Always Right Match Committee Round 13 v Port Adelaide

[Mantis]

I said the same last week mate, just shuffling deck chairs. I'm wanting to see an outside the square selection regardless of form for one VFL game and work with it. If Poulter is ready then why not? Would we be any worse off if we played Buku instead of TOB? Cleary should be in the mix as well. We'll go the "safe" selections though, Hannan, McComb, Crozier will all be top of the list at the selection meeting.

Like O’Donnell was?

Not sure that’s working out for us/him.

[bulldogtragic]

B: Dale Naughton TOB
HB: Poulter Jones Duryea
C: Williams Macrae Baker
HF: Jones Marra Scott
F: Bruce Lobb Weightman
R: English Bont Libba
I: Treloar Smith Daniel Cleary
S: Darcy

Realistically, we will do the same and get the same result. But we need to address a bloke who spoils teammates and focus him on opponents, getting a talk accuracste goal kicker back up front, hope the mids show up, not really be able to cover JJ & Richards out, and as bad as Baker was I don’t see a replacement this week. We’ll just bring in a Hannan or Crozier and get the usual very little from them. Naughton is a net negative on the forward line and unless he and the others learn to play for and with each other, we need to do something like bring the Bruce back, use a wildcard like Darcy or something. Surely the plan isn’t long bombs into the forward line to a pack of 10 players.

[Hotdog60]

Out:
JOD and Richards
In:
Bruce and Cleary
Sub:
Out McNeil in Smith

[G-Mo77]

Like O’Donnell was?

Not sure that’s working out for us/him.

Bingo, I'm comfortable with the JOD selection now, wasn't at the time. Hes got some tools to work with and think it's time for him to go back and work on them. We need to be bold, we can go safe and select someone who won't develop any further or we can keep an eye on down the road and give some of these players a taste of the big time. Who knows they may inject some enthusiasm into this team and cement a spot like Jones did.

[Dogs 24/7]

Do we have selection integrity (heard this mentioned on the radio) with our VFL players being rewarded with senior games when they display some form or are we more prone to playing someone based on their training appeal?

[Scorlibo]

Do we have selection integrity (heard this mentioned on the radio) with our VFL players being rewarded with senior games when they display some form or are we more prone to playing someone based on their training appeal?

If there are good reasons for playing JOD over (at least at the time) better performing players in Khamis and Cleary, then we haven't heard them publicly.

I really like the look of JOD, and it was great to see him kick his first, but he's not ready and the move to play him forward and send Lobb to a wing is pissing in the wind kind of stuff. The kind of experiment you could tolerate for a half of footy but simply can't be a month-long pursuit.

I don't think moves at the selection table are why we've lost the last couple of weeks, but to your point - no we certainly don't have integrity based on exposed VFL form.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Do we have selection integrity (heard this mentioned on the radio) with our VFL players being rewarded with senior games when they display some form or are we more prone to playing someone based on their training appeal?

We haven't had selection integrity the entire time Bevo has been at the club. To be fair we aren't the only club.

But can you imagine a young player like Khamis watching us draft another young player from backyard cricket, play 2 VFL games, and come straight into the VFL side and perform poorly for 4 weeks? How can the MC even begin to justify it?

I thought they must be planning for JOD to sit on Stewart. Nope. So you can add Bruce (forward version) to this same story, because BOTH Khamis and Bruce would offer a hell of a lot more than JOD as both a forward or defender.

Bevo speaks about JOD being a great athlete, but I haven't seen it, and at the top level you need to either be able to offer something on attack or defense and through no fault of his own JOD has done neither.

It's an absolutely ridiculous selection. But Bevo is obsessed with a yearly project.

[bulldogtragic]

We haven't had selection integrity the entire time Bevo has been at the club. To be fair we aren't the only club.

But can you imagine a young player like Khamis watching us draft another young player from backyard cricket, play 2 VFL games, and come straight into the VFL side and perform poorly for 4 weeks? How can the MC even begin to justify it?

I thought they must be planning for JOD to sit on Stewart. Nope. So you can add Bruce (forward version) to this same story, because BOTH Khamis and Bruce would offer a hell of a lot more than JOD as both a forward or defender.

Bevo speaks about JOD being a great athlete, but I haven't seen it, and at the top level you need to either be able to offer something on attack or defense and through no fault of his own JOD has done neither.

It's an absolutely ridiculous selection. But Bevo is obsessed with a yearly project.

I can understand giving him a taste. But clutch matches again GCS & Geelong to cement top four is hubris if the highest order.

[DOG GOD]

JOD offers nothing more than Khamis, and having him playing ahead of Khamis is nothing but laughable. At least Khamis has shown positive traits. And by what I’ve seen, seems as much the athlete as they say JOD is.

Not sure who’s out or who’s in, but 1 thing is almost a given….crozier, Hannan and McComb will be in the mix, while Khamis, West and Cleary freeze their asses off in the VFL.

[hujsh]

Why is everyone dropping Richards?

[bulldogtragic]

Why is everyone dropping Richards?

Injury.

[The Underdog]

Delist McNeil now.

#blamethesub

[Grantysghost]

Why is everyone dropping Richards?

Did his hammy.

[Grantysghost]

#blamethesub

Guy is on a hiding to nothing.

[bulldogtragic]

#blamethesub

He’s not an AFEL footballer. He missed a gimme goal to get us back in it, and late at CHF let Rohan take an uncontested mark without any pressure and gave nothing to the side. I’m not blaming him for anything. He does not deserve to be on the list in my opinion based on his performances over three years including last night.

Edit:

Career Averages

7.8 touches
1.6 mark
1 I50
0.5 goals
0.2 goal assist


Not to standard. Not worthy of promotion when the forced choice is delist or promote. He needs to be delisted and he shouldn’t play again if I was picking the team. That’s not blame, that’s my opinion on his career to date and performance last night sealed it.