Preview Round 11 v Port Adelaide MCG Sunday May 28th 1.10pm

[Noidnadroj]

Miller and Young in makes no sense unless there’s a plan to play Balta forward this week.

I don’t mind this as we’ve been nothing short of inept at creating contests up forward …. GC interceptors (Ballard and Powell) killed us. Bomber interceptors (Ridley and Redman) killed us…..

With Port having no Dixon or Marshall they only have Finlayson and a young kid in Lord as key forwards …. so I’m not a fan at all of playing Balta anywhere but KPD but this week might be an exception given Lynch is out, Jack is struggling and Bauer/Bradtke aren’t ready.

Port are also short down back with Jonas out. And we need to make sure Aliir x 2 doesn’t screw us which he will if all we have up forward is Jack and Ryan.

So: Young on Finlayson and Grimes on Lord.

Jack, Balta up forward with Ryan/Miller sharing third tall role - one of Ryan or Miller will come out if it’s wet.

Nank ruck sharing with Ryan/Miller

Whatever we do, we cannot have a repeat of Jack one-out up forward … he’s not able to bring the ball to ground against 2-3 opponents any more.

If Aliir and Houston dominate with intercepts we cannot win … time to smash some bodies in our forward 50, whatever the cost.


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[Triggering Tiger]

I hope Banks gets to be emergency.

 

[banana_bus]

How about Pickett named on the ball. Mini trolling already

 

[Mr Unbelievable]

cumbo has been added to the squad

I thought you were trolling

 

[_RT_]

It's pretty clear what we're trying to do.

Port have Finlayson and Lord as KPF so Balta and Young take them, which allows Grimes to become the 3rd tall, allowing Broad to shift into Vlastuins role.

Up forward we're going Ryan and Riewoldt with Miller an option as well. Port have Allir and McKenzie(undersized KPD) so we're looking at possibly stretching them defensively. We've also got a lot of mid sized players named as emergency which means we could sub a tall later to add more run if need be.

In the middle we've beefed up the on ball brigade with Pickett joining Taranto and Prestia in the middle to start which them means Bolton comes in with Short as the rotation midfielders which adds speed to the mix.

Slight tweaks from what we were doing under Dimma, but could have a big impact on how we go against a red hot Port

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Ralphshit still in the side awesome.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

dimma should get on the ice cold vbs and come and melt in here with us

send him a link to the forum on twitter see if he joins

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Tiges by plenty.....

 

[SplintWhisky]

Basically the same set up we went with in the finals of 2019.
Nominated vs 2019 final (for all you dipshits that can't understand a the loose comparison, I am not saying that the players named are the same quality as the ones in 2019)

Named / 2019
Rucks:
Nank / Nank
Ryan / Soldo

Tall Forward
Jack / Jack
Miller / Lynch

Backs
Young / Astbury
Balta / We never had a direct replacement for the Rance role late in the year

 

[Coach_Required]

Miller and Young in makes no sense unless there’s a plan to play Balta forward this week.

I don’t mind this as we’ve been nothing short of inept at creating contests up forward …. GC interceptors (Ballard and Powell) killed us. Bomber interceptors (Ridley and Redman) killed us…..

With Port having no Dixon or Marshall they only have Finlayson and a young kid in Lord as key forwards …. so I’m not a fan at all of playing Balta anywhere but KPD but this week might be an exception given Lynch is out, Jack is struggling and Bauer/Bradtke aren’t ready.

Port are also short down back with Jonas out. And we need to make sure Aliir x 2 doesn’t screw us which he will if all we have up forward is Jack and Ryan.

So: Young on Finlayson and Grimes on Lord.

Jack, Balta up forward with Ryan/Miller sharing third tall role - one of Ryan or Miller will come out if it’s wet.

Nank ruck sharing with Ryan/Miller

Whatever we do, we cannot have a repeat of Jack one-out up forward … he’s not able to bring the ball to ground against 2-3 opponents any more.

If Aliir and Houston dominate with intercepts we cannot win … time to smash some bodies in our forward 50, whatever the cost.


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I like it, some here wont but I do.

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Ralphshit still in the side awesome.

Piss off mate... Get some class

 

[Coach_Required]

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Tiges by plenty.....

Could be his trademark, like Dimma's taking a breath in before he spoke.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

we do this a bit. oppo is lacking in some area so we beef up in that area and hope to dominate there in this case in the air/talls
we do the same if a team is super tall we go small and hope to outrun them and ramp up the pressure

problem is this hasn't worked in our favour for years and it always just helps the oppo dominate in the opposite area aka their smalls will destroy us and we'll be slow as hell


also does the new coach advantage count if you didn't sack your previous one ?

 

[Karp3_dm]

Miller and Young in makes no sense unless there’s a plan to play Balta forward this week.

I don’t mind this as we’ve been nothing short of inept at creating contests up forward …. GC interceptors (Ballard and Powell) killed us. Bomber interceptors (Ridley and Redman) killed us…..

With Port having no Dixon or Marshall they only have Finlayson and a young kid in Lord as key forwards …. so I’m not a fan at all of playing Balta anywhere but KPD but this week might be an exception given Lynch is out, Jack is struggling and Bauer/Bradtke aren’t ready.

Port are also short down back with Jonas out. And we need to make sure Aliir x 2 doesn’t screw us which he will if all we have up forward is Jack and Ryan.

So: Young on Finlayson and Grimes on Lord.

Jack, Balta up forward with Ryan/Miller sharing third tall role - one of Ryan or Miller will come out if it’s wet.

Nank ruck sharing with Ryan/Miller

Whatever we do, we cannot have a repeat of Jack one-out up forward … he’s not able to bring the ball to ground against 2-3 opponents any more.

If Aliir and Houston dominate with intercepts we cannot win … time to smash some bodies in our forward 50, whatever the cost.


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Samson gonna play mainly forward with Miller back up ruck and Pickett in the guts for Dow

That’s my prediction and I like it

 

[Karp3_dm]

RIP Tina Turner

 

[beema limapep]

Why go tall with a 70% chance of peeing down?

 

[Tigeron]

Why is this club so afraid to give youth a go.not 1 game then out

 

[living_in_syd]

Why go tall with a 70% chance of peeing down?

We are basically a man down cos we realise its pissing down again at quarter time to make the sub again.

We must have the dumbest coaching team in the league now. I dont think theres many left from 2020, certainly leppa/mccare wont be making these decisions

 

[RichmondEshays]

Unfair for Dow, can't be expect to light the world on fire after one game. Deserves a run of at least 4-5 games to get some rythym.

 

[domin8]

Why go tall with a 70% chance of peeing down?

That’s literally every game in Melbourne not at docklands every weekend

 

[smasha]

Could be his trademark, like Dimma's taking a breath in before he spoke.

“Fire away”

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Piss off mate... Get some class

Shut up gimp

 

[biaseddustyfan]

bom says 25% chance of 0-1mm during the game

 

[tiger_tough]

Lol two talls in with no Jonas, Marshall, Dixon and Georgiades on a cold, rainy day. Classic McQualter.

Looking forward to Millers 2 marks, 5 touches and 3 short steps

 

[Spacedog]

What happened to Meatball last week? I couldn't watch the game but he only had 11 disposals?