Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

[Mantis]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Unchanged.

Not sure this'll be popular.

Bevo sending a big ''up yours'' to the haters... Live by the sword!

[DOG GOD]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

WOW….Wood remains…was always going to happen though.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

WOW….Wood remains…was always going to happen though.

And JJ. The ‘forward’ who barely kicks one across every two games and has the speed to run down players, and has low tackle numbers.

Nothing like doubling down as you are losing.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Look at the bench. It’s a whose who of Bevo’s most favoured players. Cordy stiff to miss out.

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Look at the bench. It’s a whose who of Bevo’s most favoured players. Cordy stiff to miss out.

I am really not worried about the overall team. Yes would have been good if Martin was fit, and you can drop some and bring in others, but it is the mids we need to fire up.

We need Bont playing at his best and Libba firing, with contributions from the other mids.

Listening to Bevo during the week when asked about Bont. He said he is giving is all for the team. I think he is trying to do it all. He needs others to do their jobs. Bont is forward, back, middle covering huge amount of ground and I think overdoing it, and running out of puff.

[DOG GOD]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Ok…it’s ok to have preconceived faith in your players, but what sort of message is this giving to the playing group? Guys on the fringe are continually seeing guys like JJ, Wood, Hannan etc picked weekly and performing poorly for weeks on end, whereas Wallis, Lipinski, Schache have been in a revolving door all year.

Whatever the MC are seeing in the games of JJ etc certainly isn’t what I’m seeing. JJ, in this role, should be a tackling machine, but he’s nowhere near it. Plays maybe 15 really good mins a game.

I could go on, but it just depresses me the more I think about it.

JJ, Hannan, Wood and possible Cordy should NOT be in the team this week, and if we were dead serious about beating Essendon and going deep to the GF, they wouldn’t be.

[jeemak]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

How do you feel about it?

I understand going for stability, and I don't think the likes of Cordy or Wood are going to be replaced by anyone who's going to do much better (but possibly these guys are a blind spot for me as I don't think they've been as horrible as others think they've been).

The effort against Port was there, though the execution wasn't and I think we're taking a gamble by thinking that will improve to the level required. So it makes me a bit nervous.

However we weren't bringing in Sweet, and without Bringing in Martin there's no change to the ruck on paper. We've lacked cohesion up forward, but making more changes to an already unsettled forward line has its drawbacks. Banking on the cohesion improving is reasonable but fraught with danger, so it makes me a bit nervous.

So overall it's a conservative approach, which won't make a material difference to our prospects given we live and die on the back of how well our engine room competes.

Have I mentioned I'm nervous?

[comrade]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Who should?

Roarke
Schache
Scott
Hannan

Who will?

JJ
Roarke
Hannan
Wood

Completely predictable.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Meh….expected nothing less. We haven’t mixed things up for 5 years so why would Bevo start now?

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Meh….expected nothing less. We haven’t mixed things up for 5 years so why would Bevo start now?

I don't understand this comment?

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Does this make us predictable then?

Currently substandard defenders and forwards picked. If you can shut our mids down or quieten them enough, then that’s the ball game. The rest could take care of itself if they set up well enough in defence and attack. Shut down or blunt our engine room is job 1, 2 & 3.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Completely predictable.

You win. Or lose. Both?

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

I understand going for stability, and I don't think the likes of Cordy or Wood are going to be replaced by anyone who's going to do much better (but possibly these guys are a blind spot for me as I don't think they've been as horrible as others think they've been).

The effort against Port was there, though the execution wasn't and I think we're taking a gamble by thinking that will improve to the level required. So it makes me a bit nervous.

However we weren't bringing in Sweet, and without Bringing in Martin there's no change to the ruck on paper. We've lacked cohesion up forward, but making more changes to an already unsettled forward line has its drawbacks. Banking on the cohesion improving is reasonable but fraught with danger, so it makes me a bit nervous.

So overall it's a conservative approach, which won't make a material difference to our prospects given we live and die on the back of how well our engine room competes.

Have I mentioned I'm nervous?

Despite not making any changes, Essendon aren’t good enough to beat us if our mids fire. So that’s all we need to win this one. Big question mark though given previous performances.

[1eyedog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

It would be a bold (crazy) decision to play him in a role he's never played in for our most important game of the season.

Yeah he was never going to play.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee - Finals Week 1

Despite not making any changes, Essendon aren’t good enough to beat us if our mids fire. So that’s all we need to win this one. Big question mark though given previous performances.

All we needed to beat Essendon, Hawthorn, Port & Essendon again this week is our mids need to fire…