Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

[kruder]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

ahhh great another week with a midget playing second ruck

[Remi Moses]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Pretty sad seeing Bob finish like this
Being a night game and some rain around not such a bad thing having the one ruck .
Couple of players coming off a 5 day break and at Boyd's age I'm a bit surprised.
Dickson's run out of chances

[chef]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

IN: M. Boyd, T. Liberatore, F. Roberts. C. Smith
OUT: R. Murphy (hamstring), T. Campbell (abdominal strain), S. Biggs (calf), T. Dickson (omitted)

Some good ins and some big outs.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

ahhh great another week with a midget playing second ruck

Much rather Redpath playing second ruck than Roughy playing as a key-defender.

[kruder]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Pretty sad seeing Bob finish like this
Being a night game and some rain around not such a bad thing having the one ruck .
Couple of players coming off a 5 day break and at Boyd's age I'm a bit surprised.
Dickson's run out of chances

When Redpath goes in and we kick long to Honey and Wallis I'd suggest it will be a bad thing no matter the conditions. It will also mean Bont will play too much forward which impacts our clearance situation and Stinger gets stuck deep which hasn't really worked much over the last year. Roughead needs to play 80% ruck at least for us to have any chance of kicking a winning score

[jeemak]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

I am pleased to see our backline look the way it does this week. It seems much more reasonable to have Roughead in the ruck where he belongs and Fletcher in defence, where he belongs.

We need to be smart with our set-up when Redpath is in the ruck. Our best stoppage players need to be there with him, and depending on how Adelaide is setting up and our defenders are working, we might consider moving Cordy forward at these times to nullify Adelaide's interceptors.

If everyone brings something close to their competitive best this week, I don't see how we're not highly competitive. The coaches need to drop the hubris and work Sloane over.

[Doc26]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

And to think Ross Lyon used to be criticised for never playing the kids.
This MC takes the cake.

After such an ordinary season, where our leaders have struggled to show the way, we haven't got a single player of our 22 selected this week selected in the last 2 years of drafts, national and rookie draft included.

[GVGjr]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

And to think Ross Lyon used to criticised for never playing the kids.
This MC takes the cake.

After such an ordinary season, where our leaders have struggled to show the way, we haven't got a single player of our 22 selected this week selected in the last 2 years of drafts, national and rookie draft included.

With the losses mounting I can see why we turn to the experienced players. I don't agree with it but I think I understand why.

Down to one ruckman and a first year player now. We can't ignore this during next years trade and draft periods. We have to find an additional support player

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

And to think Ross Lyon used to criticised for never playing the kids.
This MC takes the cake.

After such an ordinary season, where our leaders have struggled to show the way, we haven't got a single player of our 22 selected this week selected in the last 2 years of drafts, national and rookie draft included.

A bit harsh I think.
The MC during Bevo's reign has shown a great willingness to olay kids. This week was not a great week given the short week from the VFL game to play kids, especially given the importance of the game and the opposition and venue.

Who from our last two drafts is fit and knocking the door down right now? And who has the base coming off a short week to play? Maybe Williams..but even then Bevo has shown a willingness to play him this year so there must be reasons why he's not been considered this week.

[Bornadog]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

And to think Ross Lyon used to criticised for never playing the kids.
This MC takes the cake.

After such an ordinary season, where our leaders have struggled to show the way, we haven't got a single player of our 22 selected this week selected in the last 2 years of drafts, national and rookie draft included.

The trouble is who do you bring in. No one is kicking the door down from the VFL.

I would have brought in Williams and not MBoyd, in fact Williams should not have been dropped. Other than that who else would you have brought in?

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

I really don't get why we didn't rest a player or two from the VFL game last week.

[kruder]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

With the losses mounting I can see why we turn to the experienced players. I don't agree with it but I think I understand why.

Down to one ruckman and a first year player now. We can't ignore this during next years trade and draft periods. We have to find an additional support player

If you could choose one going forward would you prefer Grundy or Lever? It's an interesting one considering our deficiencies ATM.

[ratsmac]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Put JJ on Sloane and they can bump each other until their hearts content.

Our injuries have actually made the line up look reasonable for a wet slog. Maybe our luck is turning

[Doc26]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

The trouble is who do you bring in. No one is kicking the door down from the VFL.

I would have brought in Williams and not MBoyd, in fact Williams should not have been dropped. Other than that who else would you have brought in?

Thought a statement should've been made on Johanissen and / or Stringer regardless of cost.

I don't want to see anyone in the RWB put in such selective and selfish effort.

Play NMM, or Young, or as you've mentioned Bailey Williams (who shouldn't be out of the side anyway). Or try something different, bring Collins in and try Fletch up forward.

Bring Declan in for his first go at it - one thing is for sure he couldn't dispose of it any worse than most getting selected.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Match Committee - Round 16, 2017 vs Adelaide

Put JJ on Sloane and they can bump each other until their hearts content.

Our injuries have actually made the line up look reasonable for a wet slog. Maybe our luck is turning

Even when he is flying, JJ is far from a contested ball type, which is needed as a tagger. I'm very surprised we haven't moved him around. I would give him time forward.

In terms of tagging Sloane- Libba? Career maker for Honey? Picken? Share the job around? Crazy we won't tag him anyway...