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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Its a concern when we are considering VDM straight back in after a hammy after showing very little for over 12 months now.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
I agree. At the top of his game I like what he brings, but he is not an automatic in for mine
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
kruder
Its a concern when we are considering VDM straight back in after a hammy after showing very little for over 12 months now.
Further proof that the cupboard is bare. I haven't seen so few contributions to the selection committee threads on this forum in years. There's currently a real shortage of realistic possibilities.
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but first it will piss you off. ... Gloria Steinem.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Jeanette54
Further proof that the cupboard is bare. I haven't seen so few contributions to the selection committee threads on this forum in years. There's currently a real shortage of realistic possibilities.
I think there are a lot of posts on another thread that people have been committing time too...somehow the simple fact of selecting a team for one week seem trivial to all of us who all think we are thinking big picture: https://www.woof.net.au/forum/showth...e-path-forward
The reality of things are that for the MC and coaches, nothing could be more important than this week.
To me we don't really need changes in players, but we do need a change in attitude:
- Merrett needs a tag and needs to be kept to < 20 touches.
- Parish needs to be assigned to someone in a head to head role...not tag but when they have it, you need to have him.
- A clear plan for Wright who kicked 7 against us last year.
- A clear plan for Stringer who simply cannot be allowed to get going.
If we can do those things I think it will all be OK.
What should I tell her? She's going to ask.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
mjp
I think there are a lot of posts on another thread that people have been committing time too...somehow the simple fact of selecting a team for one week seem trivial to all of us who all think we are thinking big picture:
https://www.woof.net.au/forum/showth...e-path-forward
The reality of things are that for the MC and coaches, nothing could be more important than this week.
To me we don't really need changes in players, but we do need a change in attitude:
- Merrett needs a tag and needs to be kept to < 20 touches.
- Parish needs to be assigned to someone in a head to head role...not tag but when they have it, you need to have him.
- A clear plan for Wright who kicked 7 against us last year.
- A clear plan for Stringer who simply cannot be allowed to get going.
If we can do those things I think it will all be OK.
I just hope we learned form the 'experiment' in the 3rd quarter of the pre-season game - Essendon have a lot of intercept marking capability and we're coming off a game where Adelaide exposed us by putting an extra tall behind the ball.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Mofra
I just hope we learned form the 'experiment' in the 3rd quarter of the pre-season game - Essendon have a lot of intercept marking capability and we're coming off a game where Adelaide exposed us by putting an extra tall behind the ball.
We play with an extra at the stoppage/contest pretty much every week so this is basically a 100% guarantee to happen.
What should I tell her? She's going to ask.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
mjp
Merrett needs a tag and needs to be kept to < 20 touches.
Why? He's had over 30 in all 3 games he's played and they have lost them all.
He's a good player and gets a lot of the ball but that doesn't mean he's the most damaging player going around. Baz and Macrae are getting heaps of it too and where is that getting us?
Very unlikely Merrett goes under 20, even with a hard tag (which we won't do anyway). I just don't see it as a particularly important metric.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Mofra
I just hope we learned form the 'experiment' in the 3rd quarter of the pre-season game - Essendon have a lot of intercept marking capability and we're coming off a game where Adelaide exposed us by putting an extra tall behind the ball.
What was that?
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
McComb will be playing this week. Not surprised but just don't see him providing much for us.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Scott out with H&S protocols. Hopefully no one else gets dragged down with him.
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
Scott out with H&S protocols. Hopefully no one else gets dragged down with him.
Yeah that sucks.
More of an In Bruges guy?
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
Scott out with H&S protocols. Hopefully no one else gets dragged down with him.
Likely to, Melbourne hit with it at the moment and quite a few players have missed
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
mjp
We play with an extra at the stoppage/contest pretty much every week so this is basically a 100% guarantee to happen.
Given it's one of the oldest tactics in football - I wonder what the hell we were doing all pre-season?
In the first Melbourne game last year Angus Brayshaw just stood in the way of our switch kick and we just went back to dumb dump kicks down the line. Matthew Nicks clearly watched that tape.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Danjul
What was that?
Naughts chopping out in the ruck/resting leaving us with Hannan as the only marking target in the F50 (undersized).
They just kept intercept marking and getting clean ball out of defence.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Always Right - Match Committee Thread RD 7 vs Essendon
Originally Posted by
Mofra
Naughts chopping out in the ruck/resting leaving us with Hannan as the only marking target in the F50 (undersized).
They just kept intercept marking and getting clean ball out of defence.
Thanks.