Prediction Round 3, 2024: Changes vs Western Bulldogs

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In: Hall, Rotham, Maric (from sub)
Out: Ledwards, Jamieson, Long (to sub)

Backs: Barrass, Gov, Rotham, Hough, Cole, Duggan, Jones
Mids: Yeo, Kelly, Reid, Ginbey, Chesser, Hunt
Rucks: Williams, Barnett
Forwards: Darling, Waterman, Maric, Cripps, Brockman, Petruccelle, Hall
Sub: Long
Emergencies: Edwards (travelling), Gaff, Jamieson

If we’re going to continue with this Jamieson as a key back experiment, let’s do it in the WAFL.

Hall’s earned a debut, he can have it in place of Edwards who hasn’t done much in two weeks.

Maric to get a full game in place of Long who’s also been quiet to start the season.

Darling gets a reprieve based on his workrate and the fact I don’t really want to go into a game with a completely makeshift key forward setup, but geez he’s rustier than the deck rails on the Titanic at the moment.

The Barnett/Williams ruck pairing also gets another run. Briggs this week, English next week, Grundy the week after that … it’s the worst possible time to be missing Flynn.
Thought Jamo was ok today. Honestly speaking I rather see Jamo in than Rotham in the side. Rotham can’t play tall, gets beaten by the smalls and offensively stiffles our ball movement. Unless he dominates the 2’s he shouldn’t be brought back
 

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Thought Jamo was ok today. Honestly speaking I rather see Jamo in than Rotham in the side. Rotham can’t play tall, gets beaten by the smalls and offensively stiffles our ball movement. Unless he dominates the 2’s he shouldn’t be brought back

Yeah, on reflection I was probably a bit harsh on Jamo.
 
Got glasses? Try wearing them. He can't even drop a ball on his hand correctly the reason he is a pick 9/10 etc. Hit and miss there.

Ginbey will not be a 1st picked Mid at WCE. Get over it. Many will go past him, he is awkward.

Looking forward to this going the way of all your other predictions.
 
What were you watching? 10 of 20 disposals were il-directed handballs. Terrible. Above ones head, too hard, too soft. He is never gonna be a top mid at WCE. He is a glorified half back or something he ain't gonna be.

If Waterman is our best fwd we in trouble because he is shieben.
I was watching the game.

You seem to have turned off after half time, which is understandable.
 
I’d bring Williams in and Let him play as a forward. Give him a chunk of games to see what he can produce. Darling hardly produces anything these days and waterman isn’t a kpf at all.
Bring in Williams... leave him in for all of 2024.

By July he'll be kicking handfuls

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So we finished 18th last year.

Our first 4 games are Port, GWS, Bulldogs and Sydney.
Seriously?
North or Hawks had to be somewhere in the first 4 or 5 rounds. For the benefit of each team. Genuine winnable game.

We’re legitimately likely to be 0-7 before getting the Bombers at Optus in Round 8 as a maybe win given our record against them in our dour recent years (W in 2022 and 1pt L in 2023). Even then I wouldn’t expect us to go in as favourites.
 
Our first month is an absolute joke. One home game in a month and games against three teams that will likely make up the top four. The AFL’s a corrupt piece of s**t.
Meh, you have to play them at some point.
 

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Our backline is disgusting and does not work at all. The cattle we select will not get anywhere in todays game. For now, we need to line up like this

Hough Barrass duggan
Yeo mcgovern Reid

The ball is constantly down there and we need a chance to get it out. Get it to yeo and reid and let them get to work and find a target running it out.
The current turnovers are just absolute confidence sapping, season long team killers
 
North or Hawks had to be somewhere in the first 4 or 5 rounds. For the benefit of each team. Genuine winnable game.

We’re legitimately likely to be 0-7 before getting the Bombers at Optus in Round 8 as a maybe win given our record against them in our dour recent years (W in 2022 and 1pt L in 2023). Even then I wouldn’t expect us to go in as favourites.

Now come on, the VFL will say we beat GWS and WB in 2023, so giving us them both in the first month is a chance for a win (s) 🙄

Richmond Round 5. I would love for that to be the first win (particularly if they are still in the bottom 4 with us). Nice to see them enduring some pain, evil I know!
 
Our backline is disgusting and does not work at all. The cattle we select will not get anywhere in todays game. For now, we need to line up like this

Hough Barrass duggan
Yeo mcgovern Reid

The ball is constantly down there and we need a chance to get it out. Get it to yeo and reid and let them get to work and find a target running it out.
The current turnovers are just absolute confidence sapping, season long team killers
Im not sure taking our 2 best ball extracters from the midfield to put them in the backline is going to reduce the amount of ball going into the backline.
Fact is we have holes in our list but sacrificing our mid field to plug those holes is a regressive step.
 
I wish our players showed the consistency that you do.

Consistency is a great attribute, however with the ability of said poster ... its a moot point.
 
In: Rotham
Rotham!!!

He epitomises shiitting himself when under pressure, cannot defend against a KPF and is so slow with decision making coming out of defence.

2024 needs to be a year where we find out what our players can do. Unfortunately for Rotham I think he has reached his ceiling and it looks like his ceiling is carpet, just centimetres above his floor

That’s a no from me
 
Our first month is an absolute joke. One home game in a month and games against three teams that will likely make up the top four. The AFL’s a corrupt piece of s**t.

Probably is better to get it out of the way now……… going to be a horror show later this year.

Could never understand the pre-season optimism that we would improve on last year, simply don’t have the cattle, lose Shuey and Hurn; Darling, Cripps and Gov a year older and nothing in the mid range of age players.

Can’t change reality, it will be 2028 before we can hope for 8/9 wins in a season.
 
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