Recent content by Bringbacktheeighties

Pretty hard to mark a handball.

We don’t have goal kicking mids. Maybe Young could be one but Serong, Brayshaw, Fyfe don’t want a bar of it.

Walters expected to impact enough to create a win in one quarter. Needed to roll the dice at half time. Just academic now.

Possibly, or Walters is sub and Voss starts. If no Switta.

Not the same as being in the team on the day for sure, but if you could name three emergencies and they were part of the squad on the day with the potential to play should a warm up injury occur , you would probably feel more deserving and recognised than someone who was given a medal by the...

I don’t know how many players are named on the day outside of the required players. But what if the announced squad for the GF received a medal if the team won. If it is say a squad of 25 players named for GF day is allowed. Then you can include emergencies who were a big part of the season...

I think it’s so obvious. It’s not a bad thing to be rested and play 65 or 70% of the games and prolong your career at his age. Allows the new younger players to develop. His form is also mixed which I’m sure is just a case of needing to be refreshed combined with ageing and slowing down. Rest...

I like your posts. Agree on Erasmus, I thought it would have been best to develop him from the start at half forward and gradually build him into midfield. Like Rozee. Granted he doesn’t have the same pace but I think it would of been the way for him. Totally agree in why we never play the...

can’t really agree with that. Luke Ryan was AA previous two weeks. We have seen it before when we lose the contested possession, have massive turnovers count and they win the intercepts. I think the backline is going to struggle. All this players you mentioned were down for sure. But something...

The two Adelaide games were played with a very high intensity high pressure game. Plus sleeping away from usual environment and they must have felt flat after such huge effort and falling short at the last minute. Why wouldn’t the selection committee recognise this and refresh the side for the...

Loss of Darcy and introduction of Tabs. result, less marks inside 50, less goals, less pressure inside 50. I didnt look up stats but thats what it looks like to me. Walters also became ineffective either because of these two changes or he is just old and tired. Falling on the ground a lot isnt...

I liked McDonald also but if we have Jackson available as forward ruck he probably isn't needed. Seems the issue we had this year and last is not having a back up ruck to play at the standard. Dont understand why that wasnt addressed, or at least concede the ruck as we missed the scoring of...

Saw it last season, that sea fly what happened after a couple of games .first two games without Darcy , the media talk was why do we need tie rucks. Then next two games faded and lost impact. Same again this season. But we would have won with Darcy in both games and we are so close that the...

Walters or Switkowski as sub. Need impact Players as sub JOM amd Ras mare middle distance runners . Will grind. You down over the long run but won’t win a 100 or 200 metre sprint . I dont have stats to back that up.

This 100%. I watched the game in Thailand with my Thai stepson. He loved the game by the way , but had to constantly explain the difference between two sides in close pressure games like this is the B grade players in your team. Pointed out Erasmus costing us three turn overs in the last when...