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MatthewBoydFanClub
Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood
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Crisp won't be a bolter. What you see is what you get. Aish on the other hand is looking very good. He could be anything this season if he can stay fit. You need to take last night for what it was. Just a hit up to try different things to work out our best team for round 1. The two JLT games will tell us more. It's too earlier to say what our forward line will do this season without taking into account all the different permutations of the side. All you can say is that we are better poisoned at this point of the year than at the same time last year when see players like Sier and Oxley out on the field (and that's despite our current injury list). |
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bally12
Joined: 30 Sep 2010
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In hindsight I did think Moore looked a bit skinny lol.
Don't ask me to pick out anyone in a line up
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Raw Hammer
Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Location: The Gutter
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Yeah, I agree re Crisp. See ball, get ball, thump the ball with hand or foot. Man, if only he had an ounce of Pendles’ composure.
I know it was only a first up hit out, but I’ve been to most pre season intra club games over the past few years, and they all look the same. Horrible switches in the backline, no clean end to end ball movement, opportunistic goals for the most part. I really hope people don’t have high expectations. I want to remain positive, but this will be a tread water year while Buckley HOPEFULLY finally figures out his best 25. _________________ Est. 2002 |
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MightyMagpie
Joined: 04 Jun 2013 Location: WA
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BucksIsFutureCoach wrote: | Crisp won't be a bolter. What you see is what you get. Aish on the other hand is looking very good. He could be anything this season if he can stay fit. You need to take last night for what it was. Just a hit up to try different things to work out our best team for round 1. The two JLT games will tell us more. It's too earlier to say what our forward line will do this season without taking into account all the different permutations of the side. All you can say is that we are better poisoned at this point of the year than at the same time last year when see players like Sier and Oxley out on the field (and that's despite our current injury list). |
Re Crisp he was already rated in the top 10% of general defenders last year. That may be overstating his impact given he probably had a fair few midfield minutes in there as well. I don't think he needs to bolt as such, just a few tidying up improvements and he'll be very good.
I assume you mean "positioned", but it does somewhat feel like we've been poisoned on the injury front each year.
I am concerned that we have several guys who will have had underdone pre-seasons (Elliott, Faz, Wells, Howe, Moore and I have possibly missed some).
Our first six games are going to be critical in setting up our season when these guys are unlikely to be cherry-ripe. _________________ All We Can Be |
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MatthewBoydFanClub
Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood
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MightyMagpie wrote: | BucksIsFutureCoach wrote: | Crisp won't be a bolter. What you see is what you get. Aish on the other hand is looking very good. He could be anything this season if he can stay fit. You need to take last night for what it was. Just a hit up to try different things to work out our best team for round 1. The two JLT games will tell us more. It's too earlier to say what our forward line will do this season without taking into account all the different permutations of the side. All you can say is that we are better poisoned at this point of the year than at the same time last year when see players like Sier and Oxley out on the field (and that's despite our current injury list). |
Re Crisp he was already rated in the top 10% of general defenders last year. That may be overstating his impact given he probably had a fair few midfield minutes in there as well. I don't think he needs to bolt as such, just a few tidying up improvements and he'll be very good.
I assume you mean "positioned", but it does somewhat feel like we've been poisoned on the injury front each year.
I am concerned that we have several guys who will have had underdone pre-seasons (Elliott, Faz, Wells, Howe, Moore and I have possibly missed some).
Our first six games are going to be critical in setting up our season when these guys are unlikely to be cherry-ripe. |
Howe and Wells are experienced warriors, who if picked to play in the first round, will be ready to go. The others however are a worry. Elliot, Faz and Moore all need time to adjust, so playing at least one JLT game is essential to make their mark if they are to play the first game of the season. |
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MightyMagpie
Joined: 04 Jun 2013 Location: WA
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K
Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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Some (more) random thoughts:
Sier looked a big lump of a lad. Not prominent, but was matched up on some prominent players.
I see no real reason to be excited by a scrambled kick off the ground in the goal square. Luck at best, confused defence at worst.
Sanderson: "They both play well forward." Hmmm.... (Nicksters, did the two he referred to immediately come to your minds?)
And some really bad news: Reid's bald patch seems to be growing. |
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Raw Hammer
Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Location: The Gutter
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I’d love to see the quality of other intra club games. I fear ours would look amateur in terms of decision making by contrast. I know I know, first got out. But decision making from a bunch of players that have been together for years now...not impressed. We REALLY need our best team I. The Park week in week out. _________________ Est. 2002 |
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K
Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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Raw Hammer wrote: | I’d love to see the quality of other intra club games. I fear ours would look amateur in terms of decision making by contrast. ... |
RH, and other interested Nicksters: you can compare what we dished out to the quality of arguably the two best sides in the AFL.
TONIGHT, Friday, February 23, from 5.30pm.
Inter-club match: Sydney vs. GWS.
Live streamed:
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/news/2018-02-22/practice-match-live-stream
Anyone who watches, please give your thoughts here. Do we look like bumbling amateurs in comparison? |
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RudeBoy
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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De Goey will be a star for us this year. He's got just the right combination of physicality, grunt and class. He does, however, along with others on our list, need to improve his goal kicking accuracy.
Aish is finally beginning to show what he can do. The extra few kilos of muscle have made him a solid marking target. He is a beautiful kick for goal.
If last night is anything to go by then Goldsack could be the surprise forward of the year.
I was also rather impressed with Reid, who looks like he's bulked up a bit.
Kirby is all class, but still needs to work on his tank.
Stephenson will play round one.
Langdon is way ahead of Scharenberg as a mid sized defender.
Cox won every single hit out he contested, though often it was against 3 rd rung rucks like McLarty and Lynch (?).
Pendles, Treloar and Adams were all class and just went thru the motions.
Overall, it was a good hitout, but not much more than that. |
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RudeBoy
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
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K wrote: | Raw Hammer wrote: | I’d love to see the quality of other intra club games. I fear ours would look amateur in terms of decision making by contrast. ... |
RH, and other interested Nicksters: you can compare what we dished out to the quality of arguably the two best sides in the AFL.
TONIGHT, Friday, February 23, from 5.30pm.
Inter-club match: Sydney vs. GWS.
Live streamed:
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/news/2018-02-22/practice-match-live-stream
Anyone who watches, please give your thoughts here. Do we look like bumbling amateurs in comparison? |
We looked a bit ordinary last night, but that was largely due to the quality of the opposition. Make of that what you will. |
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Pies2016
Joined: 12 Sep 2014
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K wrote: | Raw Hammer wrote: | I’d love to see the quality of other intra club games. I fear ours would look amateur in terms of decision making by contrast. ... |
RH, and other interested Nicksters: you can compare what we dished out to the quality of arguably the two best sides in the AFL.
TONIGHT, Friday, February 23, from 5.30pm.
Inter-club match: Sydney vs. GWS.
Live streamed:
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/news/2018-02-22/practice-match-live-stream
Anyone who watches, please give your thoughts here. Do we look like bumbling amateurs in comparison? |
We all need to be cautious here when we start comparing apples with oranges in these games.
I would think a game between two AFL teams is always going to look better than two teams competing against each other from the one club, both of which had VFL players as top ups.
I would think that if the swans and giants didn't look slicker than our game, then both of those coaches would be fairly disappointed. |
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E
Joined: 05 May 2010
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any way to see a replay of the intraclub game? _________________ Ohhh, the Premiership's a cakewalk ....... |
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Woods
Joined: 21 Aug 2013 Location: Melbourne
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K wrote: | Raw Hammer wrote: | I’d love to see the quality of other intra club games. I fear ours would look amateur in terms of decision making by contrast. ... |
RH, and other interested Nicksters: you can compare what we dished out to the quality of arguably the two best sides in the AFL.
TONIGHT, Friday, February 23, from 5.30pm.
Inter-club match: Sydney vs. GWS.
Live streamed:
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/news/2018-02-22/practice-match-live-stream
Anyone who watches, please give your thoughts here. Do we look like bumbling amateurs in comparison? |
Anybody else feel dirty visiting the GWS web site.
I'm feeling all sort of Barnaby. |
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K
Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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Heater is out there!!! |
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