Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

[1eyedog]

Cordy second tall again. I don't like it.

[DOG GOD]

Cordy second tall again. I don't like it.

Expect Francis to have a good game

[bulldogsthru&thru]

All we needed to beat Essendon, Hawthorn, Port & Essendon again this week is our mids need to fire…

Yep. It’s what makes us a top 4 side. Without it, we’re nearly bottom 4.

[Go_Dogs]

Back them in… let’s get the result.

[comrade]

You win. Or lose. Both?

I named Wood to try the reverse moz but was secretly pretty confident there was no way they could select him off his last few weeks.

I was wrong.

[jeemak]

Does this make us predictable then?

Currently substandard defenders and forwards picked. If you can shut our mids down or quieten them enough, then that’s the ball game. The rest could take care of itself if they set up well enough in defence and attack. Shut down or blunt our engine room is job 1, 2 & 3.

Yes we are predictable, but every systems based team largely is anyway. Using their system to hide weaknesses and accentuate strengths.

[The Pie Man]

Once Bruce went down, it’s like Bevo went Homer Simpson on us and forfeited the forward line.

I don’t get how Jamarra isn’t even an emergency, let alone picked as the 2nd tall. Both Naughton & English are WIP with forward craft

Prove me wrong Bevo, prove me wrong

[bulldogsthru&thru]

f*!n hell! How the hell is Nick Hind the number 1 news story on channel 7!!!???

[jeemak]

f*!n hell! How the hell is Nick Hind the number 1 news story on channel 7!!!???

It's a golden pairing of COVID and Essendon.

[FrediKanoute]

When I saw the in's I was a little surprised. They don't make a lot of sense. Then I saw the final team and aside from finding a place for Schache I think its about the best we could field with the injuries we have.

My biggest concern is not the ruck or the backline, but the forward line. Since Bruce went down we have been impotent up front. We get a lot of ball in there but it amounts to nothing and worse it rebounds back out quickly putting the mids and backs under pressure. Its like we had no plan B or C or D for a Bruce injury!

I would have preferred for the last 3 weeks we either played Wallis or Schache at FF. Both to a degree like for like replacements for Bruce (ok they aren't but sort of are). That would have meant that rather than trying to shuffle around multiple parts of the team we would have just been able to keep playing the same gamestyle.

I think we will win v the Bombers, but unless we can work out a way to score 12 to 15 goals a game we wont go further than winning this final this year.

[EasternWest]

f*!n hell! How the hell is Nick Hind the number 1 news story on channel 7!!!???

I'm actually surprised they didn't then cross to Michael O'Brien to complain that it was Daniel Andrews' fault.

I kid, I kid.

But I agree - I was surprised but also not surprised in the slightest that they led with that.

[DOG GOD]

When I saw the in's I was a little surprised. They don't make a lot of sense. Then I saw the final team and aside from finding a place for Schache I think its about the best we could field with the injuries we have.

My biggest concern is not the ruck or the backline, but the forward line. Since Bruce went down we have been impotent up front. We get a lot of ball in there but it amounts to nothing and worse it rebounds back out quickly putting the mids and backs under pressure. Its like we had no plan B or C or D for a Bruce injury!

I would have preferred for the last 3 weeks we either played Wallis or Schache at FF. Both to a degree like for like replacements for Bruce (ok they aren't but sort of are). That would have meant that rather than trying to shuffle around multiple parts of the team we would have just been able to keep playing the same gamestyle.

I think we will win v the Bombers, but unless we can work out a way to score 12 to 15 goals a game we wont go further than winning this final this year.

I agree with Wallis. Should’ve been straight in after the Bruce injury. Just don’t get it. Mitch surely has his papers stamped. His experience alone would be worth its weight in gold to guys like Weightman. Surely Wallis would not be any worse than JJ.

[Dry Rot]

It's a golden pairing of COVID and Essendon.

Both are nasty viruses which need to be eradicated.

[angelopetraglia]

So from when we played Bombers last time.

Out

Shaq
Marra
Richards
Bruce
Garcia
Scott

In

Keath
Weightman
Lewis
Vanda
Roarke
Hannan

[MrMahatma]

So from when we played Bombers last time.

Out

Shaq
Marra
Richards
Bruce
Garcia
Scott

In

Keath
Weightman
Lewis
Vanda
Roarke
Hannan

Prob much of a muchness with Keath a great in and Bruce a big out.