Preview Changes vs. Essendon

[Dancing Potato]

BIG CHANGES ARE AFOOT Topkent

 

[Headless]

I’m tipping u guys this week. good luck

Thanks!

 

[Crusty Demon]

In: Kynan Brown
Out: Charlie Spargo.

No Lever for the rest of the season to me. Ever since his dumb front on contact free against North I simply can't handle him anymore. I'm done.

Huh? I thought Lever was amongst our best against GWS. I didn't really watch the Norf game but Lever is an auto inclusion. Probably a dozen blokes ahead of him we should be questioning selection.

 

[Grimey Sylvia]

Not saying melk will do anything but I reckon people write him off every season because he takes time to get into it and then after a few rounds he ends up being useful

Agree, injury interrupted preseason but was still one of our only players who was able to hit someone up on a lead in F50.

 

[Grimey Sylvia]

Lord Nev posted some good vision in the Goodwin thread that showed how badly the Sparrow tagging move actually hurt us.

Yes, he did an OK job (though Holmes still had 17 disposals to Sparrow's 5), but it let Geelong do whatever they wanted in their back half because we didn't send someone back there to fill the gap he left.

If we're playing a tagger, that tagger needs to be in the middle most of the game. If Sparrow spends most of the game in the middle alongside Oliver and Viney, we might as well pack it in now, because we're cooked.

Good point. Drop Viney and bring sparrow in to the midfield to tag Merrett. He is a gun, kills us everytime and ess go shit when he does.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Sack the coach or drop a dozen premiership players. Ideally both.

 

[Grimey Sylvia]

Surely it is time to bring Fullerton in for a few weeks. Be nice to have an actual tall - tall forward - rather than undersized guys like JVR & Turner matched with Fritsch/Melk combo who also try to play taller...

He seems to cover the ground pretty good, gets on the lead, takes marks at full stretch instead of bouncing them off his chest, decent kick... I can see why Goody doesn't like him!

 

[danster168]

Huh? I thought Lever was amongst our best against GWS. I didn't really watch the Norf game but Lever is an auto inclusion. Probably a dozen blokes ahead of him we should be questioning selection.

you're right, he will be an auto inclusion but wouldn't be for me. I'm just tired of his brain fades deep in defence. At the very least out of the leadership group for me. His best is really good, his bad is really bad.

 

[melbun]

you're right, he will be an auto inclusion but wouldn't be for me. I'm just tired of his brain fades deep in defence. At the very least out of the leadership group for me. His best is really good, his bad is really bad.

Not the person that you want in a 1 on 1, your 1 point up and there is 1 minute to go.
You can bet on him doing something stupid.

I'm thinking it's all because the crowd noise in close games means he can't hear instructions from May.

 

[Crusty Demon]

you're right, he will be an auto inclusion but wouldn't be for me. I'm just tired of his brain fades deep in defence. At the very least out of the leadership group for me. His best is really good, his bad is really bad.

It's up to Goodwin and Bassett to find a way to get Lever playing 3rd man up like he did in his AA year. Cats allow Stewart to play that role, so why can't we? But again, if thought he played well 1st game. If Sparrow, Salem and Petty are best 22, Lever is an auto inclusion.

 

[melbun]

It's up to Goodwin and Bassett to find a way to get Lever playing 3rd man up like he did in his AA year. Cats allow Stewart to play that role, so why can't we? But again, if thought he played well 1st game. If Sparrow, Salem and Petty are best 22, Lever is an auto inclusion.

Cat's have the advantage that almost everyone in team is strong overhead. (The almost is for Miers)
This means they can move their best into the 3rd man up role.

Melbourne on the other hand has too many who cannot take a contested mark or simply cannot catch overhead. It's a skill thing. Check our player list.

 

[Topkent]

Cat's have the advantage that almost everyone in team is strong overhead. (The almost is for Miers)
This means they can move their best into the 3rd man up role.

Melbourne on the other hand has too many who cannot take a contested mark or simply cannot catch overhead. It's a skill thing. Check our player list.

This is so true. We have a very poor one on one marking team across the board. Almost all of Geelongs players are really strong overheard. Swans have a bit of that about them as well

 

[Toump Ass]

We have a very poor one on one marking team across the board.

I feel like the only time you see us kick to a 1-on-1 contest it's Spargo or Bowey against some 2 metre giant.

 

[Topkent]

I feel like the only time you see us kick to a 1-on-1 contest it's Spargo or Bowey against some 2 metre giant.

Tactics

 

[melbun]

This is so true. We have a very poor one on one marking team across the board. Almost all of Geelongs players are really strong overheard. Swans have a bit of that about them as well

And the Giants

 

[melbun]

I feel like the only time you see us kick to a 1-on-1 contest it's Spargo or Bowey against some 2 metre giant.

We doan do 1 on 1

Our forwards only get 1 against 2 (or 3). Many times I have seen JVR and Disco beaten against 2 opponents.

Q 1.
Why kick to someone who is outnumbered?

 

[Toump Ass]

We doan do 1 on 1

Our forwards only get 1 against 2 (or 3). Many times I have seen JVR and Disco beaten against 2 opponents.

Q 1.
Why kick to someone who is outnumbered?

It's incredible isn't it, outnumbered in every contest but there's never a spare man in sight.

 

[Bluelegs]

What does everyone think our excuse will be this week?

 

[stEdy]

What does everyone think our excuse will be this week?

Clarrence accidentally flew to Brisbane for Gather Round and it threw the whole team's preparation off. Also we've been doing HEAVY TRAINING LOADS.

 

[Scythe]

What does everyone think our excuse will be this week?

Mercury is no longer in retrograde.

 

[Toump Ass]

What does everyone think our excuse will be this week?

We had so much love that it overflowed into the Bombers and manifested into a selfless desire to reward them a #1 draft pick.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Im sure there will be something about how it's good to get away as a team from all that negativity in Victoria.

 

[Jamurp]

Im sure there will be something about how it's good to get away as a team from all that negativity in Victoria.

They’ll say it’ll be ‘good to get out of the fishbowl of Victoria’, then go to Adelaide and score 53 points.

 

[Topkent]

They’ll say it’ll be ‘good to get out of the fishbowl of Victoria’, then go to Adelaide and score 53 points.

53 whole points!

 

[melbun]

What does everyone think our excuse will be this week?

I had a flat tyre, I ran out of fuel, an earthquake, a flood, there was lightning, someone stole my car, there was a locust plague, the food was bad, ...

It wasn't our fault.

 

[Crusty Demon]

Cat's have the advantage that almost everyone in team is strong overhead. (The almost is for Miers)
This means they can move their best into the 3rd man up role.

Melbourne on the other hand has too many who cannot take a contested mark or simply cannot catch overhead. It's a skill thing. Check our player list.

So we've built a team based on contest, just not in the air. #demonspirit