like Payne. We need to keep playing him and settle the defense.

Really liked his game. Wears his opponent like a sock.

 

[Sherrinator]

Coming in to the third game in 12 days I would think it more than reasonable to rest a few. Not to discredit the Dogs but I'm more concerned about who we put up against the Pies the following week, and would rather anyone that's needing it take the break. For me, I'd rest Zorks, Rich and Gunston and have them super fresh for the following week.

We only just had a 6 month break

 

[Elixuh]

Gunston will be a work in progress and should be persisted with. The 2 shanks were bad but I can’t criticise the kick into the corridor - it’s what we have to do to move the ball better against good defences.

Sometimes it won’t come off and we have to live with that (Bailey being flat footed and not coming to the ball made it look worse too).

I thought, particularly early in the game, he was playing Level very well. I ignore the shank kicks, that is just a technique error. His footy IQ is worth having him out there.

 

[MSB ROYS]

I want us to pump the dogs by 10 goals, Dunkley BOG and then Tom Morris to walk into Bevo's press conference and ask how he's going.

 

[McIvor]

Shack plays for Demons now

I had no idea.

 

[McIvor]

Just my personal take but I wouldn't be taking next week easily at all.

I'm more worried about next week than this week.

Despite how crap the Dogs look tonight.

I reckon Dogs will come out breathing fire now that they are 0-2 - we'll have to weather storm early i think and then we'll pounce
On a side note, it was great seeing Darcy G training with the boys last week - was watiching the vids from during the week and he was running around, so hopefully he's not to are away.

 

[On the quiet]

Change

Now that the cricket has finished at the GABBA, do any of the regular watches of training know if Lions trained at the GABBA in prep for the Dees game and is there likely to be some training and 'captain runs' at the GABBA moving forward? It's our home ground so the more we train on the ground, especially for our newer recruits the better.

Shorter week this week, and Tuesday out towards Springfield is forecast for around 35 degrees.

 

[On the quiet]

I reckon Dogs will come out breathing fire now that they are 0-2 - we'll have to weather storm early i think and then we'll pounce
On a side note, it was great seeing Darcy G training with the boys last week - was watiching the vids from during the week and he was running around, so hopefully he's not to are away.

Yeap Dogs will 'throw the sink' early at us.

Who does Dizzy come in for?