Player Watch Round 11 v Essendon - Dreamtime At The G - MCG Saturday May 25th 7.40pm

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Why will vlaustin misd

Not sure the report from Ceasar at PRE said that he did warm up then left the track and looked sore.

 

[Forensi Tiger]

I reckon it will be deja vu with Ryan. Fail and dropped.

Yep got 8 possessions last week and maybe less the week before. You need to do better than that at VFL and can’t see him getting the ball much in seniors with those numbers

 

[guruisatiger]

Not sure the report from Ceasar at PRE said that he did warm up then left the track and looked sore.

Cheers

 

[Hoos]

Ryan will kick 15 goals

For the year?

 

[Growapair]

I’d be so proud of the boys if they win this week

And you will have a fistful of cash if you take a multi to Win at $9 Into this Umpires Special

Will be going the "Umpires Special" same game multi. 3 legs will be the free kick differential (-15), 50m penalties against (+3), and an ARC overturn(+1).

What's this paying SDM

 

[Downtown06]

For the year?

Career

 

[docko911]

Ryan has been a disappointment this year. Early years it was like he could develop into a gun forward/ruck, at 23 and a half he’s been ****ing shit this year. Also appears to hate the gym. Anyways, hope he proves me wrong and kicks a bag rather than shit his pants like he did round 1.

 

[Punt rd end]

Ryan has been a disappointment this year. Early years it was like he could develop into a gun forward/ruck, at 23 and a half he’s been ******* s**t this year. Also appears to hate the gym. Anyways, hope he proves me wrong and kicks a bag rather than s**t his pants like he did round 1.

I reckon our best bet is to recruit a known quantity even if it costs heaps of $

 

[Drunken Wookie]

ì if balta d did doesn't back play melt hard incoming

 

[Al Heimer]

Young out has to be worth three less Bummer goals. The kid wears the jumper but just aint AFL standard.

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[tunksy]

so we are gonna cave and play balta back?

interesting team selection

 

[shaky]

Yep got 8 possessions last week and maybe less the week before. You need to do better than that at VFL and can’t see him getting the ball much in seniors with those numbers

They pulled him from the field before the last quarter to make sure he didn't get injured, so he may have gathered a few more possessions if he had stayed on.
That said, he didn't play a game that demanded he got promoted to AFL level, I assumed Lefau wasn't going to play.
Will be interesting how they use gim Saturday night, maybe more off the bench as relief for Nank

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

For the year?

Career

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Not sure the report from Ceasar at PRE said that he did warm up then left the track and looked sore.

His shoulders are cooked from carrying the whole backline for 3 months

 

[LTT]

Yep. The only thing that will help Sonsie develop is more time in the midfield. The coaches don't seem to have the faith in him that they have in Dow, yet to me he seems to have a much higher ceiling.

And he seems to play well in tandem with McAulif. When you have two players that seem to complement each other why don’t we play them together

 

[chriso11]

Imagine if we win

 

[chriso11]

Young basically delisted


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Or badly needed kick up the arse. Time to stop gifting him games

 

[chriso11]

I just want them to make a decision about where his best position is and then stick with it. Yze wanted him as a key forward, circumstances have meant he wasn't got to play long enough along side Lynch to see if the plan can work. If they are reverting back to him being a defender, then take the pain that is going to come by having inexperience up forward until Lynch returns and look to address the KPF issue in the trade/free agency/draft period and build from there.

What I don't want to see is Balta being moved back and forwards constantly and never really allowing him to settle fully into the role they want him to play long term.

Balta was the second coming of Rance 2 years ago. Why did they f*ck with his development? Should have left him there and right now we’d have the best key back in the league

 

[NZ_Tiger]

They pulled him from the field before the last quarter to make sure he didn't get injured, so he may have gathered a few more possessions if he had stayed on.
That said, he didn't play a game that demanded he got promoted to AFL level, I assumed Lefau wasn't going to play.
Will be interesting how they use gim Saturday night, maybe more off the bench as relief for Nank

He was ****ing awful. Soft and shit and well beaten by the sandy ruck.


These ins are the worst so far. Young sucked but playing one less tall defender against Essendon is a mistake.


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[Hoos]

Balta was the second coming of Rance 2 years ago. Why did they f*ck with his development? Should have left him there and right now we’d have the best key back in the league

Because that's what we seem to do now. They f**ked with Ross too. Slimmed him down and tried to turn him to a hybrid wing/half back, when he's a natural ball winning midfielder.

 

[Hoos]

He was ******* awful. Soft and s**t and well beaten by the sandy ruck.


These ins are the worst so far. Young sucked but playing one less tall defender against Essendon is a mistake.


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Yep. Unless they're planning to move Balta back, we're one tall short in the back line.

 

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Balta was the second coming of Rance 2 years ago. Why did they f*ck with his development? Should have left him there and right now we’d have the best key back in the league

Balta was recruited as a forward IIRC, Hardwick started him as a forward then shifted him back to fit him into the side. Then he kept him as a key defender as we lost older guys.

For better or worse Yze believes his best position is KPF as part of his best line up. Now due to injury to Gibcus and poor form by Young he may be looking at sending him back to strengthen the back half. If that's the case, then bite the bullet and leave him there and look at key forward by either pushing Koschitzke/Ryan to step up or taking kids in the MSD and ND.

 

[SDMTiger4]

For the year?

That's a stretch.

 

[dothebowdenshuffle]

With Ryan I agree not ideal to be promoting him or anyone off the back of a poor VFL game.

Did some stat checking. The case for him is he's been capably mixing KPF with Ruck in VFL. Has booted 12 goals 3 behinds thus far. Averaged 24 HO pg. Sharing these roles with Kosi and Naismith. He's fit!

Last year at AFL level he was good in our wins over Geelong, Crows and Eagles and for half a game he and Miller in tandem broke even against Dees pair Gawn and Grundy.

Ryan's a tall athletic unit, can mark, is an accurate set shot and has done his VFL apprenticeship. Plenty to work and has a high ceiling in my opinion. Time to pump AFL games into him. Could be a dominant force in 2-3 years time. Nank will require a lot of help from hereon in, especially as Naismith is now out with an ACL. At 206cm Ryan offers a very different ruck option against the likes of Goldstein, Witts, Gawn, Soldo etc and it will be a great learning experience for him.

Looking forward to watching Samson perform Saturday night and the rest of 2024

 

[tigs2010]

For the year?

No chance