Preview R12: Changes v Wet Toast @ AO

[OldCrowBloke]

Is Parnell player number 37 so far this year? We have been turning players over at a breakneck pace!

While I am pleased to see another emerging player get a go, as fans we would just like to see some semblance of a plan

• how do we see our defence set up and who are the key personnel?
• who are are genuine forwards, or who are just being used as stop-gaps?
• which players should be developing as key elements of the midfield for the future?

The selectors seem to be stuck on a roundabout with no clear way to get off it.

 

[SellarStardom]

How the flying f**k is McHenry keeping his spot and Jones isn't. How is it that Rowe and Murphy are better than Pedlar or Newchurch?

It's all about pressure for Nicks, however, our team is losing games because it can't kick goals.

 

[Greenfinger]

Jones> Brown all year and yet Jones is dropped and Brown is only out because of HS protocol. What is the messaging to our younger players? Length of service is more important than performance at AFC !

 

[CrowinNT]

No, Butts, Brown & sub Jones.

Thanks
The past few days in our area has been hit and miss with Internet coverage:
The defense force exercises have zoned us out intermission on repeat

 

[Sanders]

I'd like to say I can't wait til Nicks is gone but it'll be the same shit served up by someone different. When will this club realise Neil Craig wasn't that good a coach, he inherited the guts of a premiership team that was still in a spot to win a flag or two and he underdelivered? The only hope this club has is to stop using him as our template,his ghost haunts the club every day.

Yes!!!

We entered the 2003 season as one of the premiership fabiurites, we might have even no.1

Bad year with injuries and suddenly Craig took over a no hoper list?

Bzzzt

 

[Scorpus]

I'd like to say I can't wait til Nicks is gone but it'll be the same shit served up by someone different. When will this club realise Neil Craig wasn't that good a coach, he inherited the guts of a premiership team that was still in a spot to win a flag or two and he underdelivered? The only hope this club has is to stop using him as our template,his ghost haunts the club every day.

The love for Craig to this day is absolutely insane given we actually won flags under Blight and not under Craig

Why couldn't we instill Blight philosophies?

 

[SLOWNE]

Our selection mentality is putrid, why would a young emerging player ever want to come to us?

Experience over performance week in week out.
Have your development absolutely destroyed by being relentlessly played out of position.
Being played through niggling injuries that eventually deteriorate and ensure you will be past it by age 29.

We even did the most AFC thing ever by recruiting an old, slow and injured midfielder with none of the traits we need, that nobody else would've selected. We did this instead of looking at younger talent in positions of need.

SANFL flag, here we come.

 

[Carmo]

The love for Craig to this day is absolutely insane given we actually won flags under Blight and not under Craig

Why couldn't we instill Blight philosophies?

Well Phil Walsh was on his way until AFC's freakish bad luck struck again.

 

[thebirdman 24]

It isn't just Doedee vs Darling this year. It is horribly out of form Doedee vs Darling. Load up on Darling for a bag.

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[texanmike]

It isn't just Doedee vs Darling this year. It is horribly out of form Doedee vs Darling. Load up on Darling for a bag.

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Don’t forget the botched hand as well, we never learn

 

[skittlebrew]

How are West Coast still getting pumped every week? Their list still has plenty of names

 

[CrowBloke]

*me, looking at announced team, sees Jones out but Milera and Crouch retained ...
... jaw drops ...
... shakes head ...*

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

How are West Coast still getting pumped every week? Their list still has plenty of names

They’re all old and they don’t care

 

[MRB37]

The love for Craig to this day is absolutely insane given we actually won flags under Blight and not under Craig

Why couldn't we instill Blight philosophies?

Blight would call out BS when he saw it, not the sort of thing a lot of people in our administration department would be fond of.

Craig is slow, steady, stay consistent, stay the course, play safe and it'll turn around eventually.

 

[skittlebrew]

They’re all old and they don’t care

What's the chance that they'll conveniently start caring once they play us?

 

[Scorpus]

How are West Coast still getting pumped every week? Their list still has plenty of names

They have realised they won't make finals this year and are tanking hard to maximize their position when they aren't contending.

Something we should do but instead try and make the 8 because anything can happen

 

[Crow till I die]

Blight would call out BS when he saw it, not the sort of thing a lot of people in our administration department would be fond of.

Craig is slow, steady, stay consistent, stay the course, play safe and it'll turn around eventually.

almost crowbotic?

 

[ams4crows]

We haven't learnt a single thing, we aren't trying to develop the next gen as we are too afraid of losing big.


Kennedy and Darling will once again have a field day. I'm so tired of this club and its senior player obsession, regardless of form.

 

[Bazz_27]

What's the chance that they'll conveniently start caring once they play us?

They've had a tough run. Neat north and pies and have gradually been getting players back. You can bet your bottom dollar they'll give us a good run for our money. Bombers in 2 weeks too

 

[CrowinNT]

The love for Craig to this day is absolutely insane given we actually won flags under Blight and not under Craig

Why couldn't we instill Blight philosophies?

I do not think I have seen an AFC coach with the footy insight and “Brain for changes to win a game” like Blighty had
Will not see another in my lifetime unfortunately that looked at his troops and assessed their skills and put them to good use like he did

 

[rabidcrow]

Is Parnell player number 37 so far this year? We have been turning players over at a breakneck pace!

While I am pleased to see another emerging player get a go, as fans we would just like to see some semblance of a plan

• how do we see our defence set up and who are the key personnel?
• who are are genuine forwards, or who are just being used as stop-gaps?
• which players should be developing as key elements of the midfield for the future?

The selectors seem to be stuck on a roundabout with no clear way to get off it.

Surely that wa s always the plan going into this year. We started the season with hardly any clear certain success stories with our younger players. Good that they are rotating them through and giving most a block of games. Unfortunately for Parnell I think he only gets 1 as they will want Brown straight back in


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[rabidcrow]

They have realised they won't make finals this year and are tanking hard to maximize their position when they aren't contending.

Something we should do but instead try and make the 8 because anything can happen

A very West Coast trait. Usually fall to bottom 4 when not contending to get the early picks - rarely stuck in the middle


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[MRB37]

Height wise I think the Eagles are a bit overstated with their main guys.

We'll go

Kennedy 196cm - Murray 193cm
Darling 191cm - Doedee 187cm
Waterman 191cm - Hinge 190cm

The biggest issue last year was our utter inability to slow their midfield down and they got easy and quick I50's to their forwards advantage (especially Darling who I think kicked 4 goals in the 3rd quarter). They may have a rotating ruck of Williams/Jamison forward, they had a combined 1 touch inside their forward 50 last week, though the Dogs did have the legit 3rd tall with O'Brien.

In the wet I imagine what we'll do is send a Murphy/Rowe/Berry as an extra to the contest and just focus on a no-skill, contest game with Laird/Keays/Crouch just smashing it forward as quick as possible. That will hopefully minimise the quick opportunities for the Eagles too and we can rely on a more group approach to defending, rather than potentially getting guys caught out of position defending a 1-1.

Then on our side you just try to get it inside our 50, pressure, lock it in and try to play the game in our forward half and grind out some goals that way. It'll be ugly and low scoring and also mean we'll be a chance to lose if we can't convert. They'll also need to make sure they don't let McGovern do a Stewart on us again and dictate the play in our forward line.

Eagles used Kelly, Redden and Shuey as their 3 main mids last week, Kelly had 11 clearances, Shuey 4 and Redden 2, so they'll probably feel confident we can win that battle with Laird, Keays, Crouch and Hately. Maybe even have Hately do a run with role at stoppages again? Sort of game where because we lack class it's going to suit us, but also mean it'll bring the Eagles into the game too I think.

 

[Crow till I die]

Surely that wa s always the plan going into this year. We started the season with hardly any clear certain success stories with our younger players. Good that they are rotating them through and giving most a block of games. Unfortunately for Parnell I think he only gets 1 as they will want Brown straight back in


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Its going to be wet with the ball on the ground a lot, so lets hope he gets a heap of possessions and uses it well and forces the selectors hand to keep him in

 

[MRB37]

This may have actually been the perfect game to debut Newchurch actually. Not cause it's an "easy game" but that we could use someone with a bit of skill at ground level around the goals. Not expecting much from Murphy/McHenry there. Hopefully Rowe can get on the end of a few and not have to drop the knees half a dozen times to get it done.