Unofficial Preview Round 14 vs. North Melbourne, Marvel, 1:00pm Sunday 16/06

[FatherTime]

No to resting Nick.
If he’s fit, he plays.

Listening to him after the game he has every intention of playing this week.

 

[Kes1984]

I don’t think he does, unless there is more to Flys comments that warrant a break, there is a week off straight after and he’s just come off a longer than usual time between games this week.

I’m expecting North to come out with some confidence, I think we need to come out hard and take some confidence into the week off.

No I was being silly. Because we don’t want his milestone at marvel against north like steele!

 

[The Royal Sampler]

It’s basically the spiritual leader of the club having his 200th, so I’m sure we’ll rest everybody and have Parker playing ruck, Jiath full back and plonk an injured Ned Long at full forward.

 

[magpiewarrior]

Cox and Mitchell. I'd potentially be looking moving on Sidebottom form.dependent when all return.
Elliot is a walk up IF 100% fit but if he runs out of time to get up to speed HH is a capable replacement. Wasn't like Elliot was in earth shattering form anyway before injury

Well he did do that little jump for the ball that a few people were talking about.
I am not sure who will come out, but we might be in for a surprise with the selection of Ned Long as sub. Just a thought.

 

[Big Bryza]

Well he did do that little jump for the ball that a few people were talking about.
I am not sure who will come out, but we might be in for a surprise with the selection of Ned Long as sub. Just a thought.

I doubt Long is going to debut at AFL level after being injured for a month.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Well he did do that little jump for the ball that a few people were talking about.
I am not sure who will come out, but we might be in for a surprise with the selection of Ned Long as sub. Just a thought.

Long is still injured, so I doubt it.

 

[Likitysplit]

And Fly has repeatedly said he doesn't care about stats, he's even said we don't value kicking efficiency like other teams, he doesn't see it as a prerequisite to winning games.

Love this from Fly, shows we have a great system.

Reminds me of Hawthorns golden era & how Clarkson never used to worry about contested ball.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Love this from Fly, shows we have a great system.

Reminds me of Hawthorns golden era & how Clarkson never used to worry about contested ball.

Takes the pressure off the players if they do make a 'mistake'.

They just quickly move on to recover, make the tackle, spoil, chase down.

 

[Kirby]

We have an obsession with resting players around here, even when half the side’s out, there’s still calls to rest the few fit players we have left.

It's doing my head in.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

It's doing my head in.

Even when we have half the list out injured, and we're winning.. people are still not happy, now they want to rest the only fit players we have left

 

[Kirby]

Even when we have half the list out injured, and we're winning.. people are still not happy, now they want to rest the only fit players we have left

And we have a bye the following week!

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

No need to rest any players next week. That's what the bye the week after is for.

Keep the same team, don't take North too lightly, go hard for the win, and then put the feet up and reassess with whoever is available after the bye.

Yeah we’re not resting blokes after dropping 2 points to Fremantle and 4 to the Dogs. Got to make every post a winner in a season this tight.

So it seems to be a somewhat popular opinion here to rest a bunch of players this coming weekend in order for them to be fit, firing and fully prepared for …
… thé bye.

We do not need to rest players this week.

Stop it.

If we are to win this match, we need it to be a big percentage booster. No time to be complacent after beating a pitiful Demons side.

Roo's will probably offer more fight than the Dee's did.

Can we stop with the resting players. Norf is no certainty just like every other club

We have an obsession with resting players around here, even when half the side’s out, there’s still calls to rest the few fit players we have left.

It’s basically the spiritual leader of the club having his 200th, so I’m sure we’ll rest everybody and have Parker playing ruck, Jiath full back and plonk an injured Ned Long at full forward.

Is there a reason so many here love to overreact and invent scenarios that don’t exist?

“Rest bunch of players”

“Obsessed with resting players”

Literally the only player who anyone suggested be “rested” was Daicos and the only reason for that was because there’s a decent chance he’s injured

Given he was subbed off due to - you guessed it, injury, it seems fairly natural after what happened with Mihocek, De Goey and Pendles and how we managed their injuries that some supporters don’t want us f**king around with our best player the week before the bye playing against the bottom side?

But you know, go off I guess and carry on like people are suggesting we swap out the AFL side for the VFL side ffs

 

[Chameleon75]

Is there a reason so many here love to overreact and invent scenarios that don’t exist?

“Rest bunch of players”

“Obsessed with resting players”

Literally the only player who anyone suggested be “rested” was Daicos and the only reason for that was because there’s a decent chance he’s injured

Given he was subbed off due to - you guessed it, injury, it seems fairly natural after what happened with Mihocek, De Goey and Pendles and how we managed their injuries that some supporters don’t want us f**king around with our best player the week before the bye playing against the bottom side?

But you know, go off I guess and carry on like people are suggesting we swap out the AFL side for the VFL side ffs

you weren’t the only one suggesting resting players, why do you assume everything is about you

 

[manicpie]

Is there a reason so many here love to overreact and invent scenarios that don’t exist?

“Rest bunch of players”

“Obsessed with resting players”

Literally the only player who anyone suggested be “rested” was Daicos and the only reason for that was because there’s a decent chance he’s injured

Given he was subbed off due to - you guessed it, injury, it seems fairly natural after what happened with Mihocek, De Goey and Pendles and how we managed their injuries that some supporters don’t want us f**king around with our best player the week before the bye playing against the bottom side?

But you know, go off I guess and carry on like people are suggesting we swap out the AFL side for the VFL side ffs

Let's just beat norf first. We won't rest Nick

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Let's just beat norf first. We won't rest Nick

If he’s not injured, sure play him

But as far as I’m concerned, if there’s any risk of aggravating something or causing damage that leads to multiple weeks out?

Then bloody oath don’t play him

Given we accounted for a near full strength Melbourne with Daicos having almost zero influence, I’m not sure why Nick would be the difference between winning and losing against North Melbourne

 

[manicpie]

If he’s not injured, sure play him

But as far as I’m concerned, if there’s any risk of aggravating something or causing damage that leads to multiple weeks out?

Then bloody oath don’t play him

Given we accounted for a near full strength Melbourne with Daicos having almost zero influence, I’m not sure why Nick would be the difference between winning and losing against North Melbourne

Fly has already said he's fine. I don't think anyone wants him to play if he isn't

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Fly has already said he's fine. I don't think anyone wants him to play if he isn't

But surely people here can understand why a few are hesitant after what happened with Mihocek and De Goey?

Odds are, North will probably place a hard tag on him like Melbourne did. Which means he’s going to get some serious attention. Which is how he got hurt in the first place

Imagine he’s being tagged out of the game again and gets hurt again which leads to multiple weeks out just as we’re about to have the bye?

Just not sure it’s worth the risk when we’re playing a team we should be able to account for regardless

But like I said, if he’s 100%? Sure of course we’d play him

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Is there a reason so many here love to overreact and invent scenarios that don’t exist?

“Rest bunch of players”

“Obsessed with resting players”

Literally the only player who anyone suggested be “rested” was Daicos and the only reason for that was because there’s a decent chance he’s injured

Given he was subbed off due to - you guessed it, injury, it seems fairly natural after what happened with Mihocek, De Goey and Pendles and how we managed their injuries that some supporters don’t want us f**king around with our best player the week before the bye playing against the bottom side?

But you know, go off I guess and carry on like people are suggesting we swap out the AFL side for the VFL side ffs

Did I reply to your comment? Not sure I even read yours.

Why do you take everything so personally?

 

[Pistol Night]

Listening to him after the game he has every intention of playing this week.

Knock to the shin. Would of been painful at the time but he'll be fine

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Did I reply to your comment? Not sure I even read yours.

Why do you take everything so personally?

Who is taking anything personally?

I’m wondering why so many in here are acting like people are calling for a confirmed fit player to be rested or asking for anyone other than a possibly injured player to be rested?

Nick Daicos was subbed off. Injured.
Nick Daicos is our best player
We’re playing North
The week after North is the bye
We managed Mihocek’s, De Geoy’s and Pendlebury’s injuries poorly

It seems pretty natural that some posters would rather we didn’t take a risk with Nick under the circumstances

 

[Jen2310]

Dont think it matters where maynard's 200th game is. Can't always play at the G and have milestones there. Believe Pendles 350th was in adelaide?
He'll embrace the game, even if its at marvel.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Who is taking anything personally?

I’m wondering why so many in here are acting like people are calling for a confirmed fit player to be rested or asking for anyone other than a possibly injured player to be rested?

Pablo Disco Bar called for Kreuger to be rested. You evidently missed that furore.

 

[Jelly Bean]

He also equaled his career high of 5 tackles and his pressure was immense and provided some run off half back.

Did everything that was needed of him, his disposal efficiency was poor today however it has been fine ever since he came back against Carlton. Noble's was 100% way worse last week and no one was calling for him to be dropped.

Don't mess with something that's working fine. The run, pressure and energy that he provides us is essential

I think as has been mentioned before - Noble's was definitely way worse last week than his this week, and no one was calling for him to be dropped because he has shown this year to be one of our most important attacking players consistently. He had a back night definitely, but is a very good player.

Oleg hasn't shown to be as effective this year.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Pablo Disco Bar called for Kreuger to be rested. You evidently missed that furore.

Clearly. Because I forced myself to read every single post (or so I thought) and the only other player I saw asked to be rested was a joke post about resting Maynard

 

[Jelly Bean]

Resting is a particularly funny notion this week given the fact that we have a rest week the following week...