Preview Round 16, 2018: Port Adelaide v St.Kilda - Adelaide Oval, Saturday 7th July, 4:05PM ACST

[Marlo]

Christ when Nathan Wright gets picked you know we are stretched...

Back 'em in. Wright fighting for his footy career. Gonna be as a big of an erratic nuisance as the meth addicts outside my local woolies. Can't a bloke get some dog food and pringles at 11.30pm in peace...

 

[Joffaboy]

Cold and rainy forecast for Adelaide on Saturday.

Footskills and height not going to be paramount to winning.

Well, here’s hoping.

Perfect for Wright and Gilbo.


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[Quixote]

Austin, Irish & Gilbert as key planks...FMD.

Cue Benny Hill music!

Nah I reckon Gilbo will kill it and show some leadership. Irish can't get any worse, and I rate Austin, just needs to clean up his clangers. LOL, spoken out loud doesn't sound too promising.

 

[triggering bro]

Also, sitting on 3 wins & 10 losses & having a shit load of injuries, I’d expect to be pumping games into blokes like Rice, Coffield & White. Amazing that White hasnt regained his spot. I reckon he showed plenty late last year & early this year.

 

[triggering bro]

Cue Benny Hill music!

Nah I reckon Gilbo will kill it and show some leadership. Irish can't get any worse, and I rate Austin, just needs to clean up his clangers. LOL, spoken out loud doesn't sound too promising.

“Who we lining up on this weekend coach?” - Dicko

“Geary, Gilbert...Austin...& some Irish campaigner, forget his name...Connor..or Mcgregor?” - Ken

“LOLOLOLOLOL” - whole fwd line at once

 

[Joffaboy]

Funnily enough Wright for Battle makes complete sense. As does Austin for Jake & Webster for Rice. Gilbert for Brown though....

Goddard hasn’t proven much if anything at VFL level however the cupboard is totally empty. He should’ve come in for Brown IMO. Austin, Irish & Gilbert as key planks...FMD.

Nope. Unfortunately would have been more sensible to play Lonie as a KPD.

Goddard looks like a bust unfortunately

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[Longmembrey]

Surprised it wasn't Hickey (dominated vfl) for Longer (smashed by Gawn).

Does anyone have any opinon on who is better? Hickey or Longer? About time this was discussed I reckon.

 

[triggering bro]

Nope. Unfortunately would have been more sensible to play Lonie as a KPD.

Goddard looks like a bust unfortunately

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FMD he must be shit house if he can’t get a gig in our defence

 

[Joffaboy]

FMD he must be shit house if he can’t get a gig in our defence

Slower than your brainwaves

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[SaintSteele9]

Christ I hope it rains.

 

[Sir Skid]

Nope. Unfortunately would have been more sensible to play Lonie as a KPD.

Goddard looks like a bust unfortunately

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Shame for the kid. Confidence destroying if he can't get a game with our injuries now.
Reckon he'll want out at the end of the year.

 

[Rors]

I just popped in for the Wrighty melts

 

[triggering bro]

Slower than your brainwaves

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At least he’s not as slow as you with your walking aid

 

[Quixote]

Slower than your brainwaves

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[Plugger35]

Was surprised Bruce didn't replace Battle until I found out he broke his leg.

Don't mind Wright as a replacement up forward as he can give us a physical presence like Battle did and can kick goals, a wet game should suit him too.

 

[Rors]

Jack Watts for the Callum Sinclair Trophy this week

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

wrighty got 16 tackles for sandy last week.. in a game where we had most of the ball. pretty fair effort. game on merit

 

[Dr Spaceman]

TLDR: decent selections. Wright a bit frustrating but we need to reward VFL form (still hope he is delisted at the end of the year)

Gilbert - Need experience given Brown and Carlisle are out
Austin - Handy recall - hope he plays a bit more defensively
Webster - Been our best ball user coming out of defence so glad he is in the team
Wright - 3 goals, 6 tackles and plenty of pressure in the VFL so can see why they brought him in - not sure we have better options in the forward line (maybe lonie) - there is no point guys playing well in the vfl and then not rewarding them, we need to be sending the signals that if players play well then they will be picked so not too unhappy.

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Goddard - would be dissapointed but i can see why we didn't bring him in. Already have joyce in the side and don't think it is a good idea playing too many guys with not much afl experience. Also there is no point letting joyce debut and then dropping him straight away, need to give him a few games to get aclimatised. I think if Goddard keeps playing in the vfl and steps up a bit he will get a few games near the end of the season.

Freeman - really hope he plays well this week and is picked against carlton!
Coffield - i hope he plays well and we bring him in for mackenzie. i hope he is developing into a mid in the vfl but his most recent game didn't look too promising, though he is still very young,.
Marshall - not as mobile as battle and i think a combination of him and mccartin is a bit too slow.

Almost exactly my thoughts.

Either we're both experts or both have no idea

 

[Rors]

Also, sitting on 3 wins & 10 losses & having a shit load of injuries, I’d expect to be pumping games into blokes like Rice, Coffield & White. Amazing that White hasnt regained his spot. I reckon he showed plenty late last year & early this year.

Brandon White’s attitude & work rate must be shithouse. No other explanation cos that job he did on Toby Greene after having his face smashed in was top shelf stuff

 

[aussierulesrules]

Yeah I'm not fussed about Wright getting a game if he's really playing well at VFL level (which it seems he was), as a bit more forward pressure won't go astray, especially if it's wet.

He'll still get delisted, but if he helps us win this game it'll be worth it. If he's poor, he'll prolly never play again. Meh, not many other decent options.

 

[coachnoodles]

Not sure why Gilbo is getting bashed - he seems like the obvious pick back there given the outs and Goddard poor form.

Also he’s the only other ruck option given Battle Acres and Bruce are all injured and the conditions suggest playing 2 pure rucks would be suicide.

 

[bergholt]

Austin - Handy recall - hope he plays a bit more defensively

I don't reckon he will, I reckon Joyce and Gilbo will get defensive jobs and Austin will play Carlisle's roaming role. Against his old side could easily take 10 marks.

 

[Browny2Carlisle]

wrighty got 16 tackles for sandy last week.. in a game where we had most of the ball. pretty fair effort. game on merit

Think it was 6 tackles 16 disposals. Still a good effort though.

 

[Diehard Saint]

Think it was 6 tackles 16 disposals. Still a good effort though.

Considering we ask for integrity of selection and he’s probably the right, tough player for the conditions....
I hope he makes you negative beauts eat every word...

Go Wrighty!

 

[SufferingS8INT]

Ridiculous that Brown and Carlisle are both our and Goddard STILL can’t get a look in.

We’re playing that Irish spud however.


Good luck Goddard at the Hawks smh

Joyce isn’t ready and will get found out this weekend...