Changes vs West Coast

[footy4ever]

Our medicos are bullshit artists mate absolute flogs

Well, not sure our medicos are that, but I can offer a couple of names who are, though they've been smashed on here so I'm not gonna flog that dead horse.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

Atkins out. About ******* time. Hope he stays out for good too. Mackay next thanks.

Thank Christ for that. I'll have a few scotches to celebrate.

 

[GreyCrow]

Is he claiming concussion when he signed to get out of contract. Where's McClure?

Apparently if your head gets knocked into the boardroom table it bounces

*just kidding Sam

 

[cpt_lmadz]

I wonder if this is Pyke finally telling the rest of the match committee to **** off and let him do his job

This is exactly what I was thinking. Maybe there was some type of review and Pyke has wrestled more control over selections.

Happy with this side, although I don't see the need for Cheney. Would have swapped him for the forward pressure Murphy provides.

 

[Scorpus]

This is exactly what I was thinking. Maybe there was some type of review and Pyke has wrestled more control over selections.

Happy with this side, although I don't see the need for Cheney. Would have swapped him for the forward pressure Murphy provides.

Possibly. I just think it's strange that we made six changes, three of which were unforced, when we already had 3 returning senior players.

The 'typical' Crows thing to do would be bring back any senior players and make the minimum amount of changes, usually young players getting the axe

 

[CrowinNT]

Better personnel but strange balance. Overloaded on lockdown defenders and inside mids.

Does that mean Sloane up forward to start with?

Presumably Hampton forward.

Even if D Mac plays wing we've still got too many defenders. Could there be a wildcard switch like Kelly defensive forward on McGovern?

I was thinking this too Drugs
Milera is best in defence
Hampton Sloane fwd

 

[Magma]

really hope that with some gun players this week we havent gone too slow and get carved up by a smaller west coast side.

 

[pjcrows]

Possibly. I just think it's strange that we made six changes, three of which were unforced, when we already had 3 returning senior players.

The 'typical' Crows thing to do would be bring back any senior players and make the minimum amount of changes, usually young players getting the axe

When was the last time we lost 4 in a row?

 

[cpt_lmadz]

Possibly. I just think it's strange that we made six changes, three of which were unforced, when we already had 3 returning senior players.

The 'typical' Crows thing to do would be bring back any senior players and make the minimum amount of changes, usually young players getting the axe

Exactly, making these unforced changes feel like a shift in selection policy. Also bringing in Hampton who seems to have been on the outer.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Asking a lot of Gallucci and Milera to provide basically all our forward pressure

+ Hampton & Douglas.

 

[Shaz2012]

**** this business of playing Milera anywhere other than HBF. I suppose that is the least of our worries at the moment. But **** off with that shit.

 

[Iron]

And Atkins can **** off for good.

But unfortunately you know he'll be back after one week

Nah come on. He was due to be dropped. More than due. But hes still young so hopefully it's the reality check he needs.

And I do reckon he needs it.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

LUXURY, we are only missing five of our best dozen players (Betts, Lynch, McGovern, Brouch and Smith).Fortunately they are also missing some very good players.

So, both teams are missing three of their best forwards. We need to break even in the midfield and hope Tex and the KIDS can drag us over the line.

THE FOG was selected. The #Vaderlist still rules .

No it doesn't as both Hampton & CEY came in!

 

[jenny61_99]

IN: L. Brown, C. Ellis-Yolmen, D. Fogarty, C. Hampton, R. Laird, R. Sloane
OUT: E. Betts (hamstring), S. Gibson (hamstring), A. Otten (achilles), R. Atkins, M. Poholke, P. Wilson


Finally a hard call made.

It’s been really hard to make hard calls given the missing personnel we’ve had.

 

[Shaz2012]

Tex, JJ, Fog and CEY makes for an awfully slow forward line. Probably would have liked to have left Fog out of this one if we were going with CEY.

CEY would have been a pretty good trade off as that third tall who can also go into the middle and do some grunt work.

 

[Drummond]

It’s been really hard to make hard calls given the missing personnel we’ve had.

Weak as per usual. There have been plenty of hard calls that could’ve been made.

 

[rezagun]

Hampton will go forward and kick a couple.
Fogarty to muscle up on mcgovern.
Sloane to show how much weve missed him.

 

[jenny61_99]

Weak as per usual. There have been plenty of hard calls that could’ve been made.

There’s been plenty that SHOULD have been made, absolutely. But the fact is, Drummond, the cupboard has been bare.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

It's a much better looking side this week with the return of the Rory's et al.

Think they will line-up something like as follows:

B: Brown, Talia, Kelly
HB: Doedee, Hartigan, Laird
C: Seedsman, Mrouch, Milera
HF: Greenwood, Walker, Douglas
F: Hampton, Jenkins, Fogarty
R: Jacobs, Sloane, Gibbs
I: Cheney, CEY, Mackay, Gallucci

However, the side is a little unbalanced.

Would have preferred to have played Polholke or Murphy instead of Cheney to allow Milera to play in defence where he is a far better player.

By bringing in CEY we have picked the extra midfielder, meaning we are going to rotate midfielders forward... &/or look to play Greenwood in the Lynch role... with hopefully the opportunity to "rest" Sloane up forward at times.

 

[GreyCrow]

I think CEY , Hampton and Sloane spend a lot of time each in the forward pocket and the middle

*I did not realise there are no emergencies ( that I see)

 

[Schulzycrow]

When was the last time we made 6 changes??? Its a BF dream come true.
Thank f Atkins was finally dropped.

 

[spenze]

I really hope Hampton does well in this match. If they put him forward just tell him " if you can kick it kick it, if you can't honour the first lead"

 

[feenix67]

Is CEY insurance if Sloane/Crouch re-injure?

Cheney's retention seems odd, are we going to lock down on JGov?

Nice to see a few back and Rat get a timeout for non attendance.

 

[mattymac]

Yay Milera buttreamed back to HFF no mans land where we can make sure his best asset isn't used to our advantage

 

[mattymac]

This is a bizarre squad.

All the balance of a giraffe riding a toy bike