Team Changes for the Eagles

[JudesaGun]

No one deserves to be dropped for Bevan. He's a Ben Matthews want-to-be, no awareness, low on skill, gets tackled far too easily, an average defensive player at best.

I'm with SimonH. Go Goodes on Judd, head-to-head, Goodes kille dhim in the first half at Subiaco earlier thsi year and given his rapid improvement since then, teh results could be scary. If Judd gets out of hand I thinK Dempster is probably our best match-up. He has both the speed to take Judd around the ground and the height to take him overhead.

As for the others:

NOG - Cousins
Bolton - Kerr
Kirk - Fletcher
LRT - floating ruckman
Barry - Lynch
Bolton - Embley
Schnieder - Sampi

[AnnieH]

Originally posted by goswannie14
You can't have been watching the match I'm watching on the TV at the moment. Dempster is playing quite well. Unfortunatley Fozzie had a shocker.

OOOOHHHH this is my 4000th post, better make it count.

Annie, how can you call for Ablett to be dropped, he is always at the bottom of the pack, getting the ball out, and his kicking is great most of the time, particlulary, as Simon said, in the last few weeks, he is really putting in and has justified his place in the team.

I've admitted that in the last four or so weeks his game has improved 30% .... it's just that it's really, really, really frustrating to see the kid put in all the hard work, just to kick it straight to the opposition or into a contest that nine time out of ten goes back to the opposition ('cause I don't know what happened to the rovers).

I don't really wanna see him dropt, I wanna see him continue to improve like he has.

I don't mind eating my words at all, and I wish to God he'll make me eat a full plate of them.

[Gary]

As i noted earlier in the year, & after the Carlton game, & Adnar took it up here, the Fozzie disposal is a lottery at times...3 or 4 times in a few minutes he got the ball well & kicked poorly with no pressure. Then he kicked that goal. He's in my team but...we can't afford to have a high error rate this week.
Dempster was ordinary but I wouldn't drop him for Bevan...are they crazy? Dempster has a nice kick but plays with blinkers i.e. no peripheral vision...no lateral skills...so if he is on a "bad line" it goes OOB...like twice on Sunday. Too late to find a suitable replacement.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Annie Haddad
I don't mind eating my words at all, and I wish to God he'll make me eat a full plate of them.

LRT has done that to all of us.

[DST]

Current wisdom this year seems to suggest that you play your quick hard running midfielder on Judd and hope to make him accountable and thus reduce his effectiveness some what.

It worked for us in the last game at Subi, so it's Goodes for me head to head with Judd. Goodes can take him deep forward and try and stretch overhead as well.

DST

[DST]

Originally posted by Dr Diabolical
I think there are flaws with this.

It worked very well in the first half and very badly in the second half.

The sensible option for WC would be to put someone on Goodes (ie: not Judd) and let Judd run off and do his own thing.

While Goodes will ultimately be responsible for Judd, it would also be up to others in the team to make sure that Judd is blocked and has body pressure applied to make sure that Goodes is given space at the contest.

I think it's a good idea and obiviously coaches in the AFL think so as well (including Roos) as it is how teams are currently playing Judd, especially after the heavy tag option didn't seem to work.

I would much rather see Judd trailing Goodes than making space and being dangerous himself.

DST

[dendol]

I think we'll see Embley or Stenglein on Goodes. I dont think Worsfold will allow our one and dangerous midfielder to have a free reign in Brownlow winning form. I know Roos has, to some extent, taken Judd headon at times (Willo vs Judd in 2004 final), I dont think Worsfold will do the same with Goodes.

[TheHood]

The Judd Goodes match-up has an air of inevitability about it.

For the first half yesterday Goodesy was at every contest. He wasn't necessarily ?n"every contest but he was there just-in-case.

Judd does basically the same thing, they are both everywhere-men.

Hard to see them not going head to head!