Review Round 9, 2022 - Adelaide vs. Brisbane Lions

[beardancer]

None of them, one of the Big O or Fort would have to go out when all 3 of Hippy, Joe and McStay are in the side, Fagan said as much last week.

Haven't we proved though that Eric, Joe and Dan are super average in the ruck.

 

[M Malice]

Haven't we proved though that Eric, Joe and Dan are super average in the ruck.

Fages said 5 tall forward/rucks would upset our balance, obviously he thinks one of or a mixture of those 3 can provide suitable ruck relief for O or Fort.

 

[Dalions]

So is Bailey out? Drop Charlie? Linc? or Rayner?

Fort

 

[Nathan Barley]

Haven't we proved though that Eric, Joe and Dan are super average in the ruck.

We might be slightly less likely to get it forward but we'll be more potent when we do. It's a trade off

 

[Dalions]

Haven't we proved though that Eric, Joe and Dan are super average in the ruck.

I think we ruck Oscar in the middle and around the ground and Dan forward of Centre/forward 50.

 

[martinson]

I think we ruck Oscar in the middle and around the ground and Dan forward of Centre/forward 50.

Agree. McStay's the best in the ruck of the 3 and probably the least likely to do himself some damage.

 

[PaddleFoot]

Wish Charlie would continue to wear the long sleeve jumper, it's a good look.

Continuing the Darryl White tradition ..

 

[beardancer]

Fages said 5 tall forward/rucks would upset our balance, obviously he thinks one of or a mixture of those 3 can provide suitable ruck relief for O or Fort.

Surely we cant want Eric to ruck, he's not built for it and he'd get beaten up( Jarryd Brennan comes to mind) Dan.....possible.....not great. Joe......been there, pretty bad.

OK, How about this, we do a Dan Bradshaw and McStay takes Darcy Gardiners spot and plays down back. I really don't know. But I know if we play McStay, Joe, Hippy, Linc, Rainer and Charlie they're ALL high marking aerialists. I'd just worry that the 3 talls would stifle Linc, Charlie and to some extent Rainer.

 

[beardancer]

Continuing the Darryl White tradition ..

Magnificent!!!

 

[Nathan Barley]

Surely we cant want Eric to ruck, he's not built for it and he'd get beaten up( Jarryd Brennan comes to mind) Dan.....possible.....not great. Joe......been there, pretty bad.

OK, How about this, we do a Dan Bradshaw and McStay takes Darcy Gardiners spot and plays down back. I really don't know. But I know if we play McStay, Joe, Hippy, Linc, Rainer and Charlie they're ALL high marking aerialists. I'd just worry that the 3 talls would stifle Linc, Charlie and to some extent Rainer.

Yeah would really suck having 6 forwards who are strong overhead. Lets drop a few

 

[Dalions]

Surely we cant want Eric to ruck, he's not built for it and he'd get beaten up( Jarryd Brennan comes to mind) Dan.....possible.....not great. Joe......been there, pretty bad.

OK, How about this, we do a Dan Bradshaw and McStay takes Darcy Gardiners spot and plays down back. I really don't know. But I know if we play McStay, Joe, Hippy, Linc, Rainer and Charlie they're ALL high marking aerialists. I'd just worry that the 3 talls would stifle Linc, Charlie and to some extent Rainer.

Personally i think they would create opportunity for the smalls

 

[Tom14]

Playing Eric, Joe and Dan together with only Oscar as a recognised ruck can't possibly work. Its not like we were 10-1 with that line up last year, with an average winning margin of 6 goals, with out only loss being to Melbourne when we were up by 20 points at half time.

Its also not like we also thumped fellow top 4 teams Port and geelong as well as finalists GWS and Essendon in that streak of games either.

 

[mattsmob]

Surely we cant want Eric to ruck, he's not built for it and he'd get beaten up( Jarryd Brennan comes to mind) Dan.....possible.....not great. Joe......been there, pretty bad.

OK, How about this, we do a Dan Bradshaw and McStay takes Darcy Gardiners spot and plays down back. I really don't know. But I know if we play McStay, Joe, Hippy, Linc, Rainer and Charlie they're ALL high marking aerialists. I'd just worry that the 3 talls would stifle Linc, Charlie and to some extent Rainer.

The 3 “small’s” that you’ve mentioned alongside Bailey and Zorko are also great at ground level which is where we get most of our goals. McStay is great at bringing the ball to ground so we need him there, Daniher can turn a game on his own with his pack marking and movement at his size and Hipwood was starting to show he could do what Daniher is doing before he went down injured. It’s the most dangerous forward line in the comp by a fair margin and I wouldn’t even think about changing it to fit in a second ruck that might play 25-30% gametime in the ruck when everyone is available.

 

[Dalions]

Playing Eric, Joe and Dan together with only Oscar as a recognised ruck can't possibly work. Its not like we were 10-1 with that line up last year, with an average winning margin of 6 goals, with out only loss being to Melbourne when we were up by 20 points at half time.

Its also not like we also thumped fellow top 4 teams Port and geelong as well as finalists GWS and Essendon in that streak of games either.

Short memories.

 

[Nunez]

So is Bailey out? Drop Charlie? Linc? or Rayner?

Fort will go out.

 

[beardancer]

Fort will go out.

And ruck who?

 

[martinson]

And ruck who?

Ah Chee can jump. Why not him.

If not Zorko or Bailey. They'd monster the other rucks when the ball hit the deck.

We need to be creative with only one recognised ruck.

 

[Nunez]

And ruck who?

Take a wild guess

 

[beardancer]

Ah Chee can jump. Why not him.

If not Zorko or Bailey. They'd monster the other rucks when the ball hit the deck.

We need to be creative with only one recognised ruck.

I agree about being creative.

 

[ZoBlitz]

Wing stats for the week:

Wing Attendance	Round 9	Adelaide	Adelaide Oval
Names	Q1​	Q2​	Q3​	Q4​	Total	Percentage​
Ah Chee	6​	1​	7​	1​	15​	25.86%​
J.Berry	6​	6​	1​	1​	14​	24.14%​
Prior	6​	7​	3​	4​	20​	34.48%​
Bailey			3​		3​	5.17%​
Hipwood			1​		1​	1.72%​
Coleman			1​	1​	2​	3.45%​
Answerth				2​	2​	3.45%​
McCarthy				1​	1​	1.72%​

Berry moving to tag Dawson clearly affected our wing rotations in the second half which is why it gets a little random at times.

 

[beardancer]

Take a wild guess

so oscar for the whole game........we'll get slaughtered

 

[Brett C]

so oscar for the whole game........we'll get slaughtered

Yep got slaughtered every game last year with Oscar didn’t we……

You’re version of reality must be an interesting place

 

[dlanod]

I'd just worry that the 3 talls would stifle Linc, Charlie and to some extent Rainer.

We've played three talls for years at this point, whether it was Dan and Eric with some combination of Oscar (while we had Stef), Joe (after he joined post-Stef), or Joe, Dan and Fullerton last year after Eric's injury, or Payne replacing Dan after his injury, or this year's combos of Darcy, Dan and Joe, and now Darcy, Eric and Jack. Surely evidence of stifling would have shown up by now.

 

[Warwick]

Wing stats for the week:

Wing Attendance	Round 9	Adelaide	Adelaide Oval
Names	Q1​	Q2​	Q3​	Q4​	Total	Percentage​
Ah Chee	6​	1​	7​	1​	15​	25.86%​
J.Berry	6​	6​	1​	1​	14​	24.14%​
Prior	6​	7​	3​	4​	20​	34.48%​
Bailey			3​		3​	5.17%​
Hipwood			1​		1​	1.72%​
Coleman			1​	1​	2​	3.45%​
Answerth				2​	2​	3.45%​
McCarthy				1​	1​	1.72%​

Berry moving to tag Dawson clearly affected our wing rotations in the second half which is why it gets a little random at times.

Ah Chee’s an interesting one. Why was he only playing on the wing when we were kicking to the right of screen??

We also kicked 11 of our 16 goals when he was playing on the wing.

 

[Mazza44]

Could we chuck McStay out on a wing Matthew Richardson

Matthew Richardson

Age

49

Ht

195cm

Wt

104kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.0

4star

K

10.9

4star

HB

3.1

3star

M

8.0

5star

T

0.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

15.0

4star

K

9.2

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

7.8

5star

T

0.8

3star

style? He has the fitness and it would give us another tall option further up the ground.