Round 5 preview Carlton v Collingwood

[PassIt2Carrots]

How can they drop Levi yet retain Jones?  Who is going to relieve Wood... Rowe?  We all know that doesn't work and we don't have the big bodied defenders to spare against Cloke, White and Gault as it is.

The club backed itself into a corner with their talking up of Jones. If he's dropped it won't be for a while yet.

[Professer E]

Well that's deadest idiocy.  If his form warrants dropping him, drop him.  Shouldn't have pumped up his tyres over the summer, most of us can see through the hype.

[ElwoodBlues1]

The club backed itself into a corner with their talking up of Jones. If he's dropped it won't be for a while yet.

Tend to agree,  they did talk Jones up but admitting failure by dropping him wont come easily......to be fair though the game plan hasnt exactly
delivered silver service to our tall forwards and he is a player who needs reasonable delivery and not having the ball bombed on his head with a pack of players around him...

[Mantis]

Tend to agree,  they did talk Jones up but admitting failure by dropping him wont come easily......to be fair though the game plan hasnt exactly
delivered silver service to our tall forwards and he is a player who needs reasonable delivery and not having the ball bombed on his head with a pack of players around him...

I agree with this 100%. The talls need to lead to free space and the plan needs to be one where they don't crunch packs together. Sure leave Levi in the goal square, but have Hendo and Jones lead to free space. The small forwards need to be further up close the 50m arc to crumb the spills. There is no real point having all the 6 forwards well within the F50m arc. Especially if the defenders drop an extra man in to defend. The forward space becomes way too crowded. I don't like to see what I call a congested forward 50m. It makes it difficult to convert on the score board. Free up space as Jones can take a grab on a lead. So can Henderson. Mick needs to sort this out and fast. If the other side stacks the D50m to guard the goal, we surely have free players that can drift towards the middle of the ground and wings to set up a goal by chipping it to a player on a lead. It also helps us zone a defencive wall to stop the ball from being brought out quickly on a rebound, with a turn over. Why are we not clever enough to mix up our forward movement ? If you can't change your structures, you can surely be clever with where the players move around to confuse the defenders. Yet again, I am the idiot, right ?

[LP]

Purely on the numbers, ignoring ruck stuff, Jones has been as effective as Casboult as a forward if not slightly better.

So what does that tell me, probably because of his clunking marks Casboult is often viewed through rose coloured glasses!

Jone's movement around the park is looking pretty good, get him clunking a few more grabs and he could quickly surpass Casboult.

Levi needs to get up and about, and a lot more aggressive.

[cookie2]

Macca was saying that putting Levi back to the NBs is purely designed to help him rebuild his confidence. I think that's a good move as long as he can dominate and start snagging some goals. As soon as that happens he'll be back in the seniors.

I guess Rowe will need to be used as second ruck which I'm not so keen on but we'll have to see how the talls are used, esp with the return of Jaksch.

[northernblue]

Well that's deadest idiocy.  If his form warrants dropping him, drop him.  Shouldn't have pumped up his tyres over the summer, most of us can see through the hype.

Are you sure of that ?
Have a read of our various stalkbook pages and see if you'd like to rephrase the above :/

[Lods]

Where's Watto

[ItsOurTime]

Where's Watto

Probably giving Jones a block of games to show his thing which I don't mind, I don't get why they pick and choose who gets 6 games and who gets a quarter as sub and gets banished again

[crashlander]

I am worried about the hype behind tonight's game. We have a very poor record in milestone games of late. I HOPE we can win, but I ALWAYS want to pound the Meat Pies.