If the match committee drop Levi , Murph and Betts this week we might as well get rid of the MC and just allow the media to pick the team
Levi should go
Betts tinkering
Murphy is doing enough

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To slow, or not to slow? That is moshe's question...

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I mean - the grammar is just me being a bish. But it's a legit question - throwing out 'too slow' without context is a bit mong. Slow of foot, slow of mind, slow of possession, slow in chasing, slow in attacking, slow on the spread? Do people regularly run away from them?

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Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

B: Plowman Weitering Cottrell
HB: Docherty Jones Saad
C: Williams Cripps Petrevski-Seton
R: Pittonet Curnow Walsh
HF: Fogarty McGovern Cunningham
F: Betts McKay Kennedy
I: Stocker Murphy Newnes Honey

OUT: Casboult, Gibbons
IN: Kennedy, Honey

Locking down a back pocket spot is really the only option I can see for Cottrell as a long-term prospect. To be honest, I think he's a reserve grade player. If Parks and Newman are right to go, then it'll be hard to make a case for him.

I think Kennedy can serve a purpose in the forward line with a fairly simple brief - to promote Harry in every way. Blocks, dummy leads, etc. Again, if Silvagni can pass his fitness test, then he's our guy.

Honey is the pick of the small forwards in the ressies, but I would take an extra defender if both Parks and Newman are available.

Any combination of Stocker, Saad, Newnes & SPS on the back side of the contest on the wing/HBF.

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I don't want to see Wlliamson again. Not because I could never see what others hoped he would be, but his weapon, the left peg, is not that great, hardly uses it and his game sense is not AFL standard. Thankfully everyone has seen it now, he has lost confidence or never had it. Also good the media highlighted his ordinary attempts to defend or fill holes. Unaccountable. If he come good, great. I haven't seen anything of value other than his angry pills...after he's fluffed the contest.

Ditto Kennedy, but that's becaus ehe's too slow to put forward pressure on and miles tooooo slow for wing or midfield role. He's a Levi like liability in the midfield, but agree he is much better than anything Levi has offered this year. Enough is enough.

I don't think Honey is fit enough. But Gibbons doesn't deserve his spot either on recent performances

Good team otherwise. I like Eddy's efforts last week regardless of what is said in the media. So he missed 4 he normally would get. His a seasoned player and his pressure was best of the forward pressure group Murphy Fogarty and Gibbons imo


Just fix the team defense and have a spare back there instead of Russian Roulette one on one defence.

Reckon we canb win this and win it well. Pies were shit on Anzac weekend. Hence should ANZAC DAY SHOULD be rotated to a different top 8 team from the previous year, every year.

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We can’t play a spare back, Bondi. It’s our worse setups and it’s been proven to be diabolical during games for us. The opposition roll their extra via the middle or half back and destroy us on the spread and we leak multiple goals.

its worked in the past when we were winning games, and most other teams do it.

I don't know the answer TBH Surrey. I just donm't like it being just 1 on 1 then whatever happens. That's too Russian Roulette to say we can depend on that. No other team does.

Whatever the answer it involves team defence.

Smart players know when to peel off to help out and create a 2 to 1 advantage. Marchbank was really quick to the contest as 3rd up. Plow can't do it. He l;acks that state of urgency...imo...coz I'm just gurssing with him. I can't work him out, and not a fan, but....best we've got and does other things well.

Williamson was suppose to fill the hole/ leading lane as the 7th defender from a wing (but failed) and he wasn't the answer, but there's credence in that. He is just not smart enough.

I like the way Port and Dees wingers run the lines from HFF to BP following the ball, and create an extra in support behind the ball when needed, then reload running up the ground with the ball.

Running in 2's an 3's and 4's.

OBrien and Cottrell are the only ones I can think of who can do that. Gibbons can but he doesn't have the speed. Maybe OBrien.

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Parks is avaialble this week.

I don't think we know anything about him as a forward.

I don't want to test it against Effendope.
This week is not about finding out one way or another.

We need the ledger 3-4 after this weekend. Have to.

Levi is a dud. That's what I do know. Maybe Ive given up on him too early.

Come on MC make the RIGHT @#$%&! choice and calm the farm

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Get creative Teague

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I think you're onto something there 99.

He has to.

He should have forged plenty of ideas over the preseason....had 6 months to do so.

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Yes He had 6 months and he new we were getting Williams and Saad and we still can’t take advantage of their strengths

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Yes, and probably will again. Other than play Casboult on him, who else is there ?

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Play Jones as the second ruck. He's probably going to play on Wright forward, he may as well follow him into the ruck.

Issue with the one on one match ups down back are that we don't necessarily have great like for likes. I don't mind Weitering on Hooker, I assume Plowman goes to Stringer. Not sure who gets AMT. I hope it's Saad with a view to exposing his own lack of accountability.

In practice I'm sure it'll be Docherty one out and a repeat of the Port game watching Robbie Gray make him look like a dog on lino.

What I’m hoping for a is Parks in for Casboult out injured. We can play Guv or Cripps or Cotters as second ruck, it doesn’t really matter.

What I expect to see is Parks and Setterfield in for Stocker and Gibbons or Cotters

AMT is not exactly Robbie Gray...


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They'll come good.

New rules.
Unknown frontier.
We have to adapt.
They have played with injury.
Fit this week.

Its only round 6.
Better late than never.

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Leave our 2 pillars where they are FB and CHB. Stability.

I'd rather Gov go up in the ruck to give Pitto a chop out for 5 minutes here and there. Who knows...Gov might be better

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Me too

Parks in. Levi 23rd man (is he injured, or playing injured?)

Gibbons meh

I'd like Stocker to play more.

Cottrell is the other obvious one.

If Murphy is in he has to defend. The footage they show of him, and its a lot, is indefensible.
He plays unaccountable football, and they get out of the forwardline with ease.

Something tells me he's been exposed and may stop thinking no one is noticing his shortfalls.
Shits me no end

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RE: Turnovers in the midfield

Champion Data Analyst Daniel Hoyne:





Teague needs them to either slow their ball movement down or hit up a shorter target. Maybe that's why SPS distributes those short passes when playing HBF.

Seek to understand before you're understood. Guesswork and emotional claims are not dogma. The above is empirical evidence.

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I doubt he was able to crystal ball his magnet board getting blown up in the first fortnight.

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