AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
LOLOLOLOLOL Yeah mate coming from the bloke who has Kennedy on the back flank and Maxwell as our CHB, take your floggy comments somewhere else because all of your opinions are invalid.
Having the former captain in the backline for round 1 is the smartest thing we can do without his experience we are stuffed and going third up we are totally stuffed.
Grundy had a bad game, it doesn't mean he will stay like that. And no Keeffe but Kennedy? And why have you got Reid down back? It's pretty clear that Bucks is gonna mostly play him forward.
Considering Maxwell usually plays a lose role and his 1 on 1 game is poor and Freo look likely to play a forward line of Pavlich, Gumbleton, Sandilands/other ruckman, Mayne, Ballantyne and Walters we cant afford to have loose type of role from maxwell as his poor 1v1 game would be exposed and it wouldnt be pretty. I would probably rather have Langdon and Ramsay over Armstrong thinking about it. Toovey looks as though he wont be ready for round 1 otherwise he would be a lock and Sinclair has a good shutdown game and he played good shutdown footy during our purple patch late last year.
Having the extra number in defence was the way Malthouse was able to control the ball from one end of the field and keep possession until we scored. It wasn't broke so we fix that? If Maxwell isn't up to it Goldsack should play the role. We need numbers in defence to at least be competitive against Fremantle.
Going back to the old school set up in defence looks great. Only Shaw is missing really.
I dont think our current list can group together a back 6 worthy of a premiership, even when Reid is our centre half back. Which why im hoping we hit free agency hard at the end of the year recruiting certain players to make our back 50 an attacking force which is something we dont have which is a huge hole in our side, having a back half with quality rebound sets up almost every play. We should recruit hard by signing defenders who can rebound to refresh and give our back half a new fresh look, with hopes of going all the way for the next few years.
I like this side, if a few things went our way and if we could replace Lynch with an actuall marking threat we would be pushing for top 4. Id actually consider replacing Lynch with Huddo or Witts as they would probably give more.
To say he impressed me, would be an understatement. Seems every tackle he lays he gets a free kick, very happy we picked him up. If we can develop his shutdown game to Tooveys level, he would be an Alan Toovey with exceptional skills and with great ball winning ability. Could even be developed to play midfield instead.
that is extremely exciting, looking forward to seeing him play.
Hm funny, could of sworn the title was 'Pick your Round 1 team for 2014', not 'Pick Nathans Round 1 team for 2014'.
Odd, hmm dont remember stating that i knew more than him but using your logic you could ask that question to everyone who has a different 22 to Nathans. I will happily be proven wrong if Maxwell has a blinder round 1, but against this particular opponent, maxwell loose i wouldnt think would be the best option for our back 6.
