Preview Changes & Preview Thread for Round 4, 2025 vs St Kilda @ Adelaide Oval - Play at Your Own Risk

[Ralph Lorenz]

Georgiades
Lord
Finlayson
Marshall
Whitlock

The future is bright.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

A bit of a test for Lord. A few have put a line through him.

James 1:6-8:
"But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do."

 

[johnnysix]

Gotta give Lord a run and stick with him ffs. If we gave every young tall the opportunity we gave Marshall they might have a chance to actually settle in and find some form.

 

[Scodges]

Maybe it will, but when he's totally unprepared, he is likely to be significantly off the pace, fumbly, unfit, etc. Just as Soldo was. He goes in, embarrasses himself and gets dropped next week, and it achieved nothing. He's already a barely SANFL player as it is, so to force him up a level when unprepared is a risk.

I hope it pays off, I hope he gets his confidence up with some nice lace out passes and he holds his spot. Im just not convinced that picking under done players at this stage is in anyway a recipe for success.

He’s had a full preseason, played not too bad in the trial. Yeah he had a shoulder for a week or two, but now he’s ready. Let’s see what he has.


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[raptalia]

Ollie Lord has had plenty of chances and until now he has not made the most of them. In 19 games he averages 6.7 disposals and 1.1 goals per game. This has to be a make or break season for Ollie .

 

[SureBuddy]

The difference this time is Marshall and Luko are both out for a long time. Lord is going to get the extended run no matter what.

 

[Traveling_Power]

How is Mead named in the 18 on field?

Was our worst player by a country mile last week outside of Soldo.

I was hoping that Mead would make way for Cochrane - as they are both Mid / HFF and Cochrane offers more with the goal kicking

watch Cochrane kick another 3 goals against Sturt

 

[Traveling_Power]

Real rough on Cochrane. Dude was in great SANFL form, gets called up and made sub to play 5 minutes of football then dropped. Dumb as usual.

Yes, very dumb ... and in those 5 minutes he had 2 kicks including a shot for goal - which just missed

we need to see Cochrane play close to a full game or a full game to see what he can do

 

[Traveling_Power]

Rough on Cochrane but he'll get another crack at it

i am hoping that he gets a run of 3 - 4 games just to see what he can do

 

[Expat power]

sack Hinkley and you can add 15k to the crowd immediately.

15k you reckon? That's quite funny that you think there's 15k people in Adelaide who care

 

[RossFC]

Hinkley is already sacked. We got 38k last home game. We are not getting a 53k non-showdown crowd next year with him officially not there.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Hinkley is already sacked. We got 38k last home game. We are not getting a 53k non-showdown crowd next year with him officially not there.

Because they've somehow managed to do it in a way where I don't want to go watch us now because he's still coach but I also don't get the satisfaction and excitement of a sacking. Just yet another crap half measure which helps nobody.

 

[PowerLil]

Because they've somehow managed to do it in a way where I don't want to go watch us now because he's still coach but I also don't get the satisfaction and excitement of a sacking. Just yet another crap half measure which helps nobody.

This. Never been this disinterested and I've always been hardcore.

 

[davesnothere]

I was hoping that Mead would make way for Cochrane - as they are both Mid / HFF and Cochrane offers more with the goal kicking

watch Cochrane kick another 3 goals against Sturt

At half time

 

[Traveling_Power]

At half time

yipeee .. go Tom ..

he has 4 goals with a quarter + to go

I hope he gets six

 

[klem22]

I was hoping that Mead would make way for Cochrane - as they are both Mid / HFF and Cochrane offers more with the goal kicking

watch Cochrane kick another 3 goals against Sturt

The morons at the top are pathetic at identifying and developing talent.

 

[PJ Power]

The difference this time is Marshall and Luko are both out for a long time. Lord is going to get the extended run no matter what.

Let's hope so, but there still need to be certain expectations and standards:

1. Play in front. Last year he got into this Chad Cornes-coached habit of playing from behind all the time.
2. Try to mark the ball and hold your marks when you get hands free to the ball. Bloody Cam Sutcliffe described Lord's contribution to our side on radio last night as "bringing the ball to ground". Carn. Take the bloody mark if you can.
3. Concentrate over four quarters. He needs to show that he can stay engaged for more than a 10-minute period.

 

[johnnysix]

Let's hope so, but there still need to be certain expectations and standards:

1. Play in front. Last year he got into this Chad Cornes-coached habit of playing from behind all the time.
2. Try to mark the ball and hold your marks when you get hands free to the ball. Bloody Cam Sutcliffe described Lord's contribution to our side on radio last night as "bringing the ball to ground". Carn. Take the bloody mark if you can.
3. Concentrate over four quarters. He needs to show that he can stay engaged for more than a 10-minute period.

So he should be held to a standard we never held Marshall to?

 

[PJ Power]

So he should be held to a standard we never held Marshall to?

Yep. Because the low standards we kept for Marshall and Dixon didn’t do us any good as a club.

 

[johnnysix]

Yep. Because the low standards we kept for Marshall and Dixon didn’t do us any good as a club.

Fair call. I agree with you. But if we are gonna be serious about ever developing any tall talent we need to actually coach them and give them time. Lord is another one of those blokes that seems to have gone backwards. So many of our talks play the exact same way, it has to put our coaching and development into question. There's a constant trend of players making a splash when they first get drafted / come across and then they're rarely as good again.

 

[PJ Power]

Fair call. I agree with you. But if we are gonna be serious about ever developing any tall talent we need to actually coach them and give them time. Lord is another one of those blokes that seems to have gone backwards. So many of our talks play the exact same way, it has to put our coaching and development into question. There's a constant trend of players making a splash when they first get drafted / come across and then they're rarely as good again.

It’s absolutely coaching and lack of proper development and as you say, investing too much time in the wrong players and not enough into players who should have much higher ceilings.

 

[portly]

So he should be held to a standard we never held Marshall to?

Bringing the ball to ground. Ahh, a Kenny appointment.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Another daylight/twilight game at AO against a bottom 10 travelling interstate team means we will win. We are 35-0.

Maybe St Kilda are better than bottom 10 and can win, but I wouldn't bet on St Kilda making finals.