Preview R10: Changes v Pies, 2024

[footy4ever]

Why can't we buy a really decent coach? Nicks - great bloke no question, but jeez.

 

[Greenfinger]

F**K I'm done with Nicks and his stupid cohorts. Whatta S**T show they give us week after week with these pathetic selections.
Murphy was barely servicable last week and Hamill's time is up. To say they were good is a joke.
KPD defender goes out injured who do they bring in a friggin HBF who has brain fades. Borlase was the logical replacement but no these incompetent morons just can't understand these things.
Sack them ASAP.

Can borlase was actually really good last week. Had a much better game than hammel

 

[footy4ever]

Don't need to add to the Murphy/Ned pile on. It's futile, but I don't get the Hamill hate.

 

[spenze]

To be honest I am just surprised it took so long to bring in the "Universally appreciated" Murph.

Must be some descent in the ranks not to have him in straight up

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Surely, surely it’s much ******* easier to find a talented player and teach them all that, than it is to turn an untalented shape keeper into a player.

This

 

[Burtonsgottago]

The unfortunate thing about Murphy is that he does have decent Footy IQ. Reads play well.

Just can't execute.



Combine his IQ with Chayce Jones skill and physical traits, you have a very good player.






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Combine Jones skill, with Murphys footy IQ, and Ned’s hustle…. I’d still delist.

 

[AFC979810]

F**K I'm done with Nicks and his stupid cohorts. Whatta S**T show they give us week after week with these pathetic selections.
Murphy was barely servicable last week and Hamill's time is up. To say they were good is a joke.

Was on board here.

KPD defender goes out injured who do they bring in a friggin HBF who has brain fades. Borlase was the logical replacement but no these incompetent morons just can't understand these things.
Sack them ASAP.

And you just lost me here.

Who is Borlase gonna cover against Collingwood? Mihocek is out (alongside Elliot) who are their two best forwards.

Butts is going to go to the Cox/Cameron. Keane will go to McInnes.

Their other goal kickers are: Hill (12), Lipinski (9) , Schultz (9), McCreery (6) - and Daicos as well. Borlase has the turning circle of a double decker bus. Which one is he athletic enough to cover?

Not bringing in Borlase is actually a smart play.

 

[AFC979810]

Don't need to add to the Murphy/Ned pile on. It's futile, but I don't get the Hamill hate.

What do you see in him?

 

[footy4ever]

What do you see in him?

Speed, agility, decent skills.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Some exciting passages of play ahead of us.

Jones to Mchenry to Murp...no wait Mchenry fumbles and was run down.

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Thats all ok. Our biggest issue is that Rachele celebrates too much.

 

[Hbanger]

Why can't we buy a really decent coach? Nicks - great bloke no question, but jeez

Why can't we buy a really decent coach? Nicks - great bloke no question, but jeez.

Should be our number one priority

 

[Geoffa32]

You’re giving too much credit to Jones. Who is an average Sanfl player at best.

Very good raw skill and fitness.


Very bad Football IQ.


The raw skills allowed him to play midfield as a kid.

The low Footy IQ why he is at best a basic Wings player in AFL/SANFL.

Can only play the game up and down.




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[footy4ever]

Some exciting passages of play ahead of us.

Jones to Mchenry to Murp...no wait Mchenry tries to break the tackle but gets caught holding the ball.

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FTFY

 

[Smoooothy]

i had such low expectations for who we were going to bring in this week, and i'm still disappointed

may as well bring back campo and birdman too - thats how mediocre we're going

 

[Executive Landlord]

Remember when we got Rankine and Rachele and thought we would never see these two useless campaigners again...

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Nicks has taken his obsession with 'values' so far that it is rewarded above talent.

The result is that we are sacrificing what is needed to win.

Perfect summary of Nicks.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Even Barrett is fed up. But until we get a new coach, there won’t be any such conviction from our coach - he doesn’t have the killer instinct that lethal had. Remember lethal was an elite player (perhaps the games best ever) who needed to win. Nicks was a tryer, which is reflected in his selection policy…

IF ...​

in this corresponding round 10, 23 years ago, Leigh Matthews forever transformed the Brisbane Lions with his "if it bleeds, we can kill it" line directed straight between the eyes of the reigning premier Essendon ...

THEN ...​

there's the motivation for the Crows to finally snap out of near misses and disappointment. This season's reigning premier, Collingwood, awaits them at the MCG on Saturday. The Pies are bleeding badly. Injuries everywhere. Let's see what Matty Nicks and Izak Rankine

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Izak Rankine

Age

24

Ht

181cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

2.0

5star

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

2.0

5star

D

13.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

5star

G

2.0

5star

and co. have got. No. More. Excuses.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Even Barrett is fed up. But until we get a new coach, there won’t be any such conviction from our coach - he doesn’t have the killer instinct that lethal had. Remember lethal was an elite player (perhaps the games best ever) who needed to win. Nicks was a tryer, which is reflected in his selection policy…

IF ...​

in this corresponding round 10, 23 years ago, Leigh Matthews forever transformed the Brisbane Lions with his "if it bleeds, we can kill it" line directed straight between the eyes of the reigning premier Essendon ...

THEN ...​

there's the motivation for the Crows to finally snap out of near misses and disappointment. This season's reigning premier, Collingwood, awaits them at the MCG on Saturday. The Pies are bleeding badly. Injuries everywhere. Let's see what Matty Nicks and Izak Rankine and co. have got. No. More. Excuses.

Spot on - All you hear from the dimwit is useless platitudes and catch phrases like "System, DNA, Contest, Shape, Cohesion, Connection, Buy-in, DNA"

Never heard Nicks with any of his actual own thoughts (not AFL clichés he recycles) or speak in a way that inspires a killer instinct on the field.

 

[GreyCrow]

Never heard Nicks with any of his actual own thoughts (not AFL clichés he recycles) or speak in a way that inspires a killer instinct on the field.

He may well be different in the changeroom ( I cant see it going too much outside the lines) but I would fall asleep and switch off

 

[Twist_of_Lemon]

Spot on - All you hear from the dimwit is useless platitudes and catch phrases like "System, DNA, Contest, Shape, Cohesion, Connection, Buy-in, DNA"

Never heard Nicks with any of his actual own thoughts (not AFL clichés he recycles) or speak in a way that inspires a killer instinct on the field.

Nicks spent good coin on that Big Book of Coaching Clichés and by god is he going to get his money's worth.

 

[Redleg Crow]

Sigh

 

[GreyCrow]

I posted 2 years ago the stark difference between Murphy's home and away record

And our selection panel ignore it or don't care

Category	Games	Kicks	Handballs	Disposals	Marks	Goals	Behinds	Tackles	Hitouts	Frees For	Frees Ag.
		Home	12	9.6	6.7	16.2	3.2	0.6	0.4	3.2	0	1.6	0.4
		Away	10	7.5	5.9	13.4	2.8	0.5	0.3	2.9	0	0.6	1.1
		Home/Away Diff.	2	2.1	0.8	2.9	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.3	0	1.0	-0.7
		Local	13	9.8	6.5	16.4	3.5	0.6	0.4	3.0	0	1.5	0.7
		Interstate	9	6.9	6.0	12.9	2.3	0.4	0.3	3.1	0	0.6	0.8
		Local/Inter. Diff.	4	3.0	0.5	3.5	1.2	0.2	0.1	-0.1	0	1.0	-0.1

 

[BACCS]

When I watched the Brisbane game a 2nd time I did appreciate that McHenry and Brodie actually played decent games. Didn't star by any measure, but thought they played their roles and easily their best games of the season. Given that, there was just no need to bring in an out of form Murphy, McHenry is playing that role fine and we don't need two of them! Schoenberg should have been such an easy inclusion here.

I also don't understand what you gain from playing Hamill at this point, Oscar Ryan is clearly the long term future in this role and has been in far better form at SANFL level.

 

[Crow_Magnon]

Don't need to add to the Murphy/Ned pile on. It's futile, but I don't get the Hamill hate.

Same here. I thought he was very good against Carlton. He does have a tendency to drop his head into dangerous places when approaching the ball - hence his concussions, but he does have some pace, and reasonably good judgement and just gives us some quicker options off half back especially where opposition forwards are smaller. Borlase is fine against the larger, slower forwards, but Collingwood have few options in that area this week.

 

[weekend at bernies]

We are going to absolutely destroy Collingwood with our shape keeping.. we've now got 2 of the best playing together.