Always Right Match Committee R8 vs Port Adelaide 2025

[Rusty12]

There is NO way, Trelor comes back through the VFL. He is either ready, or he isn't.
Even 60% game time, he will win more contests than Dolan and Hynes put togehter.

Bramble is a solid kick, calling him a bad kick is harsh. He makes a few errors on short kicks, in the back-half that stick out, and fans remember, over the volume of his kicking. AFL is a game of turnovers and mistakes, he is aloud a coupe.
Bramble has been great for the dogs.

[Bornadog]

There is NO way, Trelor comes back through the VFL. He is either ready, or he isn't.
Even 60% game time, he will win more contests than Dolan and Hynes put togehter.

Bramble is a solid kick, calling him a bad kick is harsh. He makes a few errors on short kicks, in the back-half that stick out, and fans remember, over the volume of his kicking. AFL is a game of turnovers and mistakes, he is aloud a coupe.
Bramble has been great for the dogs.

I think he is going better than I thought he would. Ended up a pretty good year in 2024 and very solid this year.

[Grantysghost]

There is NO way, Trelor comes back through the VFL. He is either ready, or he isn't.
Even 60% game time, he will win more contests than Dolan and Hynes put togehter.

Bramble is a solid kick, calling him a bad kick is harsh. He makes a few errors on short kicks, in the back-half that stick out, and fans remember, over the volume of his kicking. AFL is a game of turnovers and mistakes, he is aloud a coupe.
Bramble has been great for the dogs.

Yes I agree - he will either be in or training for an extra week.

[Pencil Case]

Need Ads in if JJ is out

[Bornadog]

Need Ads in if JJ is out

Welcome PC - hopefully they both play.

[GVGjr]

Need Ads in if JJ is out

Welcome to WOOF.
Id say Adz and McNeil are in.
Dolan and Hynes out. With Hynes the likely emergency given the VFL play at the same time.
JJ seemed to get through the session after missing on Tuesday and some early work in the rehab area today

[NAUGHTY100]

Need Ads in if JJ is out

Welcome pencil case , you will love WOOF , because there some very informed and intresting people who contribute on training reports and general info on a daily basis .

[ledge]

Welcome to WOOF.
Id say Adz and McNeil are in.
Dolan and Hynes out. With Hynes the likely emergency given the VFL play at the same time.
JJ seemed to get through the session after missing on Tuesday and some early work in the rehab area today

Can’t see Hynes being sub , he isn’t playing much , needs to either be on the team or go back to the VFL and get more game time .

[SquirrelGrip]

Can’t see Hynes being sub , he isn’t playing much , needs to either be on the team or go back to the VFL and get more game time .

If McNeil is in, I'd expect him to be the sub.

[GVGjr]

Can’t see Hynes being sub , he isn’t playing much , needs to either be on the team or go back to the VFL and get more game time .

Re Hynes I didn't say sub, I said emergency. We don't have the luxury this week of taking a player away from the VFL at half time so we will need to take 24 to Ballarat.
Hynes was in the AFL 24 in the match scenario drills, so I am guessing just a bit but we will know spoon enough.. McNeil might be the sub.

[ledge]

Rew Hynes I didn't say sub, I said emergency. We don't have the luxury this week of taking a player away from the VFL at half time so we will need to take 24 to Ballarat.
Hynes was in the AFL 24 in the match scenario drills, so I am guessing just a bit but we will know spoon enough.. McNeil might be the sub.

I think this is the problem that pops up at times . A player isn’t Getting game time or experience being a sub or emergency . Being a first year player I think he needs to go and play, I don’t see it as being dropped but getting the opportunity to learn more .
He hasn’t played a lot the last three weeks . We say players need game hardness , my thoughts are he needs to be playing at this early stage in his career .
As far as being spooned enough isn’t important :-) , sorry I had to say it .

[Bornadog]

I think this is the problem that pops up at times . A player isn’t Getting game time or experience being a sub or emergency . Being a first year player I think he needs to go and play, I don’t see it as being dropped but getting the opportunity to learn more .
He hasn’t played a lot the last three weeks . We say players need game hardness , my thoughts are he needs to be playing at this early stage in his career .
As far as being spooned enough isn’t important :-) , sorry I had to say it .

Totally agree with this, we can't afford him to not play a full game, same with Dolan . They need games in the VFL.

[Axe Man]

I think this is the problem that pops up at times . A player isn’t Getting game time or experience being a sub or emergency . Being a first year player I think he needs to go and play, I don’t see it as being dropped but getting the opportunity to learn more .
He hasn’t played a lot the last three weeks . We say players need game hardness , my thoughts are he needs to be playing at this early stage in his career .
As far as being spooned enough isn’t important :-) , sorry I had to say it .

It was only last week when he came on for the final quarter that he hasn't played a reasonable amount of game time. He had around 60% TOG for his first 2 games which is fine for a young player that is widely considered to not yet have his tank where it needs to be to run out a game of AFL footy.

Obviously if he didn't play this week or had limited game time he would need to play closer to a full game at VFL or AFL level next week.

[DOG GOD]

The whole Sub thing is a joke. Have 5 on the bench and if you get an injury from that, then that’s tough. I don’t see how a player (in normal sub terms) playing half the last quarter is beneficial in any way to the player concerned.

[DOG GOD]

Hynes hasn't had a lot of the footy, but I'd argue in general play he's been pretty effective in lieu of not playing huge minutes.

Sure, he missed that goal he should have kicked versus the Saints, outside of that he's going at 72% kicking efficiency and a few of his kicks have been coach's orders/ direct inside rather than down the line. Overall disposal efficiency of 74% which is pretty good for a newcomer.

You might be right in suggesting the side would be better without each of him and Dolan in the same side. Here's their season comparison (just out of interest):

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=8&playerStatus2=A&tid 2=8&type=A&pid1=7277&pid2=7288&fid1=S&fid2=S

Thanks for sending the stats my way.

I think the thing is, he’s only had 6 kicks in 3 games. I know he’s been sub, but averaging 2 kicks a game is not worthy of a senior appearance. Just my opinion ofcourse. I know it’s early days but I’m not sure where I see him in this team. I wasn’t aware of his under 18 performance to be such a high-ish draft pick for us, but watching him move, he reminds me of a more solid Jarrad Grant lol

no tackles in 3 games is not good enough either.