Both look promising but obviously the Match Committee don’t rate them. They might need to do a Lawson Humphreys if they want an AFL career.
Prediction Round 20, 2024 - Changes vs Fremantle
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You going to do this every week for the next 5 years or you wanna move on...?
Normally I’d be wishing for a late change to make us a bit smaller but when the emergencies are Sheed, Petch and Witherden…. 
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Just think it’s funny that Adam Simpson was the sole reason the old cobbers were getting a game, the effort was poor, and we weren’t rocking up ready to play.
Then we go to face a Ross Lyon St Kilda side, put in the worst effort of the century, lose by a margin higher than the Saints average per game, and the response is to bring back the old boys.
Could it be that our list was just paper thin all along and even Schofield (with no incentive to not just blindly back the kids) has arrived at the conclusion that most of them are unplayable too
Individually I don't mind the names being dropped or bought in.
But as a collective it just looks so dam bad/weird.
Should have played Darling last week when Waterman was out and then brought Waterman in for him this week.
A lot of pace has exited the team (Petch and Jones for acceleration, Chesser quick enough at top flight too).
Surprised in Rotham keeping his spot for Gov but don't mind it being Witherden as his mid-season form has tapered away and Gov is a better kick as well as being faster than him.
But as a collective it just looks so dam bad/weird.
Should have played Darling last week when Waterman was out and then brought Waterman in for him this week.
A lot of pace has exited the team (Petch and Jones for acceleration, Chesser quick enough at top flight too).
Surprised in Rotham keeping his spot for Gov but don't mind it being Witherden as his mid-season form has tapered away and Gov is a better kick as well as being faster than him.
So your suggestions? Give us your ins and outs.Just think it’s funny that Adam Simpson was the sole reason the old cobbers were getting a game, the effort was poor, and we weren’t rocking up ready to play.
Then we go to face a Ross Lyon St Kilda side, put in the worst effort of the century, lose by a margin higher than the Saints average per game, and the response is to bring back the old boys.
Could it be that our list was just paper thin all along and even Schofield with no incentive to not just blindly back the kids has arrived at the conclusion that most of them are unplayable too
Darlings the only debatable one coming in
And the only kid dropped was Chesser
I'm not enamoured with the tall fwd line but this is a bit petulant
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Darling at least applies pressure and absorbs 1-2 key defenders; might fumble a couple of marks and who knows, bag a snag? But is slower now.
But yeh, land of the giants again, who stops the ball rebounding out over and over?
Who/where are our zippy crumbers? Long and Brockman done. Ryan, Cripps and Hutch need to fire up. Cripps had a mare last week. Ryan needs to capitalise on his trick dribbles.
Does Schoey have some devious plan? Stayed up late last night trying work out how to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?
But we do have about 10 young players in the game
But yeh, land of the giants again, who stops the ball rebounding out over and over?
Who/where are our zippy crumbers? Long and Brockman done. Ryan, Cripps and Hutch need to fire up. Cripps had a mare last week. Ryan needs to capitalise on his trick dribbles.
Does Schoey have some devious plan? Stayed up late last night trying work out how to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?
But we do have about 10 young players in the game
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Posters on Bigfooty when Schofield says he's going to reward WAFL form:
Schofield when he actually rewards WAFL form:
The only In that played the last WAFL game was Darling, and he wasn’t our best key forward that day.
If cripps has another howler...hard to warrant him getting games over dewar and baker, given where the list is.
Both are done imo
He wasn't but he's actually good at forward pressure, so I imagine that's why he gets a reprieve.
He was pretty good otherwise.
Petulant is posters in game day threads shoe-horning in negative comments about Simpson (or positive comments about Schofield) on some random thing that they probably would have both done regardless of who is/was head coach.
That gets tiring.
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I don’t have a major problem with the ins or outs, that wasn’t the point of my post.
Wouldn’t mind Chesser playing over LEdwards but, provided he is playing inside mid now that WAFL has resumed off the bye, I can rationalise it.
JJ, Witho out is correct. Petch on a short leash after a terribly quiet game is nice.
I don’t think Trew makes it because his skills are deplorable but nobody can fault his effort so…sure he stays. I’d drop him now and pump games into a Hall or Rawlinson or Johnston but is what it is.
Would probably go a Dewar over Darling or similar change, give us a smaller forward line, but generally our list is currently constructed in a way that several pegs that a square for one reason or another (too old, low ceiling, going to be delisted, played out of position) will find their way into round holes.
Just find it funny that sacking the coach didn’t change the old boys getting a game when I’ve been assured for years it’s solely because Simpson backs them in no matter what. Then the new coach comes in and immediately does the same. Shows where our list depth is at.
I don't care that any of them are dropped as individuals. Just noting a change in the team dynamic.Wow. Petch, Jones and Chesser? Whipping boys one day ...
Stop Clark's run and we could win this.
Unfortunately Flyin Ryan (or Cripps) probably not the ideal match, although if he pulls him back towards goal and gets a couple of early ones, just maybe.
Darling not the worst option for a Derby against an underdone Cox.
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