Game Day Preseason Game 1 - West Coast vs Adelaide, Sat 2/3 : It’s Melt Day

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Jamieson managing to completely miss the ball with his fist while spoiling (uncontested mind you) capping this game off nicely.

 

[RookiePick]

Adelaide going to look like trash when they play a side that won't get whistled incessantly.

 

[Mulldogg]

Chesser over Gaff on the wing for Round 1 please. Andrew can go and earn his spot in the WAFL.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Back here in two weeks, going to be a much bigger defeat..

 

[Rivoroo17]

Geeeez these umpires are compromised wouldve been double digit high contact calls.

 

[Mulldogg]

-111 disposals…oooft

 

[RookiePick]

Back here in two weeks, going to be a much bigger defeat..

Under 100 point loss should be the aim.

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Barnett very promising imo. Second year ruck (they take time) and has a real go and good athleticism and strength for his stage of development. Leaps and bounds after this pre season to his wafl work last year (understandable).

Impressed - he is gonna be it in time I think. Rucks can take a while to show but really happy with his attributes and effort already

 

[random260]

I prefer Barnett connection to our kids then Williams. Williams has zero connection and just hits to space to nobody

 

[Double the Fist]

If Harley wasn’t so fat we could’ve won this game

You owe me a new keyboard.... now covered in food from making me ****ing laugh!

 

[FKASC]

How was Maric? Any good kicks?

 

[the harry]

Thought Chess has another 5 or so disposals than the state sheet says.

Gov like great early. Some of the other seniors were going at half effort it felt like.

 

[Cornelius Roy]

Chesser over Gaff on the wing for Round 1 please. Andrew can go and earn his spot in the WAFL.

No he’s just the whipping boy apparently…

 

[PremiershipNo4]

You owe me a new keyboard.... now covered in food from making me ******* laugh!

Sorry got 3 teenagers, I’m all out of cash

 

[Yeahnahmate]

I prefer Barnett connection to our kids then Williams. Williams has zero connection and just hits to space to nobody

Barnett leans towards far more of a pure tap ruckman who uses his strength to get at it, then soft hands. Williams in his defence was pretty decent last season but is a hit and hope in there and would be spewing Flynn went down

 

[navi_]

Biggest positive was Fogarty not kicking another bag on us.

 

[Cornelius Roy]

Harley super impressive. Really hope they can get hewett on the park.

List just needs large turnover to fill it with competitive kids and push out the middle agents who aren’t up to it and older guns who the speed of the game is passing by.

 

[Spod]

Thought Chess has another 5 or so disposals than the state sheet says.

Yeah thought this too. Wonder what his ToG was. Did good damage when he got it.

 

[Rivoroo17]

Chesser for #1 ruck job

 

[sharps24]

Cole should not play round 1, he might be getting the ball but his decision making is terrible.

Offers considerably less than Rotham.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Who got injured?

 

[KERRPOW]

Hope theres some match highlights of the kids.

Missed most of the game with other commitments

 

[RookiePick]

I just get less and less confident Duggan and Cole are even AFL standard.

Cole is at his best given licence to counter attack but I'm not sure he can do a better job of that than Hunt, Witherden and Jones. He certainly can't be trusted as a lockdown type.

Duggan is a huge problem. He can't defend and he is useless at rebounding. He is hopeless in the midfield too. It's laughable he is sharing the captaincy with Oscar.

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Who got injured?

Hough died but came back fine to stick it to those dirty crom campaigners much like Jesus did. At least that’s what I got from the bible but I did kind of skip over all the boring parts

 

[CountryLad]

Points from today for me.

Green shoots from the kids. Stood up at times and tried hard all day.

Chesser had moments and probably his best game just needs to be a little more consistent across the 4 quarters.

Fat Smiley kid goes alright

Barnett rucked well when he was on. Something to look forward to in the future.

Long was better in the second half and even had a run on the ball.

Hough if he’s still classified as a kid? Had a really good game just needs to work a little on his decision making with his kicks.

Maric quiet but it’s going to be a grind for him when he gets the second best tall.

Dewar, Rawlinson, Livingstone all need more time and look very raw at this stage.

We applied good pressure overall and hard to knock the effort today.

Clearances are still our biggest issue and it’s hard to see that improving a hell of a lot especially if we cop an injury to a Yeo, Kelly or Reid and with Flynn out medium term.

Forward line looked young and a little disconnected but our delivery wasn’t great either but the Crows defence dominated the contest.

Going to be a tough ask against Port in two weeks time from what we have seen so far.