Round 9 Ins/Outs

[Roos4eva]

For the reasons they had to not play him yes they were right.

Ross apparently had a good game against the Cats but if Power had the ball 23 times at 52% efficiency, had 6 clangers, do you think anyone would be praising him?

Sam Power games played: 114

Ben Ross games played: 5

Ross was also willing to attack and not place the ball sideways.

 

[NMFC Est 1869]

Gonna have to agree with DarwinRoo on this one. Sam Power is probably our best player and is rightly an automatic selection.

Luke Power yes Sam Power Maybe Sam could be a lure for Luke

 

[CrazyQ]

So Power should be dropped along with Harris and Riggio and Swallow? How many blokes should we drop this week because they didn't beat their opponent?

How well has Power played this year?

Dont worry, when Wells Simpson Harvey Rawlings Ziebell Ross Urquhart Smith etc all play in the one team, Power will be flicked for good. He's just shit. Accept it.

 

[Kimbo]

The club is always right because they have the best information to make the decisions they make.

What do you do that somehow makes your opinion more informed then them?

If you think you know alot about the game then go down to the club with your resume and apply for a job.

Do you work there DR, or have you applied for a job there? If so, would love to some of this information, and if not, does this mean you too, are hopelessly unqualified to comment?

I'd rather Harris than Power, but the information I don't have is about match-ups. Power has been pretty hopeless of late, and I tend to agree that he may well be 'renting a spot', but some of the comments are a bit over the top.

Pleased to see Wright kept his spot, and dropping Riggio wasn't unwarranted (but I have sympathy for giving him a go). Interested to see if Cruize gets a go sometime soon.

 

[budge11]

For the reasons they had to not play him yes they were right.

Ross apparently had a good game against the Cats but if Power had the ball 23 times at 52% efficiency, had 6 clangers, do you think anyone would be praising him?

Ross is 20 and playing his 3rd or 4th game; if he was a 26 year old player with 100+ to his name then I'd be on his back. At least Ross was trying to move the ball and send it forward.

 

[r_boy]

For the reasons they had to not play him yes they were right.

Ross apparently had a good game against the Cats but if Power had the ball 23 times at 52% efficiency, had 6 clangers, do you think anyone would be praising him?

No because it would have been defensive play. Ross actually takes some risks and tries to hurt the opposition. If you're going to play defensive you better bloody make sure you can execute.

 

[__aria__]

I agree with DarwinRoo, why would Power get the ball 23 times when he can get it 10 times and restrict his opponent to 31?

 

[NMFC ALWAYS]

So Power should be dropped along with Harris and Riggio and Swallow? How many blokes should we drop this week because they didn't beat their opponent?

I base my opinion on more than just last week Frank , i thought Power was putrid against Port as well and for his whole career at North apart from THE ACT OF COURAGE against the Cats last year .

 

[NMFC ALWAYS]

How well has Power played this year?

Dont worry, when Wells Simpson Harvey Rawlings Ziebell Ross Urquhart Smith etc all play in the one team, Power will be flicked for good. He's just shit. Accept it.

The thing about the last paragraph is , no matter who comes back , Power will keep his place and it is very hard to accept .

 

[DarwinRoo]

Power is 25 and has had years to rectify that part of his game, and hasnt. Ross has alot more ability than Power and is younger. I thought Ross had an ok-good game considering he is 20-21 years old, playing agaisnt the top side and no-one played well.

You dissed Harris, yet IIRC he was our leading clearance player. Power didnt stop Selwood.

Riggio is around the same age as Ross and has played only a few more games than Ross and yet he had 80% DE. If he is talented then expecting him to hit a target more than 1 out of 2 times shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

 

[Kimbo]

Instead Laidley picks yet another kid... Sure its great to see a few kids being given a chance to show what they are capable of but at the end of the day there has to be a balance, unless of course you have just given up on the season.

ALL LAIDLEY IS DOING IS SAVING HIS ASS and putting himself before picking a team to win games of football!

Agreed! Let's criticize him for not picking the kids, then do the same for picking the kids.

 

[CrazyQ]

Riggio is around the same age as Ross and has played only a few more games than Ross and yet he had 80% DE. If he is talented then expecting him to hit a target more than 1 out of 2 times shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

So you agree, then, that Power needs to improve his handballing and kicking?

He kicks high floaters and gives hospital handpasses. He panics. He gets pushed off the ball easily. He is not effective dude.

Ross is a much better player to have playing right now than Power.

 

[__aria__]

Power > Ross how come only me and DR can see that?

 

[Roos4eva]

Power > Ross how come only me and DR can see that?

Don't worry mate, you're nearly convincing me.

 

[danj]

Given that Power received 5 votes in the coaches award for the Port game suggests that he will be in the side for the next 6-8 weeks at least.

No problem with dropping Harris though. I can't see a future for him in the side. We should have taken whatever we were offered for him in the trade period. Assuming anyone offered anything.

Nice ins, but I still can't see the forward line functioning properly with Hale, Edwards and Petrie down there. Eiher Dew should be down back or Hale out of the team.

I am really worried about our back line, without Lachy or Pratty we are exposed so putting Drew down there with the current line up is a good suggestion dropping Hale is also a good idea, he needs to build his upper body strength and confidence, as we have signed him up for another 3yrs put him in the magoos for 4-5 rounds and replace him with Drew (once pratty or Lachy are back until then Jonesy) Anyways this game will be won by which ever team kick the straighest

 

[__aria__]

Good to see u back btw Roos4eva.

Ross has a poor efficiency rate and Power is a much better user of the ball. Come on I think I heard someone say that maybe Ross' efficiency is down because he breaks the lines and puts the ball to a dangerous place and is leading the AFL in inside 50s since he came into the side. Come on he needs to play more like Power to get his efficiency stats up so that means more 15m kicks sideways and backwards. Taking the game on =

 

[NMFC ALWAYS]

Quick question -

Which group of supporters should be pissed off the most ?

North supporters in regard to Power's selection

Or

Pies supporters regarding Brown

 

[DarwinRoo]

Do you work there DR, or have you applied for a job there? If so, would love to some of this information, and if not, does this mean you too, are hopelessly unqualified to comment?

I'd rather Harris than Power, but the information I don't have is about match-ups. Power has been pretty hopeless of late, and I tend to agree that he may well be 'renting a spot', but some of the comments are a bit over the top.

Pleased to see Wright kept his spot, and dropping Riggio wasn't unwarranted (but I have sympathy for giving him a go). Interested to see if Cruize gets a go sometime soon.

No I don't work there and I haven't applied for a job there but I don't think the club should take any notice of what I have to say on here.

My opinion is exactly that, my opinion. Everyone is entitled to one but there is a football department whose job it is to win football games and it is there opinion that Harris isn't good enough and Power is. Apart from a couple of hundred bucks I put into the club each year who am I to question their judgement?

I am glad to see Wright stay in. I was very suprised to see people saying he should be dropped especially after the whinging that was done after Greenwood was dropped.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Agreed! Let's criticize him for not picking the kids, then do the same for picking the kids.

Idiot!

Read all of MY posts!

I'M NOT saying throw every bloody kid on our list under the age of 21.

My stance is that it is fine to play the kids but it is important to have a balance of experience as well. Picking your best 22 usually doesn't go astray either!

Every bloody week after we get belted, Laidley rambles on for half an hour about how many players in the team have played less than X games.

If he plays Jones, who based on form, deserves another go, and doesn't drop Harris like he did this week, then he can save himself half an hour of dribbling sh!t.

 

[Roos4eva]

Good to see u back btw Roos4eva.

Ross has a poor efficiency rate and Power is a much better user of the ball. Come on I think I heard someone say that maybe Ross' efficiency is down because he breaks the lines and puts the ball to a dangerous place and is leading the AFL in inside 50s since he came into the side. Come on he needs to play more like Power to get his efficiency stats up so that means more 15m kicks sideways and backwards. Taking the game on =

__aria__, this board must have been missing you terribly over the last week, because that is a very, very good post.

Seriously, how good was Power's kick just before full-time when he took the play-on advantage from a free kick to which the ball went straight to a Geelong defender? I'd like to see Ben Ross do that.

 

[DarwinRoo]

So you agree, then, that Power needs to improve his handballing and kicking?

He kicks high floaters and gives hospital handpasses. He panics. He gets pushed off the ball easily. He is not effective dude.

Ross is a much better player to have playing right now than Power.

I don't think you read it right. I was comparing the DE of Riggio and Ross not Power and Ross.

It is all well and good to take risks but at least put it in a spot where it is too our advantage. The only bloke in our side that can kick it to a 3 on 1 and hit our one is Wells.

I disagree on Powers handballing. I think he has the quickest hands and is the best handball in the side. That isn't saying much though because our handballing as a team is terrible.

 

[Carnthe]

That isn't saying much though because our handballing as a team is terrible.

That is very true, I have noticed we are a very poor handballing side. The number of times I have seen a handpass to the feet or behind the player running past (or into their back - Gibbo to McMahon). You only have to look at Geelong on the weekend, or Hawthorn, St Kilda or the Bulldogs - they know how to handball - and when you can flick it round and release a player into space out of the middle, then you can get clean entry into the forward 50, instead of just rushed kicks out of the middle to no one.

 

[__aria__]

Wellsy needs to tone down his risk taking aswell. His efficiency rating is much worse than Sammy's.

Matty Campbell is only operating at about 60% for the year. I say get him playing more like Power with some 15m chips backwards or delist

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

I didnt see Harris tagging a match winner out of the game against the Power. Did you?

We got killed in the clearances last week and apparently Harro is a great clearance player so who do you think we are going to drop? The bloke who couldn't get his hands on it in the middle perhaps?

The in's are better than the outs but they only thing that posters will see is Power in. Most of you are absolutely clueless when it comes to football. If you actually knew anything about the game you would be working for the club and not sitting on your arse at a keyboard.

WTF, did you just call Peter Burgoyne a match winner? Remember he was tagging Peter Burgoyne, not Shaun. Thats too bloody funny.

Look, Power has done nothing, he was tagging Selwood last week and got shown up, for him to still retain he's spot over Harris is a disgrace and no one will come up with a good enough excuse to justify it, no freaking one!

I'm so over this crap from Laidleys.

 

[Roos4eva]

WTF, did you just call Peter Burgoyne a match winner? Remember he was tagging Peter Burgoyne, not Shaun. Thats too bloody funny.

Look, Power has done nothing, he was tagging Selwood last week and got shown up, for him to still retain he's spot over Harris is a disgrace and no one will come up with a good enough excuse to justify it, no freaking one!

I'm so over this crap from Laidleys.

Just buy your membership and don't question anything okay.