Umpiring was fickled and Harry in particular was held without frees being paid. Young on Cox was the obvious move given the height factor. I would never have dropped Kemp though. As I said I can't see Williams being in the team with everyone fit, it's hard to carry him as just an offensive player.
I disagree, people forget the Freo game where Williams and his dash and dare won us the game. Saad excels at his role, Williams is a poor man’s replacement but it’s temporary.
re: Williams......a nervous player when played down back and and when you add Young plus two inexperienced defenders in Cowan and Cincotta it puts a lot of pressure on Weitering to be the glue thats holds the backline together. I think Williams has to play on the weakest small forward and never on the last line close to goal and my preference if he has to play is on the wing where he use his skillset to carry the ball and deliver and be removed from having to mind a man. I cant see him in the team when we have our full crew back and ditto for Fantasia and Durdin.
What people forget is that Saad can lock down and run and create, with him out Williams is asked to do his job. Williams copped heaps last week and was nervous on Friday as the two early frees showed. When 1st choice players are back and guys like Williams can return to their preferred run and gun position the whole team will look and perform better. And don’t get me started on the fb bananas who wanted to play Kemp on Cox without McGovern there to come over the top… 🤦🏼♂️
And those two early frees for scragging… didn’t seem to get paid at the other end of the ground, did they ?
1 goal loss with our cobbled together team, I’ll wear that.
According to coach Kingsley" its hard being Toby"...sometimes I agree he doesnt get calls go his way due to his previous reputation but he was undisciplined tonight and the incident with Boyd showed he had little duty of care imho and there was another I'm sure I saw with Kemp I think it was where he took a swing at him while contesting the ball falling to the ground. Good to see both Cowan and Newman looking after Boyd too and letting Toby know he wasnt going to get away with his BS.... Hogan struck Young in the jaw as well and that should be looked at too.....credit to Young when Weitering got his corkie and couldnt run it was Young who got the job on Hogan and shut him down and showed some physicality which has been lacking in his game...
Too kind LN, compared to coaches and experts I'm a dumb ass, but I would have planned and would have put in a truckload of work into ensuring Keays and Walker had minimal impact. Watching the replay, gee we dropped a lot of marks. And we had our chances to to either hold onto to the 16 pt lead or seal it when they came back. Owies stubs a toe, Charlie drops a marks, Zac W dropped spilled the ball which resulted in Mudguts (dead set Fogarty is fatter than me) picking it up and drilling a pass to the top of the square, Adelaide goal. As Vossy said, we have got a lot right in the dyeing minutes if the first 4 weeks, we farked up the last few minutes this week. C'est la vie.
That’s it in a nutshell. If you drop marks, miss targets and fumble, any coach or game plan will struggle to get you over the line. It’s certainly not panic stations it’s a learning opportunity.
This week's line-up: Backs: Brodie Kemp Jacob Weitering Nic Newman Half-backs: Adam Saad Mitch McGovern Adam Saad Centreline: Ollie Hollands Patrick Cripps Blake Acres Half-forwards: Elijah Hollands Harry McKay Matthew Kennedy Forwards: Orazio Fantasia Charlie Curnow Matthew Owies Followers: Tom De Koning Adam Cerra George Hewett Interchange: Jordan Boyd Jack Carroll Matthew Cottrell Corey Durdin Sam Walsh
Emergencies: Jaxon Binns Lachlan Cowan Marc Pittonet
I would have played Pittonet: he has a good record against O'Brien; TdK doesn't. Ollie Hollands is pretty lucky. He hasn't been playing that well, even though he has contributed. Last week Sharpe killed him. Fantasia is also more than a little lucky. He did OK as sub, but otherwise hasn't done much. Corey Durdin as well, but he had 8 tackles last week. Walsh on the bench: is hat trying to tell us that he'll be a late out?
No Cincotta as sub? Amazing! He was much better than both Binns and Cowan against North.
Yes, for a certain type of player. Kemp could play on a wider variety of players and do better on some players compared to marchbank.
If your contention is true and he was brought in for a specific player, fair enough....but with no exposed match form to go by, I wouldn't have risked it.
I can't help but think there is something we don't know about with Kemp. He seems to be first one dropped and it can't be just about form.
I think you’re correct about him being the first dropped, however I’ve no idea why…
Got quite a few on the team already. Considering we do have some blokes who would be getting a game of fit, you might have heard of them... Sam Walsh Sam Docherty Jack Martin
Oh and next year we'll have 2 camporeales to add to Billy Wilson, jaxon binns and an injured Matt Carroll. I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple as well.
Kinda my point… Though waiting for who gets booted…
How many young mids do you want in the 2’s and though I’m reluctant to ask, who should be gone (mid season mind you…) to create room for these potential Brownlow medalists ? Asking for a friend…
