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Changes vs Port
- Thread starter Harry
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Looks like Balta will be back for Port game.
In: Pickett Balta Dow
Out: Cumberland Ross Tarrant Soldo
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Looks like Balta will be back for Port game.
In: Pickett Balta Dow
Out: Cumberland Ross Tarrant Soldo
Good changes. Surely we don't play Soldo forward again assuming Lynch doesnt get up. Do we go Balta forward/ruck and leave Tarrant in? Or Bauer in for Soldo and leave Nank as ruck with Balta down back and chopping out in the ruck? Port ruck stocks very weak.
Soldo and Nank tandm ruck give us 4 wins and a 6 point loss over the last 5. Yes, Soldo did not work on a slippery SCG deck last Friday but I like the double ruckmen and we look poor without a real ruckman in the middle.
For me v Port in 7 days
In: Pickett, Balta
Out:Ross, Tarrant
Lynch and Lambert in for Carlton (optimistic)
For me v Port in 7 days
In: Pickett, Balta
Out:Ross, Tarrant
Lynch and Lambert in for Carlton (optimistic)
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Using a horses for courses approach, Tarrant would be perfect to take Charlie Dixon and Balta could swing between defence and forward depending on how the game pans out.
Ross for Pickett.
Rossy had a mare and Hugo provides run and hits the scoreboard with regularity.
I would do this with Tarrant against Port and play Balta as ruck / forward in place of Soldo.
Might be different against the Cats, although I think Tarrant would be a good match up for the Shover.
I don't think we'll need Tarrant against Carlton, so as you say, could be a few horses for courses games where we select Tarrant where we need him on those power forwards. He did well a couple of weeks ago on Peter Wright. Thats is MO I believe.
Yep, a shark vs Nank. Needless to say, there was a shark beaten to hell by the end of the movie.
I'll double it and take that bet any day of the week.
I struggle to watch a full tigers game nowadays. I check the scores on the web, I look at various players stats. Then I come here.
Some games, I don't watch at all. The game has lost significant interest for me.
I went to a few games in 2017-18. 5 across both years perhaps, mainly finals. I don't use my membership, or barely use.
19 I didn't really go to many, maybe 2.
2020 - obviously none.
21 - 2 games, Carlton and Swans.
22 - 0 games.
The AFL has turned me off, and has been for years (look for my posts back in 2015 and 16 saying the same thing). If it wasn't for the Tigers
winning, I'd probably have dropped off completely.
We're not far off full strength. Not many excuses. Need to start banking wins whilst we have a relatively healthy list or this season could become another struggle.
But the cost of Roquefort these days makes that option very expensive, Ankles!
It's not about winning mate. I resent the inference, it's offensive.
As you could see from my post, I was already losing interest before the we started to win. It was the fact something I'd hoped for all my life happened that kept me excited. The fact was, soon after that, as the AFL started changing rules to try undermine us, it became a bit of "oh yeah, that's right. These guys suck at running a competition. I remember where I was now." Shiney new things distracted me from the malaise.
I used to sponsor players in the Wallet and early Dimma eras. and contribute - for me - a significant amount of cash in donations to the club through their fundraising channels. I now have a 3 game membership, and have done ever since 2015.
What I didn't like before we won Premierships, was how the AFL kept manipulating outcomes to try get GCS to win. The way the Demons were having the league intervene, helping them get coaches and administrators in to fix the club. At the same time, we'd struggle for much the same reason as the Dees, and Carlton (mismanagement) but there wasn't a hell of a lot of help coming out way. The reason why 2017 is such a triumph, is that we managed to pull something together in spite of what the AFL were doing.
The Brandon Ellis compensation, the stand rule, the arbitrary rules on the run (Geelong trading away a bunch of first round picks, then having a "reinterpretation" of the rule so they could bring back G Ablett Jr), the list could go on and on. The AFL have tried to limit our success, and they certainly didn't give us as much support as other clubs got to get out of the hole. We made our success, we tried to keep it going. They've done all the could to end it, and at the same time, made the game ugly to watch.
I think I've said a very long time ago, the AFL is a contrived competition, run by a bunch of "old boys" who bury anything negative about them, have too much virtue signalling, I still haven't bought the book discussing the shady nature of the AFL by M Warner, mainly because it would probably make me angrier than I am today. Nothing that is happening today is addressing any of the concerns either.
General I agree with a lot you wrote there.
The game has become difficult to watch.
Hair pulling, loss of hair and at times losing the plot( pure frustration).
I use to watch & listen to every game. The last two years it’s changed. Not because of the Tigers, not because of Covid, just the many things General noted.
It’s just about $ and the next AFL package with prove that!
