Stan_Darsh72
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Since Port Adelaide has come into the afl how many times have we faced them in Melbourne?
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Since Port Adelaide has come into the afl how many times have we faced them in Melbourne?
Are we actually mathematically out of the 8?
Needed 12 wins to get in last year.Are we actually mathematically out of the 8?
We haven't had a home game against them since 2013.Feels like 3 years since we've had a home game.
I'd be more confident of a win if we replaced Longer with Hickey, he got given a bath by Gawn but the fact we won means he'll probably keep his spot.
Just did some more ladder predictor tinkering and got us to sixth.
I'd keep the changes minimal, but we do have back to back six day breaks. Perhaps a rest for someone like Clark may come into calculations.
Plenty of options for Brown. Port Adelaide are essentially a one key forward team, so if you're happy to play Carlisle on Dixon then you'd don't need another key tall. Then you could bring in Webster for Brown. But if you want another key defender for Brown to play on Dixon then there is Goddard and Austin, or perhaps Gilbert at a pinch (although I would not recommend).
The other potential change is Dunstan out for more of an outside type. Phillips was a little stiff to get dropped and Coffield should get back in at some stage, and Paton has been close. Save Freeman for the week after.
2018
With Longer in the side: 3-1
Without: 0-9-1
i wouldnt think soWould Acres come straight back in?
In: Hickey, Bruce, Minchington, Freezer and Gilbo
Out: Longer, Dunstan, Joyce, Rice (All omitted) & Brown (INJ)
So whats better?The fact we've won more games with Longer in the team is more to do with other players playing better rather than Longer playing better than Hickey.
Longer is slightly better in ruck contests but Hickey is still a much better player in general play which you need from a ruckman these days.
So whats better?
A ruck who makes the team better and win.
Or a ruck who racks up possesions while we lose.
Its not that simple.Ok if it’s that simple explain how he made the team better yesterday
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So whats better?
A ruck who makes the team better and win.
Or a ruck who racks up possesions while we lose.
We wouldn't have beaten Gold Coast if Hickey had played. We won the game directly from an amazing hitout to Gresham, and Hickey isnt a tap ruckman. Billy also had 14 hitouts to advantage, which is a dominate Hickey has never achieved.I daresay we would have won our last couple of games with Hickey in the team instead of Longer. Gawn had an absolute picnic yesterday taking marks at will with Longer nowhere to be seen, he kept them in the game, Hickey would have at least kept Gawn honest and given him something to worry about.
We wouldn't have beaten Gold Coast if Hickey had played. We won the game directly from an amazing hitout to Gresham, and Hickey isnt a tap ruckman. Billy also had 14 hitouts to advantage, which is a dominate Hickey has never achieved.
Hickey hadn't given any of his other opponents something to worry about, what makes you think we would have started yesterday?