Always Right Match Committee R14 vs St Kilda 2025

[mighty_west]

We can but I don’t think it works that well. 3 blokes that are relatively slow means rebounds quickly out if they aren’t marking it.
Buku gave us very little last Thursday, his goal was probably not even a mark but given that Chol got one similar, we can’t complain.

I do agree that the two key forwards work better than three (if all three spend the majority of time on ground up forward), well it has with our structure given they usually fly for the same ball, which i why i like to see one of those keys present further up the ground, taking grabs on the wing plus the majority of time with the three talls, one goes into the centre square bounce as a chop out or one on the pine which in effect leaves us with the two for possibly the majority of game time anyway.

Especially with Darcy coming off a knee injury, i'd prefer he didn't contest in the ruck and just play forward which allows Buku to give Tim a break, Buku was a bit quiet, but then so was West and neither deserve to be dropped given their runs on the board and importance to our structure.

[Hotdog60]

Slightly off topic, but does anything know a way to watch repeats of the VFL game if we miss it live? I missed both the AFL and VFL last weekend, and would like to go back and watch both

VFL Match Replay: Coburg v Footscray

[Garbs_7]

I think Darcy , Naughty and Buku can work. With one needing to spell TIm in the ruck and then with those three having their rest on the bench too, you aren't actually playing all 3 at the same time in the fwd line. I'm hoping with Darcy back, Naughty can get up the ground a bit more and play a roaming CHF giving a marking option coming out of the backline, and leaving Buku and Darcy as deeper options fwd.

May mean we go back to the two talls down back (JOD and Lobb) with third tall being a Cleary, Coffield etc to allow the extra runner into the 22.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

I do agree that the two key forwards work better than three (if all three spend the majority of time on ground up forward), well it has with our structure given they usually fly for the same ball, which i why i like to see one of those keys present further up the ground, taking grabs on the wing plus the majority of time with the three talls, one goes into the centre square bounce as a chop out or one on the pine which in effect leaves us with the two for possibly the majority of game time anyway.

Especially with Darcy coming off a knee injury, i'd prefer he didn't contest in the ruck and just play forward which allows Buku to give Tim a break, Buku was a bit quiet, but then so was West and neither deserve to be dropped given their runs on the board and importance to our structure.

I do think that Bwe go with the 3. Naughts plays the high half forward and hits the logos. This is when we have a great option to have the out let kick that provides a better than 70% result in our favour. Keep Darcy deep and just use Bulu to block and do the blocking work to free Sam up. Keep the like of VDM and Dolan at Sam’s feet.

20 Goals no problem.

[Cmac1297]

I don't mind it but you are one running defender light on. We nearly always always play 7.

We’ve had a midfielder rotating through one of the half back positions most the year haven’t we? Or at least starting at half back

[Rusty12]

Not sure whether to quit this, as I had Gardner in the "Not in the mix" section all year, or continue for the same reason...........
The game was lost Vs the Hawks at the selection table.

Backs:
Jones - Lobb - JOD - Freijah - JJ - Dale
Outside:
Williams - Harmes
Inside:
Libba - Bont - Richards
Ruck:
English
Forwards:
Naughton - Darcy - Sanders - Mennedy - West - VDM

INT: Bramble - Trelor - Davidson - Dolan
Sub: Poulter

Bubble:
Jaques - Busss - Coffield - Gallagher - Baker - Hynes - Duyrea - Garcia - Khamis
Not in the Mix:
Smith - Gardner - McNeil - Cleary - Lennedy
Injured:
Croft - Arty - Scott

Ins: Jones - JJ - Poulter - Darcy
Out: Gardner - Cleary - McNeil - Khamis

[SquirrelGrip]

We’ve had a midfielder rotating through one of the half back positions most the year haven’t we? Or at least starting at half back

This has been really lazy analysis by commentators and so-called "experts". For the better part of a year now, we've frequently started a defender on the wing at centre bounces, with an extra mid coming in from the defensive side of the square. As soon as the ball is bounced, the defender on the wing goes straight to the their half back position and the extra mid stays mid. Our actual wing (e.g. Davidson) starts on the half forward line then takes their spot on the wing.

This is constantly rotating and we almost never have the same set up at consecutive centre bounces. We also sometimes start a half back at half back. Bevo has discussed this at press conferences and talks about giving it "different angles". I'm not aware of any other club doing it to the same extent as us.

[my plums]

This has been really lazy analysis by commentators and so-called "experts". For the better part of a year now, we've frequently started a defender on the wing at centre bounces, with an extra mid coming in from the defensive side of the square. As soon as the ball is bounced, the defender on the wing goes straight to the their half back position and the extra mid stays mid. Our actual wing (e.g. Davidson) starts on the half forward line then takes their spot on the wing.

This is constantly rotating and we almost never have the same set up at consecutive centre bounces. We also sometimes start a half back at half back. Bevo has discussed this at press conferences and talks about giving it "different angles". I'm not aware of any other club doing it to the same extent as us.

It happened at the first bounce on Friday Night and Corn went with "Ed Richards showed no respect to Ginnivan there." or maybe his 'analysis' is just crap

[lemmon]

This has been really lazy analysis by commentators and so-called "experts". For the better part of a year now, we've frequently started a defender on the wing at centre bounces, with an extra mid coming in from the defensive side of the square. As soon as the ball is bounced, the defender on the wing goes straight to the their half back position and the extra mid stays mid. Our actual wing (e.g. Davidson) starts on the half forward line then takes their spot on the wing.

This is constantly rotating and we almost never have the same set up at consecutive centre bounces. We also sometimes start a half back at half back. Bevo has discussed this at press conferences and talks about giving it "different angles". I'm not aware of any other club doing it to the same extent as us.

There were some comments on here that Libba played genuine half back in the second half against the Hawks. I couldn't really tell from TV if that was the case.

[Bornadog]

There were some comments on here that Libba played genuine half back in the second half against the Hawks. I couldn't really tell from TV if that was the case.

I was at the game and yes he did.

[my plums]

Reckon we had too many mids last game

[dukedog]

Ha.
Thats simply not true. They play different roles anyway.

Not gonna argue who plays what role. they can both play similar roles. I just think Naughton has been out of sorts and ive liked Buku's games. Maybe you could argue Naughton has been taking better defenders and is making Buku look better. Also. i'd be ok with playing all 3 in this game. Buku would be unlucky to miss.

[Mantis]

It happened at the first bounce on Friday Night and Corn went with "Ed Richards showed no respect to Ginnivan there." or maybe his 'analysis' is just crap

Who was accountable for Ginnivan in this situation?

Understand that a ''change over'' was occurring, but it hadn't properly occurred and Ginnivan was running into an open goal before we had our shit together.

And to your next point we did have too many mids playing, especially when at least one of them couldn't run... and one other has no flexibility in where he can play.

[my plums]

Who was accountable for Ginnivan in this situation?

Understand that a ''change over'' was occurring, but it hadn't properly occurred and Ginnivan was running into an open goal before we had our shit together.

And to your next point we did have too many mids playing, especially when at least one of them couldn't run... and one other has no flexibility in where he can play.

Yeah i dunno, I guess it was the starting winger who is supposed to roll back? But then again, it could've been a coaching move by the Hawks to exploit this. Just thought it was a little bit of shallow commentary from Corn.

[GVGjr]

Who is going to the game this week?