Preview Round 16: Essendon v Geelong - MCG - Country Game Apparently - Saturday 29th June - 7:30pm

[footyfanatic111]

Does this make a case in point that maybe we should actually challenge a suspension sometime?
Instead of just copping whatever is given to us every single time.
Helps when your president of the AFLPA. Sigh


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[Seb78]

Sucks that he's free to play against us, but correct result imo. Not his fault Walsh flopped his head.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

I dont think anyones worried about him, its the bullshit that everyone else cops a week and the big name gets away with it, the reasons the tribunal gave for letting him off are the exact reason he should have been suspended

yeah for sure

you look at danger, then you look at harry jones and ya go what the ****

 

[DallasCrane316]

Does this make a case in point that maybe we should actually challenge a suspension sometime?
Instead of just copping whatever is given to us every single time.
Helps when your president of the AFLPA. Sigh


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They’ve already covered that. This was a very exceptional circumstance and therefore won’t be repeated often.

 

[AJ_2000]

This was a very exceptional circumstance and therefore won’t be repeated often.

Strange the consider playing Essendon an "exceptional circumstance".

We all knew they would have the nurries to suspend him

 

[andleanback]

Does this make a case in point that maybe we should actually challenge a suspension sometime?
Instead of just copping whatever is given to us every single time.
Helps when your president of the AFLPA. Sigh


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And get a better lawyer that will actually fight for our players

 

[andleanback]

Nothing surer than danger getting off and then coming out against us Saturday and dominating

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Now that he's playing do we put caldwell or duz on him? Or is Holmes the guy we tag?

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Now that he's playing do we put caldwell or duz on him? Or is Holmes the guy we tag?

lol we aint tagging danger.

 

[andleanback]

lol we aint tagging danger.

We should be having someone on him. He’s always dominated us, let him get geelong going at your peril

 

[eth-dog]

lol we aint tagging danger.

He's literally their only mid who does any damage nowadays.

 

[ghostdog]

Have you seen the reasoning? Basically this will be one of the only rare cases where they’ll accept both arms pinned and the head hitting the ground NOT being rough conduct. They’ve made an exception.

It's really atrocious. He even admitted he had opportunity to release but chose not to. That decision led directly to the impact. AFL should appeal. The decision makes a mockery of their claim that player safety comes first.

 

[MiguelM]

He's literally their only mid who does any damage nowadays.

And every possibility he does a hammy. Age and the way he bursts out of stoppage unfortunately catching up with him.

 

[eth-dog]

And every possibility he does a hammy. Age and the way he bursts out of stoppage unfortunately catching up with him.

Still, having Duz or Caldwell go to him is like something that simply needs to happen

 

[HirdsTheWord]

We should be having someone on him. He’s always dominated us, let him get geelong going at your peril

I don’t mind putting Caldwell on him but not as a tagger.

 

[hirdylloydy1]

I don’t mind putting Caldwell on him but not as a tagger.

agree, will show him up for the frontrunner he is

 

[DallasCrane316]

agree, will show him up for the frontrunner he is

Maybe Setterfield comes in to play on Dangerfield?

 

[eth-dog]

Maybe Setterfield comes in to play on Dangerfield?

Doesn't have the pace

 

[blitzer]

I'm bemused at how they find excuses to let big name players out of every suspension. Think Butters, think Cripps when he won his brownlow etc. Oh well whatever - I'm not bothered that he'll be free to play us but yeah doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the system. Once again they make rules up on the fly.

 

[BuffDog]

Might be wet(ish) Saturday night.

If so Caddy probably makes way or we’ll be too tall, unless Langford is genuinely sore.

I’d assume Gresham comes straight back in and Hind was poor so may make way.

Also a bit confused about how we’re using Menzie. He’s not a flanker and he doesn’t have much impact as a sub, I’d be more inclined to give ADJ another run.

In: Gresham, Setterfield, ADJ (sub)
Out: Caddy, Hind, Menzie

 

[BomberFan355]

Does this make a case in point that maybe we should actually challenge a suspension sometime?
Instead of just copping whatever is given to us every single time.
Helps when your president of the AFLPA. Sigh


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We challenged Weidemans and couldn’t get off that, good luck with anything else.

 

[Rick Ross]

from memory this stat was up on the fox footy broadcast late in third or early in first and we had kicked 4 or 5 goals to 1 or 2 from stoppages but Eagles had also kicked a lot of behinds from stoppages vs us being incredibly accurate.

Personally the raw clearance numbers concern me if we are still winning contested possessions/loose ball/ground ball, we've seen teams like tigers give up the clearance battle but still win the overall contested battle in the past.

My concern over last month though has been that we've given up a lot of centre clearances where they opposition player has exiting out the front, Noah Anderson did this a lot in suns game despite us winning overall clearances numbers and Liam Ryan did it a fair bit on Sunday. Our set up is too aggressive, I suspect it’s mainly when Perkins and Stringer are in the middle.

I think Port go a couple* of clearances expiring out the front.



*Still gives me nightmares

 

[Rick Ross]

They’ve already covered that. This was a very exceptional circumstance and therefore won’t be repeated often.

Funny intentional or unintentional?

 

[Rick Ross]

I’m assuming we’re holding fire on challenging suspensions until our important player / big game scenario comes up. Think Merret in prelim later … in the … year…

…What?

…No.

…Really???

…No.

Oh.

Weid?

We burned our golden ticket on Weid?

F.

 

[ghostdog]

I don’t mind putting Caldwell on him but not as a tagger.

Calders plays his man until the ball is there to take. He gets his own. Looking forward to playing Port again. I think he has improved since then.