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WESTERN BULLDOGS
B: McMahon, Harris, Power
HB: Morris, Grant, Gilbee
C: Eagleton, West, Giansiracusa
HF: Murphy, Skipper, Robbins
F: Smith, Johnson, Hahn
FOLL: Minson, Cross, Cooney
I/C: Birss, Boyd, Griffen, Morgan, Rawlings, Ray, Wight
IN: Birss, Griffen, Morgan, Rawlings, Ray
OUT: Hargrave (susp), Walsh (inj)
SYDNEY
B: Schauble, C.Bolton, Dempster
HB: Barry, Roberts-Thomson, Kennelly
C: Mathews, Ablett, Crouch
HF: O?Keefe, Goodes, Bevan
F: Vogels, Hall, O?Loughlin
FOLL: Jolly, Kirk, J.Bolton
I/C: Buchanan, McVeigh, Moore, Nicks, Saddington, Schneider, Williams
IN: Nicks, Schneider, Williams
OUT:
Had to start a new thread since you fellas had gone so far off topic. Nice to see Vogels and Dempster being named on the ground. Suspect young Saddo will be using that as some inspiration. Can't say I agree that Bevan should be named at HFF ahead of Buchanan (not that Bevo actually started there last week....we all know they put the positions there for fun).
However it is presumably true that the players don't know who the emrgencies are until after training so the naming of the extended bench is certainly a filip for those named on the ground (a least I'm not being dropped this week!).
Roosey does usually take a long time to move a player, though. Bucky stayed in the 18 for three or four weeks despite being unexeptional early doors this year, due to the fact that he had been so good in the pre-season. So I guess it is understandable that it will take more than one game to move from the emergency list to the 18.
My predictions for the team arre that Saddo and Bucky are certainties, even though Saddo was quiet last week, he is tall and has looked good since he came back. Also he hasn't coughed the ball up much.
Moore must play ahead of McVeigh at this stage. His ball-winning ability, composure and usage from his limited number of possessions has been outstanding....certainly better than McVeigh, even though we know that McVeigh is CAPABLE of great things, on form Moore has looked better out on the park, quite frankly.
Last week he picked up the ball in traffic and delivered to the chest of a forward a couple of times. Superb.
Obviously if Willo is fit he will play (instead of McVeigh). If he is unfit would one play Schneider? No, I'd give McVeigh one more chance to stop lairising with the ball and do something simple and constructive with it....like Moore does.
Get the ball, pick a target, hit the target. ROCKET SCIENCE
Here's my pop-psychology, he's trying too hard to be SPECIAL. What he needs to remember is that hitting a target upfield (or in the clear when you're in traffic) 20 times in one game is actually the definition of special. And nearly all of those 20 moments are not that difficult or that special. For someone of his ability he should be managing that standing on his head.
His two huge clangers that spring to mind a shank on the run from 30 and a dithering handpass to no one when we were charging through the middle of the ground (resulting in a lucky miss by Port, from memory) show perfectly what is wrong. It's got the point where something in his brain says "kicking the ball nicely through the centre posts" is not enough to make an impression, he was (subconsciously, presumably) trying to look beautiful while he did it.
With the hand ball he had opportunity to do a short hand ball when he first got it, and then opportunity to kick it long, but no he tried for the low percentage (but more "exciting") option of a handpass over traffic through the corridor that would probably have resulted in a goal (or easy miss knowing our form).
Unfortunately his dithering looking for the beautiful option resulted in a delay which meant the man who made great space was nearly closed down and the handpass needed to be PERFECT...which it wasn't.
These MUST be fixable things (and in the short term too I would have thought), so give him a go, 12 useful possessions will see his spot retained 'cos that's more than Schneider is promising right now.
B: McMahon, Harris, Power
HB: Morris, Grant, Gilbee
C: Eagleton, West, Giansiracusa
HF: Murphy, Skipper, Robbins
F: Smith, Johnson, Hahn
FOLL: Minson, Cross, Cooney
I/C: Birss, Boyd, Griffen, Morgan, Rawlings, Ray, Wight
IN: Birss, Griffen, Morgan, Rawlings, Ray
OUT: Hargrave (susp), Walsh (inj)
SYDNEY
B: Schauble, C.Bolton, Dempster
HB: Barry, Roberts-Thomson, Kennelly
C: Mathews, Ablett, Crouch
HF: O?Keefe, Goodes, Bevan
F: Vogels, Hall, O?Loughlin
FOLL: Jolly, Kirk, J.Bolton
I/C: Buchanan, McVeigh, Moore, Nicks, Saddington, Schneider, Williams
IN: Nicks, Schneider, Williams
OUT:
Had to start a new thread since you fellas had gone so far off topic. Nice to see Vogels and Dempster being named on the ground. Suspect young Saddo will be using that as some inspiration. Can't say I agree that Bevan should be named at HFF ahead of Buchanan (not that Bevo actually started there last week....we all know they put the positions there for fun).
However it is presumably true that the players don't know who the emrgencies are until after training so the naming of the extended bench is certainly a filip for those named on the ground (a least I'm not being dropped this week!).
Roosey does usually take a long time to move a player, though. Bucky stayed in the 18 for three or four weeks despite being unexeptional early doors this year, due to the fact that he had been so good in the pre-season. So I guess it is understandable that it will take more than one game to move from the emergency list to the 18.
My predictions for the team arre that Saddo and Bucky are certainties, even though Saddo was quiet last week, he is tall and has looked good since he came back. Also he hasn't coughed the ball up much.
Moore must play ahead of McVeigh at this stage. His ball-winning ability, composure and usage from his limited number of possessions has been outstanding....certainly better than McVeigh, even though we know that McVeigh is CAPABLE of great things, on form Moore has looked better out on the park, quite frankly.
Last week he picked up the ball in traffic and delivered to the chest of a forward a couple of times. Superb.
Obviously if Willo is fit he will play (instead of McVeigh). If he is unfit would one play Schneider? No, I'd give McVeigh one more chance to stop lairising with the ball and do something simple and constructive with it....like Moore does.
Get the ball, pick a target, hit the target. ROCKET SCIENCE
Here's my pop-psychology, he's trying too hard to be SPECIAL. What he needs to remember is that hitting a target upfield (or in the clear when you're in traffic) 20 times in one game is actually the definition of special. And nearly all of those 20 moments are not that difficult or that special. For someone of his ability he should be managing that standing on his head.
His two huge clangers that spring to mind a shank on the run from 30 and a dithering handpass to no one when we were charging through the middle of the ground (resulting in a lucky miss by Port, from memory) show perfectly what is wrong. It's got the point where something in his brain says "kicking the ball nicely through the centre posts" is not enough to make an impression, he was (subconsciously, presumably) trying to look beautiful while he did it.
With the hand ball he had opportunity to do a short hand ball when he first got it, and then opportunity to kick it long, but no he tried for the low percentage (but more "exciting") option of a handpass over traffic through the corridor that would probably have resulted in a goal (or easy miss knowing our form).
Unfortunately his dithering looking for the beautiful option resulted in a delay which meant the man who made great space was nearly closed down and the handpass needed to be PERFECT...which it wasn't.
These MUST be fixable things (and in the short term too I would have thought), so give him a go, 12 useful possessions will see his spot retained 'cos that's more than Schneider is promising right now.
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