Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

[mjp]

I have been thinking about our selections for a solid 12 hours now and am no closer to an explanation.

Last week, we played (nominally) 7 defenders.

This week, we have "lost":

1x running defender: Biggs
1x medium defender: Wood
1x midfielder: Macrae
1x unclear: Webb

We have chosen to include:
2x (genuine) key defenders: Adams and Naughton
1x (has played his career as a) key defender: Morris
1x mid who plays for some reason as a forward: Dunkley

North have ONE (1) key forward - Brown.

I have read all of the updates on the match committee thread and I still can't make sense of it.

So...can anyone tell me what is actually going on, how we are going to get the ball and how we propose to score?

Who said it was impossible to TANK in the AFL competition??

[Mofra]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Looking for sense in our MC selections = recipe for insanity.

Adams may well go forward given he's played about two quarters of AFL football there in the past which is more than half our list.

Perhaps Trengove can go forward and/or play ruck.

I suspect if we had any half-fit AFL capable mid ready they would have been selected. We could well see Morris in the ruck for all the weird positional changes that have occurred this year.

[Bornadog]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

The current status

Adams, Marcus	Playing
Bontempelli, Marcus	Playing
Boyd, Thomas	Playing
Cordy, Zaine	Playing
Crozier, Hayden	Playing
Dahlhaus, Luke	Playing
Daniel, Caleb	Playing
Dunkley, Josh	Playing
Gowers, Billy	Playing
Honeychurch, Mitch	Playing
Hunter, Lachlan	Playing
Johannisen, Jason	Playing
Lipinski, Patrick	Playing
McLean, Toby	Playing
Morris, Dale	Playing
Naughton, Aaron	Playing
Richards, Ed	Playing
Schache, Josh	Playing
Smith, Roarke	Playing
Trengove, Jackson	Playing
Wallis, Mitchell	Playing
Williams, Bailey	Playing
Biggs, Shane	VFL
Campbell, Tom	VFL
Collins, Kieran	VFL
Greene, Fergus	VFL
Jong, Lin	VFL
Lynch, Bradley	VFL
Mullenger-McHugh, Nathan	VFL
Porter, Callum	VFL
Roberts, Fletcher	VFL
Roughead, Jordan	VFL
Young, Lewis	VFL
Dale, Bailey	Injured
Dickson, Tory	Injured
English, Timothy	Injured
Liberatore, Thomas	Injured
Macrae, Jackson	Injured
Picken, Liam	Injured
Redpath, Jack	Injured
Smith, Clay	Injured
Suckling, Matthew	Injured
Webb, Lukas	Injured
Wood, Easton	Injured

Of the available players who should be playing instead of selected team?

[Bornadog]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Biggs, Shane	VFL	Maybe unlucky to be dropped
Campbell, Tom	VFL	Only if Boyd was dropped
Collins, Kieran	VFL	Not ready
Greene, Fergus	VFL	Maybe
Jong, Lin	VFL	Maybe
Lynch, Bradley	VFL	Not ready
Mullenger-McHugh, Nathan	VFL	Not ready
Porter, Callum	VFL	Not ready
Roberts, Fletcher	VFL	Only if other defender dropped
Roughead, Jordan	VFL	Only if Boyd was dropped
Young, Lewis	VFL	Only if other defender dropped

The cupboard is bare

[Mofra]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

^ BAD I seriously would have given Greene a shot this week.
It's not like we have a functioning forwardline, he's hit the scoreboard in recent weeks and we should be playing with a view to list management at the end of the season. If he shows something - anything - at AFL level he's a definite keep as we'll be cutting heavily this year.

I would have given Campbell a game by now too; risking a banged-up-finger forward cum ruckman Boyd and holding onto Campbell for two years with no actual intention of playing him is pretty poor list management.

I note we have Lynch listed as an emergency - to me that is just as mystifying given we have so many defenders the last thing we need is another one if one of our listed players doesn't come up.

[jeemak]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Jong being the only player capable of midfield time in the list of players playing VFL. He was reported as playing well last week by Bulldogs media, though WOOF watchers didn't think he was effective and seemingly neither did the coaching team.

[Rocket Science]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Every time we're forced to countenance whether an Adams/Naughton/Roberts/Trengove/Richards/Johannisen/Cordy/insert other non-forward of your choosing can successfully go forward a puppy dies.

"Gee XXX has looked ok lately, quick let's transplant him into another area of the field we've been getting smashed in"

Granted injuries have cruelled us but they've also shone a glaring spotlight on the fact that our remedy to being so utterly bereft of competent forwards is auditioning a merry-go-round of defenders (and mids) who don't often have a mortgage on their 'natural' positions let alone being a magic wand for our feckless 'attack' ... never mind the constant disruption of not allowing blokes to settle anywhere, nor their teammates around them.

You wonder if there's a weekly drawing of straws now to determine whose turn it is to do their time in our forward arc.

Rather than an off-season list prune we might like to consider a scorched earth policy.

[Mantis]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

I think they have to be.

Flogging a dead horse, and the effect on our performance might be minimal, but surely Jong is a better an option than Smith & HC?

Anyway looking forward to watching our team run around like headless chooks once again.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Shows how lopsided our list is
You don’t need 7 key backs in this era

[Greystache]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

You think you're confused now wait until game day when none of these key defenders play as key defenders and we have Bailey Williams and Ed Richards playing deep in defence, while Naughton and Adams play deep forward, Trengove plays high forward, Boyd and Dunkley ruck, Morris plays small, and Cordy plays as a rebounding defender.

We could be the most versatile team to be beaten by 10+ goals this round!

[Flamethrower]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Maybe the plan is to triple team Sideshow Bob? I can't wait to see Caleb Daniel line up at full forward next to Majak Daw - little Caleb could hide behind one of Majak's biceps.

[Bornadog]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

^ BAD I seriously would have given Greene a shot this week.

The maybe's I had were the ones that should have been considered.

[Eastdog]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

Shows how lopsided our list is
You don’t need 7 key backs in this era

We need some mid sized forwards. We dont need that many talls with hoe the game is played right now. A tall forward was important previously but I think not as much now.

We need do better in the ruck area as well. Would be good from now to the end of the year to see what Tom Campbell can offer there.

I think up forward Josh Schache while its slow will be decent up there as I seen a few times so I'm hoping he is able to do more of it but needs good midfield delivery and right now our midfield looks fragile particularly with Jack Macrae out this week.

Our goalkicking is woeful and there is no sweeping it under the carpet at training it must be a priority.

[Axe Man]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

We need some mid sized forwards. We dont need that many talls with hoe the game is played right now. A tall forward was important previously but I think not as much now.

Will you break it to Ben Brown, Jeremy Cameron, Jesse Hogan, Buddy Franklin, Jack Riewoldt, Josh Kennedy, Tom Lynch, etc that they are all wasting their time and should just retire, or should I?

I think up forward Josh Schache while its slow will be decent up there as I seen a few times so I'm hoping he is able to do more of it but needs good midfield delivery and right now our midfield looks fragile particularly with Jack Macrae out this week.

I have re-read this a few times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.

[Bornadog]

Re: Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

I have re-read this a few times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.

Maybe he used Google Translate to convert from Macedonian.