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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
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I enjoy your posts DG don't be gone too long mate
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
A lively forum needs all opinions to be heard. Please don't anyone opt out. I don't want to find myself in an echo chamber.
Re selection: is Andrew Hooper still going around in the WRFL? I remember we called him up for a final against the Swans and he kicked a clutch goal just before half time, got us fired up and we blitzed them in the second half.
My point. Things can turn very quickly. Yesterday was a terrible day for us all. If I'd been drinking it would have been worse. If I'd seen the entire match it would have been torture. The internet was down for 90% of the first 2.5 quarters - I was blessed except I missed out on our five minutes of good football.
A week is a long time in football. Sometimes it just takes a spark and everyone ignites again. As football followers we are eternally comdemned to be "Prisioners of Hope." Go Dogs. Let's stick it up 'em.Last edited by merantau; 15-08-2021, 09:06 AM.[URL="http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau"]http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau[/URL]
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
Gee… this a few losses and we all become needy teenagers?
Out: Hannan, JJ,
In: Gardner, JUHComment
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Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Ok, do you think we have the players on our list ready to go to fix the balance?
With Bruce out we need to play English forward and Sweet or Young as first ruck even if they are not good enough. Structure forward of the ball is vital and English can provide this more so than Ugle-Hagan.
Gardner to come in to support Keith and maybe Schache.
Roarke Smith or Ed Richards to come in to play as a defensive midfielder on players like Karl Amon, Issac Smith, McCluggage, Ed Langdon. Reality is Smith or Richards should have been playing this role already.
Toss of the coin who could go out JJ; B.Smith, Hannan, Cordy, Wood, Dunkley, Vandermer, Garcia, Treloar.
Whoever comes in needs to actually take the ball forward and want to play team football. Players like Bontempelli,Macrae, Smith are trying to do much themselves which results in putting the next player in the chain under pressure and we retreat backwards.More of an In Bruges guy?Comment
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
The last few weeks we’ve been killed in the midfield, yet I’m not seeing any calls for changes in that part of the ground. At this point, it’s a challenge to do high turnover of the cattle but I’m dropping Bailey Smith (defensive efforts not up to scratch both positioning and intensity). I’m getting Bont out of the midfield for a large portion of the game. I’m lowering rotation in the centre square and relying on our bulls, Treloars pace and our wings.
Bont has been hammered, let’s get him forward of the ball and insert him in the middle for shorter patches
Sweet or Martin in. Sink or swim
Richards back - reality check done. Needs his pace and ability to halve 2:1s
Gardner in - spoil and third man up
Daniel on wing and floating where ever
JUH in, lead lead lead. Give us some movement out the fat side. Lower the eyes.
English forward - split packs big fella
Treloar - time to shine
Roarke - tag Amon and make his night hell
In: Gardner, JUH, Sweet, Richards, Roarke
Out: Cordy, Young, B Smith, Hannan, JJ
B: Wood, Keath, Williams
HB: Duryea, Gardner, Dale
C: Daniel, Macrae, Hunter
HF: Garcia, JUH, Bont
F: English, Naughton, Weightman
R: Sweet, Liberatore, Treloar
IC: Dunkley, VDM, Richards, R SmithHave you heard Butters wants to come to the Dogs?Comment
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Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
Our mids were pathetic and there’s no excusing them but you could see yesterday that whenever we got the ball near the centre of the ground, they’d look up and hesitate. There must have been nothing up forward all day.Comment
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Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021
You had Naughton double teamed, Weightman completely outsized and Hannan hiding behind a goal post.
Teams have known for ages that sending an extra back troubles us, and it has only gotten more pronounced with Bruce going down.
Aliir will have a field day next week.Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Exactly. When a forward turn backmen in O’brien has a field day, imagine what Lever and May will do to us?
The thing that frustrates me the most is that, after all the positivity at the start of the season, we’re now basically back to having the exact same problems as we did after the final last year. Our forward mix has no natural forwards, our mids are weak as water and we have 1 legit KPD.
Now I know we lost Bruce to injury and went after Martin, but it’s really just exposed our depth in these areas and overall imbalance. Bruce/Naughton goes down and the hole forward line is dead. Keath goes down, see you later defence. Wanna rely on a 35yo ruckmen whose body is shot? Well you’re gonna have to win ruck contests with a guy who could barely out muscle a 10 year old kid.
And we’ve dug these holes ourselves by refusing to acknowledge them or arrogantly undermining their importance. And now we’re 1 game away from dropping out of the top 4 after being in the top 2 pretty much all season. Only we could manage that.Comment
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Is Cordy going to get rubbed out?
Surely not, given Redman successfully argued his way out of a tackle that was previously leading to suspension. Crozier remains incredibly stiff for his one, Daniel too.
Hate this dangerous tackle stuff. The league can’t demonstrate any restraint and we see more and more examples fall into the realm of concern to justify its existence. Most can be avoided by the umpires blowing the whistle earlier for a ball up, or a free kick.
IN: Sweet
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