Pre match. Pies v. Crows - All comments

roar · Joined: 01 Sep 2004

May start Reid back due to their forward talls. Personally I'd like to see White tried in the backline and Reid up front.

Big T · Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Location: Torino, Italy

roar · Joined: 01 Sep 2004

Reckon he's worth a try down back. Good speed and size so should be able to negate and provide some run. Keeffe can play the third tall, which suits him better, IMO. Plus I reckon Reid will provide much more up front.

Big T · Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Location: Torino, Italy

Checking the injury list, we are basically two players off full strength. That's a concern.

Breadcrawl · Joined: 13 Oct 2007

Yeah it's a real negative.

Wish there were ten or twelve out for the season - but you can't have everything...

duggieboy · Joined: 12 Jan 2005

Crows mid Thompson looking unlikely to start according to the Hun.

Big T I was more concerned about our ability to cover their forwards and could only see Reid down back, much as I'd love him kicking goals.

Which way we gonna go with him?

AN_Inkling · Joined: 06 Oct 2007

Recent games: Carlisle killed us because we only played one tall defender. Jenkins killed us because we played Keeffe on him one out, close to goal.

If we play Reid forward then we need to ensure that Keeffe and Frost get plenty of help. I'd send Goldsack to defense to fill Toovey's spot, and we will also need our mids to push back and fill the spaces.

I'm tipping Reid starts forward. We need to be positive in this game. Though the chances are he'll move back once they get 5 goals ahead Wink

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swoop42 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:54 pm

Reid needs to start forward and we need to hope we can keep him there.

Heading into this season I was quite confident Reid could match Cloke with both his output of kicking goals as well as providing the same marking threat that would worry the opposition defence no end.

While Reid is a quality defender and has had one AA year in that role I think that we have showed with Frost and I guess Keeffe that it's easier to unearth and develop a key defender from the relative obscurity of the VFL or a non traditional footballing background than it is to find a key forward with the potential of Reid.

Those players generally take a very high draft pick (Lloyd, Riewoldt, Boyd) or being fortunate with the father son rule (Cloke, Hawkins) and even then it generally takes years before they can become dominant forwards.

jackcass · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Bendigo

Big T · Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Location: Torino, Italy

swoop42 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:24 pm

The problem with us this year in terms of injuries hasn't just been with established players like Reid, Brown and Maxwell importantly it's also been with players the club would have been hoping would be putting there hand up to force there way into the 22 like Seedsman, Karnezis, Oxley, Fasolo, Sinclair etc.

When you throw Freeman into the mix along with Scharenberg add a Swan and a Dwyer who have been below there best then there is basically no area of our list from young to old that hasn't been affected this season.

Most of the injuries haven't been season ending but nearly all have been either long term or reoccurring meaning while our list gets shorter there are many players still working towards full fitness and finding form.

Time is running out for them and us sadly.

rocketronnie · Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Location: Reservoir

It makes no sense whatsoever to (a) play an All Australian defender (Reid) in the forward line and (b) an experienced forward (White) in the back line. No sense at all. I'm hoping someone (anyone!) at Collingwood has enough good sense left to see that.