Wonder if it'll be Cottrell that goes to Daicos? Sidebottom has been terribly outta form this year so hopefully this isn't the week he discovers it again.
On paper we look to have the edge even without Saad, McGovern, Martin, Motlop.....but history shows ladder positions don't usually mean much. If we can bring the pressure that we showed for the majority of that GWS game (apart from 20 minutes of the second quarter), we can win.
Big question for me is will Nick Daicos start in the middle as an attacking option or will McRae look to run a negative group to restrict and stifle our midfield and then look to counter attack from half back where they have picked a few options. I think he might play Pendlebury on Cripps and use Crisp to tag Walsh, I even think Maynard might get a run in the middle to shake things up and try and counter our bigger mids. Id expect Sidebottom to line up on the wing as per usual when he plays us.
Elliott and Mihocek normally dine out us and Sidebottom runs around by himself racking it up. If I see that Ill spew up.
Had some poor matchups on these players and non existant opponents on Sidebottom and Josh Daicos who just get on their own continually. I reckon we would have learned a lot from previous games and have better plans to curtail their more dangerous players and I think DeGoey is a major out for them that they cant replace in the middle. Being more efficient ourselves is one of our major issues and being able to convert our chances are keys to beating Collingwood as much as worrying about their players imho.
Dropping Kemp makes no sense....Don't mind Cunningham especially if he plays forward given our small forwards have been a non event and need to provide more support to our big key forwards. I would have liked Kemp in as an option for Mihocek who is a different FF to most and requires a mobile defender.
Prof, Id be happy with those changes but I think Williams will be persevered with, hoping the bad press this past week might inspire a better game from him. The out of form and equally under pressure Lachie Schultz might be a good opponent for him...
Mitchell has been a liability this season. Losing him would probably help their chances.
I wonder if they’ll bite the bullet and drop Sidebottom 🤔 We’ll probably play him back into form.
Vossy’s response to our profligate play on Saturday suggests that our players will have a hard week. It won’t be “bring your mouthguards” but there will be some honest feedback and clarification of roles and expectations.
They will miss Mitchell, being doing the grunt work alone with Adams gone and he compliments their other mids imho. If Sidebottom gets to run around on his own like he usually does when we play him he will get back into form... Lachie OSullivan from Werribee will replace Mitchell, tough honest old fashioned VFA/VFL footballer but wont know what hit him with Cripps, Walsh and crew waiting for him.... Blues by plenty providing we man up correctly and dont try silly matchups like Cowan on Hill or Elliott or Similar...
Degoey not likely for the Pies and Mitchell also struggling to get up, if we can get some troops back and they lose a few key ones we should have no excuses and Im confident we can knock the Pies over given their form is only fair this season.
Not Test cricket I know but Jake Fraser-McGurk who has been dominating in the IPL appears to have been excluded from the t20 WC squad in favour of David Warner who hasnt been able to make a run, he is now 37 and looking to only fill his pockets with short format league money. I know who I would be picking but it appears the boys club selection policy is alive and well still and its hurting Aus cricket moving forward imo with no junior talent being blooded. All this after the Steve Smith test opening failure/fiasco as well...
How about Cincotta into the backline and Zac goes half forward?
Agree on Cincotta, thought ZW might go ok on the wing vs a very out of form Sidebottom, maybe the coach could challenge him with N.Daicos who plays off half back to shut him down..
Not a good time (player availability wise) to try and make an example of someone....especially given our month of games.
I reckon Vossy definitely would've highlighted what Williams did wrong, but done so behind closed doors. I doubt we'll see another one of them in a hurry.
David King wants Williams dropped, not hard enough, poor decision making, being beaten too easily in contests by smaller bodied players ie Stengle and wants coach Voss to validate his call for better defense by making an example of Williams and dropping him to the VFL...not banishing but making a statement. He suggested Binns as a replacement but Im not seeing Binns as a defender at this stage.
We need to start striking blokes softly off the ball. The fines are worth it if you can get a few goals out of it.
Knowing our luck there would be a crackdown and one of our blokes would be made an example of and get a long holiday...interesting the Henry hit has been deemed low impact , intentional and body contact yet Zac was holding his head?
