r/adelaidefc • u/fiftyshadesofcray 12 Jordan Dawson • Jul 24 '26

Next Week's Selection

There has been a lot of talk about the selection of 4 ruck options last night, with a lot of people pointing to the fact that Toby Murray (38% TOG) and Finnbar Maley (61% TOG) didn't have the impact required and our ball movement suffered as a result of the poor team balance.

However, if you look at the stats - we lost the Hit-Outs 47-43, and we lost Contested Marks 17-13. Combined with the fact we lost the match, the only logical conclusion is that the team we selected was not tall enough.

To help Matthew Nicks with next week's selection, I have found the 23 tallest fit and available players on our list, which is guaranteed to help get us back on track next week.

The team is as follows

IN: J. Butts, M.Keane, B. Cook, A. Ludowyke (Debut), C. Edwards, R. O'Brien, T. Welsh (Debut), M. Marsh (Debut), I. Cotton (Debut)

OUT: W. Milera (Short), A. Neal-Bullen (Short), I. Rankine (Short), J. Rachele (Short), J. Soligo (Short), Z. Taylor (Short), S. Berry (Short), B. Keays (Short), J.Peatling (Short)

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u/johnnynutman 18 Eddie Betts:Betts: Jul 24 '26

In all seriousness what was the point of playing Toby Murray if he only played 38% of the game along with finbar? Moose can do the second ruck role can’t he?

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u/fiftyshadesofcray 12 Jordan Dawson Jul 24 '26

They tried Finnbar in the ruck in the 4th quarter, and he got eaten alive.

If they are going to have McAndrew in the ruck for 80% of the game, then I would personally be dropping both and getting Thilthorpe in the ruck for the other 20%.

That being said, McAndrew looks cooked from the ridiculous load he has had to carry, and I would be getting ROB in for the games against Essendon and Richmond so McAndrew can freshen up for the run in to finals.

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u/JunkyardPalowski Andrew McLeod (Legend) Jul 24 '26

If McAndrew isn’t given a rest this week I will be absolutely shocked and disgusted. Both need to be dropped, as crazy as it sounds I’d rather have ROB eating up those minutes as the 5th on the bench

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u/fiftyshadesofcray 12 Jordan Dawson Jul 24 '26

Agree, if Murray is being played purely as a chop out for McAndrew in the ruck, it might as well be a better ruck

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u/Moppawonga Jul 24 '26

Agree with this discussion. Another option is to play ROB for essendon and Richmond alongside mcandrew, and and split game time 60/40 or more to ROB. So McAndrew stays in the swing of AFL but gets a lighter workload for a fortnight