Backmen = Depth

[wayne]

What a poo thread. Honestly. Barely 10 posts since 2011.


Give it a rest, WAT.

Get backmen...

Get backmen, yet you want to trade one of them away... 

  .....who??? I didn't say anything about trading a backman out of the club.

Sorry, got you mixed up with Mrakov, my apologies.

[gerkin greg]

Sorry, got you mixed up with Mrakov, my apologies.

harsh

[Penelope]

harsh on who?

[Judge Roughneck]

Morris. Grimes. Astbury.
Batchelor. Rance. Ellis.
Newman. Martin. Conca.
Deledio. Griffiths. Nahas.
Vickery. Riewoldt. King.
Ivan Maric. Cotchin. Foley.
Houli. Dea. Post. Helbig.

2s.
Heslin. Wright. Webberly.
Verrier. Mcgaune. Moore.
White. Tuck. Edwards.
Darrou. Elton. Grigg.
Browne. Miller. Adam Maric.
Derickx. Jackson. Arnot.
Macdonald. Connors. Ohalon. Turner.

Chaplin has been bought in for Astbury who needs to pull the finger out if he wants to take part in the richmond vfl premiership. Apart from that it seems the likes of deledio? martin. ellis? will be roated thou the seniors backline

Morris. Grimes. Astbury.
Batchelor. Rance. Ellis.

Heslin. Wright. Webberly.
Verrier. Mcgaune. Moore.

Depth players have been turned over. Wright. McGaune for Mcintosh. darrou. moore for astbury. a similar story with the small/mids

nothing to write home about, really.

[Diocletian]

Since when was Graham Dutch?

[Yeahright]

Gardener doesn't need to be released. He either plays loose or plays on a gimp anyway.

Except when he got a bath against Tippet

[Willy]

#standbyWebberly

[Judge Roughneck]

Webbers run of a mill

A gun Irishman who isn't scared to live without mummy would be good

[WA Tiger]

I still this is our Achilles heel, 8 goals kicked against us yesterday by two forwards, cant remember last week. It seems we cant really contain the big bodied tall forwards to one or two goals each.

In Dimma's words Astbury more or less beat Cloke but how will that pan out in the season proper?? Old mate kicked 5 so he really wasn't well held.

Must make a play for Frawley and another key back in the off season IMO. This is the only area we are very venerable should Rance, Grimes or Chappy go down.

Imagine yesterday with no Rance or Chappy..

Its all fine and good to say don't let the ball go past the HB line or don't let them get it out of the center..etc...but when the opposition do and they will, we will be caught short down there. Sydney could absolutely blow us out of the water with Buddy and Tippet, so could the Eagles with Cox and Nik Nat.

[tigs2011]

Agree we are a frawley away from a flag IMO. We have the rest of the pieces on the list who just need to develop a bit more.

Having said that I thought Astbury did a very good job. Cloke kicked some when pies went coast to coast and he'd kick them on frawley as well.

[tony_montana]

yep

[Smokey]

Astbury was the best of our 3 tall backmen yesterday.  Surprised me a bit and was interesting to hear Newman mention in an interview that he (Astbury) has spent a lot of time in the gym getting building up bulk and strength to make him more competitive against the opposition big forwards.

[WA Tiger]

Astbury was the best of our 3 tall backmen yesterday.  Surprised me a bit and was interesting to hear Newman mention in an interview that he (Astbury) has spent a lot of time in the gym getting building up bulk and strength to make him more competitive against the opposition big forwards.

That's all fine and good Smokey but its one game, yes positive but a pre season meaningless game.

I hope he can sustain it and he will need to, if he performs the same next week this will be another step forward, if he doesn't????

We need ready established backmen.

[Chuck17]

Gave me a heart attack every time he had to dispose of the ball, but yes he did well

[Smokey]

Astbury was the best of our 3 tall backmen yesterday.  Surprised me a bit and was interesting to hear Newman mention in an interview that he (Astbury) has spent a lot of time in the gym getting building up bulk and strength to make him more competitive against the opposition big forwards.

That's all fine and good Smokey but its one game, yes positive but a pre season meaningless game.

I hope he can sustain it and he will need to, if he performs the same next week this will be another step forward, if he doesn't????

We need ready established backmen.

Yep, but if everyone is happy to jump on the Griff bandwagon after yesterday's game then they have to jump on Astbury's because the circumstances are almost identical.  Neither of them did enough to convince me they have fully turned the corner and it will take a shedload more than one practice match to do that but at least there were some good signs from both of them.  Up until yesterday I hadn't seen squat from either of them to suggest they had a future.