Autopsy Roast & Toast vs GWS, Rd 3 2019, & changes for Port

[Waca Jr]

Dimma's presser up yet?

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Since the year is done, we might as well play the kids. Piss Weller, Ellis off for good, drop prestia Georgie and butler to find form, relegate Lambert Grigg and houili to depth, and bring in Ross and whoever the **** else we recruited as midfielders the last 2 year's and hope at least 1 of them will become a serviceable midfielder for their career.

Also drop markov and keep menadur a mile from the team.

We should be aiming to take the best mid available with a top 4 pick cause lord knows our revruiters wont get a mid of quality outside the top 5. Then we just have to hope that this year is another 2016 or if we are still in this position this time next year we start making retirement plans for probably a fifth of our list and try to get Francis Jackson back for recruiting cause he is better than whatever monkey we have at the moment.

lol **** no .

 

[Nobby]

Actually hit his shoulder first. Fine. We will us the Cox defence

Should have challenged the Grimes suspension last week.

 

[partycorolla]

What happened was pretty much expected given who we had and what we have dished up so far this season.

No Rance, JR, Caddy, Houli, Grigg, Grimes .... Short injured early and premierships players such as BEllis, Dusty, Buts and Castagna sadly out of form. That's pretty much half a premiership team. Add Graham dropping chest marks and fumbling throughout the match and yeah... we won't win.

Positives:
Stack - great debut. Had to play a role he may not have been prepped for when Shorty went down and did it bloody well.
Lynch - half fit and looking pretty good
Rioli - didn't have collapsed lungs.
Next week we should regain Grimes, Houli and Caddy. Hopefully see Jack Ross as well.
We shouldn't have to see too much more of BEllis.... won't be here in 2020.

Negatives:
next week lose Short (prob), Martin (possibly) and Cotch (possibly)
Castagna, Buts and BEllis might not get dropped (but they should). Bring them back in when they find form.
Garthwaite doesn't yet have the fitness to play at this level. Cameron is a good player but he just couldn't get near him.

It was annoying to watch but we actually had a crack.... we were just not good enough with our skills and composure.

 

[Daveeee_12]

Is what it is a little bit. We're struggling, yep. Would be nice to be playing better, but at least we aren't losing to mediocre teams.

See what happens.

True, probably the only positive is that we've lost to a couple top 6 teams.

 

[shaky]

I reckon he is a mediocre coach.

This about the 10th year of not helping star players when they are getting rape-tagged

Has always been able to get the players to play for him which is a big thing, don’t underestimate that.
I think he has always been limited in some ways though.
That same nature that gets the players behind him I think can blind him to their deficiencies though. He is no Clarke that makes the ruthless calls on moving players on.
He does not seem to be very imaginative and not a game day coach. No plan B when things aren’t going right. It took a poor 2016 for him to make the changes for 2017 and it is starting to look like this year could be another 2016 unless they make some changes.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Has always been able to get the players to play for him which is a big thing, don’t underestimate that.
I think he has always been limited in some ways though.
That same nature that gets the players behind him I think can blind him to their deficiencies though. He is no Clarke that makes the ruthless calls on moving players on.
He does not seem to be very imaginative and not a game day coach. No plan B when things aren’t going right. It took a poor 2016 for him to make the changes for 2017 and it is starting to look like this year could be another 2016 unless they make some changes.

Imo, Plan B is a myth thrown around on bigfooty by supporters when their team has a string of loses. Every supporter whose team is playing shit thinks their coach has no plan b.

Coaches change up shit all the time, usually small things (Don't want to make drastic changes on game day). Even when they dont work, it's still changing things up.

 

[HumanMeatball]

Since the year is done, we might as well play the kids. Piss Weller, Ellis off for good, drop prestia Georgie and butler to find form, relegate Lambert Grigg and houili to depth, and bring in Ross and whoever the **** else we recruited as midfielders the last 2 year's and hope at least 1 of them will become a serviceable midfielder for their career.

Also drop markov and keep menadur a mile from the team.

We should be aiming to take the best mid available with a top 4 pick cause lord knows our revruiters wont get a mid of quality outside the top 5. Then we just have to hope that this year is another 2016 or if we are still in this position this time next year we start making retirement plans for probably a fifth of our list and try to get Francis Jackson back for recruiting cause he is better than whatever monkey we have at the moment.

Prestia and lambert were our best players friend

 

[Tony Stark]

If we keep losing 2 players to injury per week then by week 11 we may have to forfeit the remainder of the season.

 

[tigernsw]

How long does it take to put the press conference up FFS. AFL amateur hour as usual. Joke of an organisation run by clowns. Should be up within half an hour tops.

 

[OhhDeledio]

pretty sure cotch wont be playing next week. who steps in as skipper? pretty much our whole leadership group is out. edwards would have to be our most experienced right now

 

[wagstaff]

The last 10 mins of the 3rd quarter was the first time this year Richmond showed their 17/18 intensity levels. Went missing in the last but that level is their only hope of gaining anything out of this season.

 

[captain cotch 9]

Dusty laid 6 tackles...he would never have done that before.

 

[Tenacious T]

With Dusty and Cotchy more than likely outs, Ross in is a given.

 

[Blinger]

Richo just confirmed Cotch has done his hammy in the 3rd.

 

[shaky]

I can't believe that we don't tag anyone. We won a flag with the help of a great tagging job. Any danger of somebody doing the job.

How three f**k did we let Cameron run around with a dodgy shoulder for over 3 quarters without bumping him or tackling him hard? F**k me.

So assuming all 3 of Grimes, Caddy and Houli are right to go next week, it has to be Ellis, Butler, Markov and Castagna to go out. Bring in Ross as well.

I would seriously look at dropping Martin right now too. He's as much value to the side as Ellis or Butler right now. Clearly cannot handle a hard tag...but he's getting no protection from his teammates either. Maybe Townsend should get a game sometime to hurt a few people.

Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I can see all of Butler, Ellis and Castagna playing next week.

I think they will play Martin this week then he will be “rested” against Sydney with the short break coming into the ANZAC match.

 

[French Tiger]

reckon the season is over for us

Just over 2 weeks ago we were premiership favourites, crazy to think rd 3 & it’s come to this !




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[Meli]

pretty sure cotch wont be playing next week. who steps in as skipper? pretty much our whole leadership group is out. edwards would have to be our most experienced right now

Grimes....

 

[captain cotch 9]

Bolton and Ross should come in next week.
Houli, Caddy as well

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

With butler markoc ellis costagna being totally
Useless you'll be lucky to beat a bottom 4 side
Surely if we want to salvage our year these 4
Have to go for good id rather lose with getting games into naish bolton ross rcd than these
4 , hardwicks kidding himself if he thinks we'll make the finals with these spuds.

 

[Meli]

Wow....the beginning of this season has been a bit of a disaster!

 

[shaky]

Imo, Plan B is a myth thrown around on bigfooty by supporters when their team has a string of loses. Every supporter whose team is playing shit thinks their coach has no plan b.

Coaches change up shit all the time, usually small things (Don't want to make drastic changes on game day). Even when they dont work, it's still changing things up.

Granted game day changes are probably pissing in the wind a lot of the time, it is more about making bold selections and changes. Simms seems to stick with the comfortable.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

port look huge

our players are all scrawny

add the sa umps and boos and we will get flogged next week

didn't U just say we would win v port earlier U campaigner

 

[Zoom]

Ideally we get our shit together in the back half of the season and scrape into the eight. Finishing 5th to 8th wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world as long as we don’t have to travel the first week of finals. No weeks off to kill our momentum. Absolutely nothing to lose. Reckon a few sides would be nervous about playing us.

 

[Daffytrain]

Have you actually watched any footy? History shows if you make more than a certain number of changes, your chances of winning diminish rapidly.

lol nah mate only ever seen a few games...

We will have 7 or so of our best 22 out anyway, why not send a hard message to some others? I know it won't happen.