Unofficial Preview Changes vs GWS

[boffo]

Rob stays in ....tick, back the improving young guy
Mrouch comes in....tick, improves the team
Hartigan comes in......tick, improves the team due to GWS match ups
Douglas in...... jury out, but showed class, speed and form in the SANFL last week (according to a knowledgeable source of mine).

As we won last week we are selecting best 22 on form and balance for beating GWS. We are going all in for now, as we should.

If we win this we'll be 7 - 5.

(I'm expecting Sloane to be an out to be replaced by Gibbs or Greenwood though)

 

[Crow till I die]

DO we bring Gibbs or Greenwood, when Sloane is inevitably a late out?

Gibbs for mine - CAN do the shutdown role on Coniglio or Kelly if needed

 

[King Elvis]

If anyone considers last week to be a vindication of anything, when Melbourne kicked 1.8 in the last quarter, then they're as deluded as employees of the AFC.

 

[ABAB]

This is a joke right? Why do people still mention his name. Bloke has had 10 chances and never impresses.

CEY also only had very good SANFL form last year, many were saying he isn't AFL material (and not even worth a 3rd rounder), now look at him this year.

 

[ABAB]

If anyone considers last week to be a vindication of anything, when Melbourne kicked 1.8 in the last quarter, then they're as deluded as employees of the AFC.

We ran out of gas when we had to comeback with only 21 fit players (with our best player and midfielder gone) after quarter time in 27 degree heat, that's why Melbourne had 9 scoring shots.

 

[Elite Crow]

We ran out of gas when we had to comeback with only 21 fit players after quarter time in 27 degree heat, that's why Melbourne had 9 scoring shots.

Yeah that was it, it’s not like Melbourne weren’t on top for the rest of the game. Fair dinkum you post some shit

 

[conVINCEd]

So birdbrain says the players dropped is less about form and more about ‘ team balance ‘ then why would we have them on the emergency list ? We make zero sense. We will be destroyed. Dumb selections.

Do you know what an emergency is?

Who could’ve predicted this thread’s level of melt in the week we’ve brought Matt Crouch back in and dropped Mackay.

 

[GROTTO]

I'm still not getting why this means why we have dropped Gibbs to the SANFL though.

He played ok last week, including tagging their most dangerous player last week... so mentally ok to play football.

If he needed a break, why is he playing SANFL? Wouldn't we give him a complete break?

I don't get it...

I would love to know what the hell he bets on where he is hemorrhaging money to that extent.

Is lhe betting on coin toss? Roulette? X-Lotto? Glory be, please not pokies.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

In the sanfl
Have you watched him play afl?

it always amazes me how quickly this board writes off second-year players.

 

[Red mist]

Erm I’m still a bit off on Murphy.
Bigger contested forward like Greenwood should have been the go there imo.

 

[hey shorty]

Dougie is now in for the year, he’s like Sauce, not subject to being dropped.

We will see about that

 

[conVINCEd]

FFS Why not play Greenwood solely as a deep Full Forward? Not much of tank needed, if he parked himself there, takes 3 marks, kicks 3 goals and provides defensive pressure I50. Thats a massive win. Im just stunned the selectors dont see this.

I lost my sht1t last week when we would go deep to Murphy for a one on one contest.

Meanwhile Eddie still wants a car for mark of the year.

Our forward structure makes no sense whatsoever. Its absolutely flawed. It can work against crap teams, but we get truly exposed and cared up against quality opposition.

Greenwood doesn’t provide defensive pressure I50 because he’s slow.

 

[mattymac]

Yeah a guy kicking multiple goals and averaging 20+ touches in the SANFL is never the answer.

Mitch Grigg: Word

 

[hey shorty]

Yeah that was it, it’s not like Melbourne weren’t on top for the rest of the game. Fair dinkum you post some ****

Still, when you consider who that player was and the position of the game when he went off, there's still some positives to take from it.

 

[MRB37]

So we go in having no one to tag Cogs or Kelly if they get of the chain. We didn't even bring in Knight as that option.

Gibbs seemed ok mentally last week having to concentrate in a lockdown role...

They don't want to tag though. We have an offensive midfield, defence is an afterthought. I'm sure they didn't plan on using Gibbs as a tagger last week, eventually their hand was forced. They'll find someone else to do it if they have to this week.

 

[hey shorty]

Mitch Grigg: Word

It's a fair comparison, however Myles is much more mobile than Grigg.

Even so Grigg was afforded much more time.

 

[betterthanu]

Gibbs has tagged for half a game in his whole career and people are acting as if hes Cameron Ling.

 

[Elite Crow]

Greenwood doesn’t provide defensive pressure I50 because he’s slow.

Funny how Greenwood had 2 inside 50 tackles, 29 pressure acts to Murphy’s 0 inside 50 tackles and 15 pressure acts.

Did I forget to mention Murphy had 5 disposals? 5

 

[RePete]

Reckon we might see some vintage Richie Douglas this Saturday. He is playing for his career after all.

 

[Elite Crow]

Still, when you consider who that player was and the position of the game when he went off, there's still some positives to take from it.

Nah, we were lucky to beat the second bottom team. It was a shit performance. Had they kicked straight in the last we would have been ducked.

 

[ABAB]

Yeah that was it, it’s not like Melbourne weren’t on top for the rest of the game. Fair dinkum you post some ****

Yeah and we also gave them 2.5-3 quarters head start with applying no pressure at all.

 

[GROTTO]

If anyone considers last week to be a vindication of anything, when Melbourne kicked 1.8 in the last quarter, then they're as deluded as employees of the AFC.

Put the man on the mark 10m closer towards goal and I would have backed any Bigfooty posters on our board to have nailed those 3 missed set shots by Melbourne in the last 5 minutes.

If I am not mistaken that may have been one of the first times ever the Crows won a game with a kick after the siren and shot on goal missed with the difference being less than a goal?

 

[Elite Crow]

Yeah and we also gave them 2.5-3 quarters head start with applying no pressure at all.

So we agree we played poorly then and we were lucky they kicked 1-8 in the last

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

They don't want to tag though. We have an offensive midfield, defence is an afterthought. I'm sure they didn't plan on using Gibbs as a tagger last week, eventually their hand was forced. They'll find someone else to do it if they have to this week.

I have no issue entering the game not to tag, but stupid to take on GWS midfield guns with no plan B option.

Who else tags? Douglas?

 

[GROTTO]

Gibbs has tagged for half a game in his whole career and people are acting as if hes Cameron Ling.

The ultimate tag.